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Adapting A Hit TV Series For A Different Country Can Be A Tricky Matter

Take, for instance, the hit French series Call My Agent: "(The French) argue stylishly, they fall in love stylishly. It's all said, they tell each other exactly what they think," says adapter John Morton. "British people aren't like that at all. ... We are very poor at saying what we mean." - BBC

Why Are Arts Instagram Accounts Being Targeted By Hackers?

Why are people in the art world being hacked? Criminals are not just looking for accounts with thousands of followers and the signature blue tick (confirming authenticity) but also those with high engagement, which is often the case with creatives. - The Art Newspaper

NY Mayor Appoints Nightclub Owner To Met Museum Board

The unconventional appointment — previous mayoral designees were political and philanthropic heavyweights — gives the club owner an entrée into one of New York’s wealthiest and most influential circles. - Politico

Nijinsky’s Sister Was Even More Revolutionary Than He Was

And she was revolutionary in more than one way.  Not only did Bronislava Nijinska embrace choreographic aesthetics that were radical for her day, she understood — from watching Diaghilev and her brother trying to maintain dance companies in the West — how commercial pressures could be as oppressive as political ones. - The Nation

Actors’ Equity Launches Fight To Unionize All National Tours Of Broadway Shows

The union has ended or expanded (depending on how you look at it) its proceeding against a nonunion tour of Waitress to petition the Broadway League (the association for theater owners and producers) to end the arrangement where a show may have union and nonunion tours simultaneously. - The Hollywood Reporter

Thousands Of Unseen Andrew Wyeth Works Have Become Available For Public Viewing

"The Wyeth Foundation for American Art is turning over its collection of nearly 7,000 Wyeth pieces to the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Pennsylvania and the Farnsworth Art Museum in Maine. ... Both museums will display a rotating, year-round selection of Wyeth's work" and will lend to other museums. - Smithsonian Magazine

“I Have Been Canceled”: Frank Langella Writes An Angry Rebuttal To Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct On Set

In a guest column, the 84-year-old actor gives his account of the on-camera move that led to his firing from the lead role in the Netflix series The Fall of the House of Usher. - Deadline

American Orchestras, Still Largely White, Are Trying To Diversify. It’s Slow Going, But Here’s How They’re Working On It

There are blind auditions, special fellowships for Black musicians in particular, prep and financial aid for auditions as well as other programs from the Sphinx Organization. Writer Tim Diovanni looks into the efforts, focusing on the Detroit, Dallas, and Fort Worth Symphonies. - The Dallas Morning News

The Publishing Industry Starts Campaigns Against The Book-Banning Trend

Penguin Random House has partnered with a raft of advocacy organizations on a public campaign called "Open Books Open Doors", while the Authors Guild has launched a Banned Books Club on the app Fable, on which users organize social media book groups. - Publishing Perspectives

After 900 Years, St. Paul’s Cathedral In London Is Letting Girls Into The Choir

Well, strictly speaking, they're being admitted to the choir school; there will be separate boys' and girls' choirs. Music director Andrew Carwood: "I accept the idea of a boys' choir as culturally iconic, and I'd like to keep that. And I'd like girls to experience exactly the same thing." - The Guardian

The Books That Are Poisonous If You Touch Them

These toxic books, produced in the 19th century, are bound in vivid cloth colored with a notorious pigment known as emerald green that’s laced with arsenic. - National Geographic

Senior Citizen Mistakenly Takes Picasso Jacket From Museum And Has It Tailored

When a certain 72-year-old woman explored the exhibition in March, she reportedly didn’t realize the jacket was anything other than someone’s actual jacket—and she fancied it for herself. So she took it off the hook, brought it home, and had a tailor shorten it by nearly a foot to fit her better. - Mental Floss

Irving Rosenthal, Beat Scene Publisher, 91

He was fond of the Beat writers who had emerged on the West Coast and elsewhere and began publishing them. The spring 1958 issue featured Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Ginsberg, Kerouac and others who had been making an impression on the San Francisco poetry scene. - The New York Times

Netflix’s Swoon Fuels Hollywood Anxiety

One pervasive concern: that the streaming-fueled content bubble has finally burst, with more consolidation on the way. - Variety

Ballet Performances Resume In Lviv

An abnormal announcement. "Dear guest, our event will be suspended in case of air raid alert. Dancers and spectators must go to the bomb shelter situated in the theater," it tells the crowd -- a poignant reminder that this is not a regular night at the theater. - CNN

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