Yearly Archives: 2023
Conductor John DeMain Announces Retirement From Madison Symphony Orchestra
"The 2025-26 season marks the Madison orchestra's 100th anniversary. The symphony will conduct a search for a new leader, and DeMain intends to depart...
SAG-AFTRA Members Vote To Authorize Another, Different Strike
A motion by the actors' union to authorize a strike against video game companies passed with 98% of votes cast. The previous Interactive Media...
Actors’ Equity Moves To Unionize Broadway Production Assistants
"Many PAs, the union (says), are early-career stage managers, and PAs 'are among the only Broadway workers without current union representation.' The new bargaining...
With A Week’s Warning To Students, The Last Remaining Campuses Of The Art Institutes...
"The system had suffered from low enrollment since the coronavirus pandemic began. Previous challenges included a $95 million settlement after fraud allegations in 2015...
Fire Destroys An Entire Building At Bösendorfer Piano Factory
A large part of the archives of the historic company, which was founded in 1830, was destroyed in the blaze at the facility just...
Actor David McCallum, Star Of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” And “NCIS”, Is Dead At...
As the mysterious secret agent Ilya Kuryakin on Man From U.N.C.L.E., the Scottish character actor became a major American TV star and teen heartthrob....
After 33 Years, André Bishop Announces Retirement From Lincoln Center Theater
"Bishop, 74, said he is choosing to leave at the end of the 2024-25 season because that is when his current contract (as producing...
Why Do Public Intellectuals So Often Talk Down To Their Audiences?
If the academic humanities too often address only siloed experts, then pop philosophy too often addresses an audience of imagined idiots. - Yale Review
A Long Tradition Of Mis-Thinking Intelligence
Insights from western literature and myth point to the ethical problem at the core of human intelligence. How we understand the role of humans’...
Who’s Propping Up TV Networks: Boomers
The median age of viewers at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox has ballooned in recent years. That has left executives looking for ways to...
The Mega-Dealers Coming After Museums
The megadealers love museums. They need them. They’re the best of friends. But there’s no longer any hiding it: They’re also trying to clone...
North Carolina Symphony Gets A New Music Director
While music was always important to him, Carlos Miguel Prieto majored in electrical engineering at Princeton University and got an MBA at Harvard. He...
The Copyright Office Needs A Rethink About AI
Just as a photographer walks around a city or forest looking for compelling scenes to photograph, so an AI artist explores the “latent space”...
A Growing Grassroots Backlash To Book Bans
As the new school year begins, parents of public school students in Miami have become more engaged than ever in resisting the mandate of...
What This AI-Created Image Tells Us About The Future Of Art
"If art is meant to be a portal, then the art of the future will have not one single exit, but unlimited gateways... This...
The Similarities Between Hollywood Strikes And The Auto Workers Strike
The pay gap between CEOs and average workers is unsustainable. Moreover, labor must have access to financial information (to satisfy themselves about profits and...
In Los Angeles, Where The Dancing Is Alcohol-Free
And not just free of alcohol, but fully sober. "This is Natural High, a renegade alcohol- and substance-free dance party that pops up in...
The City Of The Dead Is Being Bulldozed
In Egypt, President Sisi has grand plans "for a highway cruelly named the Passage of Paradise, a series of flyover bridges that the government...
This Man Created An App That Tells Us When It’s Safe To Pee
At least, when it's safe to leave a movie theatre to pee. "Longer movies have more; for example, we have six Peetimes for Oppenheimer. Most...
A Forgotten Artemisia Gentileschi Painting Is Found In A Royal Storeroom
The painting emerged "during attempts to trace all the paintings sold off across Europe after Charles I’s execution, which included seven recorded Gentileschi paintings."...
The Sudden Devastation In Libya’s City Of Poets
In instants on September 11, the floodwaters "destroyed a cradle of Libyan culture" - by neglect and design from authorities who don't care for...
The Long Tail Is Dead
The end of Netflix's DVD service heralds the era of the very, very short tail - because, weirdly, "faced with even more options, people...
English Evolves By Mistake
Susie Dent "is on a mission to revive English’s lost positives' – words such as 'feckful,' 'couth,' ruly' and 'full of gorm.' In modern...
There’s A Genre Of Music In Star Wars Called Jizz
But now Disney is trying to wipe away the famous name. "A new official short story collection ... asserts that this style of music is...
Getting Old, Says Former Young British Artist Sarah Lucas, Is Rather Pleasant
"Of all the golden generation of YBAs who graduated from Goldsmiths 30-odd years ago, Lucas was and remains the biggest slacker." - The Guardian...
