Our work in Social Impact was to widen our cultural radius and to imagine that inspiration itself was a constitutional right afforded to ALL of this nation's people." - NPR
Built in 1904, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House needs to renovate an emergency exit to become an accessible main entrance for Canadians after the U.S. government announced it is limiting access to that entrance, which is located steps into Derby Line, Vt. - CBC
“As high schoolers staged a walkout Monday, parents filed suit against St. Francis Area Schools alleging the district unlawfully banned dozens of books based on the ideas they contained and the ratings of an anonymous website that recently went dark.” - The Minnesota Star Tribune
Dance Data Project finds and crunches the numbers for female representation in programmed works and among artistic directors at 69 dance festivals beyond the United States and Canada. While the numbers for women and men aren’t perfectly equal, they’re not too far off. - Dance Data Project
“The vast majority of dance teaching positions (outside of public schools) don’t require a certification. And most dancers don’t have lots of disposable income to spend on continuing education. But many educators want the extra credibility that a certification credit gives them.” - Dance Magazine
“RFE/RL has, for decades, operated as one of the organizations that Congress has statutorily designated to carry out this policy. The leadership of USAGM cannot, with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation, force RFE/RL to shut down — even if the President has told them to do so,” the judge wrote. - CNN
PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses ... as if they were combatants in a prizefight. They’re all getting ready for a hearing on Wednesday ... organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.” - The New York Times
“Two weeks after the Denzel Washington- and Jake Gyllenhaal-led Othello broke the record for top gross in one week by a Broadway play, the George Clooney-led Good Night, and Good Luck has broken that record to become the top grossing show on Broadway with $3.3 million last week.” - Playbill
“Lapham’s Quarterly, the magazine of history and ideas founded by the legendary editor Lewis Lapham, who died in July of 2024, announced today that it will relaunch this year under the stewardship of Bard College and its Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. The print publication had been on hiatus since November 2023.” - Literary Hub
The director of Oscar winners The Favourite and Poor Things has a longstanding sideline in photography. “I like the fact that you can just take a picture of a tree, process it, print it, and hold it in your hands,” he says. “The directness of that? I love that compared to filmmaking.” - Artnet
Common sense has long had two contrasting emphases: an inquiry position that questions prevailing norms and a conservative position that doubles down on prevailing norms. - The Conversation
Director Michael Lockshin and Luminosity Pictures are suing two producers who argue that their purchase of the rights to make an English-language film adaptation of the classic Soviet novel means that Lockshin’s Russian version cannot be released in the U.S. Lockshin and Luminosity maintain that the book is in the public domain. - Variety
There is a convincing scientific rationale for why the human self-image is so inaccurate. Evolution has no interest in truth or objectivity. Natural selection favors processes that help us to survive. Beliefs have no need to be truthful, only useful. - The Wall Street Journal
For mid-19th-century Britons, proving that this elusive script could be understood meant pulling back the curtain on a distant, vanished, yet hauntingly familiar world, one that had given birth to humanity’s modern mind. - The Smithsonian
The sense that Shakespeare spoke the language of the oppressors, yet also a language that helped think beyond that oppression, was not unique to Baldwin. It is revealed in the way so many writers and directors from the global south have constantly reworked the 16th-century playwright to illuminate contemporary struggles and tensions. - The Guardian
