Yearly Archives: 2023
“Power Is Genderless”: Cate Blanchett Answers Back To Marin Alsop’s Criticism Of “Tár”
"I don't think you could have talked about the corrupting nature of power in as nuanced away as Todd Field has done as a...
Gen Z Is Really Starting To Get Into Classical Music
"There are plenty of reasons for this, from the playlist culture spawned by streaming platforms … to the solace it provided during the pandemic....
The Smithsonian Is Restoring 300 Of The World’s Oldest Sound Recordings
"Now, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has announced a new project: restoring hundreds of never-before-heard sound recordings made by Bell and his...
Plácido Domingo Faces New Accusation Of Sexual Misconduct
Speaking on Spanish television — in shadow, voice electronically altered — a female singer alleged that, roughly two decades ago, Domingo on one occasion...
Two Libraries In Colorado Close Due To Meth Contamination
Public library branches in Boulder and Englewood, a Denver suburb, were closed to the public for several days after tests found methamphetamine on surfaces...
Art Institute of Chicago’s Former Payroll Manager Indicted For Embezzling $2 Million
"In his role as payroll manager, (Michael) Maurello had access to make direct deposits. But between 2007 and 2020, he disguised payments to make...
UK Vinyl Record Presser To Double Production To Meet Demand
Press On Vinyl opened in Middlesbrough in early-2022 with the aim of producing 50,000 records a month. - BBC
Banff Centre Appoints New President
The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity announced that Chris Lorway would be appointed to the role of President and CEO of Banff Centre....
Gina Lollobrigida, 95
“In the immediate period after the war and throughout the 1950s there was one face that represented Italian beauty in the eyes of the...
Hilary And Bill Write Novels. But How Much Of Them?
Using a technique called “stylometry”, it can be established that James Patterson probably wrote most of The President is Missing. Stylometry uses computers to...
How The Brain Calculates Escape
Escape behavior offers useful insight into the brain’s inner workings because it engages nervous system networks that originated in the early days of evolution....
Charting The Rise Of Art For Screens
The shift to screen life has been decades in the making, and generations of tech-savvy artists have been charting those changes. - The Wall Street...
Math – The Core Of The Ideas That Propel Our World
Mathematics belongs firmly within, not outside, the Modernist revolution in art and thought that reconfigured minds and lives. So why would any writer who...
The Nineteenth Century: The Age Of Musical Amateurs
Mozart worked from 1781 as a freelance musician. Beethoven, too, survived on publishers’ commissions and charitable sponsorship. If they had been born two centuries...
How Russia Is Plundering Ukraine’s Art
Ukrainian officials say that Russian forces have robbed or damaged more than 30 museums — including several in Kherson, which was retaken in November,...
Predictably, Perhaps, The Online Backlash To The Embrace Is Vicious
"From one angle, the limbs form a heart, representing the couple’s love. But much as Chicago’s landmark 'Cloud Gate' sculpture quickly became known as...
Boston’s Newest Public Art Is Meant To Honor The Kings
The sculpture, called "The Embrace," is also meant to give Boston a new shine. "People come to Boston to get their American story reified....
The Full List Of Critics Circle Awards
Cate Blanchett rolls on, and Everything Everywhere All at Once picks up critical steam. - Variety
A Friend Hid This Munch Masterpiece In A Barn To Keep It From Nazis
"Dance on the Beach was part of a masterpiece of 12 major panels, which Max Reinhardt, the theatre director, commissioned in 1906 for his avant-garde...
Awards Shows Are Rapidly Losing Audience
Should they follow the Screen Actors Guild to Netflix or other streamers? - CBC
Brooklyn’s Barclays Center Abandons Seatgeek To Return To The Fee-Laden Clutches Of Ticketmaster
Why? It's a mystery. "The abrupt switch, at a high-profile venue in one of the biggest markets in the world, is head-spinning news in...
Try This One Not So Weird, Research Based Trick To Be Happier
Only connect: "The strongest predictors for people to maintain their happiness and health throughout the course of their lives were people who described their...
Who’s Guiding Marvel’s Multiverse Now?
Without Iron Man, there's a leader-shaped hole at the center of all of the various stories. Is Paul Rudd really supposed to fill that...
Ruth Adler Schnee, Who Fled Nazi Germany And Turned Textiles Into Midcentury Modernist Art,...
Schnee's "ebullient fabric designs and avant-garde home furnishings store in the heart of Detroit introduced midcentury modernism to baffled and delighted Midwesterners" - and...
Keeping Artists Out Of The Mother-Shaped Hole That Swallows Creativity
The problem?"If you aren’t in a lactation closet, you’re at home." - LitHub
