Arifa Akbar: "Crunching or chewing can be a distraction, especially in the confines of the older, tighter West End venues, but theatre is a group activity. … The group experience is what we come for – and that includes jostling in the foyer, coughing, rustling and, yes, eating or drinking." - The Guardian
"Since the 2000s, there has been a chorus of voices emerging from the comic book community decrying Lichtenstein's lifting of comic art — a cribbing so liberal, they say, as to be more plagiarism than appropriation." - Artnet
"(He) wrote some 60 novels, including westerns, mysteries, science and fantasy fiction, and children's books. But he was best known for two series of novels with enormous mass-market appeal: The Kent Family Chronicles, eight volumes written in the 1970s ..., and the North and South Civil War trilogy." - The New York Times
Deutsche Welle has nine different accounts on the platform, and the oldest of them, Berlin Fresh (launched less than three years ago), has over 350,000 followers. In a Q&A, Deutsche Welle social media strategist and TikTok mastermind Johanna Rüdiger explains how the network has pulled it off. - Mapping Journalism
Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt will announce the £8.6 million ($10.4 million) in funding as part of the UK government's next budget. Scotland's regional government is ambivalent: happy for the money, but suspicious of London paying directly for culture within Scotland, normally funded from Edinburgh. - The National (Scotland)
"On Sunday, Laurent Le Bon, the president of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, signed an agreement with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to develop a large-scale museum for regional and international contemporary art in the country's northwestern desert. Its opening is set for 2028-29." - ARTnews
"The 43-year-old label — which is home to artists like Marc-André Hamelin, Angela Hewitt and Stephen Osborne and represents a catalog of 2,500 recordings, some (of music) dating back to the 12th century — will operate as a standalone label within Universal Music U.K.," with Simon Perry remaining as managing director. - Billboard
Among the damning claims levelled by BBC Singers Acting Co-Directors Jonathan Manners and Rob Johnston is that a “recurring narrative of toxic culture now exists at the BBC, reflected in the working environment from the Director General downwards.” - Deadline
Burny Mattinson became a messenger at Disney, beginning a career that would eventually make him the longest-tenured employee of the company (just shy of seventy years) and one of the last still at the company to have started there when Walt Disney himself was running it. - The New Yorker
Many established poets published lockdown poems offering their own perspective on the power of poetry to make sense of the catastrophe. Slowly but surely whole collections inspired by the pandemic began to appear. - The Conversation
Even in the haze of construction, a seemingly endless swirl of workers, cranes and girders, the enormous scope of the project is coming into focus as its futuristic new home rises in Exposition Park: a grand homage to one of the nation’s best-known filmmakers. - The New York Times
In reference to the recent relabeling process, the Met told CNN in a statement that the institution, "continually researches and examines objects in its collection in order to determine the most appropriate and accurate way to catalogue and present them. - CNN
“We have a history of performance art going back to the 1970s. These were often illegal actions in public spaces only seen by maybe ten friends, but they documented them.” Once the Soviet yoke was lifted, an explosion of creativity followed, giving rise to a dynamic and experimental art scene. - The Art Newspaper
Jane Pauley: "From the beginning, and every decade thereafter, we were following her. No one ever caught up. She had contenders, but she never really surrendered the title of the No. 1 among us." Connie Chung: "She earned the right to be a diva." - New York Magazine
The evolutionary history of our species negates and overturns all previous cosmologies. Ever since Darwin, it seems most fiction writers have pretended not to notice and continue to cater to false backstories. - 3 Quarks Daily
