Large cast-metal bells like the ten at the Paris cathedral (they survived the 2019 fire) emit sounds all the time: when they're not actively ringing, they vibrate in sympathy with the various sounds around them. Bill Santana has recorded those vibrations and fashioned them into a sound installation. - Smithsonian Magazine
In this respect, the orchestral world is like a throwback to the postwar employment landscape, when it was not uncommon to spend your entire career in a single job, or at least working for a single company. - San Francisco Chronicle
Yes, Serge Diaghilev was what we might call today queer, but he certainly couldn't be open about it — and neither could the pathbreaking dance-theater works he produced. Today, choreographer Christopher Williams has no such restrictions, and he's reimagined some Ballets Russes classics with queer elements brought forward. - Pointe Magazine
"The bulk of the sound in film is typically added in postproduction. ... Foley effects are custom to a film, and are synchronized to characters' movements. They might include the sound of someone walking across a room, stirring a pot, typing, fighting, eating, falling, or kissing." - The New Yorker
"Thanks to steady work since 1990 to maximize the play's ecumenicism via ever bolder changes in characterizations and design" — in particular, altering anti-Semitic elements in the script — "the 2022 edition warrants a higher term of approbation than 'revival.' I'd go so far as to call it a 'resurrection'." - American Theatre
Mark Swed: "New York, London, Berlin, Paris and Amsterdam happen to be historically vibrant centers of new music. ... But new music hasn't in those cities, as here, penetrated every pore of the classical music scene." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Aaron De Groft ... was removed from his post Tuesday night, just days after the Federal Bureau of Investigation raided the museum and seized 25 works that had been attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat but whose authenticity has been called into question." - The New York Times
"During his tenure, Weiss steered the Met through a major restructuring of its finances, a shakeup of its leadership, and economic and moral crises ignited by the coronavirus pandemic and the Black Lives Matters movement." - ARTnews
"Thousands of staffers and freelancers working for France's public broadcasting groups, spanning France Télévisions, France 24, Arte and Radio France, went on strike on Tuesday in Paris to protest against the government's proposed bill to eliminate a TV license fee that finances nearly 85% of their annual budgets." - Variety
A sea of change has hit the daytime format this year as a slew of veteran hosts call it a day. As audiences flock from broadcast to streaming, the format has not seen such a shakeup since Oprah left her mantle as the queen of daytime in 2011. - CBC
In a brazen raid on the Tefaf art fair, one of the men was filmed smashing cases with a sledgehammer while accomplices kept visitors away. One visitor picked up a large vase in an apparent attempt to halt the robbers before quickly putting it back. - BBC
Perhaps the term “antiquarian,” which traditionally referred to old, valuable books, often first editions and manuscripts, now seems to me to apply to all books. Books, by definition, have become, if not antiquarian, antiquated in their material form. They have become artifacts. - The Smart Set
"It’s really quite strange that people from so long ago seem to have understood so much. And, if you’re looking at things like sexual relations, it’s amazing: there’s hardly a permutation that has not been covered by a myth. They knew everything." - The New Yorker
There are – allegedly – occasions when we come to understand something about the world via a peculiar kind of experiment that takes place only in the mind. Thought experiments, as they’re known, are an exercise of pure imagination. - Aeon
