Yearly Archives: 2023
Eurovision Song Contest Added An Extra $66.4 Million To Liverpool’s Economy
"More than 300,000 people attended Eurovision-related events in Liverpool in May, giving the local economy a £54.8m boost. … In total, 306,000 people visited...
If The Arts Are In Crisis, What Should Arts Journalism Be?
If the media really want to cover what’s roiling culture — and how these forces reflect our fissuring society — the old “happy talk”...
Breakdancing, In The 2024 Olympics, Is Out For 2028 Games
"The incredible feeling of recognition on the highest event stage has caused a glow through (the World DanceSport Federation) since its unveiling — but...
The Writing Machines: They Won’t Kill Good Writing
These days, it is something of a fool’s errand to try to determine whether a text encountered online is written by a human or...
Shadow Puppet Production Stolen In San Francisco Is Found In East Bay
Early Monday morning, thieves stole a U-Haul containing the hundreds of puppets, costumes, and equipment used in Hamid Rahmanian's Persian-style shadow-puppet show Song of...
Artist Robert Irwin, 95
Within the contemporary art world, Mr. Irwin’s work on human attention and perception — he called it, with a nod to scientific research, an...
Is The Frank Gehry-Designed Museum In Arles Having The Desired “Bilbao Effect”? And Is...
"The Luma Foundation … has relit a cultural fire in Arles, bringing the delights of the international modern art world to a debt-laden, struggling...
Can A Redesign Bring More Vibrancy Back To Philadelphia’s “Avenue Of The Arts”?
The development of South Broad Street into a performing arts destination has been widely considered a success, but in 2023, visitor numbers remain roughly...
Museum of Censored Art Opens In Barcelona
"The Museu de l’Art Prohibit … aims to explain how censorship works by exhibiting artworks that have been subject to prohibitions (successful or merely...
A New High Schoolers’ Prize From Penguin Random House To Help Combat Book Bans
"The Freedom of Expression Award invites applicants to write about one banned book that changed their life and why. The $10,000 (£8,168) prize will...
A Chicagoland School District Canceled The High School’s Musical Because It Had An LGBTQ...
Hampshire High School in the Chicago suburbs had been planning to stage "The Prom" — about, ironically, a school that tries to cancel a...
Scholastic Reverses Course, Won’t Segregate Diverse Titles For Kids At Book Fairs
"The educational company, which both publishes and distributes books, waded into hot water last month after it confirmed that it was changing its policy...
The Director Who Transformed Boston’s Institute Of Contemporary Art Announces Retirement
Jill Medvedow, who in 1998 took over a small museum in a former police station with 20,000 visitors a year and turned it into...
Movie Theatres Fear Terrible Holiday Season As Strike Drags On
Hollywood hoped SAG-AFTRA and studios would resolve their contract negotiations by the end of October. But the strike drags on, preventing major stars from...
British Library Puts Chaucer Manuscripts Online
In a “major milestone” for the library, which holds the world’s largest surviving collection of Chaucer, it is hoped the digital platform will enable...
Be Like Taylor? Lessons In Branding And Audience Relationship From A Superstar
Unlike other influencers who might give a peek at what they’re eating for breakfast or what products they recommend, Swift gives fans insight into...
No Pressure: Finishing Sondheim’s Last Musical
"You have to consider the fact that he was in his 80s working on a musical about going into a room that you can't...
How Much Does It Matter Whether Fiction Is Written By A Human Or A...
"In moments of doubt, I think of Gertrude Stein’s infamous line, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Isn’t a word a word...
A Crisis Of Art Criticism
The reasons for the stepchild status of criticism are as manifold as are their concatenations, not the least of which is the problem of...
Dutch Architecture Has Been Getting Greener. But Also More Boring?
Without getting overly nostalgic, it is almost impossible not to notice that the country, which for a good two decades on either side of...
Where Did The Looted Sculptures Recently Returned To Nepal Go? This 11th-Century Monastery
Itumbaha, one of the oldest monasteries in Kathmandu, has not only received statues returned from the Rubin Museum and the Met. The Rubin is...
If Thinking Is Good, What Is Over-Thinking?
Is there really such a thing as ‘thinking too much’? After all, thinking a lot seems like what one has to do in order...
To Solve Social Media’s Content Moderation Crisis, Go Back To The Old 1990s Way...
"Decisions about the spaces people gathered in online were often made by members of the community. Our examination of the early history of online...
Spotify CEO Talks About New Audiobook Service And AI Creation
Premium subscribers get 15 hours free a month and can top that off with discrete credit card payments if they want more. “We are...
One Of England’s Leading Regional Theatres Is Giving Up The Artistic Director Model
At the Royal Exchange in Manchester, "the new creative director will not be expected to direct shows but will take on a more strategic...
