Yearly Archives: 2023
The Big Vermeer Show In Amsterdam Was Completely Sold Out Two Days After Opening
"Every single available ticket to see the Rijksmuseum's Johannes Vermeer retrospective is already gone, the Amsterdam institution said over the weekend, dashing the hopes...
AI Is Pretty Good At Writing Poetry. It Doesn’t Mean Anything
Of course, every Dickinson poem reflects her intention to create meaning. When ChatGPT puts words together, it does not intend anything. Some argue that writings by...
Why Beyonce’s Cultural Heft Exceeds Her Commercial Success
It’s clear that despite her status, in purely commercial terms Beyoncé is not a dominating presence in the music industry, with many artists selling...
Why “Tar” Has Become Something Of A Cult Film
Music, ephemeral in its power over our emotions, is a notoriously demanding discipline, so this film presents exciting possibilities for an exploration of the...
The Tyranny Of Having To Have Stories
Forty years ago​, Peter Brooks produced a pathbreaking study, Reading for the Plot, which was part of the so-called narrative turn in literary criticism. Narratology,...
AI Chatbots Will Extend Human Creativity, Not Replace It
There will always be a need for genuine community and human connection, which can be aided by tools like this. We see chatbots being...
Margaret Atwood: Book-Banning In Historical Context
Freedom of expression is a hot potato—freedom for whom and for what, and who decides? The last English writer before the late 20th century...
Why Learning To Write Is About So Much More Than Writing
Learning to write is about more than learning to write. For one thing, it’s about learning to turn a loose assemblage of thoughts into...
Our Kids Are Struggling To Read. Growing Evidence Suggests We Can Teach Them A...
There is growing evidence from neuroscience and careful experiments that the United States has adopted reading strategies that just don’t work very well and that we haven’t relied...
Dudamel And The LA/NY Rivalry
The defection of Gustavo Dudamel from L.A. to conduct the New York Philharmonic reflects more than a switch in energy and show business muscle; the Venezuela-born...
Are Theatre Sales Trending Upward?
Record tickets sales in Chicago's Theatre Week may indicate - finally - something's going OK for the COVID-bitten profession. - Daily Herald (Illinois)
What Fluency Means, In Speech And Writing
"My capacity for speaking German is not unlike imagination or good writing: Believe hard enough and the genie reappears. But belief also cannot be...
Indiana College Catches Heat For Plan To Sell Museum’s Paintings To Pay For Freshman...
"The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), and the Association...
The Indian Writer Reclaiming Her Language
Geetanjali Shree's Tomb of Sand, written and published in Hindi, pushed Western readers and critics to learn about the deep diversity of Indian literature...
The Shady Ethics Of Documentary Series
What happens to the subjects of these series years later - and what about when the series get bought by streaming services, and everything...
So This Netflix Show’s Villain Is Pretty Close To, You Guessed It, Disney
The Netflix series My Dad the Bounty Hunter's Patrick Harpin: "The theme park ... was a way that kids have an entry point to...
Sale Of Chewbacca Actor’s Memorabilia Halted After His Widow Makes A Plea
A couple found scripts and call sheets in their attic and gave them to an auctioneer - but health issues related to original Chewbacca...
The Library Of Congress Has Acquired The Archive Of The Lion King’s Choreographer
Of course Tony Award-winning Garth Fagan, now 82, did a lot more in his career than The Lion King. He's "a Jamaican-born choreographer known...
Jada Pinkett Smith, The Person The Slap Was Supposedly About, Has Moved On
Along with racism, and other setbacks in her industry,"It’s something that can either make you bitter ... or it’s something you can look at,...
Cornerstone Theatre’s Michael John Garces To Step Down
He was the group's second artistic director, after Bill Rauch left for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. "Upon arrival he helped to define a new...
Diving A Little Deeper Into The Five Oscar-Nominated Documentaries
All but one of the documentaries (though that one's the frontrunner) debuted at Sundance 2022 - "a testament to just how vital the fest...
How The Beyhive Beat Ticketmaster
Partly, Ticketmaster might have (slightly - let's be real) improved since the Taylor Swift tickets debacle. Also, Beyoncé fans shared tips, tricks, secrets and...
Dudamel Considers His LA Legacy, And His Future In New York
He says he's "not a young conductor anymore" - and now, "he is working to establish himself as a seasoned interpreter of the repertory...
Beloved Acting Coach Sandra Seacat, 86
Seacat "put her own spin on techniques she had learned under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio to help Laura Dern, Marlo Thomas, Mickey...
How To End The Constant Onslaught Of Possible Fake Reviews
First, we need to end grading, or at least end the absolutely endless stream of comparisons and superlatives. - Wired
