Yearly Archives: 2023
Met Museum Wants To Be A Global Licensing Powerhouse
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, apparently no longer content with just being America’s largest and most famous art institution, has a rapidly growing licensing strategy to help...
Now London Has To Deal With Climate-Protesting Musical-Theatre Vandals
Activists with the British group Just Stop Oil, which started the climate-protesting art-vandalism trend, disrupted a West End performance of Les Misérables during (of...
Theatre Where Shakespeare Performed Is Found
A theatre in Norfolk believes it has discovered the only surviving stage on which William Shakespeare performed. - BBC
The Met Opera Brings “Dead Man Walking” To Sing-Sing
"But the opera, with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Terrence McNally, had never been performed in a prison until last week...
Major New National Initiative To Boost Latinx Theatre
On Monday, the Latino Theater Company announced $9 million in grants to 52 Latino theaters in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,...
Facing Staff Turnover, Arts Nonprofits Are Starting To Increase The Pay Of Administrative Workers
"The arts and culture sector has long been able to hire administrative staff at below market rates on account of their employees’ passion for...
“Worth The Suffering” — Peter Zumthor On His Experience Designing LACMA’s New Building
The Pritzker-winning architect at one point said that the troubled project led him to decide never to work in the US again. In fact,...
How Putin’s War Has Upended Ukrainian Literature
For more than two decades after Ukraine's independence, Russian-language titles accounted for more than four-fifths of the country's book market. That began to change...
Julia Ormond Sues Harvey Weinstein For Sexual Assault And CAA, Miramax, and Disney For...
The assault took place in 1995 after a business dinner between the producer and the actress. She is suing CAA, then her agency, for...
A Death On The Premises Closes London’s Courtauld Gallery
"'Yesterday afternoon, a tragic event occurred at The Courtauld Gallery premises that led to a fatality,' the museum said in a statement on Tuesday....
Gramophone Awards 2023: Fabio Luisi’s Nielsen Symphonies Named Record Of The Year
The DG recording of Nielsen's 4th and 5th with the Danish National Symphony also took the Orchestral award; among other winners are the London...
Playwright/Author Jon Fosse Wins 2023 Nobel Prize For Literature
The committee awarded the 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) prize for the 64-year-old Norwegian writer's "innovative plays and prose, which give voice to...
Why Is The Country Music Industry So Resistant To Diversity?
Black country singers and journalists are being called racial slurs by fans and openly LGBTQ+ performers are having to back out of performances. - The Guardian
Meet This Year’s MacArthur Fellows
The fellowship is “intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations,” and comes with a $800,000...
Why More And More Writers Are Dropping Quotation Marks
The reasons vary, but more writers are dropping speech marks to explore distances between readers and narrators and even to eliminate hierarchies. - The...
The Right People Aren’t In The Room Talking About AI
AI absolutely is powerful, and it absolutely is dangerous. But as these perspectives reverberate throughout committee hearings, government advisory boards, press releases, and lobbying...
U Penn Shunned Her And Her Work. Now That She’s Won The Nobel Prize,...
Penn demoted Katalin Karikó, shunting her to a lab on the outskirts of campus while cutting her pay. Karikó’s colleagues denigrated her mRNA research and...
Amazon Controls Markets (Including Culture). Now The US Government Is Taking The Company On
In the era of the Internet, a framework that analyzed the benefits to consumers primarily through the metric of cost was no longer realistic,...
The Guys Behind One Of The Funniest Movies Ever Made Share Some Oral History
David Zucker: "We saw what was out there at the time, Woody Allen and Mel Brooks, and they were great, and we thought we...
Did You Know History Could Have A Gender?
“I’m guessing most of the men who say they think about it all of the time are probably white, cis men. And it’s no...
Conductor Gianandrea Noseda’s “Conceptual Virtuosity”
"In general, Noseda is a servant of the ‘big idea’ – overarching themes that unify a series of concerts, galvanise audiences, empower musicians and...
What If The Robots Were So Nice As They Beat Us That We Were...
Maybe AI will just amplify what’s best about humans. Maybe AI will become a buoyant tribute band for our entire species. Maybe AI will be...
Pritzker Winner Shigeru Ban Designs Temporary Shelter For Victims Of Morocco Earthquake
"The structure is the latest iteration of Ban's Paper Log House model, which he developed as a quick-to-construct and affordable shelter for victims of...
Fifty Years On: Hip Hop As A Cultural Phenomenon
For decades hip-hop artists have used their power as popular culture stars to influence the political sphere. As academics have begun to take notice of the power of hip-hop...
Why Ruth Essel Founded The Pointe Black Ballet School Of London
She said she was motivated to create what she calls a "safe space" for young Black dancers because "when she was a child, teachers...
