The design team needs to start by reimagining Lincoln Center as a full square. Currently, three sides of Lincoln Center welcome the public with the fountain, a landscaped plaza, picturesque views of performance spaces and seating for respite. On the fourth, the concrete wall that went up in the 1960s separates. - The New York Times
Generosity, commensurability, conversation—how calm, how dispassionate these words can seem. They do not, however, mean that the critic must be uncritical or mild-mannered. Far from it. - Yale Review
Blocks tend to crop up when we put undue pressure on ourselves to perform or to attempt lofty tasks. These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions, or describe feeling stuck with such precision and humor that they remind us that we’re not alone and the state won’t last forever. - The Atlantic
If you ask me to describe someone I cannot see at that moment, or something, I have no idea how to do it since my mind forms no pictures. The idea that a mind could form pictures is, to me, science fiction. - Hedgehog Review
"Metro Arts violated multiple government policies in the last two years, according to (the) report. … The agency struggled for months to pay artists and arts organizations the grant money they were promised. The audit revealed numerous problems with grant distribution and employment practices that had not yet been publicly known." - WPLN (Nashville)
“We actually can be the place where discourse happens, where the dialogue about these issues surfaces,” she said. Museums are “safer places to do that” than other places in the world, where such discourse would be “extremely dangerous.” - The New York Times
"For many working in the arts across (New South Wales), the tone and priorities of the reformed model come as a surprise and sparks deep concern. Among those concerns is the reduction in funding categories under the tagline ‘Simpler’, which heightens the process's competitive nature and disadvantages smaller organisations." - ArtsHub (Australia)
Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it can’t not. Reading, writing, and thinking have experiential texture. The place and context in which I do those activities shapes them. - Yale Review
"Restored funds include $12.5 million to the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund and $5 million to the California Arts Council, which in turn provides grants to small arts nonprofits." - Broadway World
“The suit claims that UArts failed to follow the 1988 Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, which requires employers with 100 or more employees to give them at least a 60-day notice of a planned closure or mass layoff.” - Hyperallergic
“It’s not just that the ad is a car crash — it’s that the people who poured so much work and money into something so off-putting appear to have thought they were orchestrating a parade.” - The New York Times
On June 3rd, the staff who run the author events program with 120-130 events per year resigned en masse, for the end of the month. Then the board fired them and locked them out. - LitHub
Who could have predicted this was a bad idea? "In the preview versions of Recall, … screenshot data, complete with the user's every bank login, password, and porn site visit would have been indefinitely collected on the user's machine by default.” - Wired
