Yearly Archives: 2023
Orlando Museum Of Art’s Accreditation Is Now At Risk Over The Basquiat Show Fiasco
"Still recovering its credibility after the headline-making FBI raid of its blockbuster Basquiat exhibition last year, the Orlando Museum of Art has been placed...
“Rust” Is Resuming Its Filming Despite Alec Baldwin’s Indictment For Involuntary Manslaughter On Set
"A person with knowledge of the project who was granted anonymity ... said that as of Thursday, the movie was still on track to...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Strike Again, And This Time It Sort Of Makes Sense (A...
At the Art Gallery of Western Australia in Perth, two protestors spray-painted the logo of the company Woodside Energy on the perspex shield covering...
Kids Want Books. Increasingly Librarians Aren’t Allowed To Provide Them
States and districts nationwide have begun to constrain what librarians can order. At least 10 states have passed laws giving parents more power over...
What If Diversity Training Exercises Are Making Things Worse?
There’s little evidence that many of these initiatives work. And the specific type of diversity training that is currently in vogue — mandatory trainings...
Can ChatGPT Replace Human Writers? No, But It Can Make Them Better
I decided to try a combination of tools to see if the AI-assisted work product would outperform my purely original work. Unsurprisingly, the work...
The Battle Over Redesigning Wikipedia
Some Wikipedia contributors have a hard time trusting Wikimedia Foundation designers. No one on the paid design team was around 12 years ago when...
Canada’s Griffin Prize Decided To Reinvent. Poets Are Furious
The prize’s founder, Scott Griffin, had anticipated some controversy, if not this degree of fury. He maintains trustees made the right call. After twenty-two...
The Downsides Of Super-Fandom
At the end of the day, fandoms are grey areas: on the one hand, they can be a place where you can really belong...
AI Might Doom The College Essay, But Students Have Already Moved On
The current generation of students has moved on from writing. Literally. Most students fail to see the relevance of writing in a world—their world—that...
After Humans Come The “Trans-humans”
Transhumanism emerged as a distinct school of thought in the 1980s, when philosophers, scientists, and artists began to think intensively about how technology might...
Miami City Ballet Gets A New Executive Director
Currently, he serves as the executive director of the National Dance Institute, a non-profit arts education organization in New York that has impacted more...
Lebrecht: Why I Hate Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony
‘Nothing,’ Beethoven once said, ‘is more intolerable than having to admit to yourself your own errors.’ In the Pastoral he lets us into that furtive admission....
Why Director Todd Field Employed Mahler And Elgar To Give His Film Tar Meaning
Mahler's Fifth is "a wide-open work, ripe for individual interpretation and impeccably suiting a film that doesn’t provide easy answers." - The Guardian (UK)
An Author Sells A Bucket List Weekend, And Fans Absolutely Line Up For It
What draws hundreds of fans of writer Elin Hilderbrand to Nantucket in January? The chance to hang out in person with the author, of...
LAPD Chief Apologizes For Officer Who Protected CBS Exec Les Moonves
The commander, Cory Palka, allegedly shared details of a sexual assault report with CBS and Moonves. - Los Angeles Times
Peru Closes Machu Picchu And Inca Trail Indefinitely
"Hundreds of people who were stuck for hours at the foot of the 15th Century Inca citadel have now been rescued. ... Rail services...
The Ambitious Second Novel Of Nigerian Author Ayobami Adebayo
Adébáyò's first novel, Stay With Me, "told a closely focused story about the impact of childlessness and sickle-cell disease on the life of a...
Dick Polich, Whose Foundry Made Artists’ Visions Into Reality, Has Died At 90
"The notably petite Ms. Bourgeois did not herself forge her looming metallic arachnids. For that, she — along with many of the world’s ...
How Did Anime Come To Be Everywhere In Culture?
It's all going to plan. But also, "Anime's fans are largely online, and the pandemic — when people were suddenly able to focus on...
Elon Musk Is Ending Twitter’s Use To Publications
Basically, what referrals Twitter provided - and the percentage wasn't large for most publishers - has dropped to near nothing after Musk's recent decisions....
Sculptor Hank Willis Thomas On The ‘Strange’ Backlash To His MLK Sculpture
Thomas says he "focused on the Kings’ arms 'an embodiment of the ‘beloved community,’' a term the civil rights leader often used to...
Wikipedia’s Thoughtful Dealing With Cultural Hot Topics
"Wikipedia’s editors are no longer simply citing dated sources; instead, they are hashing out how someone would want to be understood. But even though...
Why An Indian Action Spectacle Film Is Charming The West
Maybe the reason is that blockbusters churned out in the U.S. have been hit with a similarity stick, or with a cynicism audiences can...
If You Missed Broadway Musicals Last Year, Don’t Worry; Listen
Almost every show, even ones that closed relatively quickly, created a cast album. And "some improve on the shows they preserve merely by jettisoning...
