Yearly Archives: 2023
How To Capture The Magic Of Tanglewood: WGBH
Broadcasts from Tanglewood particularly bristle with presence — you can hear every detail of the orchestra, and sometimes even the stubborn starlings chirping in...
A New Music Director And New Approach At Dallas’s 102-Year-Old Classical Radio Station
WRR Classical 101, long owned by the city of Dallas, is now run by public radio outlet KERA: there are sponsorship announcements rather than...
Virtual Restitution: Activist Group Takes Scans Of Rosetta Stone And Benin Bronzes And Makes...
A collective called Looty "seeks to give people from former colonies who are unable to travel to the West three-dimensional replicas and knowledge of...
The New Yorker Has Chosen Peter Schjeldahl’s Successor As Art Critic
"Jackson Arn has written several pieces for The New Yorker, including reviews of a Georgia O'Keefe show at MOMA and a van Gogh exhibit...
Cleveland Institute Of Music Clears Conductor Carlos Kalmar Of Sexual Harassment
"(An administrator wrote that) 'the specific allegations against Carlos Kalmar did not violate the Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and Sex Non-Discrimination Policy Under Title...
Former Curator Sues Worcester Museum Of Art In Massachusetts For Discrimination
"Rachel Parikh alleges she was 'mocked and ridiculed because she is a brown-skinned South Asian' Indian woman and 'subjected to a hostile and offensive...
Writers Guild And Studios Finally Resume Negotiations As Strike Continues
"The return to formal negotiations was announced Aug. 10, nearly a week after both sides met in an exploratory meeting about the talks between...
Disney Loses Subscribers, Reports Mixed Earnings
Disney+ reported a total of 146.1 million subscribers for the quarter, a decrease of 11.7 million from 157.8 million in the previous quarter. - The...
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Trends: This summer we're seeing the convergence of long-time declines and failures of business models supporting the arts. This has led to a crisis...
How The Freewheeling Edinburgh Fringe Deals With Cancel Culture
"When you look back at what the fringe has turned out, surely a wee bit of it somewhere can be allowed to upset. It's...
Google And Music Companies In Negotiations On What To Do With DeepFake Music
Google and Universal Music are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence as the music business tries to monetize...
American Universities Have Been On A Massive Spending Spree
The University of Kentucky upgraded its campus to the tune of $805,000 a day for more than a decade. Its freshmen, who come from one...
Could AI Become Conscious? How Would We Know?
What is or might be the evidence in favor of consciousness in a large language model, and what might be the evidence against it? ...
Consider: Taylor Swift, Dancer
As dance, the show is simple and unoriginal — yet exceptionally effective. Swift is a pop superstar who dances but is not known for...
London’s Royal Ballet School To Study Potential Of Strength Training To Reduce Injuries
"Around 90 students at the elite school, which prepares young people for careers with leading dance companies, will complete a series of strength tests...
When John Huston Left The United States In Disgust
While the filmmaker and actor was by no means a leftist, he was outraged by Senator Joseph McCarthy and his House Un-American Activities Committee...
When Pro Hockey, Romance Novels, And BookTok Collide
"The niche world of hockey romance novels is getting mainstream attention after the wife of an N.H.L. player criticized book fans who she said...
China Has Severely Restricted Screen Time For Children. Is It Working?
Many parents, both in and outside China, have celebrated Beijing’s past parental controls as the right approach for a government to take. But will all those people be...
Brice Marden, 84
Marden’s style may have made him different from many of his colleagues with more explicitly conceptual ambitions, but he continued to find admirers because...
Hollywood’s Self-Sabotage
To survey the film and television industry today is to witness multiple existential crises. Many of them point to a larger trend: of Hollywood...
Bringing The Song Recital Into The 21st Century
"This highly specific medium morphs every which way, with new outspoken repertoire, an influx of vocal talent from the early-music community and liberated performance...
Why Save The Current Form Of American Theatre? We Need A New Model
For theater, as we know it, to have any future at all, a new economic model must take its place, founded on a simple...
Australia Faces A Severe Shortage Of Piano Tuners
"Brent Ottley ... says it became obvious two decades ago that Australia had begun 'running out' of piano tuners. He estimates there are just...
Germany’s Culture Pass For 18-Year-Olds Generated $3.5 Million In Arts Spending In Two Months
"Germany has seen more than €3.2 million in revenue (US$3.5 million) generated for cultural products, events, and services thanks to the rollout of that...
Lebanon And Kuwait Move To Ban “Barbie” For “Promoting Homosexuality”
The Lebanese culture minister said, "The film goes against moral and religious values in Lebanon, as it encourages perversity and gender transformation while calling...
