Yearly Archives: 2023
Matias Tarnopolsky: Why Cultural Diplomacy Is Important
"It may seem naïve to argue that a symphony orchestra can help solve the world’s problems. But a lifetime in music has convinced me...
The Coming Realignment Of Hollywood Post-Strike
Radio Atlantic's Hanna Rosin talks with correspondents David Sims and Shirley Li about where the industry is headed. "The term 'river of junk' comes...
Can This Enormous Music Archive Be Saved?
The Arc preserves copies of every recording in all known formats. It has electronically catalogued more than 400,000 sound recordings and digitised 200,000 with the...
At DC’s Arena Stage, The New Director Bravely Faces A Leaner, More Challenging Time
Hana S. Sharif: "The institutions that will survive and thrive in the next 10-to-15 years are the ones that are able to be adaptive,...
Newest-Gen Versions Of AI Image Creators Upend Everything
With the advent of AI image synthesis, it's looking increasingly like the future of media creation for many will come through the aid of...
Americans Are Consuming More News On TikTok, Less On Other Social Media
"In just three years, the share of U.S. adults who say they regularly get news from TikTok has more than quadrupled, from 3% in...
Seattle Indie Radio Phenom KEXP Buys San Francisco Station
KEXP has purchased San Francisco’s KREV 92.7 radio station, and pending FCC approval, “will be taking full ownership and operation” of the station “within...
Author A.S. Byatt Is Dead At 87
"Dame Antonia Susan Duffy, who wrote under the name AS Byatt, authored complex and critically acclaimed novels, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession and her...
Cambodia Is Doing Mass Evictions Of Families Living At Angkor Wat
"Amnesty International … (has) charged that the evictions of an estimated 10,000 families by Cambodian authorities violated international and national law. It said the...
Valery Gergiev Named General Director Of Bolshoi Theater As Well As Mariinsky
"Izvestiya reported that Gergiev will become the intendant of the Bolshoi Theatre (in Moscow) and will remain in the same position at (St. Petersburg's)...
Art Institute Of Chicago’s Ex-Payroll Manager Sentenced To Prison For Embezzling $2.3 Million
Michael Maurello will serve three years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He had pled guilty to falsifying the Institute's financial...
Alvin Ailey Company Artistic Director Robert Battle Resigns
"'I am going to spend more time with my family, and I am going to focus on my health,' he wrote, but he did...
Toronto Symphony Lands A Record-Label Deal
The orchestra, with music director Gustavo Gimeno, has signed a long-term partnership agreement with Harmonia Mundi; this is the label's first signing of a...
Gawker Has Been Bought Again, This Time by A Singaporean Rock Mogul
The new owner, Meng Ru Kuok, runs the Caldecott Music Group, which includes BandLab Technologies, NME Networks, and major guitar-maker Vista; he says his...
Why Spoilers Don’t Really Spoil Your Favorite Shows Or Books
In a series of psychological experiments published in 2011, researchers in California found that knowing the end of a story did not diminish readers’ enjoyment. In...
Comparing The 233 Surviving Copies Of Shakespeare’s First Folio (Fascinating Differences)
None of the folios were identical; sometimes a letter or word would be different, evidence of the typesetter at William Jaggard’s London printshop tinkering...
Obsolete? Schools Are Getting Rid Of Their Librarians (But Here’s What’s Being Lost)
Some K-12 decision makers perceive school librarians as little more than quaint remnants of a bygone era. And if the number of our nation's...
African Art Is Prospering, Powered By Social Media
Today, for the booming young population of Africa and its diaspora, the relationship is more direct. There’s a reciprocity of inspiration, fueled by a multitude of...
Why Is New Zealand’s Creative Economy Growing Faster Than National GDP?
"It’s heartening to see the strong GDP growth in the arts and creative sector over the past year despite the ongoing challenges from the...
Learning From Dancing Robots
Choreography is a way to start conversations about how bodies make meaning, whose bodies matter, how bodies interface with technologies. Dance is a way...
Magicians Are Less Prone To Mental Illness Than Any Other Artists: Research
The study "measured psychopathological traits of almost 200 magicians and … concluded that magicians scored significantly lower than other types of creatives and 'normal'...
Want To Understand The Media Revolution? Take a Look At This 2018 Story About...
With all its decades of episodes, well-known characters, and worldwide brand recognition, Sesame Street has more than 5 billion views on YouTube. That’s impressive, but ChuChu...
An Inside Look At How Fox News Started Peddling The “Trump Didn’t Lose” Big...
In an excerpt from his new book, Network of Lies, Brian Stelter lays out how, despite Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch being clearly in favor...
What The Vegas Sphere Says About Our Relationship With Art
The Sphere is a distillation of an evolving relationship among art, artist, and technology—somewhere between a warm embrace of and a final surrender to...
The High-Tech Scans That Will Help Restore Historic Ukrainian Buildings Ravaged By Russian Bombing
Architects, engineers and other volunteers are taking careful high-definition photographs and laser scans of historic buildings around Ukraine — those that have been bombed...
