Arata Isozaki, Pritzker Prize-Winning Architect, Is Dead At 91
"His prolific career spanned more than six decades, with over 100 completed buildings erected. ... The bold, helical Art Tower Mito in Japan, the...
Creative AI May Just Be The Next In A Long Line Of Tools
GPT may be not so much a revolutionary leap forward as another step down a long, well-trodden path. Insofar as it is used for...
Anonymity As Fuel For Renegade Scholarship?
The equation of anonymity on the internet with deviance, mischief and hate has become a central plank in the global war on “misinformation”. But...
Generative AI Will Force Us To Rethink Human Creativity
If a computer system has no intelligence, creativity, or understanding but can mimic these qualities, when does it become a distinction without a difference?...
We Read Them Of Course. But What Actually Makes A Book?
The word “information” predates Gutenberg. But once printing took off and books proliferated, new kinds of books had to be invented to track, organize...
Data: Diversity in The Museum, Gallery And Auction Worlds
For the 2022 edition, we examined representation in U.S. museums and the art market for work by Black American artists, female-identifying artists, and Black...
The Future Of Movie Special Effects
The Avatar sequel comes at a time of great debate in the VFX world about the working environment and treatment of VFX artists in...
“Immersive Experiences,” Handel’s “Messiah,” And The Quest To Make Classical Music “Relevant”
Despite a highly misleading headline, Ivan Hewitt uses a West End show called "Handel's Messiah: The Live Experience" to consider the various things that...
“Nutcracker” As Vehicle For Dance Injuries
Accidents in "The Nutcracker" are so common there are injuries named after the ballet. A nutcracker fracture is a foot fracture of the cuboid bone. -...
“Die Hard” As A Low-Budget, One-Man Stage Play (It Works!)
In Yippee Ki Yay, running through this week in London and then touring Britain, poet/playwright Richard Marsh uses just a few props and 75...
2022’s Movie Box Office Could Hit $9 Billion — A Healthy Rebound
On the high end, it’s a 22% jump from what Comscore is expecting 2022 to final at, that being $7.4B. This year’s domestic box...
The Pandemic Had A Surprising (In A Good Way) Effect On The Arts n...
"The triggering effect of the pandemic, and its impact on artists' livelihoods and careers, resulted in what had been previously been unimaginable: an almost...
What The Invention Of Photography Has To Teach Us About The Advent Of AI...
In addition to the effects on what to see, cameras brought a new awareness to the nuances of how to see. - Wired
Telling And Retelling The Stories of The India-Pakistan Partition
"This past year has marked seventy-five years of Partition, a process of fracturing that continues in the imagination and in memory. Each generation has...
How Mass Cancellations Will Re-order The Streaming Landscape In 2023
The story of the year was undoubtedly HBO Max; Warner Brothers Discovery CEO David Zaslav made radical changes to the streaming structure and axed many in development, renewed,...
This Year’s Television Focused On The Price Of The American Dream
"On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen,...
Pointe Magazine’s Favorite Ballet Performances of 2022
"Here are 12 standout onstage moments from 2022, in chronological order, from large ensemble works to surprise star turns." - Pointe Magazine
In San Francisco, A First-Ever Sensory-Friendly “Nutcracker” For Kids
"The idea is for the show to be a relaxed, shush-free, shame-free environment. ... House lights will be kept on (and) guests will also...
Dorothy Iannone, Whose Erotic Artworks Drove Censors Nuts, Is Dead At 89
"Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions."...
The Biggest Art-History Discoveries Of 2022
"A long-lost Renaissance painting languishing in a nursing home — check. A 200-year-old marble statue by an Italian master forgotten in a garden —...
Remains Of A Huge, 2,000-Year-Old Mayan Kingdom Discovered In Guatemala
"This long-lost urban web encompassed nearly 1,000 settlements across 650 square miles, linked by an immense causeway system, which was mapped out with airborne...
“Avatar: The Way of Water” Has Grossed $1 Billion In Less Than Two Weeks
Believe it or not, the movie still hasn't made a profit: it will need to gross between $1.5 billion and $2 billion to recoup...
Turbulence At Fractional Ownership Art Fund
Throughout 2022, and at times before, the company has weathered conflicting business strategies, rifts between management and key teams and non-existent human resources practices,...
Milwaukee Symphony Had A Good Fall, But Some Unusual Audience Patterns
"What we’re seeing throughout the entire performing arts sector at least in Milwaukee is people are coming out for the traditions and the pieces...
The 2022 Visual Art World’s Biggest Controversies
2022 was a year chock-full of controversies in our industry as museum masterpieces were covered in mashed potatoes, artists fretted about being replaced by...
