Monthly Archives: May 2024
Inside Pacific Symphony’s Music Director Search
It’s been a golden period for top-shelf conductors seeking a new gig – and a more competitive time for orchestras looking to hire one....
Britain’s Leading Literature Festival Drops Its Principal Sponsor After Withdrawals And Boycott Threats
The British investment firm Baillie Gifford became lead sponsor of the Hay Festival in 2015, but this year a number of the marquee participants...
With Its Director Problem Dealt With, What’s Coming For Nashville’s Arts Agency For 2025?
"Freshly under interim leadership, the Metro Arts Commission would receive $5.5 million, … on par with last year's budget. … The release of these...
Embattled Director Of Nashville’s Arts Funder Pushed To Resign (With $200K Payout)
Daniel Singh, who, over two years as director of the agency Metro Arts, alienated many staff members and presided over an extremely messy round...
Pittsburgh Symphony Provides $125 Million In Economic Impact To Its Region
"For every dollar the symphony spends, it generates about $4 in the local economy, leading to a total of $125 million in regional impact...
Hackers Who Paralyzed Christie’s Threaten To Leak Clients’ Confidential Info
"Brett Callow, a threat analyst at Esmisoft, a cybersecurity firm based in New Zealand, posted on X an image of a post from (the...
Caleb Carr, Military Historian And Author Of “The Alienist,” Has Died At 65
"The scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr, (he) endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and...
Surprise Palme d’Or Winner At 2024 Cannes Film Festival
The top prize went to Sean Baker's "sex worker screwball comedy" Anora; the Grand Prix went to Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light,...
Hollywood’s New Era Of Translation And Subtitles
Across many films and series about Asians and Asian Americans, language is increasingly used as a world-building tool. - The New York Times
Have We Lost The Context Of Our Arguments?
The crowd addicted to slander and the crowd addicted to censorship are displaying at high visibility the symptoms of what psychologists call disinhibition. When...
Van Gogh’s Addiction To Coffee: What He Told His Doctor
“Rey says that instead of eating enough and regularly I have been particularly sustaining myself with coffee and alcohol. I admit all that, but...
As Social Media Breaks, News Orgs Experiment With Analog Outreach
To reach affected audiences, the Tribune printed 500 flyers and 1,000 postcards in English and Spanish. Journalists knocked on doors in the neighborhoods where...
Australia’s Richest Art Prize Put On Hiatus
The prize was established in 1988, initially as a biannual event, and was then awarded every year from 2007, other than in 2020 due to Covid...
Remarkable: How AMC Movie Theatres Have Survived Despite Massive Debt
“We’re still here,” Adam Aron says of Kansas-based AMC, which operates 895 theaters globally. “When you think about what we’ve been through the past...
France’s Post Office Has Issued Scratch-‘n’-Sniff Stamps. They Smell Like Baguettes.
The bread scent comes from microcapsules embedded in the ink. The major challenge was to get the ink onto the stamps without breaking those...
The Algorithmic Radicalization Of Culture SuperFans
Social platforms can have a radicalizing effect on fandoms. When we study algorithmic radicalization, we tend to do so in the context of politics,...
“Stereophonic” Was Going To Be David Adjmi’s Final Play, And It Made Him Crazy....
"During the audition process, as characters recited certain lines over and over, Adjmi realized the play had become autobiographical. At one point, he felt...
Study: Audiences Rate Male Dancers’ “Coalition Quality” Higher
Researchers found that groups of male dancers were perceived as having higher coalition quality compared to groups of female dancers, regardless of the synchronization...
What The LiveNation/TicketMaster Lawsuit Might Mean
Live Nation is essentially a monopoly, the government argues. Its complaint notes the concert giant directly manages more than 400 musical artists, controls around...
For A Century, Egyptology Was Dominated By Europeans And Americans. Can The $1 Billion...
When it fully opens later this year, 1¼ miles north of the Pyramids, the GEM will be, at over 5 million square feet, the...
Fresh From Firing Storytellers At Pixar, Disney CEO Bob Iger Tells Artists To “Embrace...
“Don’t fixate on its ability to be disruptive — fixate on ability to make us better and tell better stories. Not only better...
García Márquez Didn’t Think “One Hundred Years Of Solitude” Could Be Adapted. Will Netflix...
Netflix’s VP of Latin American content. asked if the miniseries will work out like those multi-generation-family hits Game of Thrones and The Crown, replied,...
Accessing Jaap van Zweden’s Tenure At The New York Philharmonic
The ensemble’s playing, across all instrumental choirs, sounds richer and more flexible than it did before his tenure. So what Mr. Dudamel stands to...
Morgan Spurlock, Who Made Documentaries “Super Size Me” And “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,”...
After Super Size Me, in which he ate only at McDonald's for a month (and suffered for it), Spurlock was for a time as...
Law Enforcement Is Now Investigating Attempt To Foreclose On And Auction Off Graceland, Elvis...
Once Presley's granddaughter, actress Riley Keough, filed suit and provided evidence that the organization attempting to foreclose doesn't actually exist, the apparently fraudulent attempt...
