Yearly Archives: 2023
Netflix Is Lowering Subscription Prices Internationally. Why?
“Effective immediately Netflix is to drop monthly subscription pricing in more than 100 territories globally,” but not in North America and Western Europe where...
Meet The Playwright Who Transported “Waiting For Godot” To Kashmir
"In his nearly two-decade long career, Arshad Mushtaq has directed the first-ever Kashmiri digital feature, produced television dramas, and written seven original plays along...
As Iconic Characters Enter The Public Domain, Cheap Productions Start Making Money
As Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey has shown, even if the movie isn’t a critical success, it can still make a hefty profit. Indeed, not...
Even The Big Vermeer Exhibition Is Getting A Reality TV Competition
In "The New Vermeer," "two professional painters and dozens of amateur artists compete to reinvent the lost works of the 17th-century master. The results...
Someone Who’s Read A Lot Of Roald Dahl Books To Kids Explains How To...
"What's interesting about this unneeded controversy is that I haven't so far seen anybody ... who thinks (bowdlerizing the books) is a good idea....
Roald Dahl’s Publisher Will Release An Unaltered Edition Of His Works, In All Their...
"The Classic Collection will 'sit alongside the newly released Puffin Roald Dahl books for young readers', the publisher said," referring to the controversial new...
Should Jessye Norman Recordings Which She Refused To Approve Be Released Anyway?
"Artists' wishes can be ambiguous or ambivalent. And some observers believe that the value to posterity of certain material can in some cases supersede...
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Is Creating A New Center For African Art
"The center, endowed by trustee Ira Brind, will be dedicated to the acquisition, care, and study of art of the continent and its diaspora. ...
Massachusetts Arts Centers Get Nearly $4 Million From Gambling Taxes
"More than $3.7 million in state gaming tax revenue is flowing to 43 nonprofit and municipal performing arts centers, allowing them to compete with...
Kentucky Legislators Want To Disband The Board Of The State’s Public TV Network
"Called an effort to 'protect' the integrity of Kentucky's public television broadcaster, a bill passed unanimously (in) a Senate committee Wednesday that would disband...
The Creative Benefits Of Sabbaticals
In recent years, the number of employers offering sabbaticals has grown exponentially. In addition, many more workers, especially employees in managerial and professional roles, are...
Theatres In Ukraine Closed. Theatre Moved Into Homes
Kharkiv theatres closed at the start of the war; by the summer, the city’s famous puppet theatre performed a show about wartime in Bucha....
A History Of Having To Alter The Problematic Roald Dahl
Dahl’s antisemitism was widely reported around the time of his death. His editors had entered discussions regarding the misogyny and racism in some of his...
How Poetry Redirects Us In Language
“Poetry cannot save us, and yet the poets could do a great deal to redirect our minds and senses back to the proper object...
Tyler Cowen: We’re Failing To Make Progress In The Arts
I think in some areas of the arts we’ve moved backwards. It seems to me what you might call the design of neighborhoods, in...
The Failed Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House Merger Hearings Tell You Everything About The...
"We invest every year in thousands of ideas and dreams, and only a few make it to the top. So I call it the...
Sex Scenes Seem To Be Fading Out Of Hollywood Movies
"Less than 1 percent of movies released in 2022 feature a sex scene. ... When audiences have been conditioned to want only sexless Marvel...
How California’s Major New Arts Education Funding Initiative Will Change Things
Proposition 28 creates a guaranteed annual funding stream for music and arts education by setting aside 1% from the state’s general fund. In 2023,...
How The Conversation, An Academic News Website, Has Pulled In An Audience Of Young...
"Survey data showed that a bulk of (the site's) readers were in the 18-to-35 age bracket. ... To experiment with a new approach, The...
How Speculative Profit Made The World
Under the increasingly uncontrollable uncertainty of our financialized world, speculation becomes a more productive mechanism to imagine community and collective coping with disorienting volatility....
This TV Show, Arguably, Makes New York’s Theater Scene Possible
"From familiar character actors lacking household names like Ronald Guttman, Dennis Boutsikaris, and Jessica Hecht, to well-known crossover stars like Bebe Neuwirth, Roger Bart,...
We Thought AI Would Be Scary Smart. Instead It’s A Facilitator Of Banality
The dreariness of ChatGPT, the soulless works of visual art produced by similar programs seem to confirm that hunch. In the real world, the...
This Opera Company Used Virtual Reality To Reconstruct A Century-Old Staging, Saving Thousands Of...
The Finnish National Opera and VR company Varjo developed a "digital twin" of the theater, with sets, lighting, costumes, etc, so that elements could...
Needed: Commonsense Tools To Protect Creative Work
A report released by Digital Citizens Alliance in August 2020 found that pirated streaming subscription services are used by an estimated 30 million individuals in the...
The Adelaide Festival Loses A Key Sponsor Amid Outcry Over Two Controversial Palestinian Authors
The law firm MinterEllison, a major supporter of the Southern Hemisphere's counterpart to the Edinburgh Festivals, pulled back after several participants withdrew from Adelaide...
