Yearly Archives: 2023
A Queer Cowboy Ballet? Yup.
Okay, not ballet, strictly speaking. For the tenth anniversary of his company, Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, artistic director Joshua L. Peugh has re-investigated his...
Norway’s Biggest Newspaper Is Using An AI Voice To Read Its Stories (And Finding...
Comparing the number of unique listeners of Aftenposten’s podcasts with those who have used the AI-generated listen-to option on its text articles, the publisher...
These Are Hard Times For Arts Organizations, And Even Harder For Small Ones
Their small staffs have more tasks to juggle, they depend more on volunteers (meaning unpaid labor), the size of foundation grants is based on...
Short Films Have A Category Problem
A feature-length film, according to the Academy, is anything over 40 minutes. But that has little to do with the length attributed to most movies. It’s...
“Unlike Anything Else I Was Seeing In The Theater”: Ben Brantley On Nobel Prizewinner...
Watching his A Summer Day, "I succumbed to a strangely paradoxical feeling of calm, continuous dread. … I could understand why Fosse’s work had...
This City In Arizona Is Carless. It Changes The Way People Live
“It is amazing how much the urbanism improves, both in terms of experience and efficiency, when you don’t need to store automobiles.” - The...
This Literary Magazine’s Publisher Is Giving Up Its Online Version To Keep The Print...
Amy Mae Baxter, founder of Bad Form: "As costs rise for everyone, it doesn’t feel fair for me not to be paying our contributing...
Fluxus: An Art Aesthetic For Our Time?
Its practitioners, mostly in big cities in the U.S., Germany and Japan, attempted to dethrone art by putting its enactment in the hands of...
This Seaside Resort Was A Retirement Haven Nicknamed “God’s Waiting Room.” Then The Turner...
"Locals are hoping it will change (Eastbourne's) reputation and place it on a (larger) cultural stage. But as shown by the experiences of other...
This Actor Quit Theater Because It Simply Didn’t Pay Enough. Now He’s Artistic Director...
Lance Gardner, who'd given "rock-star performances" in a huge variety of roles, gave up acting in 2019 to become live events producer for public...
Opera Philadelphia’s O23 Festival Was Considerably Smaller Than In Previous Years. How Did It...
Mostly well, writes Peter Dobrin. The three major offerings got a very warm reception from audiences and critics alike; one sold out its last...
Talks “Suspended” As Hollywood Studios Walk Away From Negotiations With SAG-AFTRA
"On Wednesday night, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers declared that negotiations with SAG-AFTRA are suspended, given that the gap between the...
Art Bridges, Alice Walton’s Foundation, Gives $40 Million To U.S. Museums In A Program...
"The grants, ranging from $56,000 to more than $2 million for a three-year period, are intended to fund programs to attract new audiences, whether...
State Of Utah Sues TikTok Over The Mental Damage The App Allegedly Causes Young...
"Utah became the latest state to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is 'baiting' children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits....
NPR Left Twitter Six Months Ago. The Cost In Web Traffic? Tiny.
"A memo circulated to NPR staff says traffic has dropped by only a single percentage point as a result of leaving Twitter, now officially...
Hi, My Name Is Paul. I’m An Audiobook Addict
The audiobook’s ascent into full-blown aesthetic autonomy came with the arrival of the iPod and its MP3 file format in 2001, and, as of...
A Theory On Who Banksy Is
At one time, there was one Banksy who had a graffiti career and a famous “beef” in the subculture with London graffiti legend Robbo. That...
As Canadian Museums Try To Decolonize, Turmoil Ascends
“To a certain extent, all museums are colonial constructions, and some people have argued that true decolonization would require shutting down every single museum...
Branding Your Literary Favorites
Is it the ultimate pairing of the lowbrow (baseball cap) and the highbrow (literature)? Or is it wearing books as one might wear cult...
How Theatre Schools Are Adapting To The Future
Drama school leaders are at the sharp end: the issues experienced by the wider theatre sector often land first in drama schools, in raw,...
Is The Non-Profit Model Unsustainable For The Arts Today?
As the nonprofit world shrivels in importance, mass media consolidates and grows more influential, and its stars grow ever more powerful, as the economic...
Choreographer Kyle Abraham On His “Dance With Purpose”
"If I’m making a piece, whether I’m meaning for it to be political or not, I have to be aware that if I have...
The UK Has 1,500 Micro-Cinemas Happily Serving Up Movies
The UK now has 1,500 volunteer-run venues, according to Jaq Chell, CEO of the charity Cinema for All, which supports them with everything from...
Playwright David Adjmi’s Having His First New York Production In A Decade, And It’s...
"(Stereophonic) unfolds in a recording studio, where a rock band’s protracted work on an album straddles a year from 1976-77. 'It really is like...
Where Our Brains Save Different Kinds Of Memories
"Each time an experience is recalled, there are changes in the connection weights of the network, causing memory elements to get more averaged out....
