The plan is to reject the nearly 40 theatres' leases after a bankruptcy filing. "The Chapter 11 process makes it easier for companies to walk away from leases without incurring major penalties and to press landlords for better terms." - Insider
"You might be desperate to find a grant ... to allow you to write for two weeks. Or you might have all the money in the world, but other hindrances to you getting to the page. How do we overcome that and live a life that’s dedicated to art?" - Slate
The arts presenter removed the Philly Pops as a resident company, "shutting the group out of Verizon Hall and removing customers’ ability to buy Pops tickets from its website." - Philadelphia Inquirer
"Officials compare each battle dancer’s moves and style to their opponent’s, with special scrutiny paid to categories called 'body' (physical moves), 'mind' (creativity in response to the music and the opponent’s moves), and 'soul' (interpretive flair and style)." - Fast Company
"Producers and Hutchins’ family members have been eager for the film production to resume," but that was before the charges were revealed. - Los Angeles Times
Inside the story about Hamline University is a much deeper, truer piece of information: It's impossible to teach art history well without pissing people off. - Inside Higher Ed
The feared Hollywood journalist's "ambitions were sometimes thwarted by a slew of factors that, depending on whom you ask, included her being too tough, too emotional, too erratic, or simply being a woman in a man’s profession." - The New York Times
"During a tour in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, one audience showered Ms. Serrano with rapturous applause during a dozen curtain calls. Another implored her to perform her solo a second time in lieu of taking a bow." - Washington Post
Subscriber numbers are "providing an early sign that its shift to include ads in a cheaper version of its video streaming service is helping to combat tougher competition and attract cost-conscious customers grappling with inflation." - CBC (AP)
Maybe. But, says one intellectual property lawyer, "Copyright law is the right to stop people making copies, right? ... It’s not the right to stop people imitating your style." - Fast Company
American expatriates know the French don't like Emily in Paris. Nor do they: They "complain that they have spent years perfecting understated elegance and the rolling of their R’s, only to have a brash Chicagoan ... swoop in and ruin their image." - The New York Times
"This is just so monumentally dumb, though not entirely surprising in a state run by theocrats who’ve already banned the catch-all bogeyman of 'Critical Race Theory,' along with a woman’s right to abortion, while at the same time letting unstable 18-year-olds buy assault rifles." - LitHub
"Panahi, 62, who has won a number of awards at European film festivals, was arrested on 11 July last year and sent to jail to serve a six-year sentence" - which was overturned by Iran's supreme court in October. - The Guardian (AFP)
Since 1938, the Harvard Study of Adult Development has been investigating what makes people flourish. After starting with 724 participants the study incorporated the spouses of the original men and, more recently, more than 1,300 descendants of the initial group. - The Atlantic
When China shut down manufacturing and shipping ports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many artists felt it before American cities followed suit. Subsequent labor shortages, stranded shipping containers, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have further impacted commodity trade. - Hyperallergic
