Yearly Archives: 2023
The Streaming Audio Channel Where Classical Meets Video-Game Music
Jennifer Miller Hammel, who created the channel, called Arcade: “We tried to eliminate that roadblock of, Well, is this going to be too scary...
The First-Ever Lifetime Disturbing The Peace Award Goes To Salman Rushdie
The honor is conceived and presented by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York City, which advances the late playwright and Czech president's legacy...
With Attendance Down By More Than A Third, SF-MOMA Eliminates 20 Staff Jobs
"The decision, effective immediately, includes laying off seven staff members and leaving 13 open positions vacant." - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
The NFL Is Making A Move Beyond Televised Games Into Football Documentaries
The league has already made single- and multi-episode docs about famous football players and coaches with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Roku, and intends to...
Former CEO Countersues Orlando Museum Of Art Over Basquiat Exhibition Fiasco
Aaron De Groft argues that the museum's board and outside attorneys greenlit the show, which turned out to be full of forgeries, even after...
Despite Near-Record Ticket Revenue, Chicago Symphony Has A Seven-Figure Deficit
"The CSO swung to a $1.4 million operating deficit from (a surplus) of $1.7 million last year. Driving the red ink was a 15%...
Disturbing Trend: Movies That Get Completed But Not Released
Films, it seems, are no longer being seen as works of art – or even as pieces of entertainment. They are being seen as...
Statistical Analysis: What The Largest Dance Companies In America Look Like
In the Largest 50 contemporary and modern companies, there are 30 female artistic directors (56%) and 24 male artistic directors (44%). Whereas, the Largest 50 ballet companies, include...
Can America’s Endangered Post-Modernist Buildings Be Saved?
Significant Postmodern buildings like the Abrams House in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego have already been demolished. Other beloved/reviled examples now await their...
Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize
In a statement, the jury said: "The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein's slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question:...
Study: Stereotypes Might Not Influence Us As Much As We Thought
It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when...
Humanities In Crisis? Not Really What You Think
More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and...
Can You Tremble And Convulse Your Way Into Insanity? And Then Back To Sanity?
That is the question that video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser and her mother, choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, explore in their exhibition...
Knight Foundation Chooses A New President
In her new role, Wadsworth, 50, will oversee a $2.6 billion foundation that gives millions of dollars in grants each year to arts, journalism...
Social Scientists Tried To Figure Out Which Words The Brits Find Most Funny And...
Psychologists Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis "wanted to see how a word’s phonology (sound), spelling, and meaning influenced whether people found it amusing, as...
The Hollywood Actors Contract: What’s In It
Criticism is already bubbling up from a variety of quarters that the guild negotiating committee didn’t push hard enough with the CEO Gang of...
The Best Design For Public Housing Projects Was Developed In Vienna A Century Ago
The success of the Austrian capital's well-known Gemeindebauten is due not only to government funding and conscientious management. The popularity of the enormous apartment...
The Vegas Sphere Is Astonishing. But Is It Just A Novelty?
These attractions tend to lean heavily on novelty, and their shelf life can be very short — the 2021 flurry of immersive Van Gogh shows already...
Nepal Bans TikTok To Protect “Social Harmony”
Communications and IT Minister Rekha Sharma said the decision was made because some content shared on the app "disturbs social harmony and disrupts family...
Adapting Narnia Is Ridiculously Difficult
"The idea of Gerwig shaking the architecture with a spikier take on Narnia has a real zing to it, given how careful previous...
Read A New Play By Anna Deavere Smith: “This Ghost Of Slavery”
"For this work, Smith’s decision to blend her contemporary interviews with historical accounts of Maryland in the mid-1860s is apt. The echoes of history...
America’s (Unnecessary) Fear Of Black History: Lonnie Bunch
"In all my years doing research at the National Archives, I had never cried. …" The Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and co-founder of...
The Fisk Jubilee Singers And The Birth Of The Spiritual
Vann R. Newkirk II, based on the diaries of Ella Sheppard, the group's first pianist and composer, and on materials in the historically black...
Kevin Wynn, Choreographer And Beloved Teacher, Is Dead At 67
"A choreographer of complex maelstroms that moved at lightning speed and an uncommonly dedicated teacher who influenced generations of dancers," He impressed critics and...
Boring? Nobody Calls Our Public Radio Station Boring!
"Leading WPLN's mission to stamp out boring public radio is its midday news show This Is Nashville. 'We loosened it up to give it...
