"Don’t worry, this sudden cardiac arrest is not in vein. The Giant Heart will reopen in November as the centerpiece of a new, permanent exhibit about the human body, … one of six (such) exhibits that are planned to replace 12 existing ones." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)

The challenge universities are confronting is not just the law but also their own rhetoric. Many universities at the center of the ongoing police crackdowns have long sought to portray themselves as bastions of activism and free thought. - The Atlantic

In New York, the neighborhood restaurant doesn’t have much room for neighbors anymore... Reservations are scooped up fourteen days in advance by residents of SoHo, Aspen, and East Hampton, who likely saw the place on some list, or while doomscrolling TikTok or Eater. - The New Yorker

The superstar conductor, currently of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and soon to be of the New York one, spent spring break week with a specially assembled orchestra of 95 students from public schools across New York City, and reporter Javier Hernández was there. - The New York Times

A book’s demand, condition, publishing history, whether it is signed or inscribed, and even the timing of when a book enters the market are all factors that affect its value. - The Atlantic

Last year WNYC cancelled the popular podcast and laid off its staff, which actually planned out a sort of funeral. But Slate picked up Death, Sex & Money and relaunched it last month. In a Q&A, host Anna Sale talks about the move and what she's been learning from it. - Columbia Journalism Review

Katie uses her interview with Broadway dancer, Ixchel Cuellar (Mean Girls, Finding Neverland, Hamilton) to explore stage presence and the plethora of "dance shows" on Broadway today.

One spring day in 1840, on the bank of Goose Pond in Massachusetts—not far from Walden Pond, where Henry David Thoreau would make his stand—Ralph Waldo Emerson and the poet Jones Very were admiring the interplay of wind and water. “I declare this world is so beautiful that I can hardly believe it exists,” Emerson was moved to say. His more empirically-minded companion noted: “See how each wave rises from the midst with an original force, at the same time that it partakes the general movement.” The exchange appears in Emerson’s journals. It is quoted in God’s Scrivener: The Madness and Meaning of Jones Very, Clark Davis’ biography of the troubled, messianic figure. It may seem improbable, but Very’s remark is an apt metaphor for the constant flow of small-scale studies that attempt to locate specific mental health benefits from arts participation. These studies are as wavelets on a pond....