Yearly Archives: 2023
Tate Modern Reopens Its Controversial Panoramic Viewing Platform
The rooftop viewing gallery was designed to give panoramic views of the city, and it opened in 2016. It quickly became the subject of...
Is Our Definition Of Creativity Too Narrow?
You can show creativity in countless activities, from organising storage space to trimming shrubs to fixing a hole in your wall to training the...
How Does A Kosovo Theater Dramatize The End Of The Post-Yugoslav Wars? Farce, Of...
In Jeton Neziraj’s Negotiating Peace, "vain generals can only be lured to the negotiating table by promises of Hollywood films celebrating their actions. Opposing...
2023 List: America’s Most Arts-Vibrant Cities
Adjusting values on a per capita basis as well as accounting for differences in costs of living enable this analysis to level the playing...
All About Fake Movie Blood
"In all its elemental, metaphorical, campy, over-the-top, gore-y goodness, blood is something that has seeped into the visual vocabulary of movies. But how exactly...
Board Of The Much-Troubled Banff Centre Is Fired
The Province of Alberta has sacked the board and appointed an administrator to oversee and assess. The institution has suffered for years with poor...
You Should Never, Ever Tell David Sedaris Your Humiliating Stories
Well, unless you want them recounted in his writings or on stage, as Gabb Schivone learned the hard way. - Yahoo! (Slate)
This Is What AI Thinks Is Attractive Humans
When an AI image-generation tool—like the ones made by Midjourney, Stability AI, or Adobe—is prompted to create a picture of a person, that person...
How Akram Khan Found Himself Combining Classical Indian Kathak With Contemporary Dance
"That was accidental. … (At university) there were modules on contemporary dance. I didn’t know what the hell that was. But I decided because...
Spotify Says It Will De-Monetize Least-Popular Tracks
Presumably, Spotify will frame this as a way to combat fraud and to limit payments to ambient-noise generators, but it could also have a...
In Search Of The Songs In Shakespeare’s First Folio
The plays have many passages marked as songs, but no indication of what the melodies were or who composed them. Identifying that music requires...
Conductor Zdeněk Mácal Is Dead At 87
After fleeing Czechoslovakia following the 1968 Soviet invasion, he made an international career. He was music director/chief conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony (1970-74),...
Italy Has Another Leaning Tower, And It Has Scientists Very Worried
"The (Garisenda Tower in Bologna) already leans at an angle of four degrees — only slightly less than the renowned five-degree tilt of the...
Why There’s A Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Being Built In A Tiny North Dakota...
"Mention it, and you tend to get a puzzled look and two questions: Doesn’t Roosevelt already have a presidential library? (No.) And why the...
Comedian Hasan Minhaj Responds To New Yorker Story Suggesting That His Stand-Up Act Is...
“To everyone who read that article, I want to answer the question that’s probably on your mind: Underneath all that pomade, is Hasan Minhaj...
Mario Vargas Llosa Says He Has Published His Last Book
"In a postscript to the new book, Le dedico mi silencio (I Give You My Silence), the 87-year-old novelist writes: 'I think I’ve finished...
Artforum’s Editor-In-Chief Fired Following Open Letter About Gaza War
"A week after Artforum published a widely criticized open letter calling for Palestinian liberation that didn’t mention the Hamas attacks on Israel, editor-in-chief David...
Why American Theatre Magazine Is Back In Print
"We weathered our own shutdown of sorts, pausing our print publication in May 2020. Now that we’re back on ink and paper, I have frequently...
Royal Winnipeg Ballet Gets A New Director
Elena Tupyseva was hired by the Moscow Department of Culture in 2012 for the position of CEO and artistic director of the City Theatre Ballet...
Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing
In her last years as an editor, Morrison helped lead the chorus of those calling to take up arms against conglomeration. - LitHub
Grand New Vision For Paris’ Grand Palais
Since taking on his role on September 1, Didier Fusillier has been eager to revive this “rather magnificent memory” of the Grand Palais’s history when the elegant...
Are You Really Smart? Then You’re Humble
Being intellectually humble means being open to the possibility you could be wrong about your beliefs. - The Conversation
Revered Taiwanese Director Hou Hsiao-Hsien Has Dementia And Has Retired From Filmmaking
A statement from his wife and two children, all collaborators, said that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's pre-pandemic and a recent bout of COVID...
Artists Say They’re Being Punished for Supporting Gaza Ceasefire
Hyperallergic has spoken with multiple artists, all of whom asked to remain anonymous, who said they had received threatening phone calls and emails from their...
Fanny Mendelssohn Was A Great Composer. But Women Musicians Didn’t Have Music Careers
Fanny was still allowed to compose and perform, but only in private. And yet inconveniently, she turned out to have a talent so enormous...
