Yearly Archives: 2023
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...
The Stage: 100 Most Influential People In Theatre
The Stage 100 in 2023 is the first ‘traditional’ version of the list since early 2020, pre-Covid. It returns slightly altered. - The Stage
Broadway Notches Best Box Office Week Since 2019
The 33 shows grossed $51.9 million, the most since the final week of 2019. And “The Lion King” notched a remarkable milestone: It grossed...
This Is What Happens When Government Meddles In Arts Funding
It does not benefit either the arts or the government for politicians to be involved in arts funding. The current controversy is an excellent...
ABT Director Susan Jaffe On How She Programs A Season
In this video interview, Jaffe talks with Dance Data Project founder Elizabeth Yntema about inspiration, engagement, production, and creating or incubating new works. -...
EU Hefty Ruling Against Meta/Facebook Could Change Social Media
E.U. regulators found that Meta’s decision to place the clause allowing it to collect personalized user data deep in its terms of service more...
How A 38-Year-Old Don DeLillo Novel Nails The 2020s
"While White Noise is intentionally specific to 1985, the tendencies described have only intensified. … The same tensions DeLillo mined so eloquently still grip...
Apple Introduces Audiobooks Voiced By AI
On the company’s Books app, searching for “AI narration” reveals the catalogue of works included in the scheme, which are described as being “narrated...
