Monthly Archives: May 2024
Needed: A Revolution In Music Metadata
Since the era of Napster, digital music has lacked robust metadata frameworks, leaving compositions vulnerable to misattribution and exploitation. I believe we urgently need comprehensive...
Feeling Uncreative? Put Down Your Phone
"I still don’t believe any important work is done on mobile, I think an excess of this is a very clear signal of a...
AI Determines Renoir And Monet Works Are Almost Certainly Fakes
After downloading a variety of pictures, Carina Popovici discovered that a supposed Monet, titled Forest With a Stream and with a price of $599,000, was almost...
A Crisis Of Leadership And Transparency At San Francisco Symphony
With the institution now in a state of crisis, the administration and the board face a crucial test: They must stabilize the organization, reassure...
Rethinking The Impact Of Impressionism At 150
As widely loved as Impressionism remains today, its overexposure has some rolling their eyes at museums now rushing for the opportunity to spotlight what...
Christie’s Cyberattack And A Jittery Art World
Over the next week, more than 1,700 modern and contemporary artworks are expected to come under the hammer through the three dominant houses –...
50 Years Ago, A Modernist Despaired Of What Had Happened To Utopian Visions
Pretty soon the majority of Americans, and of people in other, industrialized nations, will be living in vast suburban tracts … our old downtown...
Art World Wonders: Where Is The Next Generation Of Art Collectors?
Given a 10 percent decline in the art market — from $30.2 billion in 2022 to $27.2 billion in 2023 — and general concern...
Tony Nominee Sarah Paulson Enjoys Playing Tough – Some Might Say Unlikeable – Characters
"Some actors avoid playing objectionable people, concerned about being pigeonholed into villainhood, or that in the audience’s impressionable minds, their character’s likability might blur...
King Lear Had A Happy Ending For 140 Years
OK, bring back the 18th century: "Cordelia gets a romance. ... She gets her love, Edgar. King Lear gets to rule. The bad people...
Will Glasgow Ever Restore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Burned Out School Of Art?
“People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming...
John Leguizamo Says Rejection Made Him The Actor And Activist He Is Today
"For clearly one of the hardest workers in show business with one of the longest resumes I've ever seen, it's hard to believe that...
The Tate Britain Finally Gets A Louise Jopling
One of the most famous British women artists of the 1800s, "for more than a century, Louise Jopling has been dismissed by the art...
What With The Whole Cyberattack Thing, How’s The Spring Art Market Doing?
The market already wasn’t super hot: “The bidding wars that characterized the pandemic spending frenzy have largely dissipated in favor of prearranged ‘guarantee’ deals...
Judi Dench Talks All Kinds Of Books
Her macular degeneration might keep her from “reading” the old-fashioned way, but she still loves books of every sort. "I love being surrounded by...
Every New Streaming Bundle Is A Reminder Of What We’ve Lost
“If bundles are back, why did we ever give up cable in the first place" - Slate
London’s National Gallery Turns 200
The museum celebrated with a light show projected on its façade, a show that featured hundreds of projections of paintings from its collection. -...
Nerdy, Unscripted Voice Actors Are Going Big By Playing Dungeons And Dragons For The...
The team that started Critical Role years ago would be shocked by their "transmedia kingdom of novels, comic books, animated series and original games,...
Life As A Stunt Double Is Exciting, Weird, And Dangerous
"Mum ran a gymnastics club, so I was a solid acrobat. I’d trained through my teens as a dancer: choreo and movement mimicking came...
Three Chances To Play A God
"If you’re a performer, you have that little spark of magic that makes you watchable, right? When you play a god, it’s like, how...
Where Is Mona Lisa Sitting?
The mystery may have been solved. - The New York Times
Manchester’s Coop Live Is Set To Open, Finally, On Tuesday
The music venue, whose opening has been delayed three times by everything from power supply problems to “part of the ventilation system becoming detached,”...
At The BAFTAs, Some Expected Winners – And Some Surprises
No, Happy Valley’s intense final season didn’t win top drama - but Sarah Lancashire won for her portrayal of tough, vulnerable, smart cop-in-danger Catherine...
Colson Whitehead Withdraws As Commencement Speaker After UMass Admin Call Police On Protesters
On Bluesky, the author wrote, “Calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act. ... I give all my best wishes and congratulations...
The Formerly Missing Star Trek Enterprise Model’s Fate Will Be Decided In Court
“The starship model and its celebrated return is now the subject of a lawsuit alleging fraud, negligence and deceptive trade practice, highlighting the enduring...
