Yearly Archives: 2023
Seattle Is In The Midst Of A Generational Change In Arts Leadership
In the last two years, ArtsFund has informally tracked at least 47 new hires or open positions at the senior leadership level among its...
Rotten Tomatoes Has Never Been More Important — Or More Compromised
"Now, it can make or break them — with implications for how films are perceived, released, marketed, and possibly even green-lit. The Tomatometer may...
Weston Sprott Talks About Racism In American Orchestras
“At the end of the day, whether you’re working in an orchestra or a hospital or a government institution, people are people. The various...
The Endangered Puppetry Program At Troubled West Virginia University
In August, the state's flagship university made headlines by deciding to eliminate all foreign language instruction. The puppetry major in the theater and dance...
Acropolis Is The Latest To Restrict Visitors Because Of Over-Touristing
The new “Visitor Zones” program requires visitors to book a time slot through its online platform. On arrival, visitors will scan a QR code on...
A New Director Is Expanding Lyon’s Already Busy Maison De La Danse
Tiago Guedes says that Lyon "is known as a dance city, but it was designed for touring rather than creation: The Maison de la...
Great Puzzle: Why Did Brandeis University Cut Its Highly-Regarded Music Ph.D Program?
Of 15 PhD-granting departments in Brandeis Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the music department ranked as one of the best. It had the...
A Complete Neolithic Monument Is Discovered In Scotland’s Western Isles
"In August, archaeologists working alongside local volunteers began their excavation at Drumadoon (on the Isle of Arran) of what is almost certainly the only...
Woman Buys $4 Painting Because She Liked The Frame. Turns Out The Painting Is...
It quickly became clear that the simple frame was of much lesser value than the striking scene within, which was revealed to be by...
Three Ex-Musicians, Fired For Resisting Vaccine Mandate, Sue North Carolina Symphony
"The suit," brought on religious discrimination grounds, "says all musicians ... were told in the summer of 2021 that they must get vaccinated against...
Red-State Governments Are Withdrawing Their Public Libraries From The American Library Association
"This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced they're leaving the ALA, with possibly...
Baltimore’s Flagship Theater Company Finds Its Next Artistic Director
"Stevie Walker-Webb, a theater director and rising star who at the age of 36 has already been nominated for a Tony Award, was appointed...
Roku To Lay Off 10% Of Its Staff And Write Off $65 Million
"Roku will cut more than 300 staffers … as the streaming-platform company continues its battle to control costs. In addition, Roku will remove certain...
The Doofus Who Broke Off And Stole The Finger Of A 2,000-Year-Old Terra Cotta...
"Michael Rohana, 29, apologized to his family and the Chinese government, saying he would make no excuses for his drunken prank at the (Franklin...
Another Jackass Tourist Damages Another Historic Italian Artwork
"A 22-year-old German man has been detained in Florence, accused of damaging a statue in the 16th-century Fountain of Neptune in the Piazza della...
Venice Sets Its Entry Fee For Day-Tripping Tourists
"The fee, initially 5 euros ($5.50) per day-tripper, is 'not a tool for making cash,' (but) to improve the quality of life for Venice's...
Using Numbers To Unlock Shakespeare’s Words
Corpus linguistics is a branch of linguistics which uses computers to explore the use of words in huge collections of language. It can spot nuances...
Pondering The Thinking Machine
Few believe that LLMs are truly sentient, but some argue that they show signs of genuine intelligence and of having a conceptual understanding of...
Requiem For Another Theatre
Experimental work was the soul of the New Ohio, a producer and presenter that closed for good on Aug. 31. The publicity line has been that...
Granular Study Of Australian Arts Ecosystem Maps Economic Structures
Australia is the first nation to estimate sources of income and investment for the cultural and creative industries using a new classification system or...
The Webb Telescope Has Cosmologists Thinking Our Ideas About The Universe May Be Wrong
It’s not just that some of us believe we might have to rethink the standard model of cosmology; we might also have to change...
How Early Humans Learned To Count, A History
At first, our hominid ancestors probably did not count very high. Many body parts present themselves in pairs—arms, hands, eyes, ears, and so on—thereby...
Four Years Later, The Boy Who Was Thrown From The Tate Modern’s Balcony Is...
"He is now able to bend down, squat, grab his toys and clothes with both hands from his closet without falling or dropping them,"...
An Online Library At The Heart Of A Battle Over AI And Copyright
For critics, Books3 isn’t a boon to society—instead, it’s emblematic of everything wrong with generative AI, a glaring example of how both the rights...
Philly Fringe Is Trying Out A New Model: Hub Venues
Two-thirds of this year's programming is at five hubs; one-half — 150 productions — is at Cannonball, which offers a stage, lighting and sound...
