Yearly Archives: 2023
How Dehumanizing Language Makes Things Worse
"There's surprisingly little evidence that dehumanising language causes violent behaviour, but plenty of evidence says it accompanies it. People who dehumanise others are certainly more...
The End Of Prestige TV — How Did This Happen?
Many streaming services are cutting costs and curbing output while casting around for the broadest possible audience. - The New Yorker
Miami Beach’s Removal Of Mural Memorializing Victim Of Police Shooting Is “Government Speech”, Rules...
A three-judge panel upheld the U.S. District Court ruling that, since the city government had commissioned Rodney Jackson‘s Memorial to Raymond Herisse (2019) and...
How Big Publishing Has Changed Being An Author
“At a certain point in my tenure at Penguin Random House I just gave up trying to understand a lot of the emails that...
The Oxford English Dictionary Is One Of History’s Great Crowdsourcing Projects
"The OED’s founders realized that such a titanic task could never be accomplished by a small circle of men in London and Oxford, so...
Humanities On The College Chopping Block
For years, economists and more than a few worried parents have argued over whether a liberal arts degree is worth the price. The debate...
Keeping The Choreography Of “Wicked” Fresh For 20 Years
Associate choreographer Corinne McFadden Herrera: "It’s a never-ending process. The show’s principals generally stay about a year here in the States, and then we...
The Return Of Cultural Diplomacy? ABT Goes To China
The tour marks a revival of cultural exchanges between China and the United States. The Asian nation will also host a series of performances...
The 24 Hour Plays — What I’ve Learned Pulling All-Nighters To Help Create One-Acts...
Veteran TV writer/showrunner Warren Leight (Law & Order: SVU): "Be open. … Some writers come in with a notion of what they’re going to...
Vasily Petrenko: Thinking About Concerts (And Orchestras) In A Broader Context
"Concerts are concerts; OK, the people are coming, and they are enjoying it. But then, what are we doing in wider terms? What are...
Malaysian Government Orders All Concert Organizers To Have A Kill Switch To Cut Off...
"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off...
Court Ruling Revives Copyright Lawsuit Over Dance Movies In Video Game “Fortnite”
"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a...
A Hollywood Writer’s (Anonymous) Post-Strike Diary
"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as...
The (Worrisome?) Rescue And Resurrection Of Ebony Magazine
The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors...
Plans For Museum About Pulse Nightclub Massacre In Orlando Are Abandoned
"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida...
Frick Pittsburgh Cancels Exhibition Of Islamic Art
"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was...
Conductor Yuri Temirkanov, 84
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired...
How Did Philosophy Get Captured By Self-Help Bromides?
To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to...
Drawings Michelangelo Made In A Secret Room Under Church Revealed To The Public
The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino...
Oops: Lawsuit Reveals HBO Boss Instructing Staff To Twitter-Troll Critics
Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to...
Remembering Robert Brustein
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of...
How The Post-Pandemic Arts Recovery Is Going (Or Not)
“It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a...
“She’s Very Lighthearted. There’s No Hollywood Behavior”: The Once-Tempestuous Sean Young Is Acting Again
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play...
America’s First Prima Ballerina Honored With A Quarter
The late Maria Tallchief — considered the country's first prima ballerina and one of the most notable Native American figures of the 20th century — was...
Floating On The Seine, A Day Center Where Patients With Mental Illness Make Art,...
"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they...
