Yearly Archives: 2023
City Of Leeds Embarks On Its Own Year Of Culture After Brexit Killed Its...
Leeds 2023 is the “unofficial” city of culture. The city’s official bid to be European capital of culture began about a decade ago but was dashed...
Florida College Goes To War With DeSantis After Governor Appoints New Oversight
In a tweet, Christopher Rufo said the group will seek to a create a new core curriculum, “abolish ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ and replace it...
NYC’s Shed Restructures Its Leadership
“It has become more and more clear to me that, to really take us on to the next chapter, I need to dedicate my...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Loses Top Leadership And Will Restructure
OSF has recently been trying to offset deficits from the pandemic’s impact, including reducing its number of shows each season, shortening its calendar for...
Mellon Foundation Picks A New Arts Program Officer
Stephanie Ybarra joins Mellon following her tenure as Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage, where she broke ground as the country’s first Latina artistic...
The Great Unheralded Wits Of Social Media? State Agencies
Washington State Dept. of Natural Resources: "Update: The Twitter wildfire is at 44 billion acres and 0% contained." NE Ohio Regional Sewer District: "now...
What Daniel Barenboim Accomplished In Berlin
In Berlin, the former-musical-prodigy-turned-artistic-director increasingly became a cultural politician. In keeping with his self-image, he found his equals at the federal (rather than the...
The Funny Little Things About Franz Kafka That Max Brod Excised From His Diaries
Brod sanitized and polished quite a bit when he published his friend's journals (which Kafka had wanted burned), and a new, uncensored translation reveals...
The Meritocracy? It Doesn’t Exist. It’s All About Networking
The experience had clued him in to something: In elite circles, not all opportunities were advertised. There were rooms that the rest of us...
Wayne McGregor Looks Inside His Fellow Choreographers’ Notebooks
McGregor, who directed this year's Venice Biennale Danza, shares comments and images from the notebooks of 16 of the dance-makers he worked with, from...
The Golden Globes Still Have A Long Way To Go To Redeem Themselves
In the end, the Globes had to make three arguments Tuesday: that it has survived its past scandals to become a better organization; that...
Spreading The Word: Fans Are Learning And Using The Na’vi Language From “Avatar”
Paul Frommer, the linguist who created from scratch the language spoken by the inhabitants of the planet Pandora in the hit films, talks about...
Tracking A Precipitous Decline In Innovation
Across broad landscapes of science and technology, the past is eating the present, progress is plunging, and truly disruptive work is hard to come...
Baltimore Center Stage’s Director To Depart, With Ousted Director Of Chicago’s Victory Gardens To...
Stephanie Ybarra is resigning, effective March 31, to become a program officer at the Mellon Foundation. Taking over as interim artistic director is Ken-Matt...
Rebranding The Met: A Five-Point Plan To Make The Metropolitan Opera A Must-See
Observing the company's worrisome slump in ticket sales and Peter Gelb's announced plans to focus more on contemporary works and reduce the number of...
Leading Muslim Advocacy Group Says University Was Wrong To Fire Professor Who Showed Medieval...
"The Muslim Public Affairs Council has published a statement urging reinstatement of an art history professor who was fired from Hamline University in Minnesota...
Barry Grove, Who Helped Make Manhattan Theatre Club Into A Powerhouse, Will Step Down...
He started with the then-fledgling Off-Off-Broadway company as managing director in 1975. Since then, with artistic director Lynne Meadow, Groves has led MTC to...
There Will Be No Deal To “Loan” The Parthenon Marbles Back To Greece, Says...
Scuttling reports from last week of secret talks over a deal, premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis restated his nation's longstanding position that the ancient sculptures, having...
After Four Years On The Outside (This Time Around), The US May Rejoin UNESCO
"An article in the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed on 22 December … paves the way for the Biden administration to rejoin and...
“Banshees”, “Everything”, “Ozark” Lead SAG Award Nominations
The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once each received five nods: one for lead performance (Colin Farrell and Michelle Yeoh, respectively),...
Is Campus Free Speech Really Dead?
Are thought, argument, and debate really dying? The picture painted in the media is of a horrified, unqualified yes. But it’s a big country...
The Play About A New York Apartment Developed In A New York Apartment
A parade of well-known actors participated in the readings on Riverside Drive along the West 80s, including John Leguizamo, Ellen Burstyn and Chris Rock,...
State Of The UK Independent Bookstore Biz
Overall, 2022 was a good year for independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland, who saw their number climb to a 10-year high. According to...
How Should We Think About How We Think?
Ask someone how she thinks and you might learn that she talks to herself silently, or cogitates visually, or moves through mental space by...
A Tower In Vancouver That Literally Twists Itself To Conform To Zoning Rules
The Vancouver House is a 490-foot high-rise teetering on a narrow base, twisting and expanding as it rises. The torquing tower serves as a new gateway to...
