Yearly Archives: 2023
Two Former Dancers Sue Richmond Ballet For $21 Million Over Eating Disorders
"In a pair of lawsuits filed in Richmond Circuit Court, the dancers say the company required them to maintain a 'dangerously unhealthy weight' to...
What Gender-Neutral Fashion Gets Wrong About… Fashion
Look at the “gender-neutral” lines of mainstream mall brands like Old Navy, Roots, and H&M and you’ll find a lot of dysphoria hoodies—items meant...
How Mass Culture Gave Rebellion To The Individual
How did we get here, where men who benefit most from our social structures, position themselves as the little guy? This comes from a...
So The Publishing Business Haas Changed. Artists Adapt. They Always Do
At this point, the question of whether conglomeration was good or bad seems largely beside the point. Artists adapt. Artists have always been subject...
Inuit Artist Wins Canada’s Top Visual Art Prize
Kablusiak, who was born in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and raised in Alberta, has received acclaim for her multidisciplinary practice, which explores issues related to...
Shipwreck Off The Coast Of Colombia Could Be Worth Billions Of Dollars
Footage of the wreck released last year show that the ship’s hull is still in tact. The surrounding sea floor is scattered with gold...
South Carolina Board Of Education Considers “Age Appropriate” Standards To Keep Books Out Of...
The regulation is the latest effort from conservative policymakers to restrict public school students’ access to books covering topics of race, gender identity and...
Forbidden By The Taliban To Attend School, These Afghan Girls Are Being Taught By...
Lucy Ferriss: "Asma is one of 120 students whom I and a dozen other college professors, spread across four continents and five academic divisions,...
Increasingly, Pop Artists Are Collaborating With Symphony Orchestras
The interest flows both ways. Not only are performers seeking out orchestras to partner with, but organizations such as the San Francisco Symphony see...
This Black Woman Composer Achieved Success In The 1950s Before Ill Health Claimed Her
"For (Julia) Perry, who died in 1979 at age 55, the 1950s and ’60s were replete with success, the summit of a career that...
Why Chasing Happiness Can Make You… Unhappy
Happiness is, after all, an abstract idea; there is no objective measure for it available. Many people don’t even know what they really mean...
Author Herbert Gold, 99
"(His) verbal inventiveness and keen eye for complicated emotional transactions ... or struggling to connect the world of their Jewish immigrant parents with the...
Amazon, Netflix Back Off Controversial Projects In India
When the U.S. streaming giants, Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video, entered India seven years ago, they promised to shake up one of the world’s...
Now That These Mosaics Have Been Repatriated To Lebanon, A Scholar Says They’re Fake
"Eight out of nine mosaic panels that the US authorities recently … are not what they seem, according to claims made by Djamila Fellague...
Pew Study: Where Americans Get Their News
A large majority of U.S. adults (86%) say they often or sometimes get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet, including 56% who say...
Garth Fagan Is Stepping Away From The Leadership Of His Dance Company
After 53 years at the helm, he is turning Garth Fagan Dance over to principals Natalie Rogers-Cropper (executive director) and Norwood “PJ” Pennewell (artistic...
The Oscar-Winning Playwright-Screenwriter Running The Geffen Playhouse
Tarell Alvin McCraney (who wrote Moonlight) calls it "your friendly neighborhood playhouse": "I really want to make sure L.A. artists or artists who call...
Don’t Worry, We’re Not Out Of Clay For Our Claymation, Say Makers of “Wallace...
"After reports that the manufacturers of Aardman’s favoured modelling clay had gone out of business, meaning the animators had enough supplies for only one...
Joss Ackland, Versatile Actor With A Seven-Decade Career, Is Dead At 95
"A self-described workaholic, (he) brought a mellifluous voice and commanding presence to more than 200 movies and television shows, in addition to starring in...
Meet NPR’s New Top Arts Editor
"Ciera Crawford has been promoted to Chief Arts and Culture Hub Editor at NPR. (She) has been working with the culture desk since 2021...
“Hallucinate” Is Cambridge Dictionary’s Word Of The Year — But Not For The Definition...
"It now has an additional meaning, relating to when artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, which generates text that mimics human writing, 'hallucinates' and...
For The First Time, The Guggenheim Will Have A Woman As CEO And Director
"The Guggenheim Museum announced that Mariët Westermann, currently vice chancellor of NYU Abu Dhabi, will be the next director and CEO of the Solomon...
MuchMusic Was Canada’s Answer To MTV. Its Demise Says Much About What Happened To...
MuchMusic is often commemorated for its halcyon days, but a proper examination of the decline of media and the dearth of music coverage today...
Siskel And Ebert And The Chemistry Of Being Critics
These fundamental conundrums of criticism involve questions about specialism, authority, personality, art, and business. And, with Siskel and Ebert, these dilemmas came into play...
Are We Headed Into A New Romantic Age?
That’s the world, circa 1800. The new paradigm shocked Europe when it started to spread. Cultural elites had just assumed that science and reason...
