Yearly Archives: 2023
One Way To Look At It: Get Rid Of Ill-Tempered, Indulged, Larger-Than-Life Conductors And...
Replace charismatic leadership with technocratic good manners and the whole edifice comes tumbling down. Fine by me, but just beware of what this means....
YouTube Could Face Billions Of Dollars In Fines Over Ads Targeted At Children
Child advocacy groups now suspect that a second FTC probe into YouTube could result in a fine that dwarfs that 2019 record penalty. Their...
The Architects Returning To Wood, Stone, And Brick
Two separate developments are driving the trend: the advent of computer-controlled robots which can drill ornate designs quickly, precisely, and relatively cheaply; and the...
The Oh-So-Complicated Power Dynamic Between Artist And Patron
Given the vast difference in agency prevailing between artists and patrons, is an intellectual, artistic, ethical discussion on equal terms even possible? - 3 Quarks...
Frank Rich Gathers The Oral History Of How Stephen Sondheim’s Final Musical Was Created
It was a big surprise when word came down that not only had Sondheim finished his long-rumored adaptation of two Luís Buñuel films, he...
Eminem Stops Ramaswamy From Using His Music As Theme Song
"What Vivek is doing is trying to align himself with the struggle of overcoming adversity. From what I know of Vivek's policies, objectives and...
Gustavo Dudamel Reunites With The Orchestra He Grew Up Conducting
He became director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela when he was 18, and he's known many of the players since they...
Criticism As A Creative Act…
Here lies the difference between viewing criticism as a passive medium of arbitration versus an act of creation—one that requires the critic to take...
Have US Ballet Companies Been Performing More Works By Women Choreographers? Yes And No.
Dance Data Project's research on this past season found that 32% of ballets presented by the largest 150 classically trained companies were by women,...
Anna Wintour Is Raising Money To Offset Cuts To Arts Funding In London
Wintour, who organizes the annual Met Gala in New York, has planned an event called Vogue World for the start of London's Fashion Week...
Some Of The Objects Stolen From The British Museum May Never Be Located. Here’s...
"Ittai Gradel, (the) antiquities dealer who uncovered the suspected thefts of items such as gold jewellery, semiprecious stones and ancient glassware, said he had...
Suddenly, There Are Big Questions Around Hilma af Klint, From Control Of IP Rights...
There's a struggle in Sweden over control of her foundation, and recent discoveries suggest that one of her fellow mystics painted some of the...
An Iowa School District Banned “Friday Night Lights” Because ChatGPT Flagged It
"The short-lived ban ... was part of school officials' attempts to comply with a new state law that requires books available to Iowa students...
London Police Remove Four Audience Members From “Grease” As Everyone Else Cheers
"Footage posted online shows eight police officers and staff from the Dominion Theatre lining the stairway in the balcony as audience members chant 'out,...
In A Rush To Remodel Cairo, Egypt’s Government Is Demolishing Historic Buildings, Cultural Centers,...
"'If you were being invaded, all what you'd care about is your monuments, your trees, your history, your culture,' said Mamdouh Sakr, an architect...
The Need To Fail Better
What if we could learn to habitually reframe failure as a source of discovery and personal development? What if we could face problems and...
A Project To Connect Funders With Chicago Black Dance Companies
“We are such a siloed city. We’re each in our little parts of Chicago trying to get funding, we all have our heads down....
Every Photo We Take Is Aided By AI. So How Much Before Its More...
"The increased attenuation of human creativity from the actual generation of the final work will prompt challenging questions regarding how much human input is...
The Looming (And Existential) Legal Battles Over AI And Copyright
The real struggle might not be between AI and artists, or even governments, but with large copyright holders. What happens when Disney gets tired...
What Simon Rattle’s Departure From The London Symphony Means For UK Music
Rattle retains a lifetime role as the LSO’s Conductor Emeritus; he will be back often. Symbolically, though, his departure is a sad moment: any...
Will AI Disrupt Wikipedia?
Sure, the implementation of A.I. technology will undoubtedly alter how Wikipedia is used and transform the user experience. At the same time, the features...
How Google Is Playing Musicians In Its Deal With Big Music Labels
Google is signaling that it will pay off the music industry with special deals that create brand-new — and potentially devastating! — private intellectual...
Brandeis University Says It Will Shut Down Ph.D Program In Music
The letter praised the faculty and students in the PhD programs for their work with “very limited resources,” but stated the university was “simply...
Claims Mount Against Art Advisor Lisa Schiff
Around 50 more claims have been made, some worth as much as $1 million. Claimants named include Mira Dimotrova, senior director of Stephen Friedman...
What Happens When You Turn Your Own Life Into A Film
Celine Song, writer and director of Past Lives, was trying to leave theatre for film, sick of theatre's politics. Then came a fateful moment...
