“Stamberg, the first woman to anchor a national evening news program, hosted All Things Considered for 14 years before taking the helm of Weekend Edition Sunday and later serving as a Special Correspondent covering the arts. Along the way, she earned … nearly every major broadcasting award.” - Inside Radio
At the CheckOut, Access Contemporary Music “aims to put on two or three chamber concerts a week, mostly self-produced. There are incipient plans for a jazz night on Thursday and for cabaret shows to fill the void left when Davenport’s abruptly canceled all its cabarets in April.” - WBEZ (Chicago)
You might think of Google as a search company, but 80 percent of its quarter-trillion-dollar annual revenue comes from ads—both hosting them and placing them throughout the internet. And a big part of what makes Google the most profitable advertising company in the world is that it knows a lot about you. - LitHub
By making the announcement of honorees himself, Trump is taking on the role of producer/showman, elevating the attention to the show, which has aired on CBS since its origin yet is hardly a ratings blockbuster. - Deadline
“They're building production studios that stand toe-to-toe with Hollywood facilities and spending lavishly on higher-quality programming. Some of these stars, from MrBeast to Michelle Khare, also offer their content on more ‘traditional’ platforms. … As a result, the top digital creators are no longer outliers in the entertainment industry.” - TheWrap (MSN)
Seuss dominates so much of our imaginations around childhood. It may take another generation or two to reset our perspective so that Seuss isn’t synonymous with children’s literature. - LitHub
Scholars who feared speech might make them vulnerable to deportation, the government advised, reflect grandiosity and paranoia. Professors are smart, but they do not inhabit the real world. There is a kind of overheated imagination, the government’s lawyers suggested, that comes from living too much with concepts and ideas, rather than hard facts. - Chronicle of Higher Education
Early modern skeptics understood something we’re still grappling with today: Certain people are more vulnerable to believing extraordinary claims. They identified “melancholics,” people predisposed to anxiety and fantastical thinking, as particularly susceptible. - The Conversation
For 30 years the Twin Cities-based company has focused on the choreography of its founder and artistic director, Mathew Janczewski. Beginning this season, Arena is switching to a repertory model, keeping older works by Janczewski in its portfolio but adding new pieces by other choreographers. - The Minnesota Star Tribune (MSN)
“The most striking result is the disparity between how important creativity is for science versus how much opportunity and value is given to it within the research environment.” - Nature
“After five years and a $37 million restoration, Norwich Castle — one of England’s most iconic Norman fortresses — is reopening its doors with a meticulous recreation of its 12th-century grandeur.” - Artnet
Trump posted the announcement Tuesday morning. It said in part: "GREAT Nominees for the TRUMP/KENNEDY CENTER, whoops, I mean, KENNEDY CENTER, AWARDS," which alludes to a bill in Congress that would rename the performing arts venue after him. - NPR
He became so ubiquitous that, as he put it in Interview magazine last year, “I was one of the artists that was blamed for the ’80s.” - The New York Times
Every time we layer another technology on, it gets harder and harder for the student to understand what they are responsible for and what rights they are giving up. - The New York Times
But perhaps the most important thing these two artists had in common was the fact that they each left the Soviet Union in search of artistic opportunity. Balanchine left in 1924 and Baryshnikov in 1974, exactly fifty years later. - Hudson Review
