"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
Stephen Thaler’s motion argues that the work in question “satisfies the requirements set forth in the Copyright Act”—that because Thaler “invested and owns the original property … its output, of all kinds, automatically vests in him,” particularly in the context of work-for-hire. - Artnet
"The more that I've reflected on it, it really makes sense to me that A Strange Loop would be a supernova that cuts across the firmament and then explodes. It's not necessarily a piece of art that’s meant to fill a commercial need indefinitely." - The New York Times
He was a guitarist’s guitarist who seemed to be the humble protagonist at the centre of a plethora of seminal moments in pop history. - The Conversation
"Across Europe and North America, museums are waking up to an ethical dilemma. The widespread historical use of pesticides means objects in their storage halls are not only toxic in terms of their problematic colonial heritage, but also in terms of them being contaminated with highly hazardous substances." - The Guardian
"I don't think you could have talked about the corrupting nature of power in as nuanced away as Todd Field has done as a filmmaker if there was a male at the centre of it because we (already) understand so absolutely what that looks like." - The Independent (UK)
"There are plenty of reasons for this, from the playlist culture spawned by streaming platforms … to the solace it provided during the pandemic. … But perhaps highest on the list is the global wave of Gen Z and young millennial classical artists." - BBC
"Now, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History has announced a new project: restoring hundreds of never-before-heard sound recordings made by Bell and his fellow researchers between 1881 and 1892 at Volta Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and Bell’s property in Baddeck, Nova Scotia." - Smithsonian Magazine
Speaking on Spanish television — in shadow, voice electronically altered — a female singer alleged that, roughly two decades ago, Domingo on one occasion asked to put his hand in her rear pants pocket and on another forcibly kissed her just after lights went down and she couldn't see. - The Guardian
Public library branches in Boulder and Englewood, a Denver suburb, were closed to the public for several days after tests found methamphetamine on surfaces and in air vents in the restrooms, apparently due to patrons smoking crystal. - The New York Times
"In his role as payroll manager, (Michael) Maurello had access to make direct deposits. But between 2007 and 2020, he disguised payments to make it appear as though they were going to other employees, when they were actually going into his own account." - WTTW (Chicago)
