"Arts Council England said it would invest national lottery funding in the company until March 2024 to 'sustain a programme of work at the ENO's home, the London Coliseum, and at the same time help the ENO start planning for a new base outside London by 2026.'" - The Guardian
"The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which … are up to 2,000 years old. … Older runes have been found on other items, but not on stone." - AP
Dane Lam, a Chinese-Australian who currently holds positions with Opera Queensland and the Xi'an Symphony Orchestra in China, is the first music director at the HSO since it came out of Bankruptcy 11 years ago. - Yahoo! (Honolulu Star-Advertiser)
Starting in July, Kraemer, currently music director of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, will succeed Carlos Miguel Prieto, who is leaving New Orleans after 17 years to take the podium at the North Carolina Symphony in Raleigh. - AP
Every great national prose, in just about any tongue, reaches its high meridian only by way of a prolonged and constant negotiation of just this tension between beauty and sublimity—between the decorative and the august, or between the splendid and the lucid. And this comes only at the end of long epochs of development. - The Lamp
“We now know that our world as we thought we understood it is far more fragile... wars that seemed inconceivable now happened, we’ve lived through a racial reckoning and really seismic social rethinking about race and equity in this country that is deep and profound.” - The Art Newspaper
Since November 2022, organizers have uploaded images from the Met’s collection of public domain works to the @thealgorithmicpedestal account on Instagram. Whichever posts the platform’s algorithm opted to display in other users’ Home feeds are what made it into the show. - Artnet
The anti-government protests that exploded in late 2019 hit the city hard. Shops were looted, windows smashed and walls were covered in graffiti. Some of the stores and banks remain boarded up more than three years later. - Bloomberg
“Tár” not only got made and released—a fact that seemed to confound its writer-director—but has inspired vigorous discussion, whether about its insights into sexual abuse and cancel culture, or about the theory that its final act occurs in the protagonist’s mind. - The New Yorker
By the first decades of the twentieth century, national organizations had established standards for the credentialling of lawyers, doctors, and nurses. The professionalization of criticism was a less coherent affair, because criticism did not belong to a single trade or discipline. - The New Yorker
"The $100 million renovation kicks off this spring, with a groundbreaking on the expansion beginning in March. The 65,000-square-foot expansion will include a new education and learning center and a new lobby. There will also be a new backstage including new dressing rooms for performers." - KMOV4 (St. Louis)
The artists taking action—Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz—"seek to end this blatant and enormous infringement of their rights before their professions are eliminated by a computer program powered entirely by their hard work," according to the official text of the complaint filed to the court. - Ars Technica
"Intended to help address the gender and racial barriers that prevent women from securing leadership positions, the free online program "Raising the Barre: Curriculum for the Next Generation of Leadership in Dance" presents modules that home in on specific skills necessary for various administrative, artistic and executive leadership roles." - Dance Magazine
We are used to hearing such petulant ressentiment, especially in connection with the 20th-century avant-garde in the figurative arts: “I could have entered a urinal in an exhibition, too”; “I could have painted an all-white monochrome, too”; etc. The simplest response is, “Yes, but you didn’t”. - Unherd
"When the French director Alice Diop attended the trial of Fabienne Kabou, a woman who left her 15-month-old daughter on a beach to drown, she wasn't intending to make a movie." - The New York Times
