"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic requirement that it may as well not matter. People don't win by being good at it, they win by being able to foot the bill." - Van
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a dynamic, artistically vibrant seven-year tenure that has given the Bay Area some of its finest theater in recent memory." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages, better family leave benefits and a stronger commitment to diversity from the company." - The New York Times
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016 (and by some margin). Last year only 104 projects were completed with a value of $5.7 billion. - AEA
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a hundred thousand dollars since its creation, and it has had shows in cities including Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York, Copenhagen, and Jeddah. - The New Yorker
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as we gaze further and further into the past, as the paragraph gradually dwindles to a thin line in the margins. - Hedgehog Review
After 1945 a new form of artistic patronage arose, reflecting the rise of that icon of midcentury capitalism, the American corporation, and creating a new genre: what Alex J. Taylor calls “corporate modernism.” - The Wall Street Journal
The lions were removed for their spa treatment on June 14, having been outside for 128 years, Art Institute objects conservator Rachel Sabino told the Tribune at the time. It was their “first deep cleaning in decades,” Sabino said. - Chicago Tribune (MSN)
In 1965 the Pulitzer board rejected a unanimous recommendation from the music jury to award Duke Ellington a special citation for long-term achievement.” It was the second consecutive year that no Pulitzer for music was awarded. - The New York Times
The position has been vacant since April of 2021, which Tom Loughman resigned, but the search for a new director really began in November of last year, after the Wadsworth announced a major change in its leadership structure. - Hartford Courant
Parents constantly provide their children with emotion concepts to disambiguate what is going on. Especially towards the second year, when children start using emotion concepts themselves, parents use emotion words very often. - LitHub
"Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, spent months under house arrest after authorities in the remote city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur launched a criminal case into the 'spread of pornographic material' in 2019. She faced six years in prison for featuring abstract illustrations of female sexual organs of varying shapes and sizes." - The Moscow Times
The Wollongong Art Gallery needed to make some big calls after it was discovered that one of its prominent donors, who passed away 30 years ago, was last month confirmed as a Nazi intelligence officer during the Second World War. - Big Idea
"Expectations that pent-up demand from movie-hungry audiences would lead to packed cinema halls have been belied by millions of dollars in lost revenue, as moviegoers become more discerning about where they spend their money." - BBC
"Ukraine's churches are the hardest hit of all heritage sites in the war-torn country, new data suggests. But a coalition of priests and religious leaders are working together —overcoming ideological divisions and historic allegiances — to document the damage caused to Ukraine's most precious places of worship." - The Art Newspaper
