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- Why Derek Dixon Decided To Go Public With Claims Against Tyler Perry
“Everyone deserves to go to work and do their job without their boss trying to have sex with them. … My goal is to help ensure that the next generation of actors and creatives don’t have to choose between their dreams and their dignity.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
- Sometimes, You Just Need A DVD
“Amid the streaming deluge, there are signs — small, tenuous and anecdotal, but real — of a rebellion.” – The New York Times
- As The Kennedy Center Loses Subscribers, What Will This Mean For The National Symphony Orchestra?
It’s not great: Subscriptions are down 36 percent. But “complicating things for a number of NSO supporters … is the energy surrounding the orchestra itself, which remains infectiously high, ascendant and alive with promise, especially following last season’s extension of music director Gianandrea Noseda’s contract.” – Washington Post (MSN)
- Music Law Is Not Keeping Up With Technology
Musicians dealing not only with tiny streaming payments but now software-created “musicians” that steal even that limited option say they need some legal support. – CBC
- Two Longtime Jazz Hosts In San Francisco Say They Were Forced Off The Air
The tale is a wild, sad one, and what’s at fault? The California’s public employees’ retirement system. – San Francisco Chronicle
- The New Zealand Men’s Rugby Team Had A Problem With Their Toes – Until They Studied Ballet
The issue with “turf toe” (a ligament stress, or tear) was ending careers – until a coach visited the New Zealand Ballet and asked pointed questions. – New Zealand Herald (Internet Archive)
- A Poet Reaches The Final Stretch Of Her Two Decades With Dante
One of the things Mary Jo Bang had to change: Rhyming. “I knew I could not maintain the rhyme scheme that he had invented for that poem. English is a rhyme poor language compared to the romance languages.” – NPR
- How Videogames Became The Newest Battleground For Humans Vs AI
“We knew that this was the issue of most existential importance. … This is a medium that is fundamentally digitized.” – Wired
- The BBC Fired A Presenter After Tons Of Allegations, But What Happens To The Show’s Unaired New Season?
A former winner of MasterChef says, “”I can’t imagine what it would be like for people who’ve waited all this time, biting their nails, only to be told that no-one is going to see your achievements, your stresses, your growth. It would be awful.” – BBC
- When A Writer Becomes A Bestseller, She Longs Never To Be Recognized In Public
“Early in her career, she published five novels that were critically acclaimed but only moderately successful, while managing to avoid the industry pressure to concentrate on a single genre or series.” Then came Mexican Gothic. – The New York Times
- A Washington Post Art Critic Does Seven Midwestern Museums In Five Days, Returns With Ideas
Putting aside that most of the museums – in Detroit, Toledo, Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City – could occupy one or two days on their own: “Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. … But none of America’s museums are insulated from the real world.” – Washington Post
- Eric Idle, Embarking On A Post-Cancer Tour Of The UK, Has Some Choice Words For The US
The former Monty Python star: “I’ve had a green card for about 28 years. I’d be proud to be thrown out because I’d be in very select company. The last English comedian to be thrown out of America for political reasons was Charlie Chaplin.” – The Guardian (UK)
- How Is Winnipeg’s Music Festival Thriving While Other Events Are In Deep Trouble?
“Rising fees for performers, a punishing U.S. exchange rate, reduced consumer spending and higher insurance charges have combined to pose existential threats to Canadian non-profit music festivals.” But Winnipeg is hopping. – CBC
- The Multitude Of Ways Trump Is Preventing Musicians From Other Countries Getting To The US
It’s not pretty. Yet organizers persist. Why? “When you’re in the same room as the artist, when you feel the music move through your body, when you see the emotion on their face and hear their story — that creates a bond. … It counters propaganda. It softens xenophobia.” – Seattle Times
- In A Tough Hollywood Job Market, YouTube And Other Social Media Provide Aa Rare Bright Spot
Yes, it’s true: “That part of the industry, once dominated by amateurs making funny viral videos with smartphones has blossomed into a formidable entertainment force, where video creators are setting up real businesses with large studios in Southern California funded through advertising by major brands. – Los Angeles Times
- Adrian Rodriguez talks about the importance of young people in the arts
Adrian Rodriguez, Director of Community Engagement, Chorus Director and Curriculum Manager of the Music Advancement Program at The Juilliard School, shares how to implement a commitment to young people as they develop in the arts.
- Did Shakespeare Really Smoke Weed? The Answer Is Yes.
Some clay pipe fragments dug up from his backyard garden in Stratford-upon-Avon and dating from the time he lived there were found to contain cannabis residue. Okay, technically this evidence is circumstantial: there’s no proof that Shakespeare himself left those pipes there. (Maybe they were planted by the Earl of Oxford.) – Literary Hub
- Does It Matter if That Art You Liked Was Fake?
I wondered what it meant if the Greek water jar I had been so moved by, depicting a woman who may have been Sappho bent over a scroll, had in fact been a worthless copy. Did that make the experience any less real? – The Guardian
- The Bayeux Tapestry Was Too Fragile To Move. So Now It’s Visiting England? What Changed?
The shift in tone may seem stark, but the Bayeux Museum said it had carried out tests – including a dress rehearsal with a model – that persuaded its experts that the tapestry could be sent to the UK without excessive damage. – The Guardian
- The Avignon Festival Copes With Ever-Increasing Temperatures
Days over 100°F are no longer rare, with serious effects on audiences and workers. … Recent changes include eliminating performances between 2:00 and 5:00 p.m., the hottest hours, … (and) a new rule for international artists: If you’re coming from overseas, you must have other touring dates in Europe. – The New York Times
- Scrappy Indie Publisher John Martin, 94
Martin, an adventurous independent publisher who brought out the raucous work of the poet Charles Bukowski, as well as the writing of other offbeat literary rebels like Paul Bowles, John Fante and Wyndham Lewis, died on June 23 at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif. – The New York Times
- Casing The Joint: Homeland Security Descends On Chicago’s National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts
According to the museum, officers told staff that they were there in an attempt to assess places where undocumented immigrants might enter and leave the museum at upcoming events. – Artnet
- Oakland Eliminates Its Top Arts Manager Position
The Oakland City Council passed a budget on June 11 that eliminated its Cultural Affairs Manager position, citing budgetary concerns. But critics say money-saving justifications haven’t been made in good faith. – San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
- Remember The Collective That Sold Pieces Of A Damien Hirst Painting Dot By Dot? Look At What They’re Up To Now.
“Billed as a ‘financial trust fall,’ the project” — a sculpture of an infant, built to be taken apart and divided, which the collective MSCHF has titled King Solomon’s Baby — “invites collectors to take the plunge (and buy a piece), hoping others will follow suit in a reverse pyramid scheme that’s artfully self-aware.” – ARTnews
- How Ancient Water Clocks Changed Our Notions Of Time
As ancient civilisations began to need more reliable timekeeping mechanisms, the technology took an extraordinary leap forward with the advent of dependable water clocks, which would remain the best technology available for the next 1,800 years. – Aeon
- Museums Are Rethinking The Environmental Costs Of Collection Climate Controls
These decades-old guidelines determine the temperature and relative humidity at which museums maintain their collections, but implementing them comes with high energy costs and carbon footprints. – The Art Newspaper
- How Slow-Motion Became The Movies’ Go-To Effect
The “slow-mo effect,” is retrospective, a trick of memory. Still, it indicates a remarkable theatricality, a cinematic flair, on the part of our brains. “We might experience almost everything in some form of slow motion if we thought that we were always dying.” – The New Republic
- Afghan Seen In Documentary “Retrograde” Was Killed By Taliban; His Family Sues Filmmakers
“Omar, (an) Afghan minesweeper tasked with protecting Green Berets, … was allegedly tracked down from a scene in Retrograde. … The estate accused the documentary’s producers of exploiting Omar’s identity for ‘commercial gain while knowingly placing him in grave danger’.” The producers say they’re protected by the First Amendment. – The Hollywood Reporter
- Gen Zers Are Flocking To NYC Art Schools
The surge comes as many young adults grapple with fears about the impacts of artificial intelligence, a sense of internet overload and a desire to reconnect with the physical world. – Gothamist
- How Trump’s BBBill Will Impact Non-Profits
Provisions in the new law raise unsettling questions about how the nonprofit world will be affected — and the answers may not be known for months or years. – Chronicle of Philanthropy
- Creative Tree Of The Year?
Ten nominees have been chosen to meet this year’s theme of “rooted in culture”, which seeks to highlight how trees inspire creative minds and become ingrained in the cultural landscape. – The Guardian
- Kyoto’s Overtourism Problem May Be Even Worse Than Amsterdam’s Or Barcelona’s
“Last year, more tourists visited Kyoto than Barcelona, Amsterdam, or even Paris. … (It’s a) conundrum with no obvious solutions. Tokyo and Osaka are big enough to soak up tourists the same way New York and London can, but Kyoto is hemmed in by mountains, which keeps the city from expanding.” – New York Magazine
- The Struggle For Pregnancy Protections And Parental Leave In The Ballet World
“Because the policies that do exist vary so widely, dancers can be impacted in different ways depending on which company they’re a part of; whether they’re freelancers or full-time; and, in some cases, what their role is within the company.” – Elle
- Famous Art Detective Arthur Brand Recovers Stolen Documents So Historic That They’re UNESCO-Listed
The cache of papers, dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries, was stolen from the National Archives of the Netherlands in 2015. Among the recovered papers are archives from the early days of the world’s first multinational corporation, the Dutch East India Company. – France 24
- How Websites Are Coping With The Collapse In Referred Traffic
“The problem started with Facebook pivoting away from the news in 2022, and has accelerated in recent months as Google makes seemingly corrosive changes to its search algorithm while rolling out the innovation that will one day replace traditional search results: AI summaries.” – New York Magazine (MSN)
