Monthly Archives: May 2024
We Have Now Reached Peak Theater, And It’s All Downhill From Here
"Spring 2024 saw a frenzy of new shows opening in the face of two formidable obstacles: costs that have nearly doubled over a decade...
The Dancer As Athlete
A 2016 retrospective study that tracked injuries in a professional ballet dance company over a 10-year period found that most dancers experience a new injury every...
Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Seattle Invasion
“In the past, there seemed to be more movement from L.A. and the Bay Area to OSF, especially in terms of artists, so it’s...
We Should All Just Relax About Apostrophes, Says John McWhorter
Here's his argument. He's wrong, of course. - The New York Times
The Paris 2024 Cultural Olympiad: An Explainer
Here's an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will...
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wayfarers’ Chapel In California Will Be Dismantled
The glass-clad church, perched on an oceanside bluff in Los Angeles County, has suffered severe structural damage as the ground underneath it shifted due...
There’s Another Problem With That New York State Tax Credit For Producing Broadway Shows
To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen's An...
After Industry-Wide Criticism, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Un-Cancels Jerusalem Quartet Concert
While it's too late to restore the first of the string quartet's scheduled performances there, the second, for Saturday night, was reinstated with additional...
After A Yearlong Standoff, Philadelphia Museum Of Art And Its Staffers Resolve Their Pay...
These raises were part of the museum's first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn't settled: there's a...
NPR Adds An New, Extra Layer Of Editing, And Journalists There Are, Um, Concerned
Many of the network's reporters believe that this extra layer, called the "Backstop," was put in place only because of right-wing pressure over allegations...
King Charles’ Official Portrait: Really Really Red
His entire body is bathed in a sea of crimson, so his face appears to be floating.
India Blacklists Critics Abroad, Including Citizens
A brochure issued in July 2021 on the OCI website says that if the status is cancelled for any of the reasons stated, the...
How YouTube Became Most-Watched
YouTube is consistently the most watched streaming service in the U.S. on a TV in the U.S. every month, even beating Netflix and Amazon’s...
How Alice Munro Reinvigorated The Short Story
What Munro did was not so much write about women as write from inside them. When her characters don’t understand exactly what they’re feeling, she expresses it in...
The Art Of Constant Sharing (And Being In The Moment)
Claire Bishop argues that our smartphone-induced state of distraction can also be generative. The art work, she writes, “is less self-important, less total;...
Australia’s Richest Person Demands That National Gallery Take Down Her Portrait
Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate with a knack for attracting controversy and a lack of awareness of the Streisand Effect, is unhappy with her...
How Alice Munro Was Deeply Tied To Her Southwestern Ontario Roots
So strong are the associations between Munro and her origins in southwestern Ontario that for some, the area around Huron County came to be...
New York State’s Tax Credit For Broadway Shows Is Taking Too Damn Long To...
"(The $3 million per production credit) has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling theatre industry, ... (yet) funds often do not arrive...
How Game Theory Is Improving The Accuracy Of AI
The new work, which uses games to improve AI, stands in contrast to past approaches, which measured an AI program’s success via its mastery...
Even With Big Stars, Some Indie Movies Are Having Trouble Getting U.S. Distribution
"Projects that would previously have flown off the shelves domestically just don’t have the same immediate pulling power. And according to one source, it’s...
“Mockingbird” Sets New Touring Record
For the one-week, eight performance engagement at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA (May 7-12, 2024), the play grossed $2,286,768.75, setting a record for...
With These Prefab Kits, You Can Build Yourself A Frank Lloyd Wright House (A...
Two architects, both graduates of Wright's School of Architecture at Taliesin West in Arizona, have designed nine kit houses based closely on Wright's designs,...
Inside The Brutal Murder Of NYC Gallery Star Brent Sikkema
"Within hours, Brent became the focus of a high-profile police investigation, reverberating across a horrified international art world that revered him. The murder weapon,...
Extensive Study Locates Characteristics That All Songs Worldwide Seem To Share
"Across cultures, (an international team of 75) researchers found, songs share certain features not found in speech, suggesting that Darwin might have been right:...
Is The Australian Ballet Fighting Back Against Body-Shaming? Or Just Being Pissy About A...
Artistic director David Hallberg and others are indignantly rebuking The Sydney Morning Herald, saying that "critique of dancers' bodies" is "not acceptable." The sentence...
