"For much of its running time, Camp Siegfried resembles a romantic drama, a coming-of-age story. That's a queasy proposition, considering the play's setting. In this boy-meets-girl, the girl lives on Hitler Street." - The New York Times
While some union members described cold and awkward interactions with management, others had more positive anecdotes in which middle managers were excited at their colleagues’ return. - Hyperallergic
"Anna Pasternak claimed seven chapters in Lara Prescott's (novel), The Secrets We Kept, copied elements from her own book Lara, a 2016 biography of her great uncle's lover Olga Ivinskaya," the inspiration for Lara in Doctor Zhivago. (Anna Pasternak did not read Prescott's book before bringing the suit.) - The Guardian
Enheduanna, the daughter of King Sargon, founder of the Akkadian Empire, played perhaps the leading role in consolidating the religion of conquered Sumer with that of Akkad; her surviving work includes 42 hymns to the goddess Ishtar/Inanna and three freestanding poems. - BBC
"The newly combined media company said that costs associated with cutting content" — such as the Batgirl film whose release was canceled entirely — "could reach $2.5 billion, making up a significant part of the total $3.2 billion to $4.3 billion in charges related to its financial restructuring." - Reuters
"In one Lebanese mansion an anonymous painting — pierced by shards of glass from a blown-out window and impaled by wood from the window frame — gained something extraordinary. It is now recognized by experts as a long-lost painting of Hercules and Omphale by Artemisia Gentileschi." - The New York Times
"(His) work exposed L.A.'s social fractures and disquieted its most ardent boosters, and (his) mark on the intellectual history of Southern California remains indelible. ... Though best known for City of Quartz, Davis wrote more than a dozen notable books over his more than four-decade career." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The countdown is on for the much-anticipated April 22, 2023, reopening of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts in Little Rock as it emerges from an ambitious redesign led by Studio Gang that fuses together a hodgepodge of several decade-spanning expansions with a natural light–flooded central addition." - The Architect's Newspaper
"Arts Council England has revealed it has hit the brakes on its imminent investment programme announcement. ... The 2023-26 programme has promised to be a seismic moment for many arts organisations, with ACE suggesting it will incorporate a 'levelling up' strategy to move funds away from the capital." - WhatsOnStage (London)
We got stuck with this particular version of nonbinary identity—singularly focused on pronouns, clumsy corporate integration, and iconoclastic affect—because nonbinary identity has become a brand. It is both a way of being in the world and an empty signifier. - The Baffler
Citing 19th Century patriotic poetry and Mussolini-era writers and philosophers, the freshly appointed culture minister of Italy’s new right-wing government has promised a new era for the country’s cultural sector and revealed he wants to reform state funding for the performances arts. - Deadline
With this year being hailed as the most diverse series ever, Strictly is attempting to better reflect the diversity that exists across the British population by challenging the dominant norms in dance traditions and styles that feature on the show. - The Conversation
‘Kiow’ and ‘Kiou’ seemed to be the most common terms in the 18th century, while ‘Kief’ was the most popular word at the turn of the 19th century, was still common towards the end of the century, and at the turn of the 20th was in competition, so to speak, with ‘Kieff’ and ‘Kiev’. - 3 Quarks Daily
In the arts, entertainment, and recreation industry grouping, the job vacancy rate was 6.8% in March 2022, double the rate before the pandemic (3.4% in the last quarter of 2019). - Hill Strategies
We often talk about cooperation in glowing terms, associating it with ideas of virtue and morality. But viewing cooperation solely as a force for good betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works. - The Guardian
