“I thought, Well, I wonder if you can build a business based exclusively on what you want to read,” he says, understatedly. “That led me to understand, I think correctly, that best sellers were overvalued and works that endured forever were undervalued.” - The New York Times
“I think it is niche television now because you don't have to get the rating that you got when there were only three networks … and 30 great comedy writers. You had to do shows that appealed to a massive audience. Now, there are 300 networks and 30 great comedy writers. …” - KCRW
In one, painted by the male elite, Rome under the emperor becomes a nightmare vision of a world turned topsy-turvy. In the other, articulated by the tombstones of cooks and tasters and wet-nurses, imperial structures provided opportunities for new hierarchies, and new avenues to distinction, to develop. - Washington Post
Guided by connectomic and other data to optimize thousands or even billions of parameters, machine-learning models could be trained to produce neural-network behaviour that is consistent with the behaviour of real neural networks — measured using cellular-resolution functional recordings. - Nature
As a diva, Streisand has consistently defied instructions not to do something by doubling up her efforts. For example, at the start of her career when she was auditioning for record labels, one of the executives said she had a nice voice but was “too ethnic”. - The Conversation
He brought classical music into the lives of tens of thousands of young people and was credited with diversifying the ranks of symphony orchestras across the United States. - Washington Post
Today Black folk performers have reached a critical mass and level of exposure not seen since the early decades of the 20th century, when Black bands like Cannon’s Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band were among the most commercially popular in the country. - The New York Times
People in cinematherapy "engage with carefully selected films that resonate with their personal experiences. They connect with characters and storylines, extract meaning, and reflect on how the narratives relate." - Wired
But "what should the arts be doing? They can break the national narratives around addiction," first off. Not everyone goes to AA. And not everyone relapses. - Salon
At Santa Monica College, "the campus police chief told if protesters breached backstage during a performance, they could grab fire extinguishers to defend themselves." - Los Angeles Times
"We've had a lot of excited conversations after the play with members of the audience who are responding very energetically to the questions that the play brings up." - LAist
Making ballet accessible to those with low vision or those who are blind isn't simple. It's so much more than just the movement - but it's that too. - The New York Times
There's a reason Finnegan's Wake often has reading "gropes" instead. "Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as 'more a performance art piece than a book club.'" - The Guardian (UK)
In one, painted by the male elite, Rome under the emperor becomes a nightmare vision of a world turned topsy-turvy. In the other, articulated by the tombstones of cooks and tasters and wet-nurses, imperial structures provided opportunities for new hierarchies, and new avenues to distinction, to develop. - Washington Post
Guided by connectomic and other data to optimize thousands or even billions of parameters, machine-learning models could be trained to produce neural-network behaviour that is consistent with the behaviour of real neural networks — measured using cellular-resolution functional recordings. - Nature
But "what should the arts be doing? They can break the national narratives around addiction," first off. Not everyone goes to AA. And not everyone relapses. - Salon
"About 150 artists and cultural workers including photographer Nan Goldin and poet Eileen Myles flooded the lobby of the New York Times headquarters in midtown Manhattan." - Hyperallergic
This article intervenes in this debate by assessing the use and value of the long tail of metadata associated with the UK’s rich cultural events landscape – theatre productions, music and comedy gigs, sporting fixtures, days out and more – as a data resource for academic research, policymakers and CCI organisations. - Taylor & Francis...
"'If you want to see a diverse and vibrant cultural community come to fruition, you have to build it," said Guy Ben-Aharon, founder of The Jar, which gathers small, disparate groups of people invited by "conveners" to evenings centered on particular artists from different disciplines. - MSN (The Washington Post)
"Street fights erupted between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance after a private screening of video showing the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants." - AP
Today Black folk performers have reached a critical mass and level of exposure not seen since the early decades of the 20th century, when Black bands like Cannon’s Jug Stompers and the Memphis Jug Band were among the most commercially popular in the country. - The New York Times
Female acts make up seven of the eight nominees in the top three categories — with SZA leading the pack with nine overall nominations while Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus and boygenius earned six nods a piece. - The Hollywood Reporter
Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, one of the last living stars of a golden era for Afghan music, fled the Taliban in 1991, settled in London and performed for audiences throughout the diaspora for 12 years. Last month, he sang in public for the first time in two decades. - The New York Times
"Medicine has a 'creativity problem,' ... and too many people working in health care are resigned to the status quo, the dehumanizing bureaucracy." Call in the artists! - NPR
The museum's executive director also apologized for the way she discussed the postponement: "There are no excuses for what I said, regardless of my intentions." - The New York Times
Markus Stegmann, the director of the Museum Langmatt in Baden, said that after subtracting buyer’s fees, its parent foundation will reap 42.3 million Swiss francs from the sale of the three paintings, enough to keep the museum operating. - The New York Times
There's a reason Finnegan's Wake often has reading "gropes" instead. "Fialka leans into that visionary aspect, describing his group as 'more a performance art piece than a book club.'" - The Guardian (UK)
"Over the past four decades, Andrew Wylie has reshaped publishing in profound and, some say, insalubrious ways. He has been a champion of highbrow books and unabashed commerce, making great writers famous and famous writers rich. In the process, he has helped to define the global literary canon." - The Guardian
There are reasons (plural) why editors warn writers not to quit their day jobs, even after the first book is published and sells reasonably well. - Esquire
“I think it is niche television now because you don't have to get the rating that you got when there were only three networks … and 30 great comedy writers. You had to do shows that appealed to a massive audience. Now, there are 300 networks and 30 great comedy writers. …” - KCRW
People in cinematherapy "engage with carefully selected films that resonate with their personal experiences. They connect with characters and storylines, extract meaning, and reflect on how the narratives relate." - Wired
"Every culture, country or ethnic group is a fragile project held together by duct tape and shared myths. In the most literal sense, we are the stories we tell." - Los Angeles Times
"In my teens, I went to ... fortnightly foreign-language film screenings religiously. I was always desperate to escape, and these films briefly transported me all over the world." - The Guardian (UK)
"As well as Prince Harry, the newspaper group faces multiple claims of 'gross breaches of privacy' from Sir Elton John, David Furnish, Elizabeth Hurley, Sadie Frost, Sir Simon Hughes and Baroness Doreen Lawrence." - BBC
Making ballet accessible to those with low vision or those who are blind isn't simple. It's so much more than just the movement - but it's that too. - The New York Times
Trajal Harrell (Zurich and Athens), Esther Cowens (Berlin), and Wanjiru Kamuyu (Paris) tell a reporter how they found themselves working across the Atlantic, the work that keeps them there, and how they build lives in Europe and keep connections stateside. - Dance Magazine
"Chelsie Hill, 27, is the founder of the Rollettes, a dance team … formed in 2012 (which) performs all over the country. … More than a decade after she started the Rollettes, Ms. Hill’s story has spread far beyond the group to include mentorship and education." - The New York Times
Jessica McCann of Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre suffered hip pain for years, but by last year's Nutcracker, she reached the breaking point. Doctors said she had the right hip of a 90-year-old and needed a replacement. She was back onstage last month. Here's the story of her surgery and recovery. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"After more than a year of planning, fundraising, obtaining nonprofit status, holding auditions and settling on a name (Azura Ballet), that vision – to revitalize ballet culture and infuse it with a profound emphasis on the mental and emotional well-being of the dancers – is becoming a reality." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
At Santa Monica College, "the campus police chief told if protesters breached backstage during a performance, they could grab fire extinguishers to defend themselves." - Los Angeles Times
"We've had a lot of excited conversations after the play with members of the audience who are responding very energetically to the questions that the play brings up." - LAist
"A stream of passengers walked by, searching for anything to look at other than the 32-year-old man struggling to fit an egg-shaped cardboard headpiece imprinted with the visage of a Nintendo mascot onto his neck." - Slate
New York theatres are finally starting to take advantage of relaxed laws around alcohol so they can be their own theatre bars. It's a new mix for a city that had weirdly puritanical laws for a long time. - The New York Times
"Some hairpieces are bobby-dazzlers: towers of Restoration foppery, ravishingly long Rapunzels. Others slink by unnoticed, disguised in realism. Who makes them? Who pins them on (the actors) night after night?" To find out, David Jays met a freelance maker in London and the head of wigs for the RSC. - The Guardian
“I thought, Well, I wonder if you can build a business based exclusively on what you want to read,” he says, understatedly. “That led me to understand, I think correctly, that best sellers were overvalued and works that endured forever were undervalued.” - The New York Times
As a diva, Streisand has consistently defied instructions not to do something by doubling up her efforts. For example, at the start of her career when she was auditioning for record labels, one of the executives said she had a nice voice but was “too ethnic”. - The Conversation
He brought classical music into the lives of tens of thousands of young people and was credited with diversifying the ranks of symphony orchestras across the United States. - Washington Post
Parker "helped expand the two-dimensional portrayals of vampires and witches seen in old Hollywood B-movies" on Dark Shadows, a popular Gothic soap opera. - The New York Times
"He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories. … During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an eyewitness to some of the most momentous events in modern history." - NPR
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The museum's executive director also apologized for the way she discussed the postponement: "There are no excuses for what I said, regardless of my intentions." - The New York Times
"The path to God runs down the New Jersey Turnpike. About an hour from the Holland Tunnel, … a mirage appears: swirls of stone fluffed up into meringue peaks." Architecture critic Justin Davidson visits the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Robbinsville, just a few miles from Exit 8. - MSN (Curbed)
"Over the past four decades, Andrew Wylie has reshaped publishing in profound and, some say, insalubrious ways. He has been a champion of highbrow books and unabashed commerce, making great writers famous and famous writers rich. In the process, he has helped to define the global literary canon." - The Guardian
"'If you want to see a diverse and vibrant cultural community come to fruition, you have to build it," said Guy Ben-Aharon, founder of The Jar, which gathers small, disparate groups of people invited by "conveners" to evenings centered on particular artists from different disciplines. - MSN (The Washington Post)
"The growing tendency of artists to pronounce on everything from microaggressions to macropolitics shows that we need a fundamentally different understanding of the role played by artists and their institutions." - Compact Magazine
"The two sides spent the last several days putting the finishing touches on the deal, which will see the first-ever protections for actors against artificial intelligence and a historic pay increase. The deal will see most minimums increase by 7% — 2% above the increases received by the Writers Guild." - Variety
Jaroslaw Suchan, a former director of the Museum of Art in Lodz whose contract was not renewed by the Law and Justice government, said that the party had “treated culture as an ideological weapon.” But if a new government simply fired Glinski’s appointees, “they’d be repeating the last government’s behaviors.” - The New York...
The notorious art object, titled America, was stolen from an exhibition at Blenheim Palace in England in 2019. There's as yet no indication of the whereabouts of the object itself, which is widely presumed to have been melted down. - The Guardian
Two members of the British group Just Stop Oil took hammers to the glass protecting Diego Velázquez’s "Rokeby Venus" at the National Gallery in London. (This isn't the first time that painting has been damaged by a protester: it was attacked by a suffragette in 1914.) - CNN
"After complaints from students and faculty ... , growing murmurs of protests at performances and an anonymous vote by student participants in the production, By the River Rivanna was canceled hours before its opening night." - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
Executive Director Carol Tatch’s "ouster comes amid an acrimonious battle between RACC, which has been the major funding organization for arts organizations in Portland and the tri-county area since the 1990s, and the City of Portland." - Oregon ArtsWatch
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