Yearly Archives: 2023
Writer Hanif Kureshi Says He May Never Hold A Pen Again After Accident
The novelist and screenwriter (My Beautiful Laundrette) fell in Rome the day after Christmas. He wrote in a series of tweets that he can't...
Saving 100-Year-Old Pianos From The Landfill
"Pianos do kind of take on the character of 100 years of playing, you know?” says Tim Vincent-Smith, co-founder of Pianodrome - a project...
Who Ya Gonna Call? Ghost-Writer!
Ghostwriters channel someone else’s voice and construct with it a book that has shape and texture, narrative arc and memorable characters, all without leaving...
The Hot Topic At This Year’s Avant-Garde Theatre Festival? The Classics
Half a dozen of the main works are deliberately in dialogue with literary classics and ephemera, from sources as diverse as Mark Twain’s satirical...
The Mind-Blowing Incomprehension Of Nothingness
Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Continued experiments and observations only served to confirm that at scales both large and small, we appeared to live in an...
Why Is The Eiffel Tower Wearing A Cowboy Hat?
Paris, Texas was founded in the 1840s, and quickly became a hub for business and culture in Northeast Texas. Unfortunately, in 1916, a massive...
How Juilliard’s Director Of The Dance Division Is Remaking The Program
In 2018, the school hired Alicia Graf Mack to head up its dance division, making her the youngest person, and the first woman of...
The High-Tech Wizard Of Biblical-Era Manuscripts
"(Michael Langlois's) approach, which combines the close linguistic and paleographical analysis of ancient writings with advanced scientific tools … can sometimes make long-gone inscriptions...
Robert Gottlieb On The Relationship Between Editor And Writer
The editor represents many things, and different things to every writer. It's a financial relationship. It's an approval relationship. It's a technical relationship. It...
A Revival Of Morse Code Is Putting The Digit Back In Digital Communication
"Strangely enough, while the number of ham operators is declining globally, it's growing in the United States, as is Morse code, by all accounts....
The Extraordinary Literary Partnership Of Robert Caro And Robert Gottlieb
They bicker all the time, about every comma, period, and semicolon. Actually, don’t even get them started on semicolons. Gottlieb refers to a “civil...
Bachtrack’s Annual Classical Muic Statistics Show Most-Performed Works, Composers, Busiest Artists, Etc. For 2022
Among the surprises: nearly a fifth of the 100 most-performed works were written after 1918, and topping the entire list is Ravel's La Valse....
Chaos In Streaming — An Inevitable Consolidation?
Not one of the people running streaming TV services think there are going to be a ton of TV services in the future. They...
Turns Out One Of The More Controversial Russian Oligarchs Is, Behind The Scenes, A...
A wrongful termination lawsuit against production company New Republic Pictures by its founder has revealed that billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev — major art collector, soccer...
Warner CFO: We Went Overboard On Streaming
“There was a lot of thinking of, you know, let’s do more more more, not necessarily ‘let’s do the exact right things, let’s do...
More Theater Companies Consider Moving Away From The Traditional Artistic Director Model
Lily Janiak looks at the situation in the Bay Area, where small companies in particular have had trouble hiring or retaining ADs — the...
Paris’s Rodin Museum Abandons Its Unpopular Plan To Build A Satellite in The Canary...
"The Rodin Museum in Paris has scrapped its controversial €16 million (roughly $17 million) project to build an outpost in Santa Cruz de Tenerife...
Archaeologists Unearth Massive 1,000-Year-Old Viking Hall
"Archaeologists digging in the village of Hune in Denmark have discovered the remains of a vast Viking hall — what they're calling the 'largest...
Academic Freedom Wars Continue After Professor Is Fired For Showing Students Images Of Muhammad...
The incident happened in a virtual art history class at Hamline University in Minnesota last fall: the professor gave his students advance warning before...
San Francisco’s Basement Performance Venues Flooded By Repeated Storms
"As with the historic storm that pummeled the Bay Area over New Year's weekend, the outside world doesn't always stay outside. Now flooded venues...
Turns Out Alexei Ratmansky Is Leaving ABT To Go To New York City Ballet
Two weeks ago, the world's most admired living ballet choreographer announced that he's ending his 13 years as artist in residence at American Ballet...
UK Government Abandons Plan To Privatize Channel Four
"The decision represents a dramatic U-turn by Rishi Sunak's Conservative government to that of Boris Johnson, which was forging ahead with privatization proposals last...
Defunding Of English National Opera Was A “Politically Motivated Stunt”, Says Ex-Culture Minister Under...
Nadine Dorries tweeted that she's been "blamed for lazy, politically motivated decision making at (Arts Council England), who … pulled this as a stunt...
Our Loneliness Epidemic
The most salient social feature of the pandemic was how it forced people into isolation; for those fortunate enough not to lose a loved...
Dilemma: How To Preserve A Banksy Mural In The Rubble Of Ukraine
The conversation has grown urgent after thieves last month made off with one artwork from the town of Hostomel, about 15 miles (25km) outside...
