Monthly Archives: May 2024
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...
Quick Study: Jobs and Training Needs for Arts-Degree Holders
In this episode, we review findings from a study of postsecondary degree-holders in the arts, with a focus on career outcomes, including satisfaction with...
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 SikkemaÂ
"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...
The Woman Who Finally Got France To Take #MeToo Seriously
While there have been brief bursts of attention to the issue before, France had been notably resistant to the movement. In 2018, Catherine Deneuve...
Five Ways Matthew Barney Has Changed The Art World
Number Five: Macho Androgyny. "Fond of elaborate costumes that question traditional gender roles (flamboyant Freemason, tap-dancing satyr), Barney has worn skirts and dresses in...
Buyouts Weren’t Enough: Bay Area Public Radio Outlet KQED Will Have Layoffs
"In April, KQED instituted a voluntary buyout program. CEO Michael Islip said a small amount of buyout packages were accepted, but not enough to...
Natural History Curator Cleared Of Spider- and Scorpion-Smuggling In Turkey
Lorenzo Prendini of the American Museum of Natural History in New York had been detained at Istanbul's airport with 15,000 samples of (dead) endemic...
The Questions Posed By PEN America’s Meltdown Over Gaza
"What does it mean to defend writers amid a polarizing war? When should a group that promotes free expression for all take sides? And...
Barbara Hannigan Takes Her First Chief Conductor Job
The Canadian-born soprano/conductor will begin, as of August 2026, a three-year term as chief conductor and artistic director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. She...
NYC Building Film Production To Rival Hollywood
The aggressive studio expansions signal New York’s continued determination to double down on the film business and compete with its main rival, Los Angeles,...
Steve Martin Writes About Being Friends With Peter Schjeldahl
Peter’s goal, per him, was to have one idea, at least, per sentence. His best mentoring, he said, came from journalists, which makes sense....
Are You A Music Or Lyrics Person?
Do you consider yourself more of a music person or a lyrics person, and why? - Dirt
YouTube Is Now The Second-Most Popular TV Network
Once a repository of amateur videos, the service owned by Alphabet’s Google has grown into a streaming behemoth with full-length films, highly produced series, sports highlights...