"'Charlie Roberts' and 'Only Stand and Wait' were both published on 9 June in Strand magazine, a US-based print magazine that publishes short fiction and interviews. ... A previously unpublished story, 'Adventure on a Bad Night', was published by Strand magazine in 2020." - The Guardian
"At his peak, Mr. Lurie's evocative caricatures appeared in about 1,000 publications with more than 100 million readers in 100 countries. ... He welded drawing and writing into a mightier-than-the-sword instrument ... whose imagery, he said, conveyed even greater impact than photography." - The New York Times
The largest donation in MPR's history, the anonymous gift, to be placed in a separate endowment, will be divided between new media technology and enhanced content. MPR produces and distributes such programs as Performance Today, SymphonyCast, and Pipedreams to public radio stations across the US. - Inside Radio
Or, as the announcement puts it, he will become "artistic director laureate" in July after 19 years at the Fort Worth company's helm. Associate artistic director Tim O'Keefe will succeed Stevenson, at least temporarily, as acting artistic director. - Fort Worth Magazine
The young Finn won't have the full job title until 2027, though he'll be "artistic partner" of the orchestra — widely considered one of the world's best — starting this August. The RCO post has been empty since Daniele Gatti was fired in 2018 over charges of sexual misconduct. - Gramophone
The previous director left less than one year into the role. But Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who is currently the director of the Broad Art Museum at Michigan State, says she's eager to help the Parrish, in the Hamptons, connect more to its regional community. - The New York Times
Laura Dern: "I’ve had the luxury of spending these 20-some odd years with young women coming up to me and talking about how they went into science or tech or marine biology and myriad other professions because of Ellie Sattler." - The New York Times
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, the Scot who took Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art from expensive also-ran to "trail-blazing cultural attraction," is finished being quiet about the amount of crap she dealt with every day. "It’s just a modus operandi for politics in this country." - The Guardian (UK)
"My Comrade was a drag scene zine that documented the East Village demimonde from 1987 to 1994. In its sporadic 13 issues, drag royalty rubbed shoulders with go-go boys, nightclub denizens, art stars, and assorted riffraff and glamour-pusses." And it returns this month. - Artnet
"As its perspective has spread out into popular culture, pop EvoPsych has inflected highly charged debates about gender, race, violence, and social class. It has also permeated a receptive Silicon Valley culture that shares much of its intellectual DNA." - The Yale Review
Method Acting went very, very wrong in the U.S. "What the educators did verbally, the directors who took the Method from the periphery to the center of American culture in the 1950s often enacted physically. Gropes, slaps and seduction were tools in their arsenal." - The New York Times
"So far, 70 bills — which PEN America calls 'educational gag orders' — have been introduced in 28 states, with 56 more coming in 2022. The upswing signals an increased effort by lawmakers ... to limit the discussion of certain topics on campuses, according to the group." - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Australians claim American reality TV is ruining kids' costumes. "They’re wearing less and less and less, and they’re getting shinier and shinier and shinier – and more see-through." (But is that a problem with the dancers or the beholders?) - Sydney Morning Herald
"Juana Summers, a veteran political correspondent whose peripatetic career has taken her to news media start-ups including Mashable and traditional news organizations such as The Associated Press" as well as at NPR, "will start on June 27." - The New York Times
