Yearly Archives: 2023
This Family Has Been Making Bronze Bells For More Than 1,000 Years
"The Marinellis have been handcrafting bronze bells (in the mountains of southern Italy) since at least the 11th century, although archaeological findings at nearby...
What Journalism Needs To Learn About AI
Journalism is trying to understand and harness GenAI’s power. There are countless experiments to computationally fabricate headlines, stories, images, videos, podcasts, broadcast personalities, and...
Now That Breakdancing Is A Competitive Sport, Team USA Has Fallen Behind
"As ambassadors of the country where breakdancing originated 50 years ago, members of Team USA have something to prove — and potentially to lose...
Why Being Mediocre Is The Better Choice
As of 2023, more than three-quarters of U.S. adults report feeling stressed at work, almost 60% experience elements of burnout, and almost 20% feel...
Leading Avant-Garde Theater Directors Are Turning To The Musicals Of Andrew Lloyd Webber (?!?)
Ivo van Hove is bringing his video-heavy style to Jesus Christ Superstar in Amsterdam. Jamie Lloyd (loves Pinter, hates scenery) is staging Sunset Boulevard...
Still Leaving Voice Mails? Here’s The New Phone Etiquette
Just because someone is calling you out of the blue does not mean you have to pick up. - Washington Post
How Asian-American Parents Teach Their Kids Heritage Languages They Themselves Can Barely Speak
"In the U.S., bringing a heritage language back into a family usually comes down to the efforts of individuals. The parents I spoke with...
Why Hollywood’s European Connection Is Growing
We’ve always been an international industry, but the pandemic has really illuminated that fact in some ways, both in physical production, as well as...
England’s Second City Is Bankrupt. Arts Groups Fear It Might Sell Off Its Cultural...
"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help...
Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland Sues Poland’s Minister Of Justice For Defamation
"The three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director is going ahead with her defamation suit against minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments...
Agnieszka Holland On Her Award-Winning Refugee Film, “Green Border”, And Why Poland’s Government Is...
"The decision to do the film the way I did (came from) working in a country that uses police, and its military forces to...
Archaeologist Helping Manhattan DA Identify Looted Antiquities Complains That His Work Never Gets Credited
“They are taking my work and presenting it as theirs,” said Christos Tsirogiannis. “They are showing off with my academic work and not giving...
Juilliard’s Acting MFA Program Will Become Tuition-Free
The change, which takes effect in fall 2024, "follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which...
Actor Michael Gambon Is Dead At 82
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films....
Daniel Barenboim’s Successor In Berlin Will Be —
— the man everyone presumed it would be. Christian Thielemann will become general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and chief conductor of...
Inside The British Museum Scandal
It is not just the losses that are so damaging but also the way the museum has dealt with the issue since antiques dealer...
The Current Research On Music As Medicine
Recent research shows that more active engagement with music can be a boon for our mental and even physical health... The scientists behind these...
Spotify Is Testing AI-Generated Podcast Translations In The Podcasters’ Voices
The Spotify-developed tool uses OpenAI’s recently released voice-generation technology to match the original speaker’s style. That, according to Spotify, results in a “more authentic listening...
Our Education System Was Created In Industrial Times. We Need An Upgrade
Such systems, sculpted for an industrial society, falter in the face of a postindustrial, information economy. Schools were built for a world before the...
FTC: Time To Hold Amazon Accountable
Lina Khan made her reputation with a very different idea: What if pleasing the customer was not enough? Low prices, she argued in a 95-page examination...
Attacking Orchestras’ Audience Problem
"We say we need new audiences, but the reality is we're really churning through the new audiences we do get." In the arts...
How Sondheim’s Last (Incomplete) Musical Made It To The Stage
How did a show that Team Sondheim suggested was incomplete at the time of his death get to a point where it was ready...
Think Our Politicians Indulge In Too Much Performance? Consider The Emperor Nero
"For a start, the boundary between the emperor and his acting parts was a significantly blurry one. … The awful black hole at the...
The Great Organs Of Texas
Both Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas have long and notable histories of training organists who’ve gone on to major church,...
Google Search Is Arguably The Internet’s Most Important Innovation. Now It’s Also A Tragedy.
"Unlike its streamlined, efficient former self, Google Search is now bloated and overmonetized. It's harder now to find answers that feel authoritative or uncompromised....
