Yearly Archives: 2023
Looking For ‘The Next Adele,’ England Puts A Performing Arts School Up North
In nearly direct opposition to the UK's recent lack of support for the arts, "the school will offer 500 places and will be free...
Man Who Helped Create Fake Basquiats Avoids Prison Time
Michael Barzman, after first lying to the FBI, "eventually admitted involved working with an associate to create between 20 and 30 fake pieces that...
The CD Is Back, Baby
Gen-Z-ers aren't, like, listening to CDs though. "Carniol, like other young collectors, considers the CD to be more akin to merchandise than a functional...
The UK’s ‘Best Music Venue In The World’ Used To Be A Secret
Performing in a former cloth trading hall in West Yorkshire, one musician said, was "like performing in an Italian piazza." - BBC
Superstar Gallery LGDR Implodes, Two Years In
One gallerist admitted she doesn't work well by committee; the others are forming something called the "Art Family Office." - The New York Times
What Makes AI Run?
Theft. "Pirated books are being used as inputs for computer programs that are changing how we read, learn, and communicate. The future promised by...
There Are No ‘Bad Accents’ In Movies
Just witness, if you will, the unbelievably broad "Texas" accent of Uma Thurman in Red, White & Royal Blue. - The New York Times
Jane Austen’s Dances Of Seduction
In an Austen novel, when the main characters and their love interests dance, they "move to a subtle sensuality that pulses below the surface,...
As Warner Bros Releases Its First Big Latino-Led DC Film, Latinx Actors Picket
In Blue Beetle, the main character "takes a job at a wealthy CEO’s mansion to help his family. ... The working-class themes of the...
No More Selfies At Chicago’s Bean Until 2024
What will the Windy City's next Instagram hot spot become during maintenance on Cloud Gate's surrounding plaza?- Hyperallergic
Ron Cephas Jones, Emmy Winner For This Is Us, Has Died At 66
Jones might have gotten more fame on TV, but he "began his career at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and his love for the stage...
Netflix Offers DVD Subscribers Ten Extra Discs As Service Ends
But there's a catch: The company wants them all back. One DVD watcher wonders why. "Because after all, what are they gonna do with...
The French General Overseeing Notre Dame’s Reconstruction Has Died At 74
Will this slow the massive project? Macron doesn't think so. The French president "lamented that 'Gen. Georgelin will never see the reopening of Notre...
The Leonard Bernstein Biopic’s Nose Controversy
Bernstein's "family released a statement in response to the criticism, saying that they worked closely with Cooper throughout the film's development and were unbothered by...
What Defines Gen-Xers? Music? Movies? Books? What?
The aristocratic regime of my generation, who would not sell out until “selling out” was gutted of any meaning, has collapsed, yet it is...
Lorne Michaels, Cultural Phenomenon
The promise of SNL under Michaels’ leadership is simple: If you are loyal to the family, you will reap handsome rewards. Over almost 50 years, that...
Too Much: The “-Ification” Of Everything
The suffix “-ification” (also “-ization”), usually attached to words that end in “-ify,” describes change, the process of something becoming different from what it...
Blowing Up Cultural Icons – Why Is Our Pop Culture So Obsessed With This...
"It has struck me lately that the recurrent frenzy of destruction of prized objects in popular culture may tell us less about our current...
Try It Out: The National Mall Is Filled With Monuments. Now Six New Temporary...
The curators Paul Farber and Salamishah Tillet have asked six artists — three women and three men; three of them Black, one Asian, one...
The Long Quest To Decipher The Rapa Nui Glyphs Of Easter Island
"What makes rongorongo so difficult is that ... no one is quite sure whether it is a form of proto-writing or a fully fledged...
Study On Creativity: A Creative Dance Between Our Brain Networks
The key finding was that, for the eminent creators, there was a higher connectivity, both within each hemisphere, the right and left, but particularly...
“TikTok In A Parallel Dimension”: Europe Is About To Let Users Turn Off The...
"The change opens the door to a strange social experiment. … 'So much of the experience of TikTok is that weird sense that you're...
Closed Landmark LA Theatre Unsettles Hollywood
The ArcLight has become a Los Angeles mystery, the subject of speculation that befits a movie theater that was always more than just another...
There Goes Another: Public Theater Of San Antonio “Pauses” Its 2023-24 Season
As with so many other US regional theaters, a post-pandemic cash crunch to put on hold all five of its scheduled productions for the...
Tod Machover On How AI Will Change Music
“I think the other time when things moved really quickly was 1984,” he says—the year when the personal computer came out. Yet he sees...
