"If these laws take effect, platforms will be forbidden from prohibiting or deprioritizing certain kinds of content — creating the potential for a future Twitter landscape" — or Facebook, Instagram, TikTok — "filled with hate, porn, terrorist recruitment, Holocaust denial, and really outlandish trolls." - Slate
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for Reddit dissection to examinations of design flaws in the American criminal justice system" — flaws that led to Syed’s imprisonment in the first place. - The Guardian
The score, written between 1888 and 1894, was donated by orchestra board member Herbert Kloiber, who purchased it in 2016 from the estate of publisher (and occasional conductor) Gilbert Kaplan. Kaplan had bought the manuscript from the foundation of conductor Willem Mengelberg, to whom Mahler's widow had given it. - Cleveland.com
"The country's High Court of Justice ruled in 2005 that, per the British Museum Act 1963, national museums could not remove items from their collections except in very rare circumstances. New provisions allow for transferring items ex gratia, which should make repatriating looted artworks easier. - Hyperallergic
The city's Royal Museum of Fine Arts is now opening after a $100 million, 11-year renovation that involved constructing a small white-cube museum for contemporary art inside the elegant 1890 original building without altering the exterior (except for cleaning and repair). - Deutsche Welle
“It reinforces the importance of the pre-storm plans, because after the storm, the conditions are so detrimental to the artwork. The humidity, you don’t have air conditioning, you have water damage—it’s just really, really bad for art.” - The Daily Beast
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to abortion. - Politico
This raises the possibility that laughter may have been preserved by natural selection throughout the past millennia to help humans survive. It could also explain why we are drawn to people who make us laugh. - The Conversation
At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are still reeling from the pandemic. - The New York Times
Sydney festival has suspended all funding agreements with foreign governments and their cultural agencies, after a mass boycott by artists and audiences earlier this year. - The Guardian
This shrinking of American “funny pages” comes more than a century after the rise of the print comics section. “Comic strips were created — by editors and publishers —for a very good business reason: to attract and hold readership in order to beat out the competition.” - Washington Post
Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite the translation errors and robotic narrations, each clip garners anywhere between a few thousand to millions of views. - Rest of the World
Australia's state capitals had some strict lockdowns, with Melbourne the world's most severe. Performing arts groups are still reporting attendance remaining stubbornly below 2019 levels. (Except in Western Australia, which locked out the rest of the country instead of locking down. Tickets in Perth are selling like gangbusters.) - The Guardian
In time, instrumentalists, chamber groups, dance companies, orchestras, theatre troupes, opera companies—even comedians, magicians, and other offbeat entertainers (literally tens of thousands of performers)—would owe part of their livelihoods to Community Concerts. - Nightingale Sonata
"This will adapt the book industry to the digital era by restoring an equilibrium between large e-commerce platforms, which offer virtually free delivery for books," said a government statement "The €3 delivery fee is not dissuasive for book buyers and the €35 threshold will favour grouped orders." - Euronews
