The world’s first ever “Hay Rake Ballet” was a high point of what may be the last iteration of Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of temporary art installations that has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to the farmlands of Sauk County since 2011. - Hyperallergic
For every song that is in print and available, there are at least 10 that are mothballed in storage, an estimated 2.5m pieces that may as well not exist. Popular taste has decreed that these lost songs are failures. But tastes change, markets shift and yesterday’s flop might be today’s buried treasure. - The Guardian
Has a piece of criticism, much less of dance criticism, made such a mark on the culture since? “Discussing the Undiscussable” was in conversation with the world, not just dance or art. It didn’t matter if you’d ever seen a dance, never mind a dance by Jones. Everyone was talking about it. - The New York Times
The challenge of how to bridge the final gap for synthetic voices will occupy scientists for a while to come. Along the way, opera does feel like an apt forum in which to explore the ethical dilemmas and expressive aspirations behind engineered voices. - The New York Times
Some of the musicians have mixed feelings about their chosen careers. “It depends on the day,. Today I feel like a tired old whore. Some days I feel like a god. Most of the time I feel like an ambitious T-shirt salesman with entitlement issues.” - The New Yorker
It is no coincidence that women and working-class people (and Cockneys who are often seen as emblematic of the working class) often bear the brunt of accent prejudice. - The Conversation
It’s a notable departure from other large publishers, such as academic printers Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Oxford University Press, which have all agreed to license their portfolios to AI companies. - Gizmodo
Whether AI can achieve true imagination is an open question, but for now, what separates humans from machines is not the ability to invent out of whole cloth—it’s the skill required to create something new out of something old. - The Atlantic
Writing across difference is often maligned in contemporary conversations of literary craft—and for good reason—but I am of the opinion that the skill, in some form, is an essential one for any novelist. - LitHub
“Why did romance writers, arguably the most mocked, maligned, and mistreated group of authors in history, become the most successful and innovative writers in the e-book revolution?” - Christian Science Monitor
Northern Ballet said that it was “under financial pressure, brought about largely by rising production and touring costs” - and in order to save money, it’s been using recorded music at some stops. - Arts Professional
What an expert says: "In times of disagreement and dissent, nostalgia peaks. COVID was an example of what stimulates nostalgia. … Vintage TV wants to slow you down.” - HuffPost
"Oscar seems to like interacting with the art, and his way of interacting seems ideal to me—kinetic, bodied, hyperpresent to the granular details of scent and texture.” - Paris Review
“The third-generation perspective on the Holocaust is carefully hedged, defiantly distanced, explicitly filtered, supremely self-aware. These stories fundamentally do not belong to the writers or artists.” - The New York Times
“In Norway, as in every country, people with learning disabilities face issues ranging from low employment rates to access to support and housing. Being able to understand the news empowers the wider community.” - BBC
The French novelist “is such a sly and ambiguous writer that I’m not always sure when he’s kidding. I often identify with his characters, and even when I find certain pages repellent, Houellebecq challenges my perceptions.” - NPR
“As a risk-averse industry relies more and more on safe, conventional choices in a genre built on provocation and experimentation, reality’s franchise explosion raises questions about the long-term viability of the business.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Anne Appelbaum, who has written many a book on autocratic dictators, says there’s a real case for optimism, or at least against pessimism. “It is easier just to accept the idea of decline. But let’s remember what’s at stake.” - The Atlantic
Whether AI can achieve true imagination is an open question, but for now, what separates humans from machines is not the ability to invent out of whole cloth—it’s the skill required to create something new out of something old. - The Atlantic
What an expert says: "In times of disagreement and dissent, nostalgia peaks. COVID was an example of what stimulates nostalgia. … Vintage TV wants to slow you down.” - HuffPost
“The third-generation perspective on the Holocaust is carefully hedged, defiantly distanced, explicitly filtered, supremely self-aware. These stories fundamentally do not belong to the writers or artists.” - The New York Times
Anne Appelbaum, who has written many a book on autocratic dictators, says there’s a real case for optimism, or at least against pessimism. “It is easier just to accept the idea of decline. But let’s remember what’s at stake.” - The Atlantic
“Dilemmas on how to depict a woman so that she is taken seriously and how to navigate the archival violence previously done against her, is something biographers of women must think about.” - LitHub
The world’s first ever “Hay Rake Ballet” was a high point of what may be the last iteration of Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of temporary art installations that has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to the farmlands of Sauk County since 2011. - Hyperallergic
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all too often, the people who should be looking out for these valuable, vulnerable quantities are, instead, cashing in.” - The New York Times
The director: “Fear is its own form of censorship, it’s not deliberate, but it works out that way and the only people benefiting from that decision are the far right.” - Variety
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double the budgets of local arts service organizations, index all cultural grants to inflation, and increase investment in creative industries, festivals and special events. - CBC
A report from the nonprofit Arts for LA says that, while many schools in California are taking full advantage of the funding offered, other schools are not — simply because they don't have the necessary infrastructure or can't find qualified teachers. - MyNewsLA.com
For every song that is in print and available, there are at least 10 that are mothballed in storage, an estimated 2.5m pieces that may as well not exist. Popular taste has decreed that these lost songs are failures. But tastes change, markets shift and yesterday’s flop might be today’s buried treasure. - The...
The challenge of how to bridge the final gap for synthetic voices will occupy scientists for a while to come. Along the way, opera does feel like an apt forum in which to explore the ethical dilemmas and expressive aspirations behind engineered voices. - The New York Times
Some of the musicians have mixed feelings about their chosen careers. “It depends on the day,. Today I feel like a tired old whore. Some days I feel like a god. Most of the time I feel like an ambitious T-shirt salesman with entitlement issues.” - The New Yorker
Richter’s 8.5-hour Sleep, based on the neuroscience of sleeping, is 10 years old, and still popular. But the composer’s newest music is for a ballet based on Margaret Atwood’s 2013 book MaddAdam. - The Observer (UK)
"A room that’s consecrated to music is one where people come together, sit in quiet communion, listen rather than shout, and focus for a couple of hours instead of getting peppered with notifications. … Such an institution is one of the few sacramental spaces we have outside of explicitly religious buildings." - Curbed (MSN)
"Oscar seems to like interacting with the art, and his way of interacting seems ideal to me—kinetic, bodied, hyperpresent to the granular details of scent and texture.” - Paris Review
Most of her work belongs to private collectors, and she was, before now, known more as a wife to an artist than as an artist in her own right. - The Guardian (UK)
“Some projects seek to soar above the mucky stuff. Others embrace the difficulties, making them into an occasion to create something that would never otherwise have come into being.” - The Observer (UK)
Don Norman: "Apple fell prey to the disastrous part of design, which is that design is about making something beautiful and elegant. And I say, nonsense.” - El País
A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In recent years, though, the blue has been fading as the price of indigo has soared, making it too expensive for many to touch up their homes. - BBC
The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral's underground parking garage into a visitor center, a new riverfront promenade, and a viewing platform overlooking the Seine and the Ile Saint-Louis. - AP
It’s a notable departure from other large publishers, such as academic printers Taylor & Francis, Wiley, and Oxford University Press, which have all agreed to license their portfolios to AI companies. - Gizmodo
Writing across difference is often maligned in contemporary conversations of literary craft—and for good reason—but I am of the opinion that the skill, in some form, is an essential one for any novelist. - LitHub
“Why did romance writers, arguably the most mocked, maligned, and mistreated group of authors in history, become the most successful and innovative writers in the e-book revolution?” - Christian Science Monitor
The French novelist “is such a sly and ambiguous writer that I’m not always sure when he’s kidding. I often identify with his characters, and even when I find certain pages repellent, Houellebecq challenges my perceptions.” - NPR
Poet Mosab Abu Toha, who fled with his family last year: “My frightening childhood shaped me. And I'm still traumatized from childhood. And I'm also traumatized as a father who could barely protect his children in Gaza.” - NPR
“Navalny wrote about how it was becoming more difficult to get his messages and memoir pages out. 'Everything that I write and keep, or take along when I meet my lawyer … is both attentively read and photographed by my keepers.’” - The New York Times
“In Norway, as in every country, people with learning disabilities face issues ranging from low employment rates to access to support and housing. Being able to understand the news empowers the wider community.” - BBC
“As a risk-averse industry relies more and more on safe, conventional choices in a genre built on provocation and experimentation, reality’s franchise explosion raises questions about the long-term viability of the business.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Subscribers, money, growth, live sports, Christmas Day NFL games … what is happening to the streamer that for a while seemed doomed to fall behind? - Los Angeles Times
Has a piece of criticism, much less of dance criticism, made such a mark on the culture since? “Discussing the Undiscussable” was in conversation with the world, not just dance or art. It didn’t matter if you’d ever seen a dance, never mind a dance by Jones. Everyone was talking about it. - The New...
Northern Ballet said that it was “under financial pressure, brought about largely by rising production and touring costs” - and in order to save money, it’s been using recorded music at some stops. - Arts Professional
“The dispute threatens to cloud the company’s new season, with the fired dancers demanding to be reinstated and vowing to form picket lines at coming performances. Many of the fired dancers have previously worked with their replacements, adding another layer of resentment and unease.” - The New York Times
Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award and the MacArthur "genius" fellowship changes (and doesn't change) their lives and work. - Dance Magazine
"'They really flew,' he said of the years. 'I could think like a few days ago it was when I arrived, and a lot has changed since then. But I think that this year sort of represents the past, the present, and the future of who we are and where the company is heading.'"...
“Often in films, this type of dance can become commercial. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s a different type of beauty to the dancing in this film.” - The New York Times
It is no coincidence that women and working-class people (and Cockneys who are often seen as emblematic of the working class) often bear the brunt of accent prejudice. - The Conversation
Actor Naomi Scott, who didn’t go to drama school, would like to change the chances for young working-class Brits interested in acting with material support. “We can do our small bit to maybe help some people have a clearer path to what they want to do.” - BBC
Not to worry: it's still about Hispanic Americans, and he's still starring. "Not bragging on myself, but Molière wrote all his plays for himself and he was the lead in all his plays," Leguizamo says. "So I’m fancying myself a little bit as a Latin Molière." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"Her work's distinctly international flavour and its heavy use of masks and puppetry inspired by Indonesian and Japanese traditions didn't necessarily scream family-friendly commercial juggernaut. Nonetheless, (Disney Theatricals chief) Thomas Schumacher had a hunch Taymor's highly visual style of theatre could be just the thing." - BBC
The text — 98 lines, of which only 20 were previously known, from the plays Ino and Polyidus — were written on a piece of parchment found in the ancient village of Philadelphia, 62 miles southwest of Cairo. - History Today
"A dancer, singer, actress and comic impersonator since childhood, Ms. Gaynor was much admired for her stamina and versatility over more than seven decades in show business" — ranging from movie musicals (most notably, South Pacific) to Las Vegas revues to TV variety shows to cabaret. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“She said that with the wars raging between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Palestine, with deaths being reported every day, she could not hold a celebratory press conference,” Seung-wo told Korean reporters. - LitHub
"Gates’s business dealings and art making are not at odds: Salvage from the buildings goes into his art installations; proceeds from his art sales fund his building renovations and community programs. … He hopes to demonstrate "an open model for what an artist can be.'" - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
"Fan Bingbing, once one of China’s most famous film stars, is returning to the screen after a more than five-year hiatus following her alleged involvement in a massive tax evasion scandal." - The Guardian
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
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“The dispute threatens to cloud the company’s new season, with the fired dancers demanding to be reinstated and vowing to form picket lines at coming performances. Many of the fired dancers have previously worked with their replacements, adding another layer of resentment and unease.” - The New York Times
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all too often, the people who should be looking out for these valuable, vulnerable quantities are, instead, cashing in.” - The New York Times
He got The Grapes of Wrath; Sonora Babb’s novel contract was cancelled; and Steinbeck dedicated his book to her male supervisor. What would Tom Joad say? - The New York Times
"A room that’s consecrated to music is one where people come together, sit in quiet communion, listen rather than shout, and focus for a couple of hours instead of getting peppered with notifications. … Such an institution is one of the few sacramental spaces we have outside of explicitly religious buildings." - Curbed (MSN)
"You do not see advertisers beating at the door of the Ives estate to use his music in commercials. His music is not ready to package or post on Instagram. But there is knowledge in it. … His music suggests America will just have to muddle through." - The New York Times
"A dancer, singer, actress and comic impersonator since childhood, Ms. Gaynor was much admired for her stamina and versatility over more than seven decades in show business" — ranging from movie musicals (most notably, South Pacific) to Las Vegas revues to TV variety shows to cabaret. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Oliver Wainwright: "The Lizzie line is a worthy winner, providing a dazzling demonstration that, for all chaos surrounding HS2, Britain is still capable of pulling off gargantuan transport infrastructure projects with style and panache." - The Guardian
Dennis Moore, the morning host at Chicago-based WFMT, returned from a medical leave earlier this year and asked for schedule or other changes as an accommodation for a sleep-related issue. When station management declined and Moore rejected a buyout, he says, he was fired. - Chicago Sun-Times
"They must become expert drummers. They’ll also learn to spit paint onto a spinning canvas, catch a dozen rapid-fire marshmallows in their mouths and then be prepared for absolutely anything the audience might throw at them. Hundreds audition every year across the globe. Only a handful ultimately get hired." - WBEZ (Chicago)
"To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pulp Fiction, Variety spoke with more than 20 members of the film’s cast and crew about their experiences, recollections and insights." - Variety
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