This massive release isn’t something entirely worth celebrating. Instead, it’s a pointer to the sheer absurdity of American copyright law, which long ago came under the thumb of the entertainment industry and distant heirs of artists determined to preserve what is essentially a windfall. - Los Angeles Times
The decision to end the contracts of Artistic Director Lisa Mayer-Lang and her husband, resident choreographer Michael Lang, was reportedly made without consulting the full Board, dancers, or other stakeholders. One trustee says most dancers have left the company, as have two designers. - WTOL (Toledo, OH)
To be sure, Jesse Green and Maya Phillips disagree in a most collegial and cordial manner. Indeed, they value their disagreement (not least because it took them a while to find some). - The New York Times
You've got some benefactors' names all over the buildings of your non-profit, and then those donors, because of how they made their money, become pariahs. Awkward! Gladwell's "modest proposal" to prevent this situation — based in Scripture, no less — involves a simple change in tax law. - Oh, MG
The network's spokesperson says hosts such as Audie Cornish and Noel King simply left for competitors who can pay better. But another departed host, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, tweeted, "People leave jobs for other opportunities if they are unhappy with the opportunities they have." - The Washington Post
For five years, someone has been impersonating various publishing industry figures (dozens of them) in order to obtain not-yet-published manuscripts — which were never posted online or held for ransom, baffling people in the field. The suspect is Filippo Bernardini, a young employee of Simon & Schuster. - Vulture
"Thieves hacked art dealer Todd Kramer's digital wallet and made off with at least 15 artworks — including five from the high-profile Bored Ape Yacht Club collection — worth an estimated $2.2 million." Then someone took Kramer's tweet about the robbery and made that into an NFT. - Artnet
"Even though (usual venue) the Crypto.com Arena has a basketball or hockey game or a concert booked nearly every night until mid-April, enough artists and executives voiced reluctance about appearing to convince the Academy to postpone the show." - Variety
"He has re-enacted the photograph in exchange for a fee, many times; he has had the album title... tattooed across his chest; and he has used the connection to try to pick up women." - BBC
Box office rebounded, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week’s grim, Covid-decimated $14 million. That’s an overall, week-to-week increase of 87%, and reflects a tally largely in keeping with recent pre-Christmas Week figures. - Deadline
In the 20 years that zombie apocalypse narratives have grown and reached critical mass in popular media, such comparisons at an insurrection at the seat of American democracy — where five people died and scores more were injured and traumatized — are disturbing, but unsurprising. - The Conversation
A book nowadays is likely to have left its author’s computer to become a bunch of digital assets in Adobe InDesign. These digital assets are then published to e-book formats and onto paper in a globe-spanning process that might involve a specialized logistics firm, designer, and distributor. - PublicBooks
Sicily’s regional archaeological museum said Wednesday it had signed an agreement with the Acropolis Museum in Athens for a once-renewable, four-year loan of the small white marble piece it has, in exchange for a loan of a statue and vase. - Seattle Times (AP)
After 20-odd years singing leads at the world's top companies, Kwiecień retired from the stage in 2020 due to long-term injuries. He became artistic director at the opera house in the Polish city of Wrocław — just in time for the pandemic. - Limelight (Australia)
