Anthony Stewart Head, Star Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer And Ted Lasso, Has Died...
“One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as...
The Story Of Hong Kong’s Popular Music Can Tell The Tale Of The City’s...
Cantopop is "predominantly Hong Kong music that blends Chinese and western pop sensibilities.” - The Guardian (UK)
A New Edith Wharton Story Highlights The Human Inability To Deal With War
“The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table...
Mary Shelley’s Sisters
“Fanny’s few surviving letters testify to her interests in poetry, education, art history, literature, current affairs, social politics, and the wellbeing of her extended...
Two And A Half Centuries On, Someone May Have Figured Out The Mystery Of...
Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in...
The UK’s Heirloom Ceramics Sector Is In Deep Trouble
“The UK ceramics sector employs 20,000 people, half of them in the West Midlands, and is regarded as an indispensable to the economy” - but...
AJ Chronicles: A New Policy to Eliminate Arguments for the Arts
This notion that the ultimate measure of American educational value is economic is an impoverishing one. We measure for success. If that measure is earnings then we optimize for earnings. Social value measured on an earnings scale doesn't just get deprioritized, it doesn't exist.
California And Other States Are Possibly Suing To Block The Warner Bros. And Paramount...
One advocate for the lawsuit: “The consequences would be felt nationwide, from destroying CNN the way that Ellisons have devastated CBS to entertainment industry...
The French Open Finals Courts Get Choreographed Ballet Dances For Some Reason
Choreographed by Benjamin Millepied, no less. “Tennis doesn’t have a strong tradition of opening numbers — and certainly not of dance routines.” - The...
The Movie Cars Ruined Pixar
“Pixar plummeted to the ground with such a force that I began to question my undying devotion to an animation studio. Could my beloved...
A Century On, Martha Graham’s Modern Dance Vision Still Matters Intensely
“Her choreography landed like a bomb in a landscape where vaudeville and ballet ruled the day.” - The New York Times
Why Is There No Tony For Best Wigs?
Weird: “There’s an Oscar and an Emmy. I’ve been nominated for Emmys for TV stuff. Theater is literally the only area in our industry...
What Marjane Satrapi Did For Iranian Women
“Satrapi was a spokesperson for our trauma, our upbringing and our particular flavour of shame, repression and outspokenness. She made us legible to our...
The Kennedy Center’s Lawsuit Against Musician Who Refused To Play Christmas Eve Is Tossed...
“The judge, Tanya M. Jones Bosier, wrote that the Kennedy Center failed to prove that Chuck Redd, a jazz musician and a host of...
The Effort To Save The Kennedy Center From This President Is Far From Over
“Fundamental questions about the institution’s leadership, finances, and artistic direction remain in flux. ‘It’s not clear if there’s any money to stay open with....
Andrew Joslyn talks about the unique impact of relevant programming for orchestras
Andrew Joslyn, Associate Director of Popular Programming at the Seattle Symphony, shares the unique impact of relevant programming in building community.
Meet One Of The American Revolution’s Leading Composers, William Billings
The self-taught composer, who lived in Boston during the revolution years, published six books of music, with over 340 choral works. In addition to...
YouTubers Invade This Summer’s Movie Theatre Screens
Kane Parsons, 20, and Curry Barker, 26, the directors behind Backrooms and Obsession who both built their audiences on YouTube, have become two of the youngest filmmakers to...
Lucinda Childs On How She Keeps Her Working Pace After More Than 50 Years
“I just feel fortunate. I’m still running around and everybody keeps reminding me that I’m 85. I don’t think about that so much. I...
Good AI? Model Proposes Thousands Of Designs, Test Them, Then Adapts
The AI model proposed study designs, and robots carried them out and fed the data back to the model for the next round. Humans...
Lessons From The Enhanced Games
Trying to break world records remains a high-risk, high-reward strategy for Enhanced. The event proved that breaking records is incredibly difficult, even with PEDs...
If You Don’t Use AI It’s Tough To Spot AI
One of the problems with AI use seeping out of business and science writing and into the ‘literary’ world is that literary editors may be the...
London’s West End To Get First-Ever Production With Audience Phone Ban
The show is the Broadway transfer of Bess Wohl’s play Liberation, which won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Drama (and may win a Tony...
Bari Weiss May Have Killed Television’s Most Successful Show Ever
"I don't know Bari Weiss' motivations, but it's hard to imagine that you would create so much turmoil in such a profitable show if...
Criticism In The Age Of AI: It’s Superfluous
The early parts of the story of how the humanities turned against “the human” are well told in two intellectual histories. - Hedgehog Review
