This is what the censors refuse to grasp: Librarians are not trying to force your children to read material you don’t want them to read. They are fulfilling their role as information professionals tasked with upholding the constitutional promise of access to information for all. - Washington Post
"The tropes feel like they're driving the action rather than the other way around. The rom-com, like a delicate houseplant, must be watered with sufficient meet-cutes, airport-chases, and forced misunderstandings. And like a ravenous Audrey II, specificity must bleed out in favor of these Beats You Know and Love." - Vulture
To many in the French media, Silvie Patry’s move to Kamel Mennour’s 23-year-old gallery—with four spaces in Paris—is yet another blow to public cultural institutions, already struggling to compete with an encroaching private sector. - Artnet
"In signing SB1116 into law on Thursday, Sept. 29, Gov. Gavin Newsom created the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, which would reimburse small performing arts organizations for large portions of their payroll costs. The smaller a company’s budget, the more the fund would reimburse." - San Francisco Chronicle
We've never seen a measurable connection between our activity on social media and ticket sales. And we have never had any measurable number of people say they found out about Wonderbound through social media. - Denver Gazette
"The caves date back to the 2nd to 5th century BCE, but researchers also found more recent relics, including 26 temples, 46 sculptures, two votive stupas, 24 Brahmin inscriptions, 19 water structures, scattered stone board games, and ancient coins." - Artnet
"A soft-spoken writer who liked to populate his plays with sprawling casts of characters, Mr. Fuller launched his theater career in the late 1960s as Black actors and playwrights were pushing to diversify the predominantly White theater scene." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"We (Black people) have to wake up to the ways we are policing each other to our detriment. 'No more trauma-based writing!' These are rules. And Suzan-Lori Parks does not like to be policed. Any policing cuts me off from hearing the spirit." - The New York Times
LaFontaine Oliver, who is CEO of Baltimore public radio station WYPR and is serving his second term heading NPR's board, takes over the US's largest public radio outlet, including flagship WNYC, classical radio station WQXR, producer WNYC Studios, news site Gothamist, and New Jersey Public Radio. - The New York Times
On the same day that he won a Gramophone Award for Lifetime Achievement, the conductor and pianist announced, "My health has deteriorated over the last months, and I have been diagnosed with a serious neurological condition. I must now focus on my physical well-being as much as possible." - BBC
The Bavarian State Opera also took honors for Hans Abrahamsen's The Snow Queen and, under Petrenko's baton, Mahler's 7th Symphony. Among other winners were Mitsuko Uchida's Beethoven Diabelli Variations; Quatuor Ebène's "Round Midnight"; singers Michael Spyres, Asmik Grigorian, and Emily D'Angelo; and the Raphaël Pichon/Pygmalion Bach St. Matthew Passion. - Gramophone
Among the shortlisted authors are Gayl Jones, Alejandro Varela, Imani Perry, Meghan O'Rourke, John Keene, Sharon Olds, Jenny Xie, Scholastique Mukasonga, Yoko Tawada, and Tommie Smith, one of the Black athletes who raised a fist on the medal stand at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. - NPR
With little authority policing them, you’re basically on your own when determining if a work of art is fake or not. This is a problem across platforms like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon — all of which mostly rely on complaints to identify problem sellers. - Hyperallergic
While COVID-19 was a box office disaster for every opera company, large or small, it did have an upside, said Mould. ‘COVID exposed and amplified what the hidden issues are in the system. - ArtsHub
What we should want is to make outcomes more equal – not opportunity. Antiegalitarians resist calls for equality via the ideology that if people have equal opportunity, then the outcome, whatever it is, is justified. - 3 Quarks Daily
