“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” - The New York Times
After years of lawsuits that included information about just how the statue was trafficked into the United States from a site in Turkey that had been buried in volcanic rubble for two millennia. - Artnet
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every social media post about her and the film with likes in the millions.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Turns out that the mass production of cards led, in effect, to the manufacturing of emotions (not only affection) in and for the people who would buy them. - The Conversation
Even a president as attuned to the details of Kennedy Center programming as Nixon didn’t try to directly take a hand in running the place. As in so many other instances in the last month, it’s remarkable how little opposition Trump has encountered in setting out to do whatever he wants. - Van
"At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough. Three men — driven by boundless curiosity, a love of risk, and the distinctive demons of aspiration and ambition — were most responsible for making the contest possible." - Smithsonian Magazine
We must recognise that the natural and the mental order of things go hand in hand. Neither can be fully understood without the other. And neither can be traced back to the other. - Aeon
Events have moved quickly since Thursday night when Creative Australia sensationally dumped the Sydney-based multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s representative for the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale. - The Art Newspaper
The word "run" has 645 definitions just as a verb (plus others as a noun), and it took an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer nine months working them all out and writing them up. (The two runners-up for greatest number of definitions are also three-letter verbs.) - Mental Floss
Pressures from the Trump administration threaten an already beleaguered research enterprise that historically has thrived on doing basic research with minimal influence from partisan politics and industry profit-seeking. - Post Alley
In 2020, Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence for copyright infringement, alleging that Ross had scraped Thomson Reuters’ own law database, known as Westlaw, to create its database, and that this amounted to copyright infringement. - Music Business Worldwide
Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical posters, and about 100 gold records. - The Atlantic
"(She) married technical mastery with charming unpredictability, receiving international acclaim for her sensitive and expressive interpretations of Scarlatti’s sonatas, Bach’s Goldberg Variations and the work of Romantic masters such as Frédéric Chopin." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Recent years have seen a surge in options for physical customization of the piano and an enormous leap forward in the merging of acoustic and digital technologies, with AI applications cracking open a Pandora's box of possibilities. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
