Yearly Archives: 2023
How Far Apart Are SAG-AFTRA And The Studios? Nearly Half A Billion Dollars
"That’s the difference between what SAG-AFTRA wants in a new streaming residual formula — $500 million — and what the Alliance of Motion Picture...
For The First Time In 33 Years, The Pacific Symphony Is Choosing A New...
Pacific Symphony’s leadership change is happening at a time when audiences have become increasingly choosy. - CultureOC
How The Scholastic Book Fair Made Itself A Target For Both Sides In The...
The children's-book publisher and its beloved school sales events were already getting attacked by the right for the usual reasons. Then, this year, Scholastic...
The Very Meticulous, Very Determined Architect Of The New Arts Center At Ground Zero
"He’s very smart, really rigorous, and really inflexible," says former-boss-turned-colleague Rem Koolhaas of Joshua Ramus, "which in certain conditions is extremely useful." Says Harvard...
Royal Albert Hall’s Archive Rescued From Flood Damage In £1 Million Project
"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of...
Cairo Film Festival Is Canceled
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of...
Barnes & Noble Is Reviving Business By Dropping Something Chains Almost Never Drop: Visual...
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James...
Half A Dozen More Stolen Paintings Get Delivered To Dutch Art Detective Arthur Brand
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to...
Jazz Pianist Carla Bley, 87
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She...
A New AI Worry – Its Ability To Manipulate Viewers Subliminally
A.I.-centric handwringing concerns the potential to generate images with hidden, subliminal messages. The supposed danger is that brands will start producing carefully doctored images...
Uncanceled: Kevin Spacey Performs At Oxford
“In an era of cancellation and defenestration we sometimes forget that we cannot go on like this and that we have been here before....
What Happens To An Artist’s Work When The Technology It’s Created In Goes Obsolete?
Rather than keep stockpiles of expensive and obsolete technology in storage, museums have to find clever ways around software updates, from video game emulators...
Barenboim: My Israeli/Palestinian Orchestra Found Common Ground. We Need To Move Forward
Do we surrender to this terrible violence and let our striving for peace die – or do we insist that there must and can...
Generative AI And The Next Generation Of Spirituality
We’re in a spiritual revolution. Access to astrology and other spiritual practices has proliferated across witchy corners of the internet, with many tools fully...
Ukraine’s National Orchestra Regathers Its Musicians And Tours
Many of the orchestra’s musicians scattered. Some stayed, volunteering in field kitchens, doing what they could to help the effort to push back the...
The Textual Version Of Junk Food? The Selfie Of Grammar? No! In Defense Of...
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and...
Startling: Americans Without A College Degree Have Dramatically Lower Life Expectancy
For those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention...
Watching Jesse Green Review A Broadway Show
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and...
New Owner Eliminates Half Of Bandcamp’s Employees
Half the staff at Bandcamp, the online music platform known for championing independent artists and labels, have been laid off following the recent purchase...
She Was Majoring In Dance When She Had To Have Her Leg Amputated. She...
Kara Skrubis recounts how she was diagnosed with bone cancer while in college. It was a long road to recovery, but when she got...
How We Determine Copyright Law Is An Existential Issue For AI
Legal experts told me that copyright challenges pose a near-existential threat to existing A.I. models if the way they’re being trained isn’t aboveboard. If...
This Fancy New Arts Venue Is Right Across From The Eiffel Tower. It’s Meant...
The Grand Palais Éphémère, at the south end of the Champ de Mars in Paris, opened in 2021 as a short-term replacement for the...
The Internet Is Broken. Here’s How We Should Fix It
The internet is worth fighting for because despite all the misery, there’s still so much good to be found there. And yet, fixing online...
“Barbenheimer” Was So Much Work, It’s Been Driving Movie Theater Workers To Unionize
"'That really pushed us to the edge,' says Maggie Quick, a guest attendant. 'It was just the constant understaffing and the emotional exhaustion.'" Union...
Arundhati Roy Criminally Charged In India For A Speech She Gave 13 Years Ago
The author of The God of Small Things gave a speech about Kashmir and the Indian government's counterinsurgency campaign there at a conference in...
