The growth of British literary festivals over the past few decades has been an exponential development. It has also changed the idea of what people expect from authors. - The Critic
"Weinstein had proved his skill at storytelling in the movie business. But trials are not movies, shot under controlled conditions and revised in the editing room." An excerpt from Ken Auletta's Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence. - The New Yorker
That this should be considered news says something about the state of things in Australia after years of rule by the conservative Coalition. Declared Tony Burke, the arts minister for the newly elected Labor government, "The nine-year political attack on the arts and entertainment sector is now over." - ArtsHub (Australia)
"The 600-year-old Orloj, ... one of Prague's most famous landmarks, is at the centre of an embarrassing row amid claims that an artist endowed it with likenesses of his friends and acquaintances in an expensive restoration project, possibly as a joke." - The Guardian
Built on a Charleston waterfront wharf where more than 100,000 enslaved Africans were brought ashore after the Middle Passage, will officially open the weekend of January 21, 2023. More than $100 million has been raised for its construction and operation. - Hyperallergic
Ali Viterbi's multi-award-winning In Every Generation was to be the centerpiece of this year's JFest (officially, the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival). Previews, scheduled to start last Thursday, simply didn't happen, and this week the theater officially cancelled "due to personal and financial reasons." - The San Diego Union-Tribune
On Wednesday night, 21-year-old Brian Hernandez broke into the museum, went up to display cases and started smashing. He told the guard who intercepted him that he did it because "he was mad at his girl"; the guard told him to sit down until the police came, and he did. - NBC News
"The good news is that the public broadcast group has been operating without much help from the state or its Board of Regents for years, … with more than 75% of its funding coming from individuals, businesses, and corporations." - Inside Radio
The Italian conductor, who became music director in 2017, has extended his term through the 2026-27 season. (As of last September, he is also music director of Zurich's well-funded opera house.) Says NSO principal flutist Aaron Goldman, "However long we can keep him, we want to." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Institutional bureaucrats, not billionaires, have the power to constrain the possibilities for aesthetic development in the present. The figure of the contemporary artist we know today is an invention of the bureaucrats. - Tablet
We are well past the point of believing that casual or inferred approaches meet the need. With summer programs right around the corner, there is an immediate opportunity to prioritize students’ mental health in new, more robust ways. - Ensemble News
“When communities are allowed to craft their own narrative, that narrative is more complex. We are not imposing on or colonizing them with a form of performance that isn’t indigenous or locally grown to their space.” - American Theatre
One of the things that brought me back to moviemaking was Netflix and the idea of streaming and a streaming series. I think theaters are dead. I think they’ll be a niche thing for superhero movies. I haven’t gone to the cinema for decades. You know, I just prefer to watch it at home. - APNews
With 60 million active users, Boomplay is the most popular music streaming service in Africa. Leading the pack, it is one of a bevy of homegrown music streaming and content platforms that are offering alternatives to the on-demand global streaming model. - Global Voices
