Yearly Archives: 2023
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...
Reasearch On Newborns Gives Insight To How/Why We Respond To Music
A 2009 study, for instance, found that newborns react to beats — i.e. they anticipate the downbeat of rhythmic patterns, which tends to support the...
Have A Look At London’s “Actors’ Church” In All Its Fabulousness
"The ebullient rector of St Paul's Church, Covent Garden, fondly known as the Actors' Church, carries himself as much like an impresario as a...
The Creative Driver Behind Netflix
“It’s not a science. It’s a big creative endeavor. But it’s about recognizing that people like having more.” - The New Yorker
National Symphony Orchestra In DC Has Found Its New CEO
"Jean Davidson, 54, is president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the largest professional chorus in the country. (She) will begin...
The Silicon Valley Of 1000 Years Ago That Spawned A Millenium Of Innovations
This culturally and linguistically diverse environment gave rise to innovations that would have lasting legacies in fields including algebra, geography, astronomy, medicine and engineering....
The Superstar Magician Who Lost, Or Found, Himself In TM
"To the chagrin of his fans, (Doug) Henning himself sold his illusions to David Copperfield and other magicians, and permanently quit the world of...
Why Ratmansky Is A Great Fit For NYCity Ballet
Really, the courtship between Ratmansky and City Ballet — a new New York City Ballet under the leadership of its artistic director, Jonathan Stafford, and Whelan...
