Yearly Archives: 2023
One of Iran’s Leading Filmmakers And His Wife Found Murdered Outside Their Home
Dariush Mehrjui, 83, one of the founders of Iran's "new wave," and his wife/co-screenwriter/costume designer, Vahideh Mohammadifar, were discovered by their daughter with knife...
Oops! We’ve Lost Our Rodin …
A plaster version of The Burghers of Calais, now thought to be worth £3 million, is one of 1,750 works owned by the museums...
“The Problem Child Of International Orchestras”? Serious Issues In Philadelphia As Management And Musicians...
Contract negotiations drag on. Players say they want salaries that can attract top talent. Management says it wants to pay better but the cash...
Bomb Threats At Louvre And Versailles Lead To Tight Security At Paris Art Museums
Both venues were evacuated on Saturday after the threats came in. Heightened security will remain in place at least through the opening of Paris+...
Maryland Lyric Opera Has Shut Down
"In an internal memo, … the group’s founder and artistic director, Brad Clark, has announced he will end the operations of Maryland Lyric Opera,...
Study: Women Are Dramatically Underrepresented In Opera Companies
Men accounted for 95 percent of the conducting credits at the 11 largest American opera companies between 2005 and 2021. But men also dominated...
Don’t Believe Your Eyes: Suddenly All Our Photos Aren’t Real
As smartphones go, this integration of AI signals a new era, one created with tech that is intuitive to the kind of ferocious simulation...
How To Think About The Threats Of AI?
Maybe the nightmare about AI isn’t that it will go rogue and threaten our existence with lethal viruses. Maybe the likely endgame is similar...
Influencers And The Conflict Between Quality And Popularity
It’s the age-old problem of the relationship between the good and the popular. Plato saw the popular as the enemy of the good, but...
The Breakdancing Countertenor Explains the Aesthetic
"When I'm in my practice sessions with my breakdance crew, sometimes I put some classical instrumental music and I invite them to actually explore...
What Happened To San Francisco? Everyone’s Talking…
“We’re the first to see our downtown as impacted as it is, because when we said ‘Work from home,’ everyone just grabbed a laptop,...
Machines And Humans Are Merging. This Actually Isn’t Controversial
Bound together as parasite/host, neither people nor technologies can exist apart from the other because they are constitutive prostheses of each other. Such an...
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Has Been A Financial Phenom. So How Much Money Are...
The biggest windfall is headed straight to Swift, who stands to make as much as $4.1 billion from the Eras Tour, according to estimates...
Google Joins Other Tech Companies To Say It Will Defend Generative AI Users From...
Google said on Thursday that it will defend users of generative artificial-intelligence systems in its Google Cloud and Workspace platforms if they are accused of...
No Movie News, Only Rumors
Marvel has been mighty tight-lipped about where things are headed, so possibly dubious casting rumors are all obsessive fans have. - Washington Post
The Evolutionary Advantage Of Cuteness
Our hardwired love for "cute" may cause a few issues as "new robotic or artificial personas use cuteness to solicit our affection." - The...
English National Opera Plans To Cut Orchestra. Music Director Quits. ENO Responds
The statement comes hours after Martyn Brabbins said he could not “in all conscience continue to support the Board and Management’s strategy for the future of...
The English Town That’s Been Part Of Every Disney Movie Since 2006
Walt visited an English village and heard a lot of tales about his purported ancestors - and thus, in Norton Disney, was the Disney...
How A Shakespearen Actor Prepares For His Roles
Patrick Page - the voice of Hades in Hadestown - loves being a villain, or, currently, all of Shakespeare's bad guys. - Slate
What The Kilroys Did With Their List
They destroyed it - or rather, transformed it, turned it into a web. Will that work in a world obsessed with rankings? - American...
What Do Book Censorship Advocates Actually Know About Libraries?
Weirdly: "People who do not know how librarians select material are much more likely to also believe librarians should be prosecuted for that material." - BookRiot
Martin Scorsese’s New Film Is Just The Start
If filmmakers want to tell the stories of the Native peoples of the U.S., well, there's a lot to choose from. - Los Angeles...
At The London Film Festival, An Eco-Drama From Japan Takes Top Prize
The film is director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Drive My Car and "is on first glance a simple tale of corporate capitalism...
The Pilgrimage To Van Gogh’s Starry Night
One visitor to New York and MoMA from North Carolina: "I was in here for a long time. ... And I turned around and...
Art Spiegelman Didn’t Create Maus In Order To Become A Reading Rights Warrior
And yet, such are the times we live in. - Washington Post
