Yearly Archives: 2023
The Energy Crunch In Europe Means Ballet In The Car Factory
"In a converted conference room on Thursday, the dancers honed their pliés and pirouettes, while row upon row of new cars could be...
The Physics Principle That – Perhaps Unfortunately – Inspired New AI
Consider the way ink diffuses into water. "The algorithm first turns complex images in the training data set into simple noise—akin to going from...
Journalist Who Exposed Navalny Poisoning Says He’s ‘Banned’ From The BAFTAs
The Bulgarian journalist, Christo Grozev, says "the ban was down to 'concerns about public safety and security,' he was told, but was given no...
After Nearly 100 Days On Strike, HarperCollins Union Approves New Contract
A union representative said that "the hope is to show publishing employees that they have more options beyond just 'stick it out or leave....
Everything Everywhere All At Once WiBig At Directors Guild
In another potential Oscars signal, the small-budget domestic science fiction movie that could racked up another win for writer-directors Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan....
An Entire Revamping Of Manchester’s Museum Tries To Meet 21st Century Britain
The museum's director calls museums "empathy machines" and says the mission goes "beyond caring for objects and collections to 'caring for beliefs and ideas...
New Editions Of Roald Dahl’s Books Remove Some Of His Hateful Rhetoric
The man really loved to call people fat, and he also enjoyed calling people - with varying degrees of disgust - "crazy," "Black," and...
The Extraordinary, Art Historical Beauty Of Photos Of The Downed Spy Balloon
The Navy images’ "unusual lighting and dramatic composition ... smooth individual sailors into heroic archetypes and make the calm, pre-dawn Atlantic seawater as lush...
Banksy Mural Messed With Once Again, This Time By The Gallery
First the local council said the freezer that was part of the artwork was a hazard, and now a gallery says they can't figure...
The Girls Who Dance, And Gather Coal
"Before sunset, in the 110-square-mile mining region of Jharia in eastern India, an ensemble of girls dances near an opencast coal mine. Come sunrise,...
A Small Jeff Koons Sculpture Has Shattered On The Floor At A Miami Art...
At a preview, a woman brushed the sculpture - and, said a collector, "Before I knew it, they were picking up the Jeff Koons...
The Classical Legend Of Cartagena Plays On
When Teresita Gómez was 3, a piano teacher let her watch "from a distance — while was teaching the little white girls who...
Jesse Trevino, Who Lost His Painting Arm In Vietnam And Retrained Himself, 76
"Trevino painted portraits of Chicano life in San Antonio that have been exhibited across the country, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum. His towering murals...
Dame Judi Dench Is Losing Her Eyesight
She says her macular degeneration makes it impossible to read scripts, and to memorize lines. - Los Angeles Times
Will Disney Dump Hulu?
The trials and tribulations of the large streamers seem somewhat petty - and yet the Mouse just announced plans to cut 7,000 jobs. Will...
The Netflix Password Crackdown Backlash Is Part Of Something Much Bigger
"There was a moment in which it felt like the desires of users and the desires of Big Tech aligned, especially in the pandemic....
Poet Em Strang Says We’re Living Through A Time Of ‘Incredible’ Misogyny
"At the moment it just seems at the forefront because we’re living in these extraordinary climate-change end times and so much is collapsing. I’m...
The BAFTA Nominees Aren’t So White Anymore
Or at least, following not so hard upon the all-white 2020 actor nomination slate, not this year. - The New York Times
How The Mythologies Of UFOs Color Our View Of Government
A recent edited collection of essays by leading ufologists notes that, some seventy-five years after the alleged Roswell crash, we arguably know no more...
The Limitations Of Our One-Dimensional Schooling
In the consumerist world, the difference between true and false needs vanishes—we become convinced that ultimate fulfillment can be found in our next luxury...
How Harry Styles Caught Our Collective Mood
Harry’s House is simply just fun pop music at the perfect time. We are coming out of a pandemic and are in a cost...
US Movie Releases Are No Longer Necessary For International Success
The U.S. theatrical market is no longer always an accurate model. Certain genres, particularly action and thriller, tend to out-perform globally — there’s a...
Are Theatre Creators Being Shut Out Of Credit?
Today, a de-emphasis on the authors and director seems more common within theatre marketing – a far cry from the days when contractual language...
What Membership Data Say About Health Of Public Media
Median Membership Revenue for the three-month period from October through December is down 0.6% year-over-year. TV and joint-licensee stations saw a decrease of 0.7% in membership...
Why Is An Erotic Love Poem, One That Never Really Mentions God, In The...
Actually, Jewish and Christian theologians have been trying to finesse that question about the Song of Songs (or the Song of Solomon) for 2,000...
