Yearly Archives: 2023
ARTnews’ 25 Art Works That Defined 2023
Each year, countless new artworks are made and historical ones come into sharper focus as events in the art world and beyond give them...
Wikipedia’s Assault On History
"What we need, what I’m going to establish, is an ever-expanding phalanx of Wikipedia editors to create, reframe, and defend these pages, which are...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Is Seeing His Play “Appropriate” Go Up On Broadway. Over A Decade...
"It’s been kind of an amazing experience. It’s so rare to have something that you’ve done get a glow-up. … (Broadway is) an important...
It’s Getting Even Harder To Sell Books
In 2022, less than half a percent of books even cleared 100,000. But this is the financial model on which the publishing industry operates:...
Lauren Lovette On Her Transition From NY City Ballet Star To Resident Choreographer For...
"Performing has always been my most challenging point. I didn’t live for the show — I lived for class, for rehearsal, being in new...
So Generative AI Can Write. But Surely Our Poetry Is Worth More Than That
Poets should not be threatened by the fact that every person with internet access can now create the poetic equivalent of hotel art. Although...
Remember “Her”, The Movie About A Guy Who Falls In Love With An AI...
"It’s a gentle, enjoyably melancholy story, twee but not damnably so — but something else stands out. Though set in the near-future, Her captures...
The Met Opera’s Siloing Problem
"This is not a program of audience integration (the management cannot be so unobservant as to suppose that will happen, except at the outermost...
Oregon’s Arts Organizations Are Nearing The Brink
"Audience numbers still aren't back to where they were in 2019. Emergency state and federal funding has nearly evaporated, and (expected) annual arts funding...
Washington Post Theatre Critic Peter Marks Retires. And Theatre Suffers Another Blow
The discourse about critics in the theatre has been so mindlessly hostile for so long that most of the time, the sensible thing for...
The Weekly Satirical Magazine Produced By A Guy Hiding From The Nazis In An...
A German Jew named Curt Bloch spent two years, with two other people, living in a little crawl space in the Dutch city of...
Seven Surprising Upshots Of Netflix’s Viewership Data Dump
Shows about struggling, intrepid women are doing well. So are zombies, devils, and serial killers. Spanish-language series are major hits, and, as writer Lili...
“My Small Intestine Nearly Exploded”: Tracey Emin Recovering From Emergency Surgery
"The 60-year-old (artist) was recently in Australia ... and was on her way back to the UK via Thailand when she fell ill. 'Not...
Cincinnati Symphony Will Build New Amphitheater On Site Of Beloved-But-Aging Theme Park
The city's Coney Island amusement park, opened in 1886, had fallen out of public favor in the past few years. The Cincinnati Symphony's subsidiary,...
The Rapid Rise And Even Faster Fall Of Jonathan Majors
"It’s hard to mint a new movie star these days, (so) people in Hollywood were high on Jonathan Majors, … (and) this was supposed...
Italy’s Nationalist Government Replaces Directors Of Ten Top Museums With Italians — Such As...
The German-born Schmidt, widely admired for his stewardship of the Uffizi in Florence, acquired Italian citizenship last month; he'll be replacing French national Sylvain...
The Man Who Made ‘Seven Brides For Seven Brothers’ 100 Percent Less Rapey Would...
"David Landay, the only one of the 1982 show’s four writers who is alive, added a prologue and revised the plot so that the...
Deepfakes Are Scary. But “Cheapfakes” Are All Around Us
Long before generative AI became widely available, people were making “cheapfakes” or “shallowfakes.” It can be as simple as mislabeling images, videos, or audio...
Alex Ross’ Review Of “Maestro”
“Maestro” is a complete enough achievement that there is no point in dwelling on what it might have done differently. What’s most significant is...
Cyberattack Wipes Out British Museum’s Digital Presence
On Halloween, 2023, the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack, which rendered its web presence nonexistent, its collections access disabled, and even its wifi fried. - Public Books
Odd? More Than 1,200 Scientists Are Now Publishing New Research Papers Once Every Five...
In 2022 alone, 1,266 non-physics authors published the equivalent of one paper every 5 days, including weekends, compared with 387 in 2016. The accelerated...
Huge Gender Pay Discrimination Suit Against Disney Moves Forward
Disney in 2019 was hit with a suit accusing it of “rampant pay discrimination.” The case cleared a major hurdle Dec. 8 when a...
Controversy Over White House “Nutcracker” Video
The clip drew heavy criticism on Fox News and in The New York Post. It was shocking to see something as innocuous as “The Nutcracker”...
As Disney Turns 100, Looking At Its “Problematic” Movies
Recent Disney films like the animated “Strange World,” with its gay teenage protagonist, have become cultural flash points. But “Pocahontas” prompted a full-blown fracas. - The...
Mozambiqan Uses Dance To Critique His Country
Born the year after Mozambique gained independence from Portugal in 1975, Panaíbra Canda, 47, has used his art to offer searing critiques of his...
