Yearly Archives: 2023
MTT And Barenboim: Twilight Of The Old Guard
The recent struggles and remarkable late-career concerts of these two men will always mark for me the passing from the scene of their generation...
Sweden Proposes To Do Away With Permits To Dance
The proposal made Thursday means that venues no longer would need a license to organize dances. Instead, as a general rule, they would only...
A Most Unusual AM Talk Radio Station
"A talk outlet owned by a billionaire businessman for whom radio is a hobby. ... A station that airs an improbable patch-quilt of block...
Study: Scientific Breakthroughs Are Slowing Down. Why?
The new finding of Mr. Park and his colleagues suggests that investments in science are caught in a spiral of diminishing returns and that...
An Old Military Air Base Becomes A New, And Affordable, Hub For Creative Arts...
"Old Jet sits inside a former fighter-jet operations building. Like most rural hubs, it houses a unique mixture of people who live locally and...
I’m An Author. My Book Is Being Published At HarperCollins. I’m Deeply Conflicted
I’ve loved my publishing experience with HarperCollins. Everyone I’ve worked with has been a smart adviser and a fierce advocate for a slightly weird...
Dutch Old Master Judith Leyster, And Why She Matters
She was a rarity, a professional female painter, in the Dutch Golden Age; her work has been admired ever since — although, for centuries,...
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...
