Yearly Archives: 2023
Cleveland Orchestra’s Tour Of Israel Is Canceled
The orchestra, with conductor Daniel Harding filling in for Franz Welser-Möst, was to have performed in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem during the last...
Changes At The National Museum of Women In The Arts
"Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporary reopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington,...
The American Library System Is Under Attack, And Not Just By Right-Wing Censors
"Book bans are at record levels, and libraries across the country are facing catastrophic budget cuts. … In a separate line of attack, library...
As Breakdancing Becomes An Olympic Sport, Some Worry About A Drift From Its Hip-Hop...
"Now breaking is preparing for its biggest international spotlight yet when it bows as an Olympic sport at the Paris Games in 2024. …...
Writers Guild Members Officially Approve The Agreement That Ended The Hollywood Strike
"Hollywood writers have voted almost unanimously to approve the contract agreement reached by their union leaders that ended a strike after nearly five months,...
Gen Z Can’t Read Cursive
Thus, an iconic outdoor brand had to change its 60-year-old logo. - Fast Company
High School Advanced Placement Courses Have Failed Us
The damage is familiar to college faculty across disciplines: writing as a form of Frankfurtian bullshit for which it’s more important to be superficially convincing than...
Seeing Cape Cod Through Thoreau’s Eyes
Much of the coastline Thoreau walked on is now under water. The land he saw was a sandy “wasteland” without trees,which had been cut...
Words Aren’t Merely Words. Context Matters, And Words Processed By Machines Are Changed
We are at a moment of disjunction in the history of reading, driven by a technological shift that already seems to be as consequential...
Why Social Networks Die
“These platforms are fundamentally rooted in users being able to get value, not just from the platform but from each other. If the platform...
The Go-To Website For Vinyl Records Is Endangered
Discogs is a fairly clunky, definitely old-fashioned website devoted to even older technology: a vestige of an earlier, more idyllic internet that has spent...
Living The Archaeology Dream
A team of Egyptian and German archaeologists has found multiple hidden chambers in a pyramid - and they say the work "has completely changed...
How Paperback Publishing Helped The US Win WWII
"The paperbacks were intended to help soldiers pass the time. But they were also meant to remind them what they were fighting for, and...
New Orleans Drummer Russell Batiste Has Died At 57
Batiste was a "pyrotechnic" drummer, "the "whose furious style and genre-busting approach provided the rhythmic pulse for bands like the Meters and Vida Blue...
When Storefront Theatres Run Out Of Storefronts
It's not pretty. Just ask Chicago. - American Theatre
Yes, The Internet Truly Is Worse
Worse than it used to be, worse than it should be, thanks to Google and Amazon. - The Atlantic
The ‘Pioneer Woman’ Does Not Own All Of The Land Stolen In Killers Of...
A viral tweet was wrong, or wrong-ish (surprise). The truth is far more intense. - Slate
How A Tiny, Newish Bay Area Publisher Snagged The Nobel Prizewinner’s Books
Of course, Jon Fosse hadn't won when Transit Books got its start. - Los Angeles Times
Balanchine Biography On British Prize Short List
One judge on the 784-page Mr. B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century, by Jennifer Homans: "I’m hopeless on the dancefloor, ... but this book takes...
The Ken Dream Ballet Sequence Almost Didn’t Happen
Barbie director Greta Gerwig: "There was a big meeting that was like, ‘Do you need this?' And I was like, ‘Everything in me needs...
Literary Folks In New York Want Books To Get So Much Sexier
Literary books, that is (guessing most of them don't know much about the open door, spicy romance subgenre). - Vulture
The Banned Books Bus Tour Kicks Off
The U.S.'s fervor for banning books (based, studies say, on 11 people's complaints) is being met with busloads of the censored cultural capital. ...
Films Are So Much More Than Their Plots
A movie's story is not always - nor even often - the thing. - The New York Times
Irish Writers Like Colm Toibin Share In The AI Training Disgust
Poet Vona Groarke: "I think my voice is being appropriated, my life, in a strange way, I fear, is also being appropriated, my sensitivity,...
As Frieze London Turns 20, The Art World Is A Radically Different Place
Fairs expanding geographically? Nope. Smart phones? In the future. Instagram? No way. - The New York Times
