Yearly Archives: 2023
New York Times Critic A.O. Scott Is Leaving The Movie Beat For The Book...
"Scott, who has reviewed more than 2,200 films for the Times over the last 23 years, will shift to The New York Times Book...
Back At Work After The Strike, Unionized HarperCollins Staffers Feel Vindicated
"For many of the more than 250 unionized employees, the agreement ratified on Feb. 16 between their union, Local 2110 of the U.A.W., and...
New Edition Of Roald Dahl Books Alters Text To Remove Words Like “Crazy’ and...
In “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” for instance, the Oompa-Loompas are no longer “small men” but rather “small people,” according to The Telegraph, while...
Steven Pinker: AI And The Nature Of Creativity (And Thinking)
For 25 years I’ve begun my introductory psychology course by showing how our best artificial intelligence still can’t duplicate ordinary common sense. This year...
Sketch Identified As Study For Sistine Chapel
The red chalk drawing is thought to date from 1512, shortly before Michelangelo painted that final section of one of the world’s most famous...
How Davóne Tines Is Inventing His Career
“Sometimes my work is considered as activism,” he adds. “It is not. There are people who do that. My work is just trying to...
For Writers, Failure Has Increased Exponentially. Failure Now Defines The Writing Life
I’ve known writers who used to submit, literally, the manuscript of a work. It might loiter for six months in some publisher’s office before...
The #MeToo Hollywood Music Problem And How Women Are Trying To Fix It
Music is a sphere where young performers and composers tend to look to their teachers and bosses as mentors. This can give rise to...
Cambodian Classical Dance On The Minnesota Prairie
"Founded by refugees fleeing the Khmer Rouge regime, which sought to eradicate most religious institutions, (the Buddhist temple) Watt Munisotaram and its troupe hope...
How Abstract Art Is Related To Music
The deliberate attempt to emulate music culminated in the works of abstract artists like Kandinsky, where colours and shapes, devoid of representational contents, are...
Deep In Rural Virginia, A Theatre Helps Create New Black Plays
"The innovative structure of Barter Theatre's new Black Stories Black Voices program ... could well serve as a national model for inclusive art-making that...
How ChatGPT Is Like A Blurry JPEG
Think of ChatGPT as a blurry jpeg of all the text on the Web. It retains much of the information on the Web, in the same...
Police In Barcelona Have Found Stolen Dalís And Mirós, And They’ve Arrested Suspects
"The (works were) taken from houses in Barcelona last year, sparking a major police investigation that led authorities to a hideout in Catalonia. Officers...
The Strategy Behind Selling Si Newhouse’s $150 Million Art Collection
“Si collected Johns in depth, but can we sell more than 10 Johns for $10 million apiece all at once? Absolutely not. So instead...
If Opera Gets Defunded Because “It’s For Elites,” Then Only Elites Will Ever Get...
"If opera in the form that its creators imagine it becomes for toffs, that is nothing to do with opera itself. It is absolutely...
Morality: So What If Humans Go Extinct?
What does it matter if Homo sapiens no longer exists? The astonishing fact is that, despite acquiring the ability to annihilate ourselves back in the 1950s,...
The Canals Of Venice Are Running Dry
"Pictures of the city showed gondolas stuck in canals reduced to muddy ditches, revealing the ancient foundations of buildings. ... The problems in Venice...
Milan’s Cathedral Has Been A High-Maintenance Money Pit For Over 600 Years
The rare marble of which the Duomo is built may be lovely, but it's particularly fragile and susceptible to breakage from temperature changes —...
Criminal Charges Against Alec Baldwin For “Rust” On-Set Shooting Have Been Lowered
"Baldwin still faces one count of involuntary manslaughter, a fourth-degree felony that carries a sentence of 18 months in prison. But prosecutors have removed...
Changes To Language In Roald Dahl’s Books Draw A Backlash — And Not Only...
Salman Rushdie spoke out, as did PEN America: "If we start down the path of trying to correct for perceived slights instead of allowing...
The BAFTA Nominees Were Pretty Diverse. The Winners Were All White. Criticism Has Ensued.
"By the end of the night," wrote one journalist covering the awards, "when it slowly sank in that every single winner was white, you...
Stella Stevens, Sexy, Funny Hollywood Star Of 1960s and ’70s, Is Dead At 84
"(She was) known for her voluptuous figure and graceful comic touch in such films as The Nutty Professor with Jerry Lewis and the cruise-ship...
Public Radio’s “The Takeaway” Will End In June
"The news program, which launched in 2008 as an alternative to NPR's Morning Edition, has seen declining carriage and audience, according to leaders at...
An Algorithm For A Fandom Site? Makes No Sense
AO3 is one of the biggest fan fiction sites today. It’s an open source, multi-fandom archive for transformative fanworks that, as of January 2023,...
King Charles Taps Andrew Lloyd Webber For Coronation Music
Lord Lloyd-Webber said he wanted his new coronation anthem to reflect a "joyful occasion". A gospel choir will sing and there will be Greek...
