Yearly Archives: 2023
What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Still Teach Us About Grief: Teju Cole On Seeing...
"'Tragedy,' in drama, is concerned with suffering, but there's more to it than that. ... Individuals inherit fallout from events in the remote past,...
Disney/Charter Deal Demonstrates The Weakness Of The Cable And Streaming Businesses
The traditional TV business is losing customers until it hits a bottom that it may take a while to find. Streaming is losing money...
Drew Barrymore Breaks The Hollywood Strikes To Restart Her Talk Show, And She’s Getting...
"Barrymore was initially announced as host of the Nov. 15 (National Book Awards) in late July. Now, just days after some protested her decision...
Who Benefits From Dance Company Apprenticeships?
As trainees and apprentices, dancers may perform on professional stages for years without being compensated. Not everyone can afford to work for free—much less...
The Van Gogh In The Ikea Bag: Why The Criminals Who Had It Gave...
The purloined painting, says the art detective to whom it was returned, "was a little bit cursed." - The Guardian
The Punk Trio That Co-Directs France’s National Ballet Of Marseille
"They may only be three but they are a horde. They are (La)Horde. … How did the threesome end up as artistic directors of...
Billionaire’s Heirs Will Return 33 Looted Statues To Cambodia
"In one of the most significant repatriations of art to Cambodia from a private collection, the family of billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to...
Oscar-Winning Writer Of “Moonlight” And “Choir Boys” Named Geffen Playhouse’s Artistic Director
"An ensemble member of Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company," Tarell Alvin McCraney "is professor of playwriting at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale...
Evidence For A Putin War Crimes Trial In A New Report On Destruction Of...
"(The briefing) by the NGO Blue Shield International has tentatively made the claim that the Putin regime has premeditatively, systematically — and provably —...
The Dude Endowment: $40 Million Gift To New York Philharmonic To Fund Gustavo Dudamel’s...
"The 42-year-old Dudamel has been music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, a tenure that will end after 17 seasons when he...
Pulitzer Board Opens Arts And Literature Prizes To Non-US Citizens
"The prestigious award for books, drama and music, which had previously been open to just US citizens, will now consider permanent residents of the...
The Risks And Creative Rewards Of Loneliness
The lonely are at substantially elevated risk for heart disease, stroke, obesity, addiction, and dementia; being lonely increases your overall risk of premature death...
The College Essays ChatGPT Wrote For Me To Submit To The Ivies
"I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications. The A.I. chatbots’ answers have been edited for brevity and...
Seattle Arts Organizations Face Diminished Demand
According to the survey, overall ticket sales are still well below pre-pandemic levels: down 23% across various art forms and venues. People also tend...
The New Doom Counter-Culture
Where psychedelic experience was at the heart of the old counter culture, Bayesian reasoning seems to be at the heart of this counter culture....
How Alexei Ratmansky Became One Of The Most In-Demand Choreographers
Because he makes ballets so quickly and in little bits, only at the very end of the process does it all come together. Sometimes...
In A City Of Monuments, How To Decolonize The Landscape
How will cities grapple with the more difficult question of what to do with fraught landmarks that are more immovable than those statues—museums, train...
The US Military’s Long History With Drag (Which The Pentagon Has Now Banned)
While soldier-led cross-dressing shows go as far back as the late 19th century, "drag in the military really took off during World War I...
AI Readers Of Audio Books Are Here. There Are Some Issues…
If the listener is wholly unaware that the narrator is digital, this raises some of the many ethical questions (such as that of consent)...
The Real-Life Man Who Was, And Was Not, Uncle Tom
Harriet Beecher Stowe, in her 1853 book A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin, wrote that the autobiography of Josiah Henson was one of her...
Battling AI’s Fight Over Whether Painting Is A Raphael
Both studies used state-of-the art AI technology. Months after one study proclaimed that the so-called de Brécy Tondo, currently on display at Bradford council’s Cartwright Hall...
What The Upcoming Broadway Revival Of Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” Has Done To...
Though the musical recounts, in reverse, the dissolution of a close personal and professional friendship, the work of re-creating the central characters has brought...
Will AI Unlock Human Creativity For Millions?
"I think we’re at a moment with the development of AI where we have ways to provide support, encouragement, affirmation, coaching and advice. We’ve...
A Stolen Van Gogh Is Returned, Hidden In A Pillowcase Inside An Ikea Bag
The Parsonage Garden at Nuenen in Spring (1884) was taken from the Singer Laren Museum near Amsterdam in March 2020. A culprit was convicted...
We’re Listening To More Sad Music. Why?
We have an odd situation. The slow tune is no longer dreamy music for couples, but sad, lonely music for the isolated and depressed....
