Yearly Archives: 2023
The Drag-Queen-Story-Hour Culture Wars Have Spread To Britain’s Museums
"In an open letter to the Tate's board of trustees, a controversial politician in the United Kingdom denounced Tate Britain's decision to invite a...
Pasadena Symphony’s Ex-Music Director, Fired For Refusing Vaccine, Sues For Religious Discrimination
"(David Lockington), who is a member of Church of Christ, Scientist, is suing the association, alleging he was wrongfully stripped of his job in...
HarperCollins To Lay Off 5 Percent Of Its North American Staff As Strike Continues
"The news of the layoffs comes a few days after HC said it had agreed to work with a mediator in an attempt to...
UK Museum Workers Announce A Strike
"Security and visitor services staff at the British Museum in London and civil servants at the (culture ministry) said they would refuse to continue...
The Baby Boomers Changed Everything. What Happens When They’re Gone?
They were a cohort of historically unprecedented size, whose basic need to be clothed, fed, housed and educated was a decades-long jobs creator and...
Last Week A Plan To Close The Vancouver Folk Music Festival. This Week A...
An open letter from the board says several parties have offered possible solutions for funding and support since it announced the plan to end...
Why We’re Missing Memories From The Pandemic
We might assume that our pandemic memories are missing because information entered our brains, then slipped from it—like a toy tumbling out of a clumsy...
A Nun From 900 Years Ago Had A Profound Influence On Music (And Does...
Hildegard’s fame has crossed over into zones of New Age spirituality, environmental discourse, and feminist thought. In the gift shop at the Hildegard Abbey,...
A Successful Life? Freedom From Anxiety
The more general such claims are, the easier it is to agree. But when we delve into what makes the various philosophers different, what...
Artists Believe Copyright Benefits Them. But Corporations Are The Biggest Beneficiaries
The extension of copyright has been described as essentially stealing cultural works from the public. - The Conversation
Saudi Arabia Plays With Building A Dystopian City
It is a city that might have been conceived by WeWork’s founder Adam Neumann in consultation with FTX boss Sam Bankman-Fried, with the benefit...
The Rise (Again) Of Barnes & Noble
The chain, long in contraction, is expanding for the first time in a decade. It plans to open 30 new stores this year. It is increasingly...
Creativity In The Age Of “Synthetic Media”
Synthetic Media is produced by human creators who use computers and purpose-built software (including AI) to realize their production goals. Generative Synthetic Media is...
How Technology Makes Us More Human
What defines humanity is not just our unusual level of intelligence, but also how we capitalize on that intelligence... If we merely lived up...
New Photos Show Damage To Dallas Museum Of Art From June Break-In
A vandal had more than 15 minutes to smash vitrines and priceless art before security realized something was wrong - and the photos show...
How Did A Scooby-Doo HBO Show Become The Target Of Internet Ire?
"Despite the vitriol, people are watching the show; according to HBO Max, Velma was its biggest animated series premiere ever. Problem is, they’re watching it through...
France’s National Opera Of The Rhine Cancels Productions
The reasons stem from energy costs - and cuts in subsidies. "Strasbourg hosts the choir, the design workshops for sets and costumes and the...
The Heirs Of A Man Who Sold A Picasso To Flee The Nazis Would...
And they're suing the Guggenheim Foundation to get the painting, Woman Ironing, back. - The New York Times
The Race To Rescue Music Lost After The Holocaust
While recording music by Kurt Weill, musical historian Michael Haas "began to discover an entire hidden world of composers who either died during the...
The Eerie Experience Of Visiting Peru’s Terrorism Museum As A Constitutional Crisis Unfolds
Part of the problem lies in the rhetoric of "terrorism" - something that Lima's political elite seems to use whenever any other part of...
Director Alice Diop’s Film Was Overlooked For The Oscars, But She’s Moving On
A documentary filmmaker for years, she feels ambivalent about the attention her film Saint-Omer has already had - she's the first Black woman to...
The Design Transformation Of Playgrounds
"Urban planners, architects and designers around the world are looking to make cities spongier—using nature-based solutions to better absorb water," and that's where playgrounds come...
Actor Annie Wersching Of 24, Runaways And This Is Us Has Died At 45
The actor was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, but kept it quiet. "She wanted to get better so she could continue working. And honestly,...
Marie Kondo Never Told People To Give Everything Up
But when the author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up revealed that with kids, she's let go of trying to be so tidy,...
With ‘Hollywood Shuffle,’ Robert Townsend Transformed The Business, And Himself
As Hollywood Shuffle joins the Criterion Collection (making him one of the very rare Black directors on the list), Townsend is also coming off...
