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, in production, and completed projects. - Collider
"On TV, 2022 has been the year of the American dream — with a catch. For many of the hustlers, entrepreneurs and strugglers onscreen, that aspiration still exists. But ... it can cost you an important part of yourself." - The New York Times
"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 be free to move, talk, or dance as they please throughout the show. ... Potentially startling moments during the full-length show will be removed or modified." - CBS San Francisco
"Iannone depicted female sexuality in a bold graphic style that drew from Japanese woodcuts, Greek vase painting, and visual themes from various Eastern religions." As she told a magazine in 2009, "When my work was not censored outright, it was mildly ridiculed, or described as folkloric, or just ignored." - Artforum
"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 — check. Definitive proof that a Rembrandt 'imitation' is the real deal — check! Catch up on these recovered treasures and more in our year in review." - Artnet
"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 laser instruments, known as LiDAR." - Vice
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 its famously high costs. The original Avatar, released in 2009, is the highest-grossing film in history at $2.97 billion. - Variety
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, sources said. - ARTnews
"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 and the performances that they know already, but they’re not particularly adventurous to go see new plays, new operas or new pieces of music." - Milwaukee Business Journal
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 robots, and Christie’s tried to be cool but just came off as offensive. - Artnet
How does a billion years go missing? The Great Unconformity has long been a geological mystery, in no small part because it is a challenge to reconstruct history when records of history are missing. - Nautilus
History is not a window into the past, but something made by people looking at the past through whatever evidence survives. Rather than hiding this process behind claims to historical accuracy, we wanted historical sources and the historian’s research process to be front and centre. - The Conversation
All of the major cable network operators — A+E Networks, AMC Networks, Disney, NBCUniversal, Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery — have seen annual output of scripted and unscripted content decline when compared with cable’s peak year for output, which is 2014. - Variety
"Today's Tedium talks about Santa Claus as a visual and cultural icon who has had more changes in style than Madonna, a figure that seemingly every single celebrity has dressed up as at some point in their careers. Ho, ho, ho." - Tedium
