Yearly Archives: 2023
The School Where Choreographers Learn To Dance With Spreadsheets
The whole idea is "that choreographers use their considerable creative powers to help imagine structures better suited to their needs." - The New York...
The Pulitzer May Go International
Time to end the citizenship requirement? Said one writer, "I think you could almost make the inverse argument — that to really understand America,...
Social Media Warps Our Worlds
And it's not exactly planned, but now not exactly accidental; there' a science to it. - Fast Company
Writers Love Instagram, But It Is Frankly A Weird Venue For Them
It's got its appeal. Amit Chaudhuri: "The publication of a book is a strange occasion for the author – a mix of disengagement and...
Can This Violent, Funny, Queer Comedy Break Through Summer’s Doldrums?
Possibly, Bottoms - being released in a post-Barbie world - can win through where Joy Ride (equally raunchy, but not violent) and No Hard...
The Deep Thrill Of Watching A Film That Is Streaming Exactly Nowhere
"We often let ourselves believe that everything, now, is available to us — that nothing is lost and every experience can be accessed and repeated."...
Why Would Writers Destroy Their Own Work?
Ask Sylvia Plath - or French writer Barbara Molinard, who ripped her finished stories into shreds and fed them to the fire before rewriting...
When You’re At A Music Festival, You Often Need A Cell Signal
And yet, none is to be found. Why? - The Guardian (UK)
Georgia Ranks Near The Bottom In Arts Funding. Does It Need An Arts Advocacy...
Despite these advances from some funders, area arts leaders have to deal year in and year out with the lack of government arts funding...
The Trends Are Clear: Listening-On-Demand Is The Future
“Podcasting has attuned hundreds of millions of listeners worldwide to the habit of choosing the right audio content at the right time and hitting...
After Promising To Crack Down On Misinformation, Social Media Platforms Retreat
Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against political misinformation, abandoning their most aggressive efforts to police online falsehoods in a...
Why Helsinki’s Architecture Is Unlike That Of Most Major Cities
"Some of it is – and more will be – sited below ground. There is no single clear reason for this, though factors include...
Streaming Is Cheaper Than Buying, Certainly. But Something Essential Is Lost In The Experience
"Collecting is an act of love; even though it risks fetish-like attachments to the objects in question, its essence is found not in the...
How Music Works On Altering Your Mood
"I start with music that matches the patient’s frame of mind and slowly shift to more soothing themes. I find that their mood and...
Can AI Write Compelling Reviews? Here’s The Thing…
“I don’t see how AI can recreate the experience of reading a book, which is what the best critics do.” - Wired
Why Aren’t Our Best Composers Writing For Amateur Musicians?
Why is there a gap between today’s composers and the repertoires of most of the musical ensembles in the country – which are not...
Evolving Shakespeare For Our Time
“If you are going to hail a writer from 400 years ago as the greatest writer of all time, then you need to look...
The Jokes In Proust (Oh Yes, They’re There)
"Proust's humor often has to do with misreadings or over-interpretations, and his question is usually not what happens but to whom and when." Scholar...
What Ails Us: The Freedom Of Having Limits
The basic error of liberalism, according to the post-liberals, is its conflation of freedom with the absence of limitation or constraint. - The Point
The Druids — What Do We Really Know About Them?
The problem is that their society in ancient Gaul and Britain didn't read or write, so the only contemporary descriptions we have today come...
British Museum Director Steps Down In Wake Of Thefts Scandal
This week, Ittai Gradel, a Dutch antiquities dealer, said he had told the British Museum about the thefts two years ago and claimed that...
Why Aren’t There Movies For A Family To Go See In A Theater Anymore?
Alexis Soloski: "Family films have been undergoing a shift that predates both 2020 and Marvel dominance. The G rating, a stalwart of the films...
Let’s Decode The Cultural Moment Around “Rich Men North Of Richmond”
Lyrics celebrating the working man and woman have a long history in American music, from artists including Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Bill Withers and...
Did The Choreographer Who Smeared Dog Poop On A Critic’s Face Get His Old...
Marco Goecke, who was director of the ballet at the Hannover State Opera in Germany before the February incident, was invited to lead rehearsals...
TikTok Stars Try Their Hands At Live Standup Comedy At The Edinburgh Fringe
"This is 'one great big Edinburgh experiment', says Coco Sarel, possibly as a caveat in case things go wrong. Sarel (900,000 followers) is one...
