"If The Best American Poetry captures ‘the zeitgeist of the current attitudes in American poetry,’ we should be asking: Why are those attitudes so fucked up?” - The Defector (Archive Today)
“Two lighting technicians and a video operator bring the opera to its full pyrotechnic life. Hunched over banks of consoles, screens and keyboards, they execute a tight script as they manipulate videos, lights, scrims, screens, stage panels and dry ice.” - The New York Times
“‘I love Shakespeare,’ Swift said earnestly during the movie, and then made fun of herself for saying something so obvious. ‘It holds up! It’s actually not overhyped.’” - Washington Post (Yahoo)
“County council leader Mick Barton banned the Nottingham Post and its online arm, Nottinghamshire Live, from speaking to him and other councillors ‘with immediate effect’ on 28 August.” - BBC
“I would be a total disaster, because I do love to gossip. I would be going: ‘You know that guy? I think he’s working for the Russians.’” - The Guardian (UK)
“For theatre to remain ambitious, kinetic, and meaningful, we can’t let institutional constraints like funding models or planning cycles become barriers to fresh perspectives, and I can’t allow my personal preferences to overrule or narrow the choices of the many artistic directors who produce in our venue.” - American Theatre
Herbert Kretzmer's letters to Cameron Mackintosh would indicate he did not. “I must emphasise that Les Miserables is not a show translated or re-written, but a show reborn,” he wrote. (Truly, anyone who listens to the French and English-language versions might agree.) - BBC
The Frick Arts Foundation “was formed a year ago to ‘offer emotional encouragement to artists at the most difficult beginning stage of their careers,’ according to a press release. There is no application process.” - Glasstire
“While Mr. Brilliant never truly stopped — he kept writing lines that he emailed to friends — among the official 10,000 are these: … No. 826: ‘I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.’” - The New York Times
“It’s been nearly 50 years since punk first set out to smash the vanity and artifice of rock-and-roll. … What a beautiful thrill to see the same demystification tactics being set loose on the self-aggrandizing bloat and pomp of the rock memoir.” - Washington Post (MSN)
Swift’s satirical suggestion that Ireland’s poor breed their children as food for elites wasn’t really an attack on the English (even though he suggested that England would “swallow up” the entire Irish nation if it could). Swift’s actual target was the Irish landowning class and its catastrophic choices about farmland. - JSTOR Daily
“OCMA as it existed no longer exists. The employees and everything else pertaining to the museum is transferred to the university.” - Los Angeles Times
Museum organisations across the continent reported various types of interference. Three key areas were outlined by the questionnaire. - The Art Newspaper
Padrón, who joined the theatre in 2019, led the nonprofit through a period of change that included adopting a new producing model, staging performances in multiple venues, and expanding community partnerships. - Hartford Business
