Yearly Archives: 2023
Alex Ross: Misguided Notions Of Culture At Lincoln Center?
"When people make the trip to Broadway and Sixty-fifth, they surely aren’t looking for an awkward transplantation of cultures that exist in more authentic...
Ted Gioia: Here’s How I Would Fix The Recording Business
"For too long, the record industry has treated artists as adversaries. They have tricked musicians with unfair publishing deals, dubious accounting tricks, and many...
Poll: 67 Percent Of Americans Support Actors, Writers In Hollywood Strike
The poll also found that 48% have an unfavorable view of the major studios, and just 31% support the studios. The survey also found...
NYT Might Sue OpenAI Over Use Of Its Stories
If, when someone searches online, they are served a paragraph-long answer from an AI tool that refashions reporting from the Times, the need to visit...
Ruling On AI-Copyright Has Enormous Implications
The essential question: "Maintaining copyright’s focus on human authorship makes sense only if we can redefine human authorship. - Shelly Palmer
Gimmick Or Not, National Cinema Day Returns
Sure, multiplexes and art houses are already crammed with people seeing Barbie and Oppenheimer, but for one day next week, it'll be a cheaper...
Need An Antidote To Hopelessness?
Try these films, music, books, and art. - The Guardian (UK)
Readers Want Comfort Fiction, It Appears
And Colleen Hoover is on the bestseller lists because that's what she provides, in every single book she writes, no matter the genre. -...
Where Have Theatre Audiences Gone?
One expert says theatres have to invest in kids to inculcate a cultural habit "they might enjoy as they get older" - but, she...
The Musicians In Love With Obscure Instruments
Paul Rogers plays "a hybrid of the baroque-period viola da gamba, double bass and Indian sitar, seven rather than four playing strings, as well...
AI Generated Work Is Not Copyrightable, Judge Rules
If there's one thing Hollywood moguls love more than cheap, AI-generated work, it's copyright. - The Hollywood Reporter
Actors With Dwarfism Aren’t Pleased With Hugh Grant’s Oompa Loompa
And those actors also point out that if Hollywood can go digital to make Grant small, Hollywood can use digital tools to make them...
A Teacher Read Her Fifth-Graders A Book About A Fish’s Shadow
And then she was fired. - Washington Post
How Actor Lea Salonga Relaxes Between Performances Of Here Lies Love
Her PlayStation 5 is key, she says - and the K-Pop stars BTS. - The New York Times
Professors Are Using AI To Cheat Academic Journals
That's only if you consider AI cheating, of course - which apparently many scientific journals do not? - Wired
Bradley Cooper Didn’t Need To Mess With His Nose At All
"Sling in the right sort of suit and those who knew what Bernstein looked like would surely think the actor close enough. There...
Is Balzac’s House In Paris Worth A Visit?
Perhaps. "The house is strikingly modest—a low, almost defensive-looking structure, huddled on the hillside like a barnacle." - The Paris Review
Several Men Are Convicted In A Multinational Art Theft Sting Operation
A Chinese Min dynasty vase, valued at more than £2 million, was stolen in Geneva in 2019 by an international art theft ring that...
Get Rid Of Your Physical Books
There's just no need to have the dust-collectors cluttering up your house. - Slate
Studios And Writers Will Continue Talks This Week
Are things changing? Reports say Disney's and Netflix's CEOS pressured the studios for a deal- "an offer that reportedly included ensuring human beings would...
This Dancer Challenged South African Apartheid In Ballet – And Then Fled To England
Johaar Mosaval has died at 95. Mosaval, who had South Asian ancestry, "was prohibited from touching White dancers with his bare hands" - but...
It’s Time To Embrace ‘Bad’ Audience Behavior
After all, they're live. That's what we want - energy. - The Guardian (UK)
Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Authorize Strike
The musicians voted just before the season begins. The union local's president said, "Management has shown that musicians are a cost to be contained,...
With This Tech, Human Can Truly Feel The Music
New haptic suits take individual notes, and turn them into specific spinal, ankle, and other vibrations. Cool??: "Wearing one of them feels a little...
We Don’t Understand Van Gogh’s Cypress Trees
In the 19th century, those trees were like hooded skeletons - harbingers of darkness and death. - Hyperallergic
