Why Many Musicians Don’t Like “Tar”
While nobody expects Tár to be a documentary, it gets so much wrong that either it’s deliberately distorting reality for the sake of the plot or...
Scott Adams – How The Creator Of “Dilbert” Fell So Far So Fast
"For close observers, the story of Adams, 65, has taken a stunning turn — though in a manner that had been foreshadowed in recent...
Building A Canon Of Black Writers Of The Past
This re-engagement with Black authors of the past is being led by a fresh cohort of literary tastemakers: younger authors in search of ancestors;...
Tom Sizemore Was A Drug-Addicted Basket Case — And One Of Hollywood’s Most Compelling...
"He was one of a long line of screen performers whose brilliance was shadowed by shocking offenses that employers were willing to factor into...
Why Are Movie Theatres So Bad At Showing Movies?
Now that multiplexes use automated projection, problems fall to house managers, who, in this age of austerity, may be the same overworked employees ripping...
Can The Famously Reverberant Acoustics Of Notre-Dame Cathedral Be Restored? Should They Be?
Brian Katz, co-chief of the acoustics team for the medieval cathedral's reconstruction, has created a computer model — of which we can hear samples...
Notre-Dame In Paris Sets A Reopening Date
"The reconstruction of Notre-Dame Cathedral is going fast enough to allow its reopening to visitors at the end of 2024, less than six years...
Peak TV? These Days, We’re Headed For Trough TV.
"The boom isn't just ending. It's imploding, with some (shows) being snuffed out or vaporized altogether, and the old winner-take-all logic reasserting itself. Even...
Indie Film Studio A24 Buys An Off-Broadway Theater
"The studio, which until now has focused on making movies, television shows and podcasts, has purchased the Cherry Lane Theater for $10 million, and...
In California, The Creative Economy Is Bouncing Back From COVID Unusually Well
"The latest edition of the Otis College Report on the Creative Economy, an annual study from the Los Angeles arts school, found that the...
Daniel Harding Named Music Director Of Rome’s Leading Orchestra
"The 47-year-old British conductor has a ... new post at the The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia orchestra, starting in the fall of 2024....
Swamped By Demand For Vermeer Tickets, The Rijksmuseum’s Servers Just Give Up
"'Due to huge demand for extra tickets for the Vermeer exhibition, the website is experiencing problems,' the Rijksmuseum announced on Monday. 'Ticket sales have...
Whales In The Gulf Of Thailand Suddenly Started Feeding In A New Way. Researchers...
Flinders University scholars now believe they have identified multiple descriptions of the behaviour in ancient texts, the earliest appearing in the Physiologus – the Naturalist –...
Climate Protestors Hit The Rijksmuseum
In lieu of splattering protected artworks with illicit liquids, XR printed a large banner depicting waist-deep floodwater in Rembrandt’s “The Night Watch” (1642) in...
ChatGPT’s Alternative Facts Of Art History
I have to admit, ChatGPT’s summary of “The Case Against Art History” sounds convincing on first scan. It feels like it summarizes something in...
Cable Companies Are Bleeding Millions Of Customers
The largest pay-TV providers lost a total of 5.8 million net video subscribers in 2022, compared to a loss of 4.7 million in 2021,...
Museums Anxious As Warhol Suit Threatens How Art Is Made
The Warhol foundation has argued that the appeals court decision renders some existing artworks “presumptively unlawful” and “could lead to the removal of seminal...
We Need To Rethink Political Art
Artists are a contentious lot and often downplay or deny that politics has any bearing on art and art making. Other artists fully accept...
Universal Music Posts Record Streaming Revenue, But CEO Calls For New Streaming Model
Even as Universal Music’s chairman and CEO Lucian Grainge lauded the sustained growth of streaming and technology’s ability to connect artists with their fans, he used the company’s...
Impending US Supreme Court Ruling Could Upend The Arts World
Blame the appeals court judgment from 2021 declaring that Andy Warhol had no right to appropriate someone else’s photo of Prince into one of the...
How Museum Architecture Is Changing
The tension between architectural expressionism and restraint is nothing new. Still, there is a kind of reckoning in the field of museum design with...
Just How Does Angela Bassett Do The Thing?
During red carpets for her second Oscar nomination, 29 years after her first, the actor has to remain guarded. "It’s an attempt to remain...
The Great British Bake Off Is Being Turned Into A Musical
"Paul came to see the show and loved it. ... He gave me two handshakes after and is going to bring his mum...
Rafael Vinoly, Architect Of Dramatic Glass Roofs For Cultural Centers, 78
The Uruguayn-born "Viñoly was at once a 24-7 architecture geek and a bon vivant with a penchant for French wines. ... He was also...
A Film Tour Of The UK
Whether you're in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales, or even England, the whole place has basically served as the film set of many a movie....
