How Do You Follow Up A Smash Hit First Novel?
You throw your second one in the (metaphorical) trash can, of course. - The Guardian (UK)
Joyce DiDonato Takes On A Big Role
That is, battling climate change. "If the result is more mystical than activist, DiDonato’s aim remains, as her liner notes say, a prompt for...
How To Help Netflix Fix Itself
The first big streaming network has been coasting - and it can no longer afford to coast. - The Verge
BookTok Is Driving A Rise In Book Purchasing At Stores And Shops Across The...
Sales rose 5% in the UK, for instance. BookTokkers, aka TikTok users, are "replicating the time-honoured sales method that bookshop staff have often...
Libraries Embrace Their Status As Public Square
And that includes using - and celebrating - the space around the library. They're people places (even if the use of library apps has...
The Movie Saving Indie Movie Theatres Right Now
Arthouses are in trouble (see the previous article). But Everything Everywhere All at Once is proving surprisingly robust - and what makes it "a...
Can Indie Movie Houses Survive The Pandemic?
It's not easy because older audiences just aren't coming back. Yet operators are starting to be a bit more optimistic. "The opportunity to see...
COVID Postpones Tony Awards Nominations
But - so far! - not the awards themselves. - The New York Times
A Russian-less Venice Biennale Is Different
While the cool contemporary art crowd strolled among the exhibits, Ukraine was being pummeled by missiles, and there was hardly a Russian in sight....
The Humanities’ Credibility Crisis
That problem takes two forms: first, the lack of public trust in humanities scholars’ processes of inquiry and expert conclusions. Simply put, the public...
Classical Music’s Dance Between Entrepreneur And Institution
The composer, who has accrued reputational capital on the open market, exchanges some of it for an ever-dwindling share of institutional security. The institution...
The First Philosopher Of AI
Virtually all modern computers are modelled on Alan Turing’s idea. However, he originally conceived these machines merely because he saw that a human engaged...
Who Gets Credit For Choreography?
The accepted definition of “choreographer” is the person who composes the physical steps—not necessarily completely on their own, but the majority of the movement...
Actors Union Warns That AI Is Replacing Live Performers
"From automated audiobooks to digital avatars, AI systems are now replacing skilled professional performers" the union says. It warns of "dystopian" consequences unless copyright...
Marmont, Hammer, Grauman, Getty, Norton Simon … So Who Are All These People That...
Okay, you may well know about J. Paul Getty, and if you're an ArtsJournal regular you probably recognize Eli Broad. Writer Patt Morrison introduces...
The Machine Invented To Digitize 100-Year-Old Wax Cylinder Recordings
Sound restoration engineer Nicholas Bergh spent two decades designing the revolutionary new machine, known as the Endpoint Audio Labs cylinder playback machine. - Atlas Obscura
When They Dug Up The Cobblestone Streets, They Found Beautifully Preserved Roman Mosaics
"A group of ancient Roman mosaics dating from the second century CE were hidden under the city streets of Stari Grad, on the idyllic...
NY Singers Remember A Beloved NY Vocal Coach, Killed Last Month
She had a gift for unusual metaphors that made her teachings stick. In the bedroom of her 17th-floor apartment in the Chelsea neighborhood of...
“A Political Switzerland”: Is The New York Times Book Review’s “Books As News” Approach...
With Bookstagrammers and BookTokers nearly equal in influence, and with its carefully maintained approach of relative objectivity, "the Book Review may have the luxury...
Latest Museum Worker Union Drive: The Seattle Art Museum
Because the museum refused to voluntarily recognize UPAT Local 116, the SAM Visitor Service Officers have decided to go independent — this time including...
Artist William Kentridge Has Directed Many Other People’s Operas. Now He’s Doing One Of...
Premiered by the Rome Opera in 2019 and soon to open at the Barbican in London, Waiting for the Sibyl is a 40-minute chamber...
Removal Of Political Art From Hong Kong’s New M+ Fuels Worries About Censorship
Reports of the removal of the works fueled speculation that M+, a multibillion-dollar project billed as a cultural bridge between China and the West,...
Egyptian Woman Gets Three Years In Prison For Tiktok Dance Videos
"Haneen Hossam, a social media influencer, was arrested in 2020. ... Prosecutors had accused her of promoting human trafficking by allegedly exploiting minor girls...
“It Was A Real Face-Plant” — CNN+ Was Doomed
"CNN+ was reportedly drawing only 10,000 active users. Blog posts do better numbers than that. This one probably will. ... People were calling it...
“A Disconcerting Level Of Disconnection” As College Students Return To Campus In Person
"More than 100 (professors) wrote in, using words like 'defeated,' 'exhausted,' and 'overwhelmed.' ... Far fewer students show up to class. Those who do...
