"The building’s remarkable story of survival, transformation and resistance makes it a poignant location for cultural activities that promote dyadic education and exchange within the West Bank and the rest of the world." - The Art Newspaper
Basically, the studio was not - at the time - on board with a feminist version. "She said she should’ve known the project wasn’t for her when the studio gifted her a pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes to celebrate her casting." - Variety
"In response to the ever-growing anxiety around technology, they conjured up characters who were eager to learn and discover the tactile world around them. ... The trio imagined a show that would capture the feeling of a painting come to life, full of vibrant colors and pantomime." - Mental Floss
Why are new plays about historical trans and queer folks important? "These queer stories give us reassurance that we’re not alone now, and we haven’t ever been alone. These stories remind us that queer people have always been and will always be a part of humanity." - American Theatre
"To most people, A.I. is an abstraction, something akin to magic. That's dangerous. We would do better to think about it as we do with physical infrastructure, like roads or processing plants, with their vulnerabilities and real-world consequences." - Slate
Individual creators on TikTok, Insta, and other social media streams won't be required to have a certain percentage of Canadian content, or Indigenous rep - only commercial broadcasters are included in the law. - CBC
Ben Davis: "For me, getting an overview of the twists and turns of the Komar & Melamid corpus here … is something like a moment of zooming out from a maze, seeing it from above, and realizing suddenly that there is no way out." - Artnet
The screenwriter had to turn the author's "dense first-person prose, which featured its hero monologuing at length on CB radio and offering long sections of exposition about Klaxon Oil’s sideline in arms dealing, into a screenplay." And then there's the daughter. - LitHub
Philip Kennicott: "They are accidentally beautiful, rather like an 80-degree day in January is accidentally pleasurable. To some, they may suggest the science-fiction scenography of a dystopian film; to others, they render the present moment visually akin to Eugène Atget's 19th-century France — haunting, sepulchral, yet oddly beautiful." - MSN (The Washington Post)
The 34-year-old show is ... good again? Like the old days. The really old days. "Aficionados know there were some great episodes even in the Dark Ages ... every episode feels like the 'Treehouse of Horror' Halloween special now in terms of its ambition." - Vulture
"Rivers, who wrote gags at all hours, paid close attention to setups and punchlines, typing them up and cross-referencing them by categories like 'Parents hated me' or 'Las Vegas' or 'No sex appeal.' The largest subject area is 'Tramp,' which includes 1,756 jokes." - The New York Times
The institution in question is the Mütter Museum, which is focused on anatomy. The actions by new leaders, "mostly centered on concerns about displaying human remains, include taking down much of the Mütter's online presence, backing off programming, and questioning the appropriateness of popular Mütter exhibits." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Despite his success in the United States, … Millepied says it is easier to work in France. … But French society can feel less inclusive. It is something which his newly-formed Paris Dance Project, an incubator of young talent in the capital's suburbs, is aimed at combatting." - Yahoo! (AFP)
Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, said proudly that bringing Under the Radar to the theater was "the first artistic choice I made" in his then-new job. Yet the pressures that led the Public to stop hosting the festival are serious, and they aren't going away. - The New York Times
"Mark Walters, who hosts the Salem Radio Networks-distributed 'Armed American Radio' program, is suing OpenAI after its ChatGPT program accused him of embezzling funds from the Second Amendment Foundation. Walters says he is the victim of what is called an AI 'hallucination,' when the technology generates false events." - Inside Radio
