“My” Dancers?
I started bristling at the commonplace phrase: “my dancers.” And I find it increasingly problematic, especially in light of our woefully overdue national reckoning...
Yiddish Theatre In New York Is Alive And Well
"At one point in time, New York was home to more than 50 Yiddish theatres. … Today, reflecting both the relative decline and the...
Arts Patronage Has Always Been Messy
What then makes a great patron? Bags of cash, obviously, but what else? The best patrons — the ones you can count on to...
A Recap Of The Prize-Winning Novels Of 2022
"Awards ceremonies are back, baby. For the first time since 2019, your favorite writers got to dress up and attend a fancy party or...
Odesans Have Pulled Down The Statue Of Catherine The Great
No matter that she founded the city of Odesa. She was a Russian empress, one who conquered large parts of modern Ukraine — and...
Here Are Some Of The Goodies Going Into The Public Domain In 2023
Among the intellectual property copyrighted in 1927 and available for you to have your way with as of Sunday are the last Sherlock Holmes...
Why Do The Principal Players In An Orchestra Get Paid So Much More When...
"At the top levels, where base salary is over $100,000, it takes years of training and experience and an intense audition process to get...
Statues Of Greek Gods From 2,000 Years Ago Unearthed In Central Turkey
"Stone heads of Eros, Dionysus, Herakles, and others were uncovered, as well as a full statue of an unidentified hero of Azanoi, of which...
The Ten Highest-Priced Artworks Of 2022
Collectively, two Warhols cost more than a van Gogh and a Cézanne, and the total price of the entire list is over $1 billion....
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,...
