Yearly Archives: 2023
The Arts Collective Ousted In Vienna Speaks Out
At the heart of the conflict: What is Austria? "We were trying to look beyond the Western canon as the only idea of what...
Who Was The Elise That Beethoven Wrote His Piano Piece Für? She Didn’t Exist,...
"In a forthcoming book, Why Beethoven, Norman Lebrecht presents evidence that the Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor has been known as Für Elise...
Dallas Paper Tries Replacing Its Architecture Critic With Artificial Intelligence
Things didn't go well: "Because an AI program can’t 'be there,' it ends up, like a lazy college freshman, culling what material it can...
TikTok Is Experimenting With Podcasting (Well, That’s What They’re Calling It)
"The test allows users to listen to the audio featured in TikTok videos in the background. Until now, putting TikTok into the background paused...
Carlos Acosta And Birmingham Royal Ballet Launch A Second Company
As with ABT Studio, Ailey II, and other companies (largely in the US), BRB2 will offer limited-term contracts (in this case, two years) to...
Maybe Ticketmaster Doesn’t Deserve All The Rage Directed At It. (Some, But Not All.)
"Over a dozen interviews with former Ticketmaster executives, managers, economists, lawmakers, antitrust experts, fans and industry insiders, many agreed that Ticketmaster is enormous and...
They’re Not “Mummies,” They’re “Mummified Persons”
Some, though not all, museums in the UK have started moving away from the term "mummy" to describe deliberately preserved human remains from ancient...
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...
