Juilliard announced on Wednesday that it had received a $15 million gift to help expand creative work across music, dance and drama. An additional $5 million gift will go to the school’s jazz program to support scholarships, performances and teaching. - The New York Times
In certain bodies, to write about yourself at all is already to be pathologized. But there’s a difference between creative work conferring self-knowledge on a par with psychiatric insight and structuring that work to shore up the psychiatric diagnosis or breakthrough. - The Walrus
Today’s Instagrammer no longer chooses one representative photo at a time, creating a grid of images just so; instead, users, especially those belonging to Gen Z, are putting up faux-messy but actually carefully selected compendia showcasing the detritus of their lives. - The New Yorker
"The DGA has long kept animation directors out of the guild. And the chasm between the benefits afforded to live-action directors and animation directors is a growing source of frustration within the filmmaking community. … . But now, as animated films prop up the box office, their frustration is reaching a fever pitch." - TheWrap (MSN)
Carter’s appreciation for the arts began at an early age and has expanded over time. In his autobiography, Why Not The Best?, he wrote that his mother was an avid reader. So was he. “Within my memory, whenever anyone has asked me what I wanted for Christmas or my birthday present, I always replied ‘books." - ArtsATL
Does introducing a new logo in vibrant colors across various forms of signage, digital campaigns and merchandise equate to a brand reset? Perhaps not when the “new” design is eerily reminiscent of the 1972 Massimo Vignelli Bloomingdale’s logo, which also features the signature double ‘o’ ligature. - ARTnews
The group Just Stop Oil, which started the practice of vandalizing artworks in the name of stopping climate change when two students threw tomato soup at van Gogh's Sunflowers, had repeatedly blocked fossil fuel sites without the media or public noticing. Well, they've noticed now, for better or worse. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
The humanities, as it turns out, are pretty hard to kill—though the twentieth century made a good fist of it. Educational modernizers in England during the First World War, around the time of the Battle of the Somme, argued that classical education was responsible for Britain’s inability to beat the Germans. - First Things
On Sunday, September 8, at least 60 people including former workers and supporters protested outside the Queens institution and handed out flyers to inform visitors of the ban, which has been billed by museum leadership as a dress code update prohibiting “political dress” that could make visitors feel “unsafe” or “uncomfortable.” - Hyperallergic
During a performance of Tosca in Seoul last weekend, tenor Alfred Kim was singing an encore when Gheorghiu (who objects to encores) marched onstage, stopped the conductor, and shouted, "This is not a recital. It's a performance. Respect me!" The audience did not reward her at the curtain call. - Korea JoongAng Daily
The problem is more complex than the fact that many texts were lost to the annals of history. Most people just see the most recent translation of the Iliad or works of Cicero on the shelf at a bookstore, and assume that these texts have been handed down in a fairly predictable way generation after generation. - Works in Progress
When the Orchestra needed to take decisive action amid a crisis, the CEO-Board relationship broke down very quickly and led to devastating outcomes for the company. - ArtsHub
"The ultimatum follows the culture ministry’s firing the heads of the Slovak National Theater and Slovak National Gallery in August. … The movement, known as Culture Strike, is coordinated by Open Culture! Platform, an independent group formed in January to 'protect culture in Slovakia from the destructive actions of politicians.'" - ARTnews
The circumstances for studying philosophy in a college or university setting, democratised by the post-Second World War expansion of higher education, are in the midst of great change, if not dying out altogether. - Aeon
"(She was) known for her surreal and sensual 'art machines' incorporating musical instruments, bird feathers and mechanical engineering." - The Guardian
