Yearly Archives: 2023
Why The Entire Board of The Banff Centre Was Dismissed
It all stems from a conflict between the now-former CEO, Janice Price, and now-former board chair Adam Waterous over her involvement in the choice...
What Alessandra Ferri Has In Mind For The Vienna State Ballet
"It is one of the great classical repertory companies, but I would like to have a company that lives in the present and looks...
Robert Brustein — Stage Director, Formidable Critic, Founder Of Yale Rep And Harvard’s ART...
"A forbiddingly erudite theorist who was also an in-the-arena practitioner, ... he had an uncompromising vision of what theater should be and no shortage...
Climate-Protesting Art Vandals Attack Louvre’s Pyramid With Orange Paint
"About a dozen protesters of 'Dernière Rénovation' (Final Renovation) threw balloons filled with paint on the iconic glass-and-metal structure, while another scaled it and...
Scientists Believe Neural Networks Have Cracked Critical Essence Of Intelligence
 Since the 1980s, a subset of cognitive scientists have argued that neural networks, a type of artificial intelligence (AI), aren't viable models of the mind because their architecture...
New Yorker Magazine’s Most-Popular Cartoon Ever Breaks Record For Sale Of A Cartoon
That comic, which has gone on to be the most reprinted in the magazine’s history, proves so enduringly popular that it recently sold at auction for...
Neuro-Study: Why We Communicate Less Well Over Video Conference
The research suggests online faces, with present technology, don’t engage our social neural circuits as effectively. - Neuroscience News
Why AI Doesn’t Understand Slang
Language models, in the most basic sense, represent our 26-letter alphabet in strings of numbers. Those digits might efficiently condense large amounts of information....
A Portland Oregon Theatre Lays Off Staff (Including Its Artistic Director) But Is Still...
It’s certainly arguable that the company overreached in pursuing such an extensive rebuild, rather than limping along in what was left of the old...
Expanding An Orchestra’s Mission To Community
At a time when many classical music and other traditional arts organizations are facing major challenges, a young conductor in Louisville, Kentucky, is expanding...
Biologist Turns Amateur Art Sleuth And Cracks An Art History Puzzle
“I would love it if someone published a paper about one of the three paintings confirming or refuting my findings, so we could start...
What Happened To Dawn Powell’s Books, And Her Body?
"A generational talent of New York was buried in its heart, but lost to the world and those who knew her." - NPR
London City Ballet Went Silent In The 1990s, But It’s Back
This is an ambitious time to revive a ballet company, but on the other hand - crucially, when you've already secured the first three...
The New York Times’s First-Ever Mixtaper
"In the age of digital streaming platforms, the act of discovering music ... has become streamlined and anonymized," says Lindsay Zoladz. "I wanted to...
When Collectors Die
The BBC has recovered three missing episodes of shows from the 1960s - episodes it had probably thrown out. Luckily, collectors "saved them from...
There Is No Oppenheimer Without This Austrian Jewish Woman Physicist
But there's no $1 billion-grossing biographic movie about Dr. Lise Meitner. - LitHub
When A Small-Town Story Goes To New York
It's not easy to get one of the slots at the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's Festival of New Music, but this countries-spanning musical...
The Lure Of, And Fight Against, Fake Art
"Sometimes it involves millions of dollars. It could be the plot for a series on Netflix. They falsify the certificates, even using real notary...
No, Book Bans Don’t ‘Help’ Authors
One or two banned and censored books doing well on bestseller lists means little to the hundreds of other authors, and topics, that kids...
The Singing Star Finally Getting Her Due
It's been 50 years since Peruvian singer Lucha Reyes - who's now often compared to Piaf - died. But technology, and devoted fans, has...
When Cookbooks Start To Tell The Truth
The final part of cooking comes after the meal - and in one cookbook, "the absolute last bit of instruction in the book is...
Studios, Actors Still Talking After A Weekend Of Negotiations
Caveat to optimistic studio press releases: "Issues remain unresolved with the actors, including protections around the use of artificial intelligence technology to create digital...
Was Roy Lichtenstein’s Art All About Theft?
A "radical leftist" cartoonist weighs in. - Hyperallergic
Meg Ryan Would Like To Talk About What Happens After The Rom-Com Ends
She rode a wave of 1980s and 1990s rom-coms to superstardom, and that no longer interests her. Now, she wants a story that asks...
Taylor Swift’s Re-Recording Of A 2014 Album Smashes A Spotify Record
Though her movie fell to second at the box office, Swift still set a record over the weekend, as fans streamed her re-recorded 1989...
