Sunset Park, a working-class Chinese immigrant neighborhood close to New York Harbor that has plenty of space in what used to be the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Industry City. - Hyperallergic
Some argued that Netflix is leaving hundreds of millions in box-office receipts on the table with its current strategy of showing only select movies in a few hundred theaters for at most a few weeks before streaming them, according to people familiar with the matter. - The Wall Street Journal
There are two kinds of things in the world: the good and the indifferents. Note that the first is singular, the second, plural. For there is only one good. ‘What is it?’ you may well ask. - 3 Quarks Daily
"(The company has) added 2.4 million households to its subscriber base after two consecutive quarters of losses. Its reversal of fortunes is especially surprising given the cost of living crisis. ... But Netflix has been attempting to make the platform more enticing — starting with the way it packages its shows." - BBC
They say they're expected to show up for days on end, giving movie-quality line readings from a script on a spreadsheet they've only seen the night before. Lead actors get about $4,000, even for a game that ends up earning $400 million or more. - The Guardian
For instance, this season the Philadelphia Orchestra has four Black guest conductors in its main subscription series — and, in Philly and elsewhere, they're finally getting to do programs that aren't for MLK Day or Black History Month. But few people yet trust that the change is permanent. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
It was sure to be a fraught enterprise, reviving this somewhat dated musical in the post-BLM era — even with an all-nonwhite, all-nonmale cast playing the Founding Fathers. But Philippine-American actor Sara Porkalob made some comments about working on the show that went down very poorly indeed. - The New York Times
Tales of inappropriately sexual behavior (described by the actor as joking), screaming at colleagues, and even dropping a nine-year-old Seth Green into a trash can head-first have been cascading around lately, and it appears that if his latest project continues at all, it will be without him. - The Washington Post
The world's most expensive artwork has not been seen in public since it was sold at auction for $450 million in 2017. The anonymous purchaser is said to have been Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. Now one scholar says that MBS is building a bespoke museum for the painting. - Artnet
New York's MTA has commissioned the two superstars to create huge floor-to-ceiling mosaic murals for the new Long Island Rail Road terminal deep under Grand Central. - The New York Times
In the book Design and Crime, Hal Foster wrote that Gehry’s spaces “trump” the post-war art they were intended to hold, using its scale “as a pretext to inflate the contemporary museum into a gigantic spectacle-space that can swallow any art, let alone any viewer, whole”. - The Art Newspaper
For his generation of critics, reviews were not a freelance assignment but a beat, as regular as a sports columnist, whom such critics often resembled. Reporting what was on view was the first obligation. Verbs needed to be strong. Prepositions should not end paragraphs. Nouns were your friend. - American Theatre
According to an analysis performed by one of our authors, total direct revenue for the largest 123 news-focused public radio licensees has grown steadily, from roughly $678 million in FY2009 to just under $1 billion in FY2020. - Current
Beatrix Ruf told The Art Newspaper that the Hartwig Art Foundation's museum will "change the shape of contemporary art not just for the city, but the Netherlands too". - The Art Newspaper
Great institutions, like great literature, are often born from existential angst, as urgent responses to the prevailing horrors of their era. As with TS Eliot's The Waste Land, released in 1922, so with the BBC. - BBC
