The fight over Notre Dame’s windows isn’t really about windows. Claire Tabouret’s proposed stained glass would replace Viollet-le-Duc’s 19th-century panels — undamaged ones — and a lawsuit is now trying to stop it (ARTnews).
The Kennedy Center’s cascading cancellations continue — New York City Ballet has pulled out of its scheduled performances there (The New York Times). Hyperallergic argues that progressive art faces a double bind: the world is hostile to socially engaged work but perfectly happy to borrow its language for branding and real estate (Hyperallergic). And in Britain, a new report finds that Black genres have generated £24.5 billion of the UK music industry’s £30 billion recorded music market. (The Guardian).
And it turns out we’ve all been mispronouncing Thoreau. Now Meryl Streep is involved (The New York Times).
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