Yearly Archives: 2023
Marjane Satrapi’s “Persepolis” Is Still A Hit After 20 Years, But She Herself Is...
"The problem with comics is … it's not challenging anymore because I know how to do it. My life is about the search, not...
World’s Top Chess Federation Makes Peculiar Ruling About Participation Of Transgender Players
Holders of women’s titles who change their genders to male would see those titles “abolished,” the federation said, while holding out the possibility of...
A Double-Amputee Soldier Has Become A Star Of The Ukrainian Ballet
"Oleksandr Budko, 27, has been touring the US with the United Ukrainian Ballet, dancing before audiences of up to 3,000 people with, and without,...
Why The Dialogue On Streaming TV Is So Hard To Understand
No, you're not the only hearing person who turns on the closed captions in order to make out what's being said. It's a particular...
An Austin Theater Company Joins A Freedom-Of-Expression Lawsuit Against Texas’s New Anti-Drag Law
"(The troupe) is part of a second lawsuit challenging a Texas law that some argue would amount to a ban on public drag performances....
Israel Wants To Lend An 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic Floor To The Museum Of The Bible....
Called The Megiddo Mosaic, the 3rd-century work comes from the oldest surviving Christian place of worship, located near what's believed to be the site...
We Live In A Visual World: So More Classical Concerts Are Going Multimedia
"Organizations have been presenting more concerts that integrate other disciplines, use multimedia elements and special lighting, feature music by living composers, touch on social...
Louisville’s Speed Art Museum Is Getting A New Three-Acre Sculpture Garden
Speed Outdoors, as it will be called, will feature landscaping by Reed Hilderbrand and, in its initial installation in 2025, artworks by (among others)...
Belarus Labels Two 19th-Century Poems By One Of The Nation’s Great Authors As “Extremist...
The two pieces, written during an 1863 rebellion by Belarusians and Poles against the Russian Empire, are by Vincent Dunin-Martsinkevich, whose books are taught...
Just How Well Does AI Score In Creativity Tests?
Recent findings from the University of Montana and partners indicate that artificial intelligence can rival the creative abilities of the top 1% of human participants based...
Why Streaming Subscriptions Are Getting So Expensive
After years of burning through mountains of cash to fill their catalogs with original programming, the big SVOD services are now charging their subscribers more than...
Defining How/What Creativity Is In The Brain (Kinda Hard and Maybe Not What You...
Modeling the creative process as a sequence of operations involving distinct brain networks does not correspond to a popular conception of creativity, which is...
Traditional TV Is Dying At An Accelerating Rate
Traditional TV isn’t just competing with Disney Plus and Max; it's competing with YouTube and TikTok, and other video providers that can rely on...
Unionization Of Museum Workers Spreads – Chicago Art Institue Employees Approve Contract
Under the four-year agreement, the more than five hundred workers, who in January 2022 unionized under the auspices of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal...
In Popular Culture, An Explosion Of Out-And-Proud White Gay Male Villainy (And That’s A...
"As members of two dominant cultures in a world in which everyone's hyperconscious of identity, we have enough clout to be labeled part of...
Composer György Kurtág At 97
"The concentrated brevity of Kurtág's output means that his entire published works could be heard in approximately 10 hours. He has a reputation for...
The Meaning Of America (As In – Why Have We Been Getting So Much...
"The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society...
Ailey’s Most Iconic Work: Why “Revelations” Is So Extraordinary
"In general we get in trouble if we don't do it. I've heard that even Alvin himself at some point asked if we could...
Inside LA’s Lavish TikTok Content Clubhouses (Totally Fun Read)
Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and early twentysomethings live and work together, trying...
Here’s The Longtime Curator Said To Have Stolen And Sold British Museum Treasures
Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before...
Can Graphic Novels Really Teach College-Level Math And Physics?
Two professors who use them explain how the format — visual information via image as well as text, in a form (comics) that very...
The Concert Archive Treasures Of Pasadena’s Ambassador Auditorium, Hidden In Plain Sight
“The challenge has been to transfer it all. I’d say we’ve preserved at least 100 performances. And we’re certainly not done. We are well...
Are Hollywood’s Writers And Actors Right To Be Freaking Out Over Generative AI?
Here, for instance, is Justine Bateman: "I stress that this is an existential threat. And if they can do this with actors, they can...
Meet The Lady Who Provides The Fabulous Gowns For The Leading Pro Ballroom Dancers
Julie Wilson's home-based business in suburban northern Virginia is "considered the ballroom dance industry's leading consignment and consignment-rental dress company. Competitive dancers come here...
Designer And Architect Thierry Despont Is Dead At 75
His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went...
