Yearly Archives: 2023
Tracking Your Screen Time So You Have A Healthier Life? Don’t! (It’s A Trap)
I was spending seven hours a day looking at my phone. I spent the following weeks actively trying to bring the number down. I...
How Goodreads Went Wrong
On the surface, Goodreads seems to have mission clarity. It bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations” and frames...
End Of An Era: Frank Oteri Steps Down From NewMusicBox After 24 Years
Since NewMusicBox launched in May 1999, it has published in-depth interviews Oteri conducted with many of America’s most significant musical creators of the late...
Why Schoenberg Matters
A paradox is operating here: why would such an influential visionary and radical creator as Schoenberg receive minimal attention and performances of his masterworks...
Brandeis University Evidently Finds The Arts Expendable
Given the economics of falling enrollments, bloated administrations, ballooning deficits, and cultural illiteracy, it suggests something far more insidious, namely that Brandeis, of all...
Why Netflix Is Betting Big On Gaming
Netflix says games are a key part of its proposition to stay relevant with audiences in years to come, and is slowly ramping up...
“Collaborative Metamorphosis”: An Author And A Translator Talk About How They Work Together
Author Carlos Fonseca: "I now always say that I have a little (of translator)Megan McDowell in my mind, even when I write in Spanish."...
The Portraits That Define Presidents
Time and time again, presidents have wrestled with or in some cases openly fought back to challenge the ways they were being pictured. They...
Recovering, After Five Centuries, The Music Of Europe’s First Published Black Composer
Vicente Lusitano had been dimly remembered, largely by music historians, for "a notorious dispute which he won, then lost, but is now winning again."...
The Plan To Reinvent Lincoln Center
“We very much came with an agenda, which was we were going to tell a different kind of story about Lincoln Center, to fundamentally...
Street Dancers All Over L.A. Are Bringing New Excitement To The Shuffle
"A passionate cohort of dancers (have) repackaged the footwork for a new generation. MC Hammer's running man and underground raves in the '80s popularized...
Chinese Media Calls On British Museum To Return All Chinese Artifacts
"The huge loopholes in the management and security of cultural objects in the British Museum exposed by this scandal have led to the collapse...
Britain’s Obscenity Law Vs. Nabokov’s “Lolita”
Once Graham Greene reviewed the novel (in its original printing from Paris) in the The Sunday Times in 1955, George Weidenfeld knew he wanted...
Has Lincoln Center Lost Its Way?
When the nation’s premier classical music complex says that it doesn’t think Mozart is that important, why should anyone else? - City Journal
Putin’s Government Brings Its Ukraine War Propaganda To Russian Cinemas
A recently released film titled The Witness, about a touring violinist, caught in Kiev as the invasion begins, who sees (entirely fictional) atrocities committed...
The Collateral Damage Of The Hollywood Strikes
"From studio rentals and set construction to dry cleaning for costumes and transportation to sets, it's hard to find a corner of the Los...
Playwright Tina Howe, A Tony And Pulitzer Finalist, Is Dead At 85
Her breakthrough was 1981's Painting Churches, which won an Obie and, after its 1983 Broadway transfer, became a Pulitzer finalist. Also a Pulitzer finalist...
What’s The Delay With Building Philadelphia Ballet’s New Headquarters?
"Nearly a year after a ceremonial groundbreaking for (the company's) new headquarters on North Broad Street, no actual ground has been broken and construction...
Toronto’s Leading Provider Of Affordable Rehearsal And Studio Space Declares Bankruptcy
"Artscape, which manages over a dozen buildings in the city that include both homes for artists to own or rent and studio spaces for...
The Subscription Model Is Collapsing At American Theaters
"Subscribers were long the lifeblood of many performing arts organizations — a reliable income stream, and a guarantee that many seats would be filled....
Did They Just Catch The People Who Stole The Solid Gold Toilet Sculpture?
"Authorities are reportedly on the brink of charging seven suspects in the September 2019 theft of Maurizio Cattelan's America, a functional solid gold toilet...
Time For Another Full-On Attack On Book Blurbs
Blurbs have always been controversial—too clichéd, too subject to cronyism—but lately, as review space shrinks and the noise level of the marketplace increases, the pursuit of...
Why We Particularly Need Bad Reviews
In some ways, more culture writing circulates than ever before, but with fewer resources invested in any individual piece of writing. What you get...
Recalculating The Enviromental Impact Of Music Festivals
After audience travel, by far the largest source of emissions is food and drink, which on average accounts for just over 34%. This is...
Toronto Theatre’s Audience Problem
As entertainment centres like Toronto become increasingly diverse, theatres that continue to program works with only their ever-shrinking base of traditional patrons in mind...
