Yearly Archives: 2023
Confessions Of A Metropolitan Museum Guard
"I was attracted by this idea of doing something straightforward and honest and useful, like keeping people's hands off of some of the most...
Why Can’t We Get Certain Songs Out Of Our Heads?
I’ve got my Pods in and, for reasons I can’t explain but that they may one day understand, I am compelled to listen to...
Why Harry Styles’s Dancers At The Grammys Had To Rework Their Choreography Live On...
The song was performed on a giant rotating turntable. "After a week of rehearsing this piece perfectly going one way," explained a dancer, "the...
Burt Bacharach Dead At 94
"One of the last of the great popular songwriters of the 20th century, ... he created songs that became standards in their own right....
Search Engines’ AI Chatbots Could Soon Answer Questions Without Giving Links. What Happens To...
Microsoft is incorporating ChatGPT into Bing, and Google's at work on its own AI bot, called Bard, for its search engine. Organizations are very...
China Has Produced Deepfake News Videos And Released Them On Social Media
The videos, by a purported outlet called Wolf News, "were distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter, in the first known instance...
Sagrada Família In Barcelona Has A Big Problem Brewing With The Neighbors
Antoni Gaudí's great church has been under construction for over a century. Huge progress has been made in recent decades, and it's time to...
Stop Assaulting The Staff, Says Edinburgh Playhouse Boss To Audiences
"They have been verbally and physically assaulted by a small number of audience members while trying to do their job. Two weeks ago one...
Disney Co. Will Lay Off 7,000 Employees And Restructure
"With CEO Bob Iger back at the helm, the new organizational structure of (the company) is taking shape, with 7,000 layoffs planned. On Wednesday,...
One Of The Gun Charges Against Alec Baldwin Has A Big Legal Problem
"Prosecutors in New Mexico charged Alec Baldwin last week with a gun allegation that was not on the books at the time of the...
How LA’s Shiny New Football Stadium Became A Venue For Art
A representative for SoFi Stadium told Hyperallergic via email that “over 15,000 guests have bought tickets to tour the Collection, but hundreds of thousands...
AI Image Generators Can Offer Some Pretty Creepy Results. But That’s Not The Only...
What stood out to me, even more than the witchy, misshapen fingers, was that the couples were all white. Every single one of them. -...
Black Sabbath Goes To The Ballet
The brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet director Carlos Acosta and the band's Tony Iommi, the ballet will premiere in Birmingham in September. It will...
In An Age Of Plenty, Documentaries Face An Existential Crisis
As the streaming boom took off, a number of companies tried to crack the problem of how to make good documentaries at the speed and...
My Book Was Canceled. Just Who Is In Charge Here?
What motivates the anti-colonialist cancellers? On the surface, of course, they believe that I’m wrong. But only on the surface. They could react, as...
These New Solar Panels Are Made To Blend In Seamlessly At Historic Sites
The invisible solar panels ... were created by the Italian company Dyaqua. They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick,...
How California’s Festival Of New Music Came Into Being
“The fact that it’s not curated gives everybody a lot of freedom and the chance to engage in the innovation this state is known...
New Zealand’s Arts Funder Gets A Big Cash Infusion
Following last year's outcry over an even-larger-than-usual mismatch between the supply of and the demand for arts funding, the government has given Creative New...
Where Emotions Live In A Culture
I don’t think culture is one thing. Sometimes it is a set of understandings and practices that we share with other people who have...
Why The Current Crop Of Eat-The-Rich Movies Don’t Satisfy As Revenge Fantasy
"Watching these films, I found my class rage dissipating — giving way to pity — in proportion to the degree of suffering onscreen (and...
Alex Ross: Assessing The Impact Of Michael Tilson Thomas
In his youth, he was expected to take over one of the so-called Big Five—the venerable orchestras of the East and the Midwest. Instead,...
Here Comes The World’s First Heavy Metal Ballet
The as-yet untitled three-act piece, the brainchild of Birmingham Royal Ballet artistic director Carlos Acosta, will include eight songs by Black Sabbath (including "Paranoid"...
Justin Davidson: Assessing The New York Phil’s Dudamel Appointment
By now, he’s a seasoned artistic leader who has hired players, weathered contract negotiations, laid long-term plans, raised money, and performed all the practical...
Coded Letters From The Imprisoned Mary, Queen Of Scots Have Been Deciphered
The 57 pieces of correspondence had been languishing unidentified in the archives of the National Library of France. They date from Mary's 18 years...
ChatGPT Will Not Answer Queries About Donald Trump. Why Is This?
No, it's not a matter of left-wing bias — on the part of the software (which is not alive and cannot think) or of...
