Yearly Archives: 2023
Oregon Shakespeare Festival – Back On Track?
We think we’re gonna end up with about 15,000 more tickets sold than in 2022. And student groups are coming back. That was a...
Edith Grossman, World-Renowned Literary Translator, Is Dead At 87
Best known for her English rendition of Don Quixote (considered the definitive version) and of Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García...
Martha Graham Dance Company Is 100 Years Old In 2026. The Party is Starting...
"The result is Graham100, a three-year celebration that starts this fall at the Soraya. The (timing) is deliberate. 'We couldn't fit it all into...
With Lula Back In Office, Brazil’s Arts Sector Is Recovering From The Bolsonaro Years
Since taking office, President da Silva "has reinstated the nation's ministry of culture, which had been extinguished under Bolsonaro, and reversed decrees that had...
Russia’s Propaganda Movie About The Ukraine War Is A Big Ol’ Box Office Flop
"Set to a budget of 200 million rubles ($2.05m), The Witness has grossed less than 14 million rubles ($143,000) in its first two weeks,...
Manhattan DA’s Office Seizes Ancient Roman Bust From Museum In Massachusetts
"The bust known as 'Portrait of a Lady' was acquired in 1966 by the Worcester Art Museum, … dates from A.D. 160 to 180...
Profits Are Down At All The Big US Publishers But One
"Simon & Schuster was the only one of the country's four largest trade publishers to show an improved profit margin in the first half...
Norman Pfeiffer, An Architect Whose Work Helped Transform Downtown L.A., Is Dead At 82
He's responsible for some of the most important projects of the 1990s growth of central Los Angeles as a cultural and civic center, including...
The Problem With Non-Profit Journalism
Regular journalism plumped up with NGO filler and paid for with foundation dough too easily becomes either risibly partisan or a kind of kitsch...
The Metropolitan Opera’s Focus On New Opera Is Great. But It’s Going About It...
"Peter Gelb is telegraphing to composers that stylistic conformity within the boundaries of a populist musical means is the only possible route to success...
The Real Villain In The British Museum Scandal: Politicians
At the British Museum, flat funding from the Conservatives has meant a real-terms cut in revenue grant-in-aid of 37% between 2009-10, under Labour, and now, under...
How JD Salinger Used Copyright To Shield His Privacy
Salinger’s public legacy, a gnarled mess of copyright enforcement designs, First Amendment controversies, and the persistent desire to be left alone by the press,...
How Authors Are Being Influenced By Their Fan Communities
I reminded them that I was older than their dads, but they didn’t mind, and I became a fusion of agony uncle, village witch...
Major Increase In Philanthropy For Journalism
"Partly because it’s a relatively new area of giving, it’s hard to get a reliable count of how much philanthropy funds journalism. A report...
Religion At Burning Man (There’s Actually A Lot Of It)
"The event has always had its spiritual side: 10 guiding principles, a nondenominational temple and recurring burning rituals. And in recent years, religious groups...
Major New Arts Center Opens In Lower Manhattan
Getting here required not just artistic pluck but political backing, a half-billion-dollar construction budget, and the creation of a new institution with the interdisciplinary...
This Conductor Got His Orchestra To Play The Fiendishly Complicated “Rite Of Spring” From...
Performing without sheet music is the hallmark of the Aurora Orchestra, a British ensemble directed by Nicholas Collon. "People used to say to me,...
British Museum In Crisis After A Rough Summer
The museum is now deluged with renewed calls for the restitution of contested objects, and raising a huge sum for an impending refurbishment looks...
Using AI Animation To Depict Real-Life Crimes
A host and producer of a Norwegian true-crime documentary series write about how and why, instead of the customary practice of using actors to...
Scalpers Make Out Like Bandits At Toronto International Film Festival
By Tuesday, tickets for Hayao Miyazaki’s film “The Boy and the Heron” had topped $527 — more than a $200 increase. Meanwhile, tickets for...
The Transition From A Dance Career To Coaching Figure Skating
"There's a common misconception that experience on the ice is a prerequisite for working with skaters. But for many dancers who have transitioned into...
Could The AI Boom Quickly Bust?
Reality check, we have no concrete reason, other than sheer technoptimism, for thinking that solutions to any of these problems is imminent." - Dezeen
Naomi Klein’s New Book, “Doppelganger,” Isn’t Really About Being Mistaken For Naomi Wolf
"Wolf serves as Klein's entry into what she calls the 'mirror world' — where the anti-establishment critiques of the far left become co-opted by...
The Legal Battle Over A Highway Tunnel Near Stonehenge Is On Again
Six weeks after the UK government gave final approval for the $2.3 billion project, a group arguing that the tunnel could irreparably harm the...
At Film Festivals During The Hollywood Strikes, Stars Must Walk A Tricky Tightrope
"Although the festivals won't be as deprived of stars as feared, the agreements mean there will be a patchwork of talent: Who is and...
