Yearly Archives: 2023
Ukrainian National Ballet’s New Artistic Director Is Japanese
A Japanese, that is, who has lived and worked in Kyiv ever since he arrived there as an 11-year-old dance student. Nobuhiro Terada went...
Redesigning Los Angeles To Make It Cooler
In a city where tree shade is unequally distributed and half the surfaces are dark asphalt or concrete, the solution to increasing temperatures could lie...
The Swinging Sixties London Writer Who Tried To Eliminate Every Trace Of Her Career
Rosemary Tonks was suceessful critically, commercially, and socially. Then a series of life crises in the 1970s led her to convert to fundamentalist Christianity,...
Poetry Is Dead Now. We Can Place The Time Of Death
Modest as the festivities have been, I am certain that in 100 years there will be no poem whose centenary is the object of...
Why Audiences And Actors Remain Enthralled With That Sordid, Squalid “Streetcar Named Desire”
Sordid? Squalid? That's pretty much how a lot of critics reacted to the play when it was new. Yet for decades it has been...
Mercedes Bass’ Plan For The Fort Worth Symphony
Relying on her own keen sense of how classical music should sound, she developed a plan that would bring together the finest musicians, outstanding...
Arts Organizations Are Hiring Women Of Color As Leaders, Then Losing Them. Here Are...
"Arts groups need to make institutional changes to support these new leaders, according to women leaders of color at these groups. They say solutions...
Britain’s National Gallery Has Spent £3 Million To Buy An Abandoned Public Lavatory
"The lavatory on Charing Cross Road closed in the Seventies and later became a West End ticket kiosk before falling into disuse. There may...
Cineworld/Regal Says No, It Is Not Selling Itself To AMC
"Regal-owner Cineworld, the world's second largest movie theater operator, has denied reports that it has been in talks with AMC, the world's largest movie...
The Mysterious Manuscript Thief Is Expected To Plead Guilty
"For years, someone impersonated authors and agents, editors and publishers, trying to steal unpublished book manuscripts from high profile authors … and writers of...
The British Museum And Acropolis Museum Are Nearing A Deal For The Return Of...
"An agreement would see a proportion of the marbles sent to Athens on rotation over several years. … In exchange, other objects would effectively...
Frank Galati, A Beloved Pillar Of Chicago Theater, Is Dead At 79
A double Tony winner, a mainstay of the Steppenwolf and Goodman Theaters, Galati was admired as an adapter of literature for the stage, an...
The Stars Of Zeffirelli’s “Romeo And Juliet” Are Suing Over Their Nude Scene, Alleging...
Leonard Whiting, who was 16 when the film was made in 1968, and Olivia Hussey, who was 15, are seeking damages from Paramount reported...
How The Culture Wars Are Tearing Apart Museums
The saga of the Philip Guston exhibition, “Philip Guston Now,” that was postponed in late 2020 demonstrates how museums now suffer from an identity...
Listening Plan: A January To Understand Today’s Classical Music
The boundaries of classical music are ever more porous and open, spilling into other forms and all to the good. Give up prejudice or...
Why Sondheim Resonates With The Younger Generation
My students could appreciate his skill as a musical dramatist, his innovations as a craftsman, his inventive wit and longing harmonic lines. But what...
Understanding The Genius Of Thelonius Monk
Neither a cult reputation as a pioneer of bebop nor American canonization quite does justice to Monk, who was simply one of the most...
A Rookie Orchestra Recording By A Youth Orchestra, Finalist For A Grammy
The album, which is untitled, came together after six weeks of remote instruction followed by in person socially distant rehearsals and four days of recording sessions...
Does AI Make Plagiarism Undetectable? We College Professors Are Smarter Than That!
"For me, this new AI bot is not scarey, or even revolutionary. It’s just the latest con for those who would seek to dupe...
A Comprehensive List Of Works Now In The Public Domain As Of This Week
Every year, Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke University School of Law’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, puts together an extensive list of expiring U.S. copyrights,...
Ten Things For The Theatre Industry To Consider For 2023
Lyn Gardner: "6) Safeguarding. We don't expect people in other professions to do their jobs well without proper safeguards, checks and balances in place;...
How Failure And Disillusionment Fuel Accomplishment
This turns out to be a running theme — how a strain of perfectionism can doom a pursuit of failure to, well, failure. -...
Meet The World’s Absolute Master Of Card Tricks
"Juan Tamariz has been a professional magician for 52 years, ... becoming both a household name in his home country and a living legend...
Cable TV’s Fierce Downward Subscriber Plunge
Today, roughly two-thirds of U.S. households pay for a cable, satellite or fiber TV subscription, down from 79% in 2017 and 85% in 2007. - Axios
Ireland Is Using “The Banshees Of Inisherin” To Promote Tourism
"Inis Mór (Inishmore) and Achill Island, the islands where Martin McDonagh's black comedy was filmed, are marketing the locations, and a Tourism Ireland video...
