Yearly Archives: 2023
Israeli Government Tries To Ban Al Jazeera From The Country
Communications minister Shlomo Karhi pushed for the authority to unilaterally shut down the Qatar-based network's Israeli reporting operations (and, presumably, those, of other foreign...
North American Opera Companies Offer Reciprocal Discounts Through A New “Opera Passport”
The initiative by Opera America, described as a discount exchange for traveling audience members, has 85 participating companies across the US and Canada offering...
An Entire Touring Production Is Stolen From A San Francisco Parking Lot
"The stolen U-Haul truck contained 500 shadow puppets, props, costumes, projectors and other items used to stage puppet master Hamid Rahmanian’s Persian epic Song...
Ancient Scythian Gold Stolen From Ukraine Found In Spain
"Police said the 11 ancient gold pieces were smuggled out of Ukraine in 2016 to be resold in Spain. The bracelets, necklaces and earrings,...
92NY Puts Its Entire Literary Events Series On Hold
"92NY, one of the city’s leading cultural organizations, announced Monday that it was putting its prestigious literary reading series on pause, following an outcry...
Ex-Prime Minister Berlusconi Bought 25,000 Junky Paintings On TV. His Heirs Are Having Difficulty...
The former Italian prime minister, who died in June, bought many of the paintings and sculptures from late-night telesales programmes. Managing the extensive collection...
Why Public Monuments Are Problematic
The problem with monuments and statues goes far beyond the issue of the legacies of slavery, important as that issue is. We need to...
Everyone Talks About The Humanities Being Endangered. But What Are “The Humanities”?
For now, let’s consider his plaintive question: “what the hell are the humanities?” - New Criterion
Scores Of Events With Palestinian Culture Have Been Canceled In The US
Some organizers said they were calling off the Palestinian-themed events because of security concerns. Others cited sensitivity, calling the cancellations and postponements understandable, if...
JoAnn Falletta On Why She’s Spent 25 Years At The Buffalo Philharmonic
Falletta has produced 54 recordings for Naxos – a rate of two per year. Two of those BPO recordings, and a third that Falletta...
We Need A Tech Revolution To Save The Culture
"These platforms effectively position themselves between business customers and end users. They extract rent from the business customers who then raise prices on the...
Mexico Embarks On Ambitious Efforts To Recover Ancient Heritage
In recent years Mexico has mounted an ambitious series of investigations and restitution efforts to reclaim the nation’s stolen cultural heritage, joining with other...
Universal Music Sues Anthropic AI Over Songs
When Claude is asked for lyrics to the song “I Will Survive” by Gloria Gaynor, for example, it responds with “a nearly word-for-word copy...
Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis Declares Emergency, Cancels Two Shows
The company is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall, managing director Danny Williams said. It will need to raise the money through ticket sales...
President Erica Muhl Left Berklee College Of Music Suddenly In July
Why? She had only been on the job for two years. Now, "virtually no member of the staff, faculty, or administration, including those who...
Our Idea Of Attention Spans Came From 19th Century Factory Managers
So, stop worrying about whether your attention span is too short, and start understanding distractedness as "a radical alternative to an internalised puritan work...
Consciousness Is So Mysterious, There Are 20 Scientific Explanations For It
A five-year full-on "test" to figure out which theory is right didn't figure it out - but that doesn't mean we didn't learn anything...
Jack Anderson, Longtime NYT Dance Critic, Has Died At 88
Anderson wrote approximately 4,000 pieces for the Times. He "combined a historian’s learnedness with an enthusiast’s ardor for what was new and surprising." -...
A Wild Ride Through Podcasting’s No Good, Very Bad Year
"Spotify laid off hundreds and effectively killed its in-house podcast production units, Gimlet and Parcast. It seemed like every entity, from public radio to news publishers, made cuts to...
Can A New Graphic Novel Of Watership Down Actually Not Traumatize Children?
The 1978 movie "was rated G but famously scared a lot of the unsuspecting kids who saw it. In fact, just in this past...
Best Bookstore Day Ever?
Sir Patrick Stewart saw copies of his book in a window and just ... dropped in and signed some. The bookseller stayed calm ......
How The Culture Of Amazon Promotes Sexism Through Supposed Meritocracy
"The idea was, Well, if women were qualified for these jobs or wanted these jobs, they would just rise into them. They would just take them....
Theatre Parents Don’t Get To See Any Theatre
Tony-winner Ali Stroker has a new book out, and a new kid, so what has she seen on Broadway? Nothing, "because Mom life. ......
SAG-AFTRA Clarifies Halloween Costuming Guidelines
The union says not actor adults, but yes, their kids, can dress as characters from struck movies. (For instance, Barbie or Ken, or perhaps...
The Problem With French Cinema
Justine Triet, director of Anatomy of a Fall, spoke out against French film funding after she won the Palme d'Or at Cannes - and...
