The money – gifted in sums from $125,000 to $1.5-million, to both big institutions and smaller independent theatre, mostly based in Toronto, all but one in Ontario – is earmarked for a pair of broad purposes over the next two years: theatre production and marketing. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
"Unfamiliar language, outdated ethics, baffling behaviour? We've become used to sifting racism or sexism in these texts – but what other problems give people pause in rehearsal or performance? ... Where do audiences and creatives stub their toes on Shakespeare's plays?" - The Guardian
The most obvious is that, for the first time, all are by writers of colour. A glimpse between their covers reveals something else though. Namely, an embrace of magical realism and the unsettling that have been a feature of mainstream Canadian and international fiction for a while now. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
"Where a mens' retailer once stood in the boutique clothing and cafe mecca of Little Collins Street, changing rooms have been transformed into cozy mirrored reading booths. ... (These are) areas that were aching for some love following the crippling impact of six lockdowns over 19 months." - Bloomberg CityLab
Once the service identifies a track, it will show you an information page with its title, artist and single/album cover where you can play the song, add it your playlist or queue and add it to your favorites. - Engadget
"(It's) like staining all the color out of our words, and it happens with overuse. Another way to describe it is supply and demand. When we use a word too much and there are too many excellents and beautifuls floating around, each becomes less valuable." - Literary Hub
"The BBC, ITV and Sky News have been given until Monday to produce a 60-minute compilation of clips they would like to keep from (the) ceremonial events. ... Once the process is complete, the vast majority of other footage from ceremonial events will then be taken out of circulation." - The Guardian
"If these laws take effect, platforms will be forbidden from prohibiting or deprioritizing certain kinds of content — creating the potential for a future Twitter landscape" — or Facebook, Instagram, TikTok — "filled with hate, porn, terrorist recruitment, Holocaust denial, and really outlandish trolls." - Slate
"In the years since Serial took off, numerous productions, including later incarnations of the flagship show, have shifted attention from individual cases ripe for Reddit dissection to examinations of design flaws in the American criminal justice system" — flaws that led to Syed’s imprisonment in the first place. - The Guardian
The score, written between 1888 and 1894, was donated by orchestra board member Herbert Kloiber, who purchased it in 2016 from the estate of publisher (and occasional conductor) Gilbert Kaplan. Kaplan had bought the manuscript from the foundation of conductor Willem Mengelberg, to whom Mahler's widow had given it. - Cleveland.com
"The country's High Court of Justice ruled in 2005 that, per the British Museum Act 1963, national museums could not remove items from their collections except in very rare circumstances. New provisions allow for transferring items ex gratia, which should make repatriating looted artworks easier. - Hyperallergic
The city's Royal Museum of Fine Arts is now opening after a $100 million, 11-year renovation that involved constructing a small white-cube museum for contemporary art inside the elegant 1890 original building without altering the exterior (except for cleaning and repair). - Deutsche Welle
“It reinforces the importance of the pre-storm plans, because after the storm, the conditions are so detrimental to the artwork. The humidity, you don’t have air conditioning, you have water damage—it’s just really, really bad for art.” - The Daily Beast
There’s a chance that a blunt story about Ginsburg’s decline might have changed the trajectory that led to the end of Americans’ right to abortion. - Politico
This raises the possibility that laughter may have been preserved by natural selection throughout the past millennia to help humans survive. It could also explain why we are drawn to people who make us laugh. - The Conversation
