Yearly Archives: 2023
Making Art About Ballet, Behind The Scenes
Karon Davis - daughter of Ben Vereen and Nancy Bruner - says, "I want to show what happens before you get to that point...
Chicago’s High School Teachers Created A Nationally Prominent Museum
"Wander back in time, not to 1987, but to September 1982. ... Chicago Public Schools system would treat Spanish-speaking students as if they...
Composer David Del Tredici, Pulitzer Prize-Winner, Has Died At 86
Del Tredici "became best known for a midcareer shift toward a style that came to be called the New Romanticism, which yielded a series...
Gaming Should Be For Everyone
And designers can make that world real, if they want to (or if there are incentives). - Wired
Women Were The Backbone Of The Writers’ Strike
Why were so many strike captains women - and many women of color? One says it was natural for her: "I’m loud. I know...
Why The Hunger Games Succeeded Where Its Striving Imitators Failed
There's no idealism in Panem - just a cynical reality that we, entertainment-drowned and manipulated, know all too well. - The Atlantic
Tales Of The Booker Shortlist
"It’s rare for me to experience such a clear starting impulse for a story, but I trusted it," says Chetna Maroo. - The Guardian...
The Art Market Is Sagging A Bit
So you (or someone, anyway) can get a Rothko for only $22 million, instead of $30 million. - The New York Times
The Gen-Z, Or Maybe Alpha, Bible
And yes, we mean The Bible. It's even trending on TikTok. And as one reviewer said, "I love how aesthetic it is for a...
No, Please Do Not Add Sex To Tom Stoppard Plays
Just why? Why? The irony of trying to sex up Arcadia "is that it makes the show infinitely less sexy." - Vulture
Paul Auster On What May Be His Final Book
"In a recent interview, Auster described the American obsession with 'closure' as being 'the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard of.'" - The Guardian (UK)
Elon Musk Says He’ll File A ‘Thermonuclear’ Lawsuit
"In his late-night legal threat, Musk took aim at watchdog group Media Matters over what he alleged was manipulated research about advertising on the...
Warner Bros, Disney, NBC Universal Pull Advertising From X, AKA Twitter
Did Elon Musk (finally) go a step too far by endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory? - The New York Times
So Wait, Actors Will Just Have To Trust Studios Around Generative AI?
The tentative contract has "given many striking actors pause because of how much faith it puts in the studios to act responsibly." - The...
The Playwright Of ‘Vietgone’ Tried To Escape Theatre
But his family, and his family's stories, pulled him back in. Now he's writing what he calls, in shorthand, Vietgone 3. - The New...
Why Scorsese Fell For Joanna Hogg’s Movies
It's not just Tilda Swinton. "The close-ups in one of her films match $100 million of special effects in another. It’s big. It’s spectacle."...
Mixtape Supremacy Hasn’t Ended Yet
You can keep your playlists. Mixtapes are where the love (and new music) are best found. - The Guardian (UK)
Emerald Fennell’s Grand Millennial Movie Master Plan
The director is "an artist whose aesthetic feels as informed by the bubblegum, color-drenched landscapes of Sweet Valley High and She’s All That as by erudite directorial idols...
Stuck In Algorithmic Hell (We Really Know What You Want To See/Hear)
"We used your personal account in a recent brainstorming meeting as an example of why Netflix should start charging for screen time instead of...
How Digital Celebrity Works
The open infrastructure of the Internet allowed ordinary people to reach a level of renown once reserved for politicians or Hollywood starlets. These newly...
Why Activism Leads To So Much Bad Art
"During the past decade, politics has intruded on daily American life more than at any time since the 1960s; in the same period, technology...
The Making Of Puzzle Master Will Shortz
With a 15-year stint as the editor of Games magazine, his founding of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, a 30-year tenure at The Times...
Precipitous Drop In Students Studying Foreign Languages
Even though we live in an increasingly globalized world, the number of college students taking languages is rapidly falling. - The Conversation
Mass Resignations Of Documenta Selection Committee: “No Room For Ideas”
“In the current circumstances we do not believe that there is a space in Germany for an open exchange of ideas and the development...
“De-PiSisation”: Poland’s Incoming Government Looks To Undo The Politicizing Of Cultural Institutions By The...
"PiS" is the Polish acronym for the Law and Justice Party, which ruled the country for eight years before losing last month's elections. So...
