Yearly Archives: 2023
Victor Navasky, Editor Of The Nation And Voice For Progressive Journalism, 90
Navasky "appreciated the work of making news stories passionate and beguiling. He told NPR he watched Fox News for years, because Bill O'Reilly and...
All Robots Should Dance — Just Like M3GAN Does
Choreoroboticist Kate Sicchio: "It's really interesting to have this unfamiliar device do this uncanny human thing. It’s similar to why we love putting googly...
Why Is The Rebuild At The Glasgow School Of Art Taking So Long?
The post-fire clearance took forever - "'intricate and painstaking' work, done by hand, of removing from the site and evaluating in excess of 2,400...
Books As Home Decor, With Professional Designers To Select Them And Lay Them Out
"More often than not, these books come across as props intended to be on camera — signifiers much like a Birkin bag or expensive...
The Rise Of Queer Comics, And Why Bans Will Backfire
"Long before witty digital comics found a home on your Instagram feed, depicting things from the struggle with Grindr to birth-control access, there were...
How The Arts Fared In New Zealand Under Jacinda Ardern
"Ardern (who kept the culture ministry herself) had a lot going on as Prime Minister — the Christchurch Mosque attacks, the eruption of White...
Dance Artists Of Color Are Getting More Chances To Lead
Kiyon Ross at Pacific Northwest Ballet: "The skills you learn as a choreographer are definitely transferable to being a leader. ... You have to have...
For John Adams, Revising “Girls Of The Golden West” Was Harder Than Composing It
"It was not well received, and I was devastated by the reaction. ... It was way too long in San Francisco and Amsterdam. The...
France’s Cesar Nominations Include Many For A Movie About An Injured Dancer
"Cédric Klapisch’s Rise, about a ballet dancer (Marion Barbeau) who, after an injury, seeks a new future in contemporary dance, picked up 9 César nominations."...
DC’s Theater J, One Of America’s Leading Jewish Theater Companies, Appoints A New Artistic...
Hayley Finn, 48, is a career-long specialist in new plays and has conducted workshops for nearly 1,000 scripts. She's currently associate artistic director of...
Justin Peck Has Created New York City Ballet’s First Evening-Length Abstract Ballet In 55...
Which is to say, not since George Balanchine's Jewels (1967). Premiering this week, Peck's Copland: Dance Episodes is also City Ballet's first use of...
Rupert Murdoch Calls Off The Reunification Of News Corp. And Fox
"Rupert Murdoch sent letters to the board of directors of News Corp. and Fox Corp. on Tuesday, informing both groups he had decided to...
India Bans BBC Documentary About Narendra Modi And Deadly 2002 Riots
The Modi Question examines the anti-Muslim violence in Gujarat state in 2002 and the role in it played by Modi, who was then the...
Everett Quinton, Who Kept The Ridiculous Theatrical Co. Alive, Is Dead At 71
A seminal presence in both Off-Off-Broadway and queer theater, Ridiculous was founded by playwright/director/actor Charles Ludlam in the late 1960s. Quinton became Ludlam's partner...
John Williams Is, Again, The Most Oscar-Nominated Person Alive
With the Academy's nod for his score for Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans, the 90-year-old composer has tallied 53 nominations (and counting), trailing only Walt...
Baltimore Museum Of Art Appoints Chief Curator Asma Naeem Director
"After its last leader departed to head the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art has named a new director:...
Hollywood Won’t Survive Without Actual Movie Theatres
"The solution ... is simple: Put new releases exclusively in theaters and give them a real chance to succeed with paying moviegoers. No more...
Rereading Russian Classics In The Shadow Of The War In Ukraine
"The idea that great novels disclose universal human truths, or contain a purely literary meaning that transcends national politics, wasn’t evenly distributed across the...
Could Music Therapy Help Ease Long COVID?
"It seems ironic that music, one of the fields hardest hit by the global pandemic, may prove to be an effective treatment specifically for...
The Academic Career Is Broken
And half-assed reforms aren't going to fix it. "It’s not an economic crisis. It’s a crisis of faith. The question is not just whether...
Little Free Library Expands Its Work Into Indian Country
"Little Free Library's ... latest initiative, the Indigenous Library Program, which launches this spring, will provide book-sharing boxes for installation on tribal lands, as...
Why Are British MPs Declaring War On Opera?
Their reasoning: "Patronising claptrap. So, young people will only accept opera if it’s put on in a car park. The lower orders can make do...
Dick Polich, Fabricator To The Stars Of Modern American Sculpture, Is Dead At 90
"Louise Bourgeois, ... Nancy Graves, Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella all relied on Mr. Polich and his team of some 100 artisans...
The Nominations, Snubs, And Surprises For This Year’s Academy Awards
The fun, searing, rapidly movie Everything Everywhere All at Once led with nominations, but some actors, movies, and directors were - explicably or not...
One Of Edinburgh’s Leading Theatres Could Close After Money To Complete Renovation Runs Out
Funding for the King's Theatre rehab had been secured at the project's original budget of £25.7 million, but COVID-related delays, supply chain issues and...
