The Beaux Arts Trio would go on to play more than 4,000 concerts throughout the world while recording virtually all the standard trio repertory. - Washington Post
Few audiences had ever heard a Black singer perform in an opera house when Ms. Bumbry was growing up in St. Louis in the 1930s and ’40s, the daughter of a railway clerk and a schoolteacher. - Washington Post
Raymond Chandler, in 1945, "described Hollywood as a cauldron of 'egos,' 'credit stealing' and 'self-promotion' where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of respect; toiling at the mercy of producers, some of whom, he wrote, had 'the artistic integrity of slot machines.'" - Los Angeles Times
"Might they not unite over what they have in common? They all want sustainable communities and good design. Architects and the monarch also have a shared enemy: the sacrifice of positive architectural qualities to housebuilders’ pursuit of profit." - The Observer (UK)
"Remixing maypole dancing is just one of the myriad ways that English folk culture is currently having a reboot, thanks to a new wave of switched-on folkies diversifying the scene." - BBC
Dreyfuss: "No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that. You have to let life be life." - The Guardian (UK)
Sure. Here's a list of "a few unconventional work novels that remind us of the way things once were, offer alternatives to the way we approach our jobs and, perhaps, spur us onward to new horizons." - LitHub
Thanks to the massivehit series The Glory and, of course, Squid Game, Netflix's Ted Sarandos has invested a lot of money into developing Korean shows that, he says, "are now at the heart of the global cultural zeitgeist.” - The New York Times
The genre of movie doesn't matter - the point is, this kind of movie is never going to sell at movie theatres. But it can grab you and keep you when it plays on streaming. - BBC
"What is consistently missing in the national conversation about book banning: the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print and finally realize they aren’t alone." - The New York Times
This is the future of ChatGPT. "Watson should be bragging in its stilted voice, not fading into irrelevance. But its trajectory is happening all over again; part of what doomed the technology is now poised to chip away at the potential of popular AI products today." - The Atlantic
"Generally, there is something subversive and inspiring about the people Maria Isabel Sánchez Vegara chooses to immortalize (RuPaul! David Bowie!), which raises the question, what 'big dreams' did Prince Charles have as the lifelong successor to his mother’s empire and the £1 billion Duchy of Cornwall?" - LitHub
Arreguín "fused the tools of classical oil painting with Mexican folk traditions, compressing fine art and ancient craft into stretched canvases that often stood taller than he did. ... For 60 years he painted with few pauses, channeling explosive energy into methodically composed canvases." - Hyperallergic
Jenna Segal is intent on buying art by women from Peggy Guggenheim's 1943 Exhibition of 31 Women. That show contained "names that would later be etched into history," including Frida Kahlo, Leonora Carrington, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Meret Oppenheim. - The New York Times
The Asian American bookstore was never just abou the books - the owners' vision was to create a place "that used books and reading and knowledge to create unity, and to be able to bring people more and more into the movement to change the world." - NPR
