"The Taliban are being pressured on many issues like women's rights and journalists' safety, but there are no discussions about the rights and safety of artists. We can't raise our voice here, we are in hiding." - The Art Newspaper
We need to think now of what happens when artificial intelligence is co-resident with us in the world. It lives with us; it watches us; it helps us, maybe interferes with us occasionally. We don’t really know. - The Atlantic
"You just couldn't work the way he does – his scripts are improvised, not written, resting on collaboration, trust, instinct, bravery – without weighing every word, cross-examining every sentence. Otherwise it would just be baggy. He takes this perfectionism into every interview, every conversation:" - The Guardian
Time was, Dudley Moore could dash off a witty parody of a Beethoven sonata or Britten folk song arrangement. These days, NPR Classical and Britain's Classic FM tweet cartoons about John Cage's 4'33" or, god forbid, the sort of viola jokes we told in middle school. - Van
The rescue of these manuscripts "comes amid a strong effort by the Mexican government to stop the international trafficking of national heritage objects, with mixed results." Security and physical conditions at the National Archives have been particularly bad. - ARTnews
Helen Shaw: "Looking back while looking forward was the impossible job of this year's (ceremony). Instead of razzle-dazzling us, the host Audra McDonald (and, in the second half, Leslie Odom Jr.) had the job of surveying the pandemic wreckage, all of it still piling up." - Vulture
What's more, conservators and scholars involved say that the restoration has put to rest the big myth surrounding the sculpture: that Michelangelo went at it with a hammer out of dissatisfied frustration. (He had a better reason for never completing it.) - The New York Times
Current and former employees are using terms like "mass exodus", "freefall", and "climate of fear" to describe the situation at the central London venue. The turmoil comes in the wake of reports of racism and other discrimination there. - The Stage
The 63-year-old Austrian conductor has extended his contract as the orchestra's music director through the 2027-28 season, which will be his 20th at the PSO's helm. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"When a disease breaks into a population you tend to see a sharp increase in infection cases and eventually it will peak at some point when it sort of makes its way through the susceptible population and starts to decline. We see that same pattern with song downloads in our data." - CBC
Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” programmes. - The Conversation
"They became tedious redoubts for the pious certainties of a besieged, over-educated and underemployed intellectual class dissatisfied with – and powerless to change – the mindless, capital-driven popular." - Frieze
It is central to science, and its claims to objectivity, that values do not override facts. An important feature of this view of science is the distinction between epistemic and non-epistemic values. - 3 Quarks Daily
Singapore has followed its dismissal of Yale's liberal education by introducing a Foreign Interference Act that, "under the guise of defending national sovereignty, will enable the government to designate any independent media outlet as a foreign agent and to censor its content." - Salon
