Monthly Archives: May 2024
The Bedazzling Bookbinders Of TikTok
"The videos often begin with … a person ripping the covers off a book. They are not vandals, however; they are bookbinders, taking part...
The Underground World Of Collecting Movie Memorabilia
It used to be an underground hobby. People did it, but nobody talked about it—not only because it was embarrassing to admit that you...
In Search Of Two Lost Shakespeare Plays
We'll never know what scripts by the great playwright disappeared forever because they were never printed and their manuscripts didn't survive. Yet there is...
TV Advertising Is Dying
TV commercials have long stood as the cornerstone of modern advertising. This dominance was owed, in part, to TV’s capacity to reach vast and...
When Real Estate Developers Actually Help Dance Companies (Yes, It Can Happen!)
"It's true that developers’ motives are rarely altruistic: Many have found tax and other benefits to pairing up with dance companies. And not all...
Why Hasn’t The Seattle Symphony Chosen A New Music Director?
Krishna Thiagarajan, president and CEO of Seattle Symphony, said the Symphony’s search for Dausgaard’s successor began in earnest between one-and-a-half and two years ago,...
Turkey Arrests Curator At American Museum Of Natural History For Allegedly Smuggling Dead Spiders...
"Lorenzo Prendini, an expert on arachnids at the New York-based museum, was held by police at Istanbul Airport while allegedly trying to take about...
The Art Of Collecting Classical Music Memorabilia
That signed Stravinsky photo will set you back £1,850. For a collection of eight lavishly illustrated Ballets Russes souvenir programmes or a copy of Porgy and Bess signed...
Things Are Still Dire For Hollywood Scriptwriters A Year After The Writers Guild Strike
"The Times checked in with multiple writers of varying experience levels spanning film and TV. … All said that they or their colleagues have...
Vatican Museums Staffers File Class Action Suit Against Vatican
"The complaint, dated April 23 and made public this weekend in Italian newspapers, alleged that staff faced health and security risks due to cost-saving...
Iranian Filmmaker Who Was Sentenced To Prison And Flogging Escapes Iran
"The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after he was sentenced to prison amid pressure over his latest film, The Seed...
Katharina Wagner Renewed For Five More Years Directing Bayreuth Festival
"Wagner, who turns 46 on May 21 and is a great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, became co-head of the festival in September 2008, along with...
Climate-Protesting Vandals Go After The Magna Carta
"(Two octogenarians) entered the British Library in London on Friday morning and 'smashed the glass enclosure that surrounds the Magna Carta.' After this, the...
Rudy Giuliani Loses His New York Radio Show, Probably For Good
John Catsimatidis, the supermarket mogul and perennial New York state Republican candidate who owns news/talk radio station WABC-AM, canceled Giuliani's one-hour weekday radio show...
Melinda French Gates Leaves Bill And Melinda Gates Foundation To Start Her Own Philanthropy
She leaves the foundation, which she started in 2000 with then-husband and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, three years after the pair announced their divorce....
Nonprofit Arts Organizations: Water Is Wet. And Cultural Crossover Doesn’t Work Unless You Center...
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Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale seeks Executive Director
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in the summer of 2024.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra &...
Wilderness, A Concept
Rooted in the thinking of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, John Muir and David Brower, this idea influences people who love wild...
Classical Music has Lost a Generation. Blame the Metadata (in part)
Classical music has lost a generation’s worth of music lovers beginning in the late-90s with the rise of file-sharing and Napster. A significant part of the reason might be: metadata. Metadata are the tags that travel with every audio recorded track. For a piece of music or a recording to be found, it needs to […]
AI Can Now Create Music On Demand. What This Means For Music
"To me this highlights something sometimes missed about musical expression: AI doesn’t need to experience emotions and life events to successfully express them in music that resonates with people." -...
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...