The newly renovated national museum had closed its doors in 2019 amid escalating anti-government protests in Baghdad. Home to artifacts dating from ancient Mesopotamian, Abbasid, and Persian civilizations, the institution was originally founded in the 1920s as a part of a cultural initiative led by a British archeologist. - ARTnews
“Similar to how your iPhone nowadays tells you, ‘Oh, you listened to music a little too loudly this week; watch out, because we don’t want you to get a hearing impairment due to overuse’ — it would be the same idea for the voice.” - Variety
Daily journalists, for better or for worse, are hard-wired to leap on departures from the norm, regardless of how miserable, unethical, unfair, and doomed the norm is. - Press Watchers
The creative potential of the relationship between performers and audience has preoccupied Berlin-based Australian composer Cathy Milliken for decades. - The Guardian
"Orchestras and singers regularly surpassed themselves under his guidance," writes David Patrick Stearns of Carlos Kleiber. "His deep immersion in whatever he conducted transcended any tradition. He gave the music all it needed, and tradition took care of itself. … Non-musical matters are another story." - Gramophone
A common mistake is to confuse a country with its inhabitants with its government. This leads to statements that are strictly meaningless at best and deeply misleading at worst because they are category errors on the order of ‘Green ideas sleep furiously’. - 3 Quarks Daily
"A new advocacy organization composed of film-makers, distributors and film lovers, Missing Movies has a mission to 'locate lost materials, clear rights, and advocate for policies and laws to make the full range of our cinema history available to all'." - The Guardian
The Italian communist Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) would argue that it was precisely through the proliferation of such norms in our culture—wherein the inequalities of capitalism appear natural, as “senso comune” (common sense)—that the ruling classes stay as such. - BookForum
"Complaints about drunken, chaotic and argumentative audience behaviour have been reaching fever pitch. 'It feels like every bloody day there's a new debate about theatre etiquette,' says one theatre usher. 'And I hate to stereotype, but the worst incidents seem to happen at jukebox musicals.'" - The Observer (UK)
For years now, each day has brought a torrent of new TV shows to watch, movies to see, albums to listen to, podcasts and YouTube videos and now Substack newsletters to check out. Living in the digital era has meant existing in a perpetual state of “How can I possibly get to it all?” - Boston Globe
"Now, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit theater is fighting to come back — this time with a new hybrid structure built to give complete artistic autonomy to a group of writers, directors and actors that has spoken out against the old Flea." - The New York Times
"My background as an author is in young adult fiction, an area in which sensitivity readers are common, especially in the US, so I’m less fazed. I have also been a sensitivity reader, informally." - The Guardian
"The Portland Museum of Art has embarked on an $85 million project leaders say will fundamentally transform the museum, bolstering its endowment and unifying its downtown campus with a physical expansion that will more than double the museum's current space." - MSN (The Boston Globe)
"While he may never have been the subject of a proper survey at a major museum, Csuri's status within the history of digital art is virtually uncontested." In 1995, Smithsonian Magazine wrote that he "may be the nearest thing, in this new art form, to an Old Master." - ARTnews
It's more than resignations and cancellations. The Kiev City Ballet , on tour in France when Russian forces attacked, is now stranded. A principal with Ukrainian National Ballet was warned not to return home from Rome; at least two others have traded tights for camouflage and weapons. - Pointe Magazine
