Yearly Archives: 2023
The Last Remnant Of Radio Disney Is Sold Off
"The last Walt Disney Co.-owned radio station is officially in the hands of Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa, which has closed on the $5...
Metropolitan Opera Commissions A New Work About Ukrainian Children Abducted To Russia
"The (opera), which will be written by the Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets, with a libretto by the American playwright George Brant, tells the story...
Earthquake Leaves Much Of Medieval City of Marrakech In Ruins
"The Medina district dates back centuries and is enclosed by walls built of red sandstone. ... Long sections are showing deep cracks and parts...
Cleveland Orchestra’s Franz Welser-Möst Has Had A Cancerous Tumor Removed
While he's still scheduled to conduct the orchestra's season opener on Sept. 28, he has cancelled all performances from late October through the end...
Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, David Henry Hwang Sue OpenAI For Copyright Violation
"A group of authors… have filed suit in federal court against OpenAI, alleging the company unfairly used their copyrighted works to teach its chatbots...
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Are Without A Contract As Management’s Offer Is Rejected
"The orchestra members voted definitively Sunday to reject the Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.'s 'best and final offer,' which came after three full...
No, Streaming Doesn’t Cancel Everything
Or even most things! Only things you care about. (Or so it seems.) - The New York Times
Survey: Half Of Professional UK Musicians Earn Less Than £14,000
The census finds that despite high levels of education and training among professional musicians – 70% have a degree or higher, and 50% have...
Is The South Dakota Symphony The Future Of Classical Music?
South Dakota’s may plausibly be considered the most genuinely innovative, most inspirationally forward-looking professional orchestra in the United States. It is also the happiest...
Caught Between Two Worlds: Writers, Actors Strikes Looking For A Model That Fits The...
"That structure was created at the last big strike in 1960. The business has no resemblance to that anymore. When you cut down the...
Politics Intruding – More And More, Art Is Running Afoul Of Politics
The cycle of outcry, removal and reflection seems to be repeating itself more frequently. Proponents of artistic freedom say the current political climate has...
Disney, Charter Sign Deal And ESPN Returns To Cable
The deal puts Disney networks like ESPN and ABC back on Charter’s cable service, but also allows Charter to drop several of them, even...
AI Art Piece Wins Big Competition. Problem – It Can’t Be Copyrighted
The artwork was created using Midjourney, a platform that features in our pick of the best AI art generators. The judges apparently didn't realise that...
Curators Test To See If AI Can Curate And Organize A Show. Here’s What...
“We naïvely thought it would be as easy as plugging in a couple prompts,” Price recalled, explaining why curators at the North Carolina university...
The Sad Real Reason Apple Bought Tiny BIS, The Classical Label
Apple Music is now eight years old, but there’s no indication that the business is profitable. They need strategies to reduce costs, and substituting cheap...
Russia Is Destroying Ukrainian Heritage Sites. How Can It Still Be In Unesco?
Russia, a Unesco member, has a delegation in Riyadh because it is on the World Heritage Committee. This is a travesty. For its deliberate...
Agatha Christie Pilgrims Have A New Stopping Point
The author of 66 novels and 15 short-story collections gets her own (seated) statue in the town where she lived for more than four...
Fiber Art Is Flourishing Again
Not that it ever went away, but the "fine art" world is taking notice of the feminized and thus less important "craft" once more....
AI Is Not Actually Hollywood’s Biggest Problem
So says Cord Jefferson, director of Toronto International Film Fest favorite American Fiction. - Los Angeles Times
A Chinese Singer Went To Mariupol’s Bombed-Out Theatre And Sang A Patriotic Soviet Song
The theatre, which had been a civilian shelter, is "a symbol of Russia's war crimes," says the city's exiled mayor. "To turn the theater...
Scorsese’s Project Is Deconstructing Misogyny
You might not think it from his movies about violent men, but you can see it masterfully done in the 30-year-old Age of Innocence....
Former Dancers Say The UK’s Top Ballet Schools Constantly Body-shame Students
More than 50 former students told the BBC about issues, saying they had developed eating disorders, "while some said they had been left with...
The Movie ‘Poor Things’ Wins At Venice
Emma Stone is Frankenstein's monster, but a feminist one. - Globe and Mail (Canada)
What’s Scarier, Doing A One-Woman Show Or Riding A Coney Island Roller Coaster?
Ask actor Rachel Brown (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), who's performing in a show about existential dread for work, and riding for fun. - The New York...
Did Yeats Ever Say The Quote Engraved On Dublin Marathon Finishers’ Medal?
Twenty thousand finishers of the marathon are set to receive a medal reading, "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet."...
