This one helped the player, whose joints and tendons had been absolute toast, to heal. "I thought slowing down would dampen my enjoyment, but it’s made the game better. I notice more. I find more.” - Aftermath
She wins the most produced playwrights (not counting Shakespeare, who would win every year hands down) list for the third, or is it fourth, time. Eboni Booth of Primary Trust and the team of Come from Away are up there too. - American Theatre
The court ruled that “a new National Endowment for the Arts policy of reviewing grant applicants to see if they comply with President Trump’s executive order on 'gender ideology’ violated the Constitution and could not be implemented.” - The New York Times
“A man was killed on Wednesday on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall while unloading a 1979 BMW Art Car that was custom-painted by Andy Warhol. … The unidentified man was pinned under the vehicle when a winch securing it on a flatbed truck failed.” - ARTnews
What is narrative art? Or, to be more precise, what is visual narrative art, since stories without pictures—as in novels, plays, and operas—don’t fit the museum’s definition of its role? - LA Review of Books
The Prebys Foundation is giving $8.6 million in unrestricted operating grants to 22 organizations and $4.8 million in venue grants to help 39 organizations preserve affordable spaces for arts programs. - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Paramount isn’t the only media company that needs FCC approval for something — and thus finds itself needing to kiss Carr’s ring. Nexstar, which owns many local TV stations, wants to merge with Tegna, which also owns many local TV stations. That merger will need FCC approval. - NiemanLab
"Because there’s no platform, no space or infrastructure for that kind of satire to be accepted, we were basically pushed out … We are up against generations of people who don’t have this kind of mindset. That’s why it was an uphill battle for us.” - The Guardian
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California, accused Ticketmaster of deceptive practices that advertised lower prices than were available, as well as falsely claiming it set limits on the number of tickets people could buy. - The New York Times
“The 81-year-old Buddy Holly Story star had pleaded guilty in July to a single count of criminal sexual contact for touching a woman’s buttocks ‘over clothing during an 8-10 second photo op’ … at the Monster-Mania Convention at the Doubletree Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia.” - AP
Our institutions insist on enforcing chrononormativity. They set age caps, define categories vaguely, and reward those who stay closest to the script. My experience with the Van Lier studio residency is a case in point. - Hyperallergic
In June, the initiative shared nearly a million books from a Harvard Library collection with AI researchers, spanning more than 254 languages and dating as far back as the 1400s. Currently, the initiative is tackling newspaper collections and government documents from the Boston Public Library’s collection. - The Harvard Crimson
Performers, event presenters, booking agents and lawyers tell NPR that they are dealing with a lot of uncertainty right now – and they have been very hesitant to speak on the record. They fear retaliation, including by those who hold decision-making power over visa approvals. - NPR
The four-story former warehouse, built in the 1870s in the Red Hook neighborhood, was home to the 400-member Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition as well as artists’ studios, woodshops, furniture makers, and small businesses. - Hyperallergic
It is one of the strangest cultural complexes to be built anywhere in recent years. On an unpromising site no larger than a football pitch, wedged between two highways, a beguiling sequence of spaces take visitors on a journey of discovery deep into the ground. It is part barn, part cave and part rolling meadow. - The Guardian
