"The condition of fugitivity emerged from a radical imagination capable of envisioning existence beyond oppression. As a refusal of captivity, it entailed an inner transformation – a reorientation of consciousness that makes escape conceivable in the first place." - Aeon
That is, to a children's hospital where the kids are sometimes in their rooms for hundreds of days. "We wanted to give the children something that was a spectacle. ... So we chose pieces that were very visually exciting, and music as well, that would be very exciting for them.” - Chicago Tribune
"I was thinking about Celine Dion or Billie Eilish or, you know, Beyonce and why some singers come across as important or authentic or legitimate, and other singers, like Celine Dion, for instance, are sort of brushed off as singing kind of inauthentic." - NPR
Asturias, who died in 1974, "went into exile after a 1954 coup led by Gen. Carlos Castillo Armas, who revoked his passport and stripped him of his Guatemalan citizenship, labeling him a communist. Asturias’ final visit to Guatemala took place in 1966." - Seattle Times (Associated Press)
"Gray returns to the New York crime movie because he relishes exploring who holds power in an economic system — and city — where everyone is desperate to get ahead." - Washington Post
"The title role — a Black general goaded into killing his white wife by his underling Iago — is one of theater’s great challenges. It is technically and psychologically difficult, swinging from affection and command to paranoia and femicide, and the text itself has an ugly history." - The New York Times
"Alibris has inked a deal to make over a million books available on Temu’s massive digital marketplace." Er ... will they all be bought, scanned, and pulped by AI model companies? - LitHub
As if constant AI use and keystroke surveillance isn't enough: "In the vast majority of states, if an employer decides to implement facial monitoring, employees will have little option but to smile for the camera." - Fast Company
"The claim centers on that 1936 sale, which ... took place three months after the family had left Berlin for Vienna. The Nazis restricted what departing Jews could take with them, and according to Schnabel’s research, the family was forced to pay the 'Reich flight tax.'" - The New York Times
"Stars of a certain caliber demanded certain privileges in their contracts: quote approval, cover approval, cover-or-nothing. Vanity Fair wished to appear to grant these privileges but really had no intention of doing so." - LitHub
"Auctioneers estimated it would sell for over $1m, but on Thursday a Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the famous 'I am your father' scene from The Empire Strikes Back ended up selling for nearly $5m." - The Guardian (UK)
When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers' Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of "reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles." - American Theatre
"Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you." - The New York Times
"'We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.' ... All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings 'to the equivalent of a box of equations.'" - The New York Times
CanCon, or Canadian content, is "a set of rules for minimum broadcast percentages of music and television originating in Canada. Launched in the early '70s, the rules require that roughly a third of Canadian radio airplay consist of Canadian artists or songs."- Slate
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. - The Christian Science Monitor
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. - ARTnews
"The condition of fugitivity emerged from a radical imagination capable of envisioning existence beyond oppression. As a refusal of captivity, it entailed an inner transformation – a reorientation of consciousness that makes escape conceivable in the first place." - Aeon
Against the suggestion that the furor over phones is no different from past outcries over new technologies, some point to novel features of social media—exploitative algorithms or “infinite scrolling”—to argue that this case is different. - Boston Review
Each of us had imagined a life that exceeded the border and acted upon that imagination. In that sense, the prison did not simply contain border-crossers; it brought together people whose aspirations had collided with the territorial imaginary of the nation-state. - Aeon
Your bank’s app is down. The pharmacy cannot pull up your prescription. Your paycheck is late because the payroll company unplugged its system to be safe. None of it is a catastrophe on its own. All of it, every week, is a different country from the one we live in now. - Washington Post
As if constant AI use and keystroke surveillance isn't enough: "In the vast majority of states, if an employer decides to implement facial monitoring, employees will have little option but to smile for the camera." - Fast Company
"'We won’t really be elevating the moral status of A.I.' ... All we’ll be doing is reducing living human beings 'to the equivalent of a box of equations.'" - The New York Times
Several companies have been helping migrants apply for UK visas under the government’s Global Talent program by creating fake art portfolios, complete with fake published art criticism and art news. - ARTnews
For a hefty fee, these companies will fabricate forged portfolios, with fake images of work and forged review clips, for applications for the Global Talent visa, which can lead to permanent residency in three to five years and is one of a very few UK visas which doesn’t require demonstrated fluency in English. -...
For decades, the Kennedy Center has used a not-for-profit platform called Tessitura to handle its ticketing. But the Kennedy Center plans to partner with the ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster. - NPR
These discussions, championed by at least one economics research and advisory firm in partnership with a major Australian arts festival, are instead thinking about the arts activities as powerful economic ‘enablers’ and strategic assets which help facilitate wider cultural, economic and social objectives. - ArtsHub
"I was thinking about Celine Dion or Billie Eilish or, you know, Beyonce and why some singers come across as important or authentic or legitimate, and other singers, like Celine Dion, for instance, are sort of brushed off as singing kind of inauthentic." - NPR
CanCon, or Canadian content, is "a set of rules for minimum broadcast percentages of music and television originating in Canada. Launched in the early '70s, the rules require that roughly a third of Canadian radio airplay consist of Canadian artists or songs."- Slate
The number-one issue for the choristers, instrumentalists, and ballet dancers at the Opéra de Nice is low pay. Union spokespeople say some of their members net as little as €1,600 a month — in a resort city where housing costs are unusually high. - Riviera Radio (Monaco)
A blaze apparently caused by a short circuit tore through his Paris apartment last Sunday, destroying his piano as well as a large collection of scores and manuscripts. - ResMusica (via Google Translate)
Such a superhuman magnification of the individual is unsettling to behold at close range. I witnessed the internal mechanics when I followed Radiohead on tour in 2000. Members of the band were variously thrilled, unnerved, and scared by what they were unleashing—a healthily complex reaction. - The New Yorker
The $2 million raised after the orchestra was abruptly furloughed last month is only enough, according to the musicians, to keep the Symphony running through the end of 2026. An 11-member commission of musicians, management, and civic leaders is trying to develop a “sustainable” plan to keep the PSO operating. - Phoenix New Times
"The claim centers on that 1936 sale, which ... took place three months after the family had left Berlin for Vienna. The Nazis restricted what departing Jews could take with them, and according to Schnabel’s research, the family was forced to pay the 'Reich flight tax.'" - The New York Times
On Wednesday, Artnet announced that it had partnered with Kalshi, the prediction-market platform that lets users bet on everything from election results to sporting events. Artnet will become Kalshi’s official art partner, helping select markets and supplying the auction data used to determine which bets pay out. - ARTnews
Inspired by last weekend’s attempt by Chicagoans to move the Anish Kapoor sculpture Cloud Gate seven inches to the left, Londoners will gather on Saturday and try to push John Nash’s 1827 monument seven inches left. The stated reason for these two efforts is the same: to free anyone trapped inside. - Ocula
“All exhibitors who participated in the most recent edition of Art Basel Paris, which closed two days early because of planned protests, will get a 20 percent reduction on their final invoices. … Additionally, tickets purchased for that weekend have already been refunded.” - ARTnews
“We will exceptionally be extending a 20 percent reduction on booth fees to all galleries that participated in the Paris fair, in recognition of the closure,” on October 24–25, Art Basel chief executive Noah Horowitz told ARTnews in an interview. - ARTnews
"Alibris has inked a deal to make over a million books available on Temu’s massive digital marketplace." Er ... will they all be bought, scanned, and pulped by AI model companies? - LitHub
"Stars of a certain caliber demanded certain privileges in their contracts: quote approval, cover approval, cover-or-nothing. Vanity Fair wished to appear to grant these privileges but really had no intention of doing so." - LitHub
Before the late 1800s, printers had to arrange letters one-by-one on metal plates, a slow and painstaking process. Media maven Jeff Jarvis points out that, once the Linotype machine appeared toward the end of the 19th century, books and periodicals could be printed quickly enough to meet booming public demand. - The Christian Science...
Author and critic Olivia Laing agrees it’s taken the literary world “an embarrassingly long time to clock that you don’t need realism to write about how it feels to inhabit late capitalism and unravelling modernity”. - The Guardian
There were codices of Nahuatl hieroglyphics before the conquistadors arrived, but they were all either burned by militant Catholic priests or lost to time. Secretly, though, indigenous scholars collected oral history and wrote it down, usually in Nahuatl using the Spanish alphabet, and a surprising amount has survived until today. - History Today
The maker of an anthology can’t help being aware of the contemporary reputation of poets. But he knows, too, that this enterprise, this book, will be a chance to amend that reputation. - Hudson Review
"Gray returns to the New York crime movie because he relishes exploring who holds power in an economic system — and city — where everyone is desperate to get ahead." - Washington Post
"Auctioneers estimated it would sell for over $1m, but on Thursday a Star Wars lightsaber used by Darth Vader in the famous 'I am your father' scene from The Empire Strikes Back ended up selling for nearly $5m." - The Guardian (UK)
The bill does not distinguish between aggregation and republication. Tech platforms would have to pay even when they surface news link previews or story snippets in their products, including AI search products. The law would also force platforms to compensate publishers when their journalism is used to train AI models. - NiemanLab
“From testing cycle-safety technology to teaching self-driving vehicles to avoid hazards on the roads, researchers have been jerry-rigging the Grand Theft Auto games into experiments that promise to make accidents and injuries on roads less likely.” - BBC
Pending FCC approval, Central Piedmont Community College, PBS Charlotte’s licensee, will transfer ownership of the station’s broadcast license and equipment to the University of North Carolina system, licensee of the statewide PBS North Carolina network. The Charlotte outlet lost 22% of its budget when federal funding was rescinded. - Current
People themselves made the choices. They selected the postcards they bought, the people they wrote to, and the images they collected. More than a century before platforms started automating this process, political communities were already creating selective environments of their own. - Eurozine
That is, to a children's hospital where the kids are sometimes in their rooms for hundreds of days. "We wanted to give the children something that was a spectacle. ... So we chose pieces that were very visually exciting, and music as well, that would be very exciting for them.” - Chicago Tribune
“For me, the French school of ballet is the best in the world. Thanks to this program, our ballet school in Santiago has been transformed — not just in terms of its technique, but in terms of its way of thinking.” - The New York Times
“Those quarter-size Ping-Pong tables can be merged to make half-size or full-size ones, and that’s a pretty good metaphor for what (choreographer Cherrie Yu’s) Daily Diversions does: It takes Ping-Pong apart and puts it back together.” - The New York Times
In a partnership with Google, immersive media company YB and augmented reality company XREAL, SFB is presenting Nutcracker: The Immersive Experience, a specially recorded performance of the company’s production (choreography by Helgi Tomasson) for home viewing on VR platforms. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
“The Company's final year will feature Memory Palace, a retrospective project (beginning) with a two-week festival at New York Live Arts in March 2027, followed by a final tour through December 2027. Beyond the Company's conclusion, Memory Palace will continue to evolve through exhibitions and the creation of a legacy film.” - BroadwayWorld
“Let’s dispel the myth about BalletBoyz — it’s not an all-male company and never has been. There were women in their first shows 25 years ago, in this show and others in between, while the ensemble’s lineup can change every year.” Founders William Trevitt and Michael Nunn never liked the name, anyway. - The...
"The title role — a Black general goaded into killing his white wife by his underling Iago — is one of theater’s great challenges. It is technically and psychologically difficult, swinging from affection and command to paranoia and femicide, and the text itself has an ugly history." - The New York Times
When Daniel Singer died in September, his and his co-writers' Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) had inspired 45 years of "reverently irreverent send-ups of beloved and/or sacred subjects performed by small casts of fast, funny, and physical performers playing multiple roles." - American Theatre
“The programme will combine National Theatre touring productions with workshops, schools tours and skills development activities. Young people will be able to explore acting, directing, playwriting and backstage roles. … Thousands of subsidised £10 tickets will be made available to young people, while productions aimed specifically at school audiences will visit 400 schools.” -...
“Artistic director Alden Ehrenreich turned a historic 1906 Pacific Electric Railway power station into an artistic playground with hipster vibes, alluring music, a younger-than-usual audience and high-end soap in the bathroom.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
The South Carolina New Play Festival (SCNPF) announced that it will move from a summer-only festival to a year-round festival with a summer and winter season. - Greenville Business Magazine
Overall the industry gross rose 24 percent and attendance 15 percent thanks to the addition of the two new shows, as well as the rebound from Halloween and marathon weekend. - The Hollywood Reporter
Asturias, who died in 1974, "went into exile after a 1954 coup led by Gen. Carlos Castillo Armas, who revoked his passport and stripped him of his Guatemalan citizenship, labeling him a communist. Asturias’ final visit to Guatemala took place in 1966." - Seattle Times (Associated Press)
"Anything that forces you to do a bunch of therapy and think deeply and read a bunch of books and travel — anything that throws you off is actually potentially very, very good for you." - The New York Times
“Eleanor ‘Gay’ Courter, an author of best-selling fiction, nonfiction, and memoir; her husband, Philip Courter, a film director; Yves Gladu, a professional underwater photographer; his wife, Brigitte; and his sister-in-law, Annette May Pesty, have been charged with conspiracy. Some also face charges of money laundering and receiving stolen goods.” (All are over 75.) -...
Though he had an active career spanning four continents, he’s best known for stepping in mid-performance as Radames in Aida at La Scala after Roberto Alagna stormed off the stage because he was booed. Palombi’s body was found during a wellness check after he failed to show up for rehearsal in Mainz, Germany. -...
“Jemima Goldsmith, executive producer of movies including The Voice of Hind Rajab and The Bibi Files, has alleged that Russell Brand was abusive during their relationship. … Goldsmith (who also goes by Jemima Khan) accused Brand of ‘violence, coercive control and abuse’ during their relationship in 2013-14.” - Deadline
“Fisketjon stayed with Knopf for 29 years, where he worked with many of the novelists who would come to define the American literary canon of the late 20th century” — among them Don DeLillo, Donna Tartt, Cormac McCarthy, Annie Dillard, Bret Easton Ellis, Patricia Highsmith, and Tobias Wolff. - Publishers Weekly
The Fountain Theatre (Los Angeles, CA) is excited to hire a full-time Managing Director who will co-lead the organization alongside the Artistic Director.
Washington National Opera seeks a Director of Artistic Planning and Operations to lead casting, season planning, artistic budgets, and orchestra and artistic department operations.
"The condition of fugitivity emerged from a radical imagination capable of envisioning existence beyond oppression. As a refusal of captivity, it entailed an inner transformation – a reorientation of consciousness that makes escape conceivable in the first place." - Aeon
"I was thinking about Celine Dion or Billie Eilish or, you know, Beyonce and why some singers come across as important or authentic or legitimate, and other singers, like Celine Dion, for instance, are sort of brushed off as singing kind of inauthentic." - NPR
"The title role — a Black general goaded into killing his white wife by his underling Iago — is one of theater’s great challenges. It is technically and psychologically difficult, swinging from affection and command to paranoia and femicide, and the text itself has an ugly history." - The New York Times
“The Company's final year will feature Memory Palace, a retrospective project (beginning) with a two-week festival at New York Live Arts in March 2027, followed by a final tour through December 2027. Beyond the Company's conclusion, Memory Palace will continue to evolve through exhibitions and the creation of a legacy film.” - BroadwayWorld
“Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history." Booker Prize Foundation CEO Gaby Wood called it "the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world.” - The...
The rap artist wrote that after Ed Sheeran removed him from the Sheeran tour, his team reached out to arenas with available dates. "But once they found out these were my benefit shows for Palestine, ... those dates were suddenly off the table.” - The New York Times
She said, as she accepted the Vanguard Award, she felt rage for all of her female collaborators over the years, "rage for me and even more rage for the entire generation of women who deserve to have their potential recognized and elevated." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Toporkoff has found that she prefers working with mouth-blown glass because of its depth of color and texture and natural imperfections like bubbles and ripples. She sources the glass from Saint-Just Glassworks in the Loire region of France." - The New York Times
"Adams, 73, is attracted to extremes. The more awe-inspiring, the better. It’s what has nourished his singular sound, which doesn’t so much represent as become the natural world." - The New York Times
One of the business leaders helping get the music flowing again: "Getting our musicians on stage again was our top priority. ... Now we must build a financial and operating model that allows the Symphony to thrive, not simply survive from one season to the next." - Arizona Republic (MSN)
“An agreement has not yet been reached and could still fall apart, but the companies have entered into exclusive negotiations. … The Times would acquire the controlling stake in Letterboxd from Tiny, a Canadian-based company which originally picked up a 60% stake in 2023 when the website was valued at just $50 million.” - IndieWire
Over his seven-decade career, he was music director or principal conductor of the flagship orchestras in Oslo, Danish and Swedish Radio, Dresden, San Francisco, and Leipzig — then spent his 80s and 90s as a surprisingly energetic and much-beloved guest conductor all over Europe, the US, and East Asia. - NPR
