She doesn't get the respect for her pioneering role that, for instance, Ida Lupino does — because her characters and stories were comic, and because she didn't direct her films. But she did write them, and she often adapted them from stage plays she did direct as well as write and star in. - The New York Times
Banksy added an asterisk and a tiny bit of corporate-speak to the painting’s bottom right-hand corner: “*Subject to availability for a limited period only.” - Seattle Times
She started out writing radio serials in 1940s Cuba, switched to TV, fled the Castro regime in 1966 and started over in Miami — going on to write scripts for 40 of the popular Spanish-language prime-time soap operas and becoming the genre's first superstar author. - MSN (Washington Post)
As part of a major renovation and expansion of its Central Park West headquarters, the New-York Historical Society (founded 1804) will devote an entire floor to the new American L.G.B.T.Q.+ Museum, expected to open in 2024. - The New York Times
That's the conclusion of a new report from the Pew Research Center. Results for last year in particular were that terrestrial public radio listenership was down a bit, public TV audience was up quite a bit, and podcasts keep growing. - Inside Radio
Blanka Zizka, who with then-husband Jiri turned a small, experimental company into a major regional theater, is stepping down just 17 months after she instituted a new rotating artistic directorship structure at the Wilma. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Why did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturn the 83-year-old star's 2018 sexual assault conviction? Because of the Fifth Amendment and a bait-and-switch. Here's a legal explainer. - The New York Times
"Kelly Tweeddale, the former symphony and opera executive who was hired in 2019 as executive director of the San Francisco Ballet, stepped down from the post on Monday, June 28, after less than two years on the job. An announcement from the company gave no reason for the decision." - San Francisco Chronicle
It's 170 shows rather than the 3,000+ that were standard pre-pandemic, there's still a big online component, many of the shows sill be outdoors, and the crowds will be a lot smaller, but the live, in-person Fringe is back. - BBC
“The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated, and people of an older generation who didn’t have access to the means of cultural production and needed the patronage of newspapers and publishing houses to get their voices heard.” - The Observer
It is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least engaging in cultlike behavior to extract resources out of its members. - The New Republic
UK museums can hardly try to buy multi-million-pound works of art when they are making large numbers of staff redundant as a result of Covid-19. - The Art Newspaper
In 2011, Cuno was appointed to lead the Getty Trust, which manages four Los Angeles–based organizations: the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Foundation, the organization’s main philanthropic arm. - ARTnews
People live in information filter bubbles created by powerful algorithms. When those in your social circle share misinformation, you are more likely to believe it and share it. Misinformation multiplies and science denial grows. - The Conversation
Last June Barbara Anderson founded Art on the Ave, which creates free exhibits in New York City neighborhoods by using empty storefronts as gallery space. - Christian Science Monitor
