"Where modern theatre takes bold, controversial steps in some directions, on the matter of the monarchy, dissenting voices rarely make their way to a mainstream stage. Instead, recent dramatisations of royal life are almost universally positive and rarely, if ever, directly political." - Whynow (UK)
Kindle is to literature what Instagram or TikTok are to visual images, or Spotify to music. They have their uses, but it would be absurd for the British Library, the National Gallery or the Proms to rely on them to preserve our heritage, let alone declare themselves redundant. - The Critic
"(His) outrageous, sometimes shocking and occasionally — by today's standards — cancel-worthy cartoons are considered some of the funniest single-panel gags to ever appear in National Lampoon, The New Yorker and other magazines." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"I am not resistant to progress, not a Luddite, not an anti-vaxxer. But putting the whole of classical music onto a device that fits into the palm of my hand feels like a devaluation of civilisation." - The Critic
"The decades-long transition from a comic originally serialized in the pages of an alternative magazine to a mainstream, foundational, and even, yes, educational book has created a tension between the kind of text it is and the kind of text it's expected to be." - The Nation
Quite quickly, I figured out that if you want an AI to imitate Raymond Chandler, the last thing you should do is ask it to write like Raymond Chandler. That produces a tepid, banal rip-off. - The Atlantic
"Ngaire Blankenberg, a museum and cultural consultant who took up the post in July 2021, left the museum at the end of March, a spokeswoman for the Smithsonian confirmed. While the institution declined to discuss personnel matters, sources have (said) that Blankenberg was pushed to resign." - The Art Newspaper
"'We have had over 40 new advertisers come into the hour since we launched the new program, including some of the largest in the country and, really, across all major categories,' says Jeff Collins, executive vice president of ad sales at Fox News Media." - Variety
As of 2023, the tally, which includes some contemporary as well as ballet-based companies, is 36% women and 64% men. (Among US companies, the breakdown appears to be 50-50.) - Dance Data Project
"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook (2 billion page views). In April 2023, this was down to 11% (1.5 billion)." - Press Gazette (UK)
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... announced a major new effort ... toward returning items it finds to have problematic histories. The core feature of the new plan is to hire a provenance research team that is as robust as any in place at an American museum." - The New York Times
"What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn't cutting it." - The Hollywood Reporter
"His appointment on a five-year contract (beginning in 2024) was announced Tuesday. The 52-year-old (conductor and composer) had not led the orchestra or been to Kansas City until arriving for rehearsals two days ahead of concerts from March 3-5." - AP
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept. 26. - The New York Times
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model, and broken it in fundamental ways.” - Los Angeles Times
