“The day before a fall show, Minnesota Orchestra musicians rushed through the stage door for rehearsal. At the bottom of the stairs was the orchestra’s social media manager with an iPhone … to record their most anxiety-inducing performance stories.” - The Minnesota Star Tribune (MSN)
“The Philadelphia Art Museum dismissed director and CEO Sasha Suda for cause after commissioning an independent investigation … by an outside law firm, which made the recommendation that Suda’s employment be terminated.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“The Louvre has unveiled a €80 million ($92 million) overhaul of its security systems in response to the brazen $102 million jewel theft that stunned Paris last month. … The initiative follows public scrutiny of internal audits — some dating back more than a decade — that revealed serious lapses.” - Artsy
BBC Director-General Tim Davie and BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness resigned after the leak of a memo about the editing, for the show Panorama, of Trump’s speech just before the US Capitol invasion in January 2021. Trump’s attorneys have threatened suit unless the network retracts the show and pays compensation. - The London Standard
“Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, said panel chair Roddy Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. ‘It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.’” - The Guardian
"I actually think that the decline of trust has to do with newspapers’ becoming more responsible, more accurate. Nobody I know would trade today’s newspaper for one from 1960." - Harper's
As people embrace these transformative tools, they risk eroding capacities and experiences that embody values other than seamlessness and efficiency. - The Atlantic
Art schools are marketed as gateways to success. However, the fine print tells a different story: crushing debt, unreliable outcomes, and a mismatch between what’s promised and what’s delivered. - Hyperallergic
Academic critics read closely this year's Booker Prize finalists: Each novel has emotional temperature and structural ambition: domestic quietudes stretched into myth, migration histories turned intimate, masculinity stripped to bone, love sagas operating as cultural x-rays. A list that prizes atmosphere over spectacle. - The Conversation
The Internet didn’t destroy monoculture. It exposed the fact that monoculture was always a bottleneck, popped the cork, and let the contents fizz out. - ARTnews
In her lawsuit, which was filed in Pennsylvania state court, the former director, Sasha Suda, contends that she was fired “without a valid basis” after negotiations over the terms of her departure with the museum’s board of trustees had reached an impasse. - The New York Times
We learn from stories. Our ancestors were raised on myths about their ancestors, tales about their saviours, emperors and lawgivers, and, eventually, novels about any number of times and places, most of them named. - Equator
"For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out the easiest way to uncover new music. Not new releases, not new songs like the ones I already like, but music that’s new to me, by artists I haven’t encountered before." - The New York Times
We live in an age of unprecedented connectivity, and yet this very connectedness has led to something paradoxical: uniformity. In our quest to standardise, streamline, and compare ourselves globally, we risk erasing the very differences that make human creativity, and particularly music, so rich. - The Strad
Mackerras had a major impact on British musical life, whether as Music Director of English National Opera and Welsh National Opera, working with major symphony orchestras, or conducting smaller groups such as the English Chamber Orchestra and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. - Gramophone
