Yearly Archives: 2023
Movie Theatres Are Forever Changed
This year's box office will tell us how much theaters must go big -- and, paradoxically, shrink down -- to make it through to...
Queer Theater 2.0 Has Well And Truly Arrived, Writes Jesse Green
"The first phases of the gay play, crucial in their moment (the second half of the 20th century), are over. The spotlight has passed...
Do We All Live In A Computer Simulation?
In recent years the idea that our universe, including ourselves and all of our innermost thoughts, is a computer simulation, running on a thinking...
Gianfranco Baruchello, Prolific Artist In Multiple Media, Is Dead At 98
"Through complex, self-reflexive work that often flouted the traditional mechanisms of the art world and borrowed from mass communication, … the Italian polymath …...
Now You Can See The Leonid Massine Ballet With Sets And Costumes By Matisse
Rouge et Noir was created for the Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo in 1939. Dance critic Ann Barzel filmed parts of the work in Chicago...
2,000-Year-Old Scythian Tomb Discovered In Siberia
"Within the tomb, archaeologists discovered the remains of some 50 bodies, buried alongside an assemblage of artifacts and weapons. It included bronze daggers, knives,...
English National Opera Gets A One-Year, £11.46 Million Funding Reprieve
"Arts Council England said it would invest national lottery funding in the company until March 2024 to 'sustain a programme of work at the...
Archaeologists Say They’ve Uncovered The World’s Oldest Runestone
"The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which … are up to 2,000 years old. … Older runes have been found...
Hawaii Symphony Appoints Its First Music Director In A Decade
Dane Lam, a Chinese-Australian who currently holds positions with Opera Queensland and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China, is the first music director at...
Louisiana Philharmonic Names Matthew Kraemer Music Director
Starting in July, Kraemer, currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto, who is leaving New Orleans after 17...
Prose Style And What’s Good: Stripped And Spare Or Ornate?
Every great national prose, in just about any tongue, reaches its high meridian only by way of a prolonged and constant negotiation of just...
Glenn Lowry: Cultural Institutions On The New Cultural/Political Landscape
“We now know that our world as we thought we understood it is far more fragile... wars that seemed inconceivable now happened, we’ve...
Instagram’s Secret Sauce Is Algorithmic Curation. Can It Beat A Human Curator?
Since November 2022, organizers have uploaded images from the Met’s collection of public domain works to the @thealgorithmicpedestal account on Instagram. Whichever posts the platform’s algorithm...
The Defacing Of A World Heritage Site – Graffiti, Crime, Fear…
The anti-government protests that exploded in late 2019 hit the city hard. Shops were looted, windows smashed and walls were covered in graffiti. Some of the...
The Long Odessey Of Making “Tar”
“Tár” not only got made and released—a fact that seemed to confound its writer-director—but has inspired vigorous discussion, whether about its insights into sexual abuse and...
The Complicated Path Of Criticism
By the first decades of the twentieth century, national organizations had established standards for the credentialling of lawyers, doctors, and nurses. The professionalization of...
St. Louis Symphony Prepares For Major Expansion Of Powell Hall
"The $100 million renovation kicks off this spring, with a groundbreaking on the expansion beginning in March. The 65,000-square-foot expansion will include a new...
Artists Sue AI Art Generator Companies
The artists taking action—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz—"seek to end this blatant and enormous infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a...
The Dance Data Project Moves Beyond Collecting Data On Women Leaders In Dance
"Intended to help address the gender and racial barriers that prevent women from securing leadership positions, the free online program "Raising the Barre: Curriculum...
The War On AI Art Is Dumb
We are used to hearing such petulant ressentiment, especially in connection with the 20th-century avant-garde in the figurative arts: “I could have entered a...
How Filmmaker Alica Diop Turned A Sensational Trial Into The Oscar-Nominated “Saint-Omer”
"When the French director Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to drown,...
Scientist Sues US Copyright Office To Grant Copyright To His AI-Generated Art
Stephen Thaler’s motion argues that the work in question “satisfies the requirements set forth in the Copyright Act”—that because Thaler “invested and owns the...
Michael R. Jackson, Writer-Composer Of “A Strange Loop”, On The Show’s Success And The...
"The more that I've reflected on it, it really makes sense to me that A Strange Loop would be a supernova that cuts across...
What Made Jeff Beck A Great Guitarist
He was a guitarist’s guitarist who seemed to be the humble protagonist at the centre of a plethora of seminal moments in pop history....
A Poisonous Issue: Repatriation Of Some Artifacts Is Delayed For Decontamination
"Across Europe and North America, museums are waking up to an ethical dilemma. The widespread historical use of pesticides means objects in their storage...
