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DANCE
IDEAS
- Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Her Broadway Debut
“Ross said that it had been a dream of hers to be on Broadway. Instead of throwing a birthday party to celebrate turning 40, she rented stages in New York City and Los Angeles and invited her friends to watch her perform a one-woman show.” – The New York Times
- As Yet Another Version Hits Cinemas, Why Are We Still So Obsessed With The Odyssey?
“The Odyssey – the story of a warrior’s homecoming, his long and tortuous journey to reintegrate himself within his own household – has passed into the bloodstream of many storytelling traditions,” from Finding Nemo to Game of Thrones. – The Guardian (UK)
- The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Wins A Discrimination Case
Pianist Jayson Gillham, who spoke from the stage about Israel killing journalists in Gaza, said “I believe artists should be free to speak with integrity. … This case was never just about me. My principles remain unchanged.” – The New York Times
- The New York Times’ Article On Kerri Greenidge Has Weird Timing And Research Issues
“The article offers no convincing explanation for a response this totalizing. It does not solve the mystery. It compounds it.” – Study Marry Kill
- The High-Wire Casting Act Of Getting Celebrities To, Kind Of, Play Themselves
“The celebrity-as-celebrity casting is a delicate alchemy with volatile ingredients more likely to explode than create movie magic” – but when it works? It really works. – The New York Times
ISSUES
- This Artwork Requires Covering The Gallery Floor In Peanut Butter
Smooth, not chunky – the artist wasn’t a monster. – The Guardian (UK)
- Anish Kapoor And The Meaning Of The Void
“When Kapoor first made one of these works in Prussian blue, he was stunned to find ‘it wasn’t an empty space painted blue,’ he said. ‘It was full of blueness or, as I say, darkness. What was empty became full. How can that be?’” – ArtNet
- The Bayeux Tapestry Arrives In Britain, Under Armed Guard, For The First Time In A While
Where “a while” equals 900 years. – BBC
- The Bacteria That Causes Legionnaire’s Disease Has Been Found In The Guggenheim’s Cooling Tower
But, er, don’t freak out, New York. “The building remains safe for employees and visitors, according to both the museum and the union that represents its workers.” – The Art Newspaper
- Bayeux Tapestry Arrives Safely At British Museum
“The secretive operation was the result of years of negotiations, tricky logistical planning and multiple technical studies to ensure the integrity of the 70-metre-long (230ft) medieval artwork.” – The Guardian
MEDIA
- The New York Times’ Article On Kerri Greenidge Has Weird Timing And Research Issues
“The article offers no convincing explanation for a response this totalizing. It does not solve the mystery. It compounds it.” – Study Marry Kill
- Whistleblowers Accuse The Trump Administration Of Harming The Kennedy Center
“The documents — sent to a Senate and a House committee last month by lawyers for unidentified clients referred to as whistle-blowers — detail how vendors were selected for work without competitive bidding under rationales that are depicted as flawed.” – The New York Times
- Meta Installs AI Deepfake Tool For Instagram On Tuesday, Removes It On Friday
That went well. “Just because Meta owns one of the largest social media platforms, and we’re forced to use it, it’s been taking it as an excuse to violate our consent and privacy again and again.” Uh, oops. – Business Insider
- A Lot Of True Believers Sponsored ‘The Chosen’ Before It Became A Money-Printing Juggernaut
But they seem to have been left behind. “A shareholder lawsuit, quietly filed this past week against 5&2 Studios in the Delaware Court of Chancery, alleges that some of those early acolytes were prevented from sharing in the miracle.” – Puck
- New York Times, Ziff Davis, The Intercept, Others Accuse OpenAI Of Possible Obstruction Of Justice
As part of their broader lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement for training its software on their media products without consent or compensation, the plaintiffs filed a motion accusing the company of lying during discovery by deliberately hiding evidence that its training datasets and output logs are searchable. – Variety
MUSIC
- Meta Won’t Stop Going After The Author Of Careless People, Proving The Book’s Point Over And Over And Over Again
“The optics of the case speak louder than the niceties of any contract dispute. Those optics advance the narrative that Meta is a heartless and negative force determined to stifle the truth about its misdeeds.” (In other words, buy physical copies of the book.) – Wired
- What In The Living Heck Happened To Decorated Historian Kerri Greenidge, And Her Most Famous Work?
“A major publisher appeared to pull a prizewinning history book about a prominent South Carolina slaveholding family and its role in the abolitionist movement, after several scholars accused the author of misleading readers” – and it looks like the historian lost her job at Tufts as well. – The New York Times
- How Many Books Is Too Many Books For A New York City Apartment?
One landlord decided 10,000 was truly beyond the acceptable limit. – The New York Times
- When Catcher In The Rye – Yes, That Old Chestnut Of Freshman Year – Saves You
“The great secret of Catcher, though—what gets lost in its reputation—is that Holden’s attitude is itself phony. He’s a tender kid who famously worries about the ducks in cold, icy Central Park, and who adores and hopes to protect his little sister, Phoebe.” – The Atlantic
- Reckoning With Beat Poet Allen Ginsburg’s Complicated Legacy
The great poet of Howl and defender of free speech has one (pretty huge) legacy problem during his centennial celebration: His defense of, and membership in, the North American Man-Boy Love Association. – The Guardian (UK)
PEOPLE
- Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Her Broadway Debut
“Ross said that it had been a dream of hers to be on Broadway. Instead of throwing a birthday party to celebrate turning 40, she rented stages in New York City and Los Angeles and invited her friends to watch her perform a one-woman show.” – The New York Times
- As Yet Another Version Hits Cinemas, Why Are We Still So Obsessed With The Odyssey?
“The Odyssey – the story of a warrior’s homecoming, his long and tortuous journey to reintegrate himself within his own household – has passed into the bloodstream of many storytelling traditions,” from Finding Nemo to Game of Thrones. – The Guardian (UK)
- The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Wins A Discrimination Case
Pianist Jayson Gillham, who spoke from the stage about Israel killing journalists in Gaza, said “I believe artists should be free to speak with integrity. … This case was never just about me. My principles remain unchanged.” – The New York Times
- The New York Times’ Article On Kerri Greenidge Has Weird Timing And Research Issues
“The article offers no convincing explanation for a response this totalizing. It does not solve the mystery. It compounds it.” – Study Marry Kill
- The High-Wire Casting Act Of Getting Celebrities To, Kind Of, Play Themselves
“The celebrity-as-celebrity casting is a delicate alchemy with volatile ingredients more likely to explode than create movie magic” – but when it works? It really works. – The New York Times
PEOPLE
- Tracee Ellis Ross Makes Her Broadway Debut
“Ross said that it had been a dream of hers to be on Broadway. Instead of throwing a birthday party to celebrate turning 40, she rented stages in New York City and Los Angeles and invited her friends to watch her perform a one-woman show.” – The New York Times
- As Yet Another Version Hits Cinemas, Why Are We Still So Obsessed With The Odyssey?
“The Odyssey – the story of a warrior’s homecoming, his long and tortuous journey to reintegrate himself within his own household – has passed into the bloodstream of many storytelling traditions,” from Finding Nemo to Game of Thrones. – The Guardian (UK)
- The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Wins A Discrimination Case
Pianist Jayson Gillham, who spoke from the stage about Israel killing journalists in Gaza, said “I believe artists should be free to speak with integrity. … This case was never just about me. My principles remain unchanged.” – The New York Times
- The New York Times’ Article On Kerri Greenidge Has Weird Timing And Research Issues
“The article offers no convincing explanation for a response this totalizing. It does not solve the mystery. It compounds it.” – Study Marry Kill
- The High-Wire Casting Act Of Getting Celebrities To, Kind Of, Play Themselves
“The celebrity-as-celebrity casting is a delicate alchemy with volatile ingredients more likely to explode than create movie magic” – but when it works? It really works. – The New York Times
THEATRE
VISUAL
- As Yet Another Version Hits Cinemas, Why Are We Still So Obsessed With The Odyssey?
“The Odyssey – the story of a warrior’s homecoming, his long and tortuous journey to reintegrate himself within his own household – has passed into the bloodstream of many storytelling traditions,” from Finding Nemo to Game of Thrones. – The Guardian (UK)
- The Schomburg Center Turns A Century Old
“Growing up in Puerto Rico in the late 19th century, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg was told by his teacher that Black people had no significant history or accomplishments.” Just how wrong was that teacher? Very. – The Guardian (UK)
- What Society Is Losing As It Becomes Postliterate
“The literate era will prove to be a brief interlude between the oral and digital ages. Reading shaped the modern mind. Its disappearance will reshape it. Cognitive scientists are starting to understand what these changes might look like.” – The Atlantic
- Does Worldwide Modernization Lead To Reduction In Cultural Differences? Not Necessarily
“When researchers have actually tried to document the size of cultural differences over time, the picture is far more complicated – and more interesting.” – Psyche
- Who Makes Choices When We ‘Choose’?
“The brain initiates voluntary action unconsciously: our conscious sense that we have decided to act is actually the result of this brain activity.” It’s possible that our only choice is in deciding not to do something. – 3 Quarks