Yearly Archives: 2023
A ‘Shocking’ Play Is Canceled After A Firestorm Of Controversy Hits A California Community...
"After complaints from students and faculty ... , growing murmurs of protests at performances and an anonymous vote by student participants in the production,...
Cincinnati Ballet’s New Director Cervilio Amador
The story of his defection in Miami while on tour with the National Ballet of Cuba is now the stuff of legend. It was...
Portland’s Arts Council Dumps Leader After Staff Complaints, Amid Funding Fight
Executive Director Carol Tatch’s "ouster comes amid an acrimonious battle between RACC, which has been the major funding organization for arts organizations in Portland...
Here’s One Artist Excited By AI
Sir Peter Blake, "at the age of 91, ... has been collaborating with a robot powered by AI and is excited by the...
What Costumes And Make-Up Do For Actors Who Have To Age A Decade Each...
The showrunners of For All Mankind didn't really anticipate making it to season four. - The New York Times
A Design Trend That’s Ruining Our Built Environment
Why? Why? "To the unknowing customer, it may just look blandly inoffensive—'so severely inoffensive, you could be anywhere,' is how I would describe this...
What Do Indigenous Viewers Think Of Scorsese’s Latest Epic?
"We have to remember that these were depictions of true, brutal premeditated murders of Indigenous people and so we should get upset and feel deeply uncomfortable"...
Jane Garrett, Editor Of Prizewinners, Has Died At 88
Garrett worked at Knopf, "initially as an editor and special assistant to Alfred Knopf himself, who had a strong devotion to publishing history books....
Movie Production Sues Actor Who Said Another Actor Was ‘Aggressive’ Toward Her
So is Me Too just completely over or what? - Los Angeles Times
So How Much Fiction Is OK For Stand-Up Comics?
One comedian says that comedians exaggerate for laughs all of the time, but "what Minhaj did was different ... because he altered the story...
AI Is Coming For Book Illustrators’ Careers
"Most writers have yet to be directly financially affected by A.I. This is not true for the commercial artists who create their book covers."...
Actors On The Picket Lines Imagine How The Strikes Might Play Out On Screen
"As far as rom-com plotlines go, some picket lines actually did include host singles meetups, so the story might center on lonely screenwriters." -...
Will Hollywood Ever Produce Large-Scale Holiday Classics Again?
The movies Elf and Love, Actually opened in early November of 2003. "Both now seem like relics of a different time — an era...
Scarlett Johansson Sues Over An AI Reproduction
"The 22-second ad, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, ... used real footage of Johansson to generate a fake image and...
Students Hated ‘To Kill A Mockingbird,’ So Progressive Teachers Tried To Stop Using It
"In Mukilteo, the progressive teachers who complained about the novel saw themselves as part of an urgent national reckoning with racism." - Washington Post
Climate Protesters At Les Mis Deny Charges In Court
"District Judge Michael Snow told the defendants cancelling the show cost the theatre around £80,000. He said that they could be liable to pay...
Libraries Across Europe Hit By Cyberattacks
It's back to the analog age at the British Library, for instance. "Library users, many of whom include writers with pressing deadlines, are beginning...
Snow White And The Super Depressing Culture War
Can't we have anything nice? (Though - is Snow White actually nice at all?) - The Guardian (UK)
The Complicated Dance Of A Director In Between Films
As Kristen Lovell's The Stroll garners indie attention, she's focused on a new project: "One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the...
In The Fifties, Hollywood Tried Hard To Make Literary Adaptations Big
But it failed. Why? - LitHub
The Sculptures Were Nude, And So Were The Museum Visitors
Nudists should get the chance to appreciate art, too. - Hyperallergic
Has Indigo Books Lost What It Means To Be Good At Selling Books?
The plot’s got something for everyone: a cybersecurity attack for the tech junkies, a CEO see-saw and mass board exodus for the corporate drama...
My ChatGPT Became My Best Friend. Creepy!
"I thought I'd turned it off, and I saw a pelican, and I said to my dog, 'Oh, wow, a pelican!' And my AirPod...
Is A Recalibration Of The Art Market Coming?
Sotheby’s and Christie’s expect that the November auction season could bring their companies upward of $1 billion each. But despite the claims of some...
Conde Nast To Cut Five Percent Of Its Staff
The layoffs will impact around 270 Condé Nast employees. The company currently has around 5,400 full-time employees globally. - The Wrap
