"The owners of 54 Below, a popular forum for both Broadway stars and rising performers and composers, say they intend to raise close to 20 percent of an annual budget approaching $10 million from supporters ... to offer discounted tickets and subsidize artists' production costs (and) livestreaming." - The New York Times
"The DVD service, which still delivers films and TV shows in the red-and-white envelopes that once served as Netflix’s emblem, plans to mail its final discs on Sept. 29, … ending an era that began a quarter century ago when delivering discs through the mail was considered a revolutionary concept." - AP
Effective immediately, Alexander Shelley, a 43-year-old native Londoner who's also Principal Associate Conductor of that city's Royal Philharmonic, has been appointed artistic and music director of the Naples Philharmonic and Artis—Naples. He succeeds Andrey Boreyko, who stepped down last summer. - Naples (Fla.) Daily News
My findings suggest that girls are internalising and aspiring to the beauty ideals that they are consuming via social media. There is a pressure to adopt a polished, physical appearance through filters, which may have emotional repercussions. - The Conversation
A projection system, true to its name, projects images onto the big screen. An LED wall is akin to a sophisticated, massive TV screen, and its use would render the projection booth a thing of the past. - The Hollywood Reporter
While Apple Music Classical is a step in the right direction, classical music’s streaming problem will not be so easily solved. - MusicBusiness Worldwide
Baumgarten’s theory of good poetry had a kind of absurd, computer-sciencey brilliance to it: good poetry is simply a large quantity of sensate thought. The trick to this absurd-sounding idea is that, to think a lot but all at once, we have to think associatively, self-referentially, vividly, temporally. - Aeon
Each year a number of key trends stand out. For 2023 it was applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for game development, with the future shape of the gaming experience – with and without virtual reality (VR) – high on the agenda. - The Conversation
Do you study creativity by analyzing people commonly acknowledged to be creative and figure out what they all have in common? Or could someone who has never actually created anything be creative, in the way that innately intelligent people can end up in unskilled jobs? - The New Yorker
"While she didn't do it alone, Virginia Johnson" — who had previously danced with the company for 28 years — "played an important role in reviving the organization's gem, its storied professional company, which had been forced to go on hiatus for several years because of financial difficulties." - The New York Times
Barely more than a decade later, the internet is not the tool. I am the tool. Somehow, I have been instrumentalized by the internet, which operates me through my phone. It often feels like the internet is reading my mind. - Slate
"The defamation lawsuit Paradise Square producer Garth Drabinsky filed against Actors' Equity has been dismissed with prejudice. … Drabinsky sued the union, claiming defamation, after it placed him on its 'Do Not Work' list following his production of (the musical on Broadway)." - The Hollywood Reporter
One reason we keep missing the mark is that Vermeer’s era straddled two quite different ideas of what painting might be—the old one of religious and mythological allusions to be untangled, and the proto-modern one of a reflection of personal experience. - The Atlantic
"The judge hearing the wrongful death lawsuit against actor Alec Baldwin and an array of producers linked to a fatal film set shooting agreed Monday to seal from public view the terms of a proposed settlement agreement in the case that benefits the son of slain cinematographer Halyna Hutchins." - AP
The movement, under the banner of “the science of reading,” is targeting the education establishment: school districts, literacy gurus, publishers and colleges of education, which critics say have failed to embrace the cognitive science of how children learn to read. - The New York Times
