"Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple … the Temple of Edfu, which is devoted to the falcon god Horus and situated along the Nile’s west bank, just below the river’s midway point." - Artnet
No writer who heard it would touch it. From bookstores to biographers to journalists, the literary world had everything to gain from an untarnished Alice Munro. Open secrets require closed doors. - The Walrus
By the numbers, that refers to $49.7 billion in paid streaming gross revenue for 2030, nearly double 2023’s $26.4 billion, and a cool 647 million paid subscribers in emerging markets (up from 300 million in 2023), per Music in the Air. - Digital Music News
The 1969 road movie had an unusually messy shoot, thanks largely to director/star Dennis Hopper. (Co-star/producer Peter Fonda later described Hopper as "a bit of a megalomaniac.") - BBC
Organizations remain very reliant on declining revenue sources. In 2022, 65% of expenses were covered by contributed revenue. However, the rate of contributed revenue growth has slowed. - SMU Data
What he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black audiences—general Black audiences, like the folks Acocella probably saw applauding “Revelations”—should connect not only with their “ ’buked” and “scorned” selves onstage but with the feeling that performance can be a kind of balm, an embrace. - The New Yorker
"Now, this revival of that show is proving, with gusto, that American Idiot can be yet another thing: a near-scientific study of the innumerable ways to give somebody the finger." - The New York Times
In a lawsuit filed in California, attorneys representing Durst, Limp Bizkit and Flawless Records accused UMG of using software “deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including Plaintiffs’) royalties” so it can pocket the profits. - The Guardian
Homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: gomi-yashiki (trash-mansions). And in areas where space is limited, cluttered residences and shops will often erupt, disgorging things onto the street in a semi-controlled jumble so ubiquitous that urban planners have a name for it: afuré-dashi (spilling-outs). - Aeon
Bjarne Melgaard, whose career soared in the 2010s, developed some very ill-advised habits (including crystal meth) and ran up big debts. Two investors gave him roughly $10 million in this Faustian deal — with a contract Melgaard says he was too drunk to understand at the time. - The New York Times
The emotional and psychological ties people have with places contribute to their perception of authenticity. Just as much as the exposed bricks and wooden floors, it’s because of its community connections and personalised atmosphere that a centuries-old pub in London can feel more authentic than a commercialised pub in the United States. - Psyche
"The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical dust collector, and then complain that they aren’t playing along, it’s just not a good look for us." - CMSThomas
Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one of the nation’s largest and most influential philanthropies, the Ford Foundation.
"It makes a weird kind of sense that the government worker who understands the value of providing online advice and information to far-flung Americans … is a woman whose hometown is a 32-hour drive from a reference desk in D.C." - The Washington Post
"The new district, named the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, will have two museums, a performance hall, a music building and an outdoor plaza. The Crow Museum of Asian Art … opened a second location last week on the UT Dallas campus as part of the first phase of the project." - Axios
"For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns." - NPR
"The attempted murder trial of (Hadi Matar,) the man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack was put on hold Friday while judges consider a request to move it to another county. Jury selection had been scheduled to start on Tuesday." - AP
"The time it is taking us to bring our services back is an exact measure of the destructiveness of the original attack, which directly targeted our core computing infrastructure," said CEO Roly Keating. The estimated cost of the incident is £1.6 million ($2.09 million). - ARTnews
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath. But then the industry realized that David was actually pretty cool: All turned out well, and music was solved forever. - The New York Times
The emotional and psychological ties people have with places contribute to their perception of authenticity. Just as much as the exposed bricks and wooden floors, it’s because of its community connections and personalised atmosphere that a centuries-old pub in London can feel more authentic than a commercialised pub in the United States. - Psyche
Scientists found that bilingual individuals have more efficient communication between brain regions, notably between the cerebellum and left frontal cortex. - Neuroscience News
Yes, AI is a problem, and so are human-generated fakes. “People do a pretty poor job at discerning a fake review from a real one. It’s essentially a coin flip – studies have shown that shoppers can correctly identify a fake review only half of the time.” - The Conversation
And, perhaps unsurprisingly at this point, the housing designed by the people who live in the space may help solve some public health crises. - The Guardian (UK)
“Seven tumultuous years in the making, the nearly four-acre campus own and have developed now has 76 studio lofts, retains its graffiti-splashed interior walls and is crowned with a steel sculpture — the Freak Beacon — inspired by the TV Tower in Berlin.” - The New York Times
Perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in which you were born, your parents, background, genes and character traits. - The Guardian
Organizations remain very reliant on declining revenue sources. In 2022, 65% of expenses were covered by contributed revenue. However, the rate of contributed revenue growth has slowed. - SMU Data
Homes filled to the rafters with hoarded junk are common enough to have an ironic idiom: gomi-yashiki (trash-mansions). And in areas where space is limited, cluttered residences and shops will often erupt, disgorging things onto the street in a semi-controlled jumble so ubiquitous that urban planners have a name for it: afuré-dashi (spilling-outs). - Aeon
"The new district, named the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Jr. Athenaeum, will have two museums, a performance hall, a music building and an outdoor plaza. The Crow Museum of Asian Art … opened a second location last week on the UT Dallas campus as part of the first phase of the project." - Axios
“The Wyoming Episcopal Church possessed the Northern Arapaho tribe’s artifacts for nearly 80 years — ranging from children’s toys to bows and arrows to traditional dresses. … The state’s Episcopal leadership had been reluctant to return the artifacts for decades.” - Washington Post (MSN)
Potentially huge changes in the city’s arts funding - canceling the $35 arts tax, for instance, and downgrading the longstanding Regional Arts and Culture Council - make November’s election choices vital for the city's and even the state’s continued “arts”creative future.” - Oregon ArtsWatch
By the numbers, that refers to $49.7 billion in paid streaming gross revenue for 2030, nearly double 2023’s $26.4 billion, and a cool 647 million paid subscribers in emerging markets (up from 300 million in 2023), per Music in the Air. - Digital Music News
In a lawsuit filed in California, attorneys representing Durst, Limp Bizkit and Flawless Records accused UMG of using software “deliberately designed to conceal artists’ (including Plaintiffs’) royalties” so it can pocket the profits. - The Guardian
The story they want to tell, in an emphatically triumphalist tone, is that the early pirates were David and the music industry was Goliath. But then the industry realized that David was actually pretty cool: All turned out well, and music was solved forever. - The New York Times
The artistic director of Dresden’s Sinfoniker, Markus Rindt, said the intention was “not to replace human beings” but to perform complex music that human conductors would find impossible. - The Guardian
A Four Corners investigation has found Live Nation has expanded its reach to every part of the Australian music industry and its practices are angering some of the country’s most talented musicians. - ABC
There was simply no way to keep the jazz fest going in the devastated region this week, organizers said. They "called the decision ‘heart wrenching and devastating,' but said they are 'committed to rebuilding, and carrying on the tradition.’” - Tampa Bay Times
"Egyptian and German experts have successfully restored the lost colors and glimmering metals that once enlivened ancient Egypt’s second largest, and perhaps best preserved, temple … the Temple of Edfu, which is devoted to the falcon god Horus and situated along the Nile’s west bank, just below the river’s midway point." - Artnet
Bjarne Melgaard, whose career soared in the 2010s, developed some very ill-advised habits (including crystal meth) and ran up big debts. Two investors gave him roughly $10 million in this Faustian deal — with a contract Melgaard says he was too drunk to understand at the time. - The New York Times
Walker, who has been a board member of the National Gallery since 2019, is perhaps best known for his 11-year tenure at the helm of one of the nation’s largest and most influential philanthropies, the Ford Foundation.
The Nairobi National Museum, flagship of Kenya’s museum system, is in trouble, overwhelmed by a bounty of specimens and a lack of money to keep them safe. Darkening the outlook are criminal charges against its former director-general for allegedly masterminding a scheme to steal $4 million from its coffers. - The Wall Street Journal
As in, as big as movie screens across the world. “The paintings and the film developed in tandem. Kaphar would wake up to write at 5 a.m., drive his children to school, then come to his studio and listen to what he’d written via an app on his phone.” - The New York Times
"We’ve got lots of old Victorian statues of men, particularly in Leeds, and I think there was an ambition to redress this gender imbalance in public art in the city.” - The Guardian (UK)
"The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences. So when we force-feed yet another vanilla canonical dust collector, and then complain that they aren’t playing along, it’s just not a good look for us." - CMSThomas
"It makes a weird kind of sense that the government worker who understands the value of providing online advice and information to far-flung Americans … is a woman whose hometown is a 32-hour drive from a reference desk in D.C." - The Washington Post
"The time it is taking us to bring our services back is an exact measure of the destructiveness of the original attack, which directly targeted our core computing infrastructure," said CEO Roly Keating. The estimated cost of the incident is £1.6 million ($2.09 million). - ARTnews
Every writer is different. The path to telling stories about our world is hard won, and the space that’s necessary to allow us to find our respective voices differs. The world we carry in our heads is arguably the most important space of all. It is a space whose suffocations and seductions compete for...
Despite all the one-click-away distractions, my peers had insightful queries, if rather too many, interrupting lectures as if pressing every hyperlink. Rarely were they the moralizing young bores depicted by moralizing old bores in the culture wars. Mainly, they worried about finding jobs. - The New York Times
The 1969 road movie had an unusually messy shoot, thanks largely to director/star Dennis Hopper. (Co-star/producer Peter Fonda later described Hopper as "a bit of a megalomaniac.") - BBC
"For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns." - NPR
That was when he used a generated voice for Anthony Bourdain. "I was like, ‘Oh, it'd be fun to use this, and it'd be a funny thing to talk about when we do.’ … Then the shit hit the fan.” - Wired
What he wanted to promote with his company was the idea that Black audiences—general Black audiences, like the folks Acocella probably saw applauding “Revelations”—should connect not only with their “ ’buked” and “scorned” selves onstage but with the feeling that performance can be a kind of balm, an embrace. - The New Yorker
No, not Manhattan. “On Governors Island, audience members gathered on the grass for Analphabetes, uncertain where to look for the performance or how to distinguish the performers from passers-by. Then four figures appeared on a hill in the distance, wearing retro windbreakers.” - The New York Times
“Like the swells of music or the climaxes of a musical theme, stories rise and fall as they move closer to a satisfying end. In the same way dancers dance ‘with' the music, or sometimes in counterpoint, characters in a novel rise and fall with the rhythm.” - LitHub
"There’s a raw, instinctive quality to Goebel’s routines: The dancers look as if they aren’t just dancing but are following an elemental urge. … Goebel is reshaping what pop choreography looks like — and exploding our ideas of what makes a femme body desirable." - The New York Times Magazine
"At historically Black colleges and universities in the American South, the real stars of any football game are the majorettes. Their signature dance style … (combines) the precision of a kick line with the winking sensuality of burlesque. … More recently, majorette dance has entered the mainstream, taking center stage on reality television series,...
Beginning last season the ballet company also began advertising its more family-friendly shows on big-name streaming services like Hulu and Disney+ and even in local movie theaters to maximize their advertising dollars. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Now, this revival of that show is proving, with gusto, that American Idiot can be yet another thing: a near-scientific study of the innumerable ways to give somebody the finger." - The New York Times
The show has struggled to sell enough tickets to defray its running costs, and on Friday night the producers announced that it would close on Jan. 5. At the time of its closing, it will have had 24 previews and 301 regular performances. The show announced plans for a national tour in September 2025....
This new incarnation of Book-It will not be a producing company. They are not hiring a staff or planning a full season. You cannot buy a subscription. They’re starting with one show, a co-production running Oct. 10-20 at Vashon Repertory Theatre. After that? They’re not sure yet. - Seattle Times
“The lights-dimming ritual, which goes back decades, has been an increasingly fraught one for the nine entities that own and operate Broadway theaters.” - The New York Times
"The complaint alleges that Stereophonic is an 'unauthorized adaptation' of Kenneth Caillat’s 2012 memoir, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (which he co-wrote with Steven Stiefel) about his time as a sound engineer (later promoted to co-producer) of one of the most popular albums in history." - TheaterMania
One of the largest nonprofit theaters in the Bay Area, the California Shakespeare Theater for 50 years offered high-quality outdoor productions and theater education programs. The company has had financial troubles for several years; an emergency campaign last summer raised $350,000 to complete this season's one production. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
No writer who heard it would touch it. From bookstores to biographers to journalists, the literary world had everything to gain from an untarnished Alice Munro. Open secrets require closed doors. - The Walrus
"The attempted murder trial of (Hadi Matar,) the man charged with severely injuring author Salman Rushdie in a 2022 knife attack was put on hold Friday while judges consider a request to move it to another county. Jury selection had been scheduled to start on Tuesday." - AP
But he finally realized there was no avoiding it. "There is this moment of incredible tension and excitement before going on stage, you know, before appearing. And then when you're there, everything is amazing. Everything is just incredible. So I think I'm the best version of myself." - NPR
Lowe’s "passion for historic preservation — and in particular for the Beaux-Arts mansions, museums and towers of the Gilded Age — helped stem the tide of urban renewal that was leveling large swaths of American cities in the decades after World War II.” - The New York Times
“Paramount didn’t want me to play Michael Corleone. They wanted Jack Nicholson. They wanted Robert Redford. They wanted Warren Beatty or Ryan O’Neal.” - The Guardian (UK)
Dick was a master Chilkat weaver "(Kwakwaka’wakw, Haida, Tlingit, Kootenay), whose artistry fused traditional carving, weaving, and beading practices that she learned from family members and shared with her local Haida Gwaii community.” - Hyperallergic
The Cabot Performing Arts Center (“The Cabot”), located in Beverly, Massachusetts, serves as a cultural centerpiece for the local community, offering a wide range of artistic events.
The Prior serves as a catalyst for an integrative, cross-disciplinary liberal arts education, centering the creative and performing arts within the development of Holy Cross students.
Northwestern University’s MS in Leadership for Creative Enterprises (MSLCE) program develops leaders across Entertainment, Media and the Arts. Earn your Master’s in One Year.
SpeakEasy Stage - Boston’s home for bold theatre - invites applications from collaborative and risk-taking artistic leaders to serve as its next Artistic Director.
The Artistic Director will lead the creation and implementation of TFANA’s artistic vision, ensuring alignment with the organization's mission and values.
The University of South Carolina School of Music is accepting applicants for a Assistant or Associate Professor, 9-month, tenure-track, faculty position.
The Juilliard School seeks an Academic Operations Coordinator to manage the day-to-day logistical and operational facets of Juilliard Extension’s academic programs.
The Dean and Head of School (Dean) will maintain the existing standards of NYSS while remaining open to the evolution of what art can be in the 21st century.
The J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts and the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Art at Texas Tech University enthusiastically seek nominations and applications for a visionary leader
Bjarne Melgaard, whose career soared in the 2010s, developed some very ill-advised habits (including crystal meth) and ran up big debts. Two investors gave him roughly $10 million in this Faustian deal — with a contract Melgaard says he was too drunk to understand at the time. - The New York Times
“The Wyoming Episcopal Church possessed the Northern Arapaho tribe’s artifacts for nearly 80 years — ranging from children’s toys to bows and arrows to traditional dresses. … The state’s Episcopal leadership had been reluctant to return the artifacts for decades.” - Washington Post (MSN)
Potentially huge changes in the city’s arts funding - canceling the $35 arts tax, for instance, and downgrading the longstanding Regional Arts and Culture Council - make November’s election choices vital for the city's and even the state’s continued “arts”creative future.” - Oregon ArtsWatch
Less than a year ago, “‘my goal was 20 to 25 kids,' Pieken said. ‘(I thought) if we don’t have at least like 15 signed up to audition … then we probably might want to rethink some things.’ … Now, the groups boasts 94 players.” - KCUR
"The complaint alleges that Stereophonic is an 'unauthorized adaptation' of Kenneth Caillat’s 2012 memoir, Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album (which he co-wrote with Steven Stiefel) about his time as a sound engineer (later promoted to co-producer) of one of the most popular albums in history." - TheaterMania
One of the largest nonprofit theaters in the Bay Area, the California Shakespeare Theater for 50 years offered high-quality outdoor productions and theater education programs. The company has had financial troubles for several years; an emergency campaign last summer raised $350,000 to complete this season's one production. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
"A slow-burning literary success who won multiple awards in (Asia) and Europe, Han is the first Asian woman and the first South Korean writer to win the Nobel literature prize." - AP
The Sherman High School's production became a subject of nationwide controversy after a transgender boy was removed from the cast, his fellow students protested, and the district called it all off. An independent report says that the now-former superintendent was upset about "same-sex kissing" onstage. - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
"The Hollywood Reporter spoke with (director Ali) Abbasi and (producer and distributor James) Shani to discuss The Apprentice‘s counter-intuitive approach to the world’s most divisive real estate developer — and the behind-the-scenes story of how they raced against the clock to ensure the movie would be widely seen." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Still largely experimental, (CSO Proof concerts) might include elements of dance, lighting, theater and atmosphere to accompany a short program of classical music. The goal is to … engage audiences who might never have considered going to the symphony or even to Music Hall." - Cincinnati Business Courier
"By gutting and rebuilding the interior (of the New York Philharmonic's home), the project was meant to break, once and for all, the acoustical curse that had plagued the hall for decades. … So, after two years and more than 270 concerts, how does the hall sound?" - The New York Times
Regular weeding — librarians' term for removing from collections books that are out-of-date, damaged, or too seldom checked out to be worth shelf space — is standard practice. Some officials have started using the process to remove books about race or LGBTQ issues, and courts will soon weigh in. - The New York Times
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