Yearly Archives: 2023
Making A Hugely Popular Dance Game Accessible
Just Dance has more than 500 choreographed routines from around the world - and has now added dance routines for people using wheelchairs....
Who Won The National Translation Awards?
"In the title poem, 'one long-serving intellectual screamed at his friend / When I’m talking about democracy / you shut the hell up.'" - LitHub
Artists Rally In NYT Headquarters To Call Out The Newspaper’s Gaza Coverage
"About 150 artists and cultural workers including photographer Nan Goldin and poet Eileen Myles flooded the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Manhattan."...
Want To Know The Roots Of Inequality?
Look no farther than the art of Europe in the Middle Ages. - Fast Company
Face It, Prestige TV Is Over
"It’s a story of dizzying success, followed by hubristic overreach and cautious retreat." - The Observer (UK)
Can We Please Not Resurrect The First-Person-Industrial-Media-Complex?
Just stop (again) with the personal essay craze. - Out of Your League
Prince Harry’s Lawsuit Against The Daily Mail Publisher Is Allowed To Continue
"As well as Prince Harry, the newspaper group faces multiple claims of 'gross breaches of privacy' from Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley,...
First They Took ‘Sex’ Out Of The Title, Then They Shut Down The Whole...
Why did G/O shut down Jezebel when millions of readers click every day? You can blame AI - and "brand safety." - 404 Media
When The Final Curtain Is Only The Beginning Of The Evening
New York theatres are finally starting to take advantage of relaxed laws around alcohol so they can be their own theatre bars. It's a...
Why Do So Many People In The U.S. Love To Forge Viking Artifacts?
Turns out you don't have to feel bad about stolen land if it was your country's land to begin with. - Slate
The Countess Who Brought Us Pasolini And Zeffirelli Has Died At 89
Marina Cicogna was Italy's first woman producer - and despite her family name and heritage, her path was far from simple. - The New...
Can Creativity Inspire And Transform Medicine?
"Medicine has a 'creativity problem,' ... and too many people working in health care are resigned to the status quo, the dehumanizing bureaucracy." Call...
How Film Shaped Sondheim’s Work
Sondheim loved film. "Sondheim told Secrest, 'During my formative years, movies really molded my entire view of the world.'" - American Theatre
The Frick Pittsburgh Apologizes For Postponing Islamic Art Show
The museum's executive director also apologized for the way she discussed the postponement: "There are no excuses for what I said, regardless of my...
Hey Nintendo, Play Our Recessional Hymn
There's nothing like programming a GameBoy to play the local church organ. - BBC
Lara Parker, Who Brought Humanity To Her Undead Character, Has Died At 84
Parker "helped expand the two-dimensional portrayals of vampires and witches seen in old Hollywood B-movies" on Dark Shadows, a popular Gothic soap opera. -...
Humans Would Be Nothing Without Writing
Why? Because "complex tasks need stable, reliable, long-term memory" - and that's precisely what writing provides. - LitHub
Project To Test The Ability Of The Arts To Bring People Together
Bolstered by a $750,000, three-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jar is in the vanguard of a movement seeking to capitalize...
Museum Sells Three Cezannes To Fund Operations
Markus Stegmann, the director of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, said that after subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foundation will reap 42.3 million Swiss...
Brilliant Ancient Codex Detailing Aztec Culture Goes Online
After centuries of remaining largely inaccessible to the public, a rare manuscript featuring 2,500 pages of detailed illustrations and text documenting the history and culture...
Disney CEO Declares New Era For The Company
Mr Iger blamed some of Disney's woes on an emphasis on quantity over quality, as it tried to expand its offerings for the streaming...
Post-Strike Hollywood’s New Compensation Plan
Sag’s hard-won agreement includes performance-based bonuses for actors on streaming shows that become big hits. For the studios represented by the Alliance of Motion...
Yay! The Actors And Writers Strikes Are Over. So Why Is Everyone So Glum?
The mood in the entertainment capital is decidedly mixed, as celebratory feelings compete with resentment over the work stoppage and worries about the business...
How Three Black American Dance Artists Make Careers In Europe
Trajal Harrell (Zurich and Athens), Esther Cowens (Berlin), and Wanjiru Kamuyu (Paris) tell a reporter how they found themselves working across the Atlantic, the...
Streaming Tech Broke The Hollywood Model. AI Could Obliterate It
Studios may be able to use AI to deepfake performances or write scripts, but given enough runway the tech could be used to cut...
