Calder Gardens will be a stylized oasis with woodlands, wildflower-filled prairie meadows, and rivers of grasses running through it — all carefully laid out by landscape designer Piet Oudolf to maintain visual interest year-round. (However, it will probably take two years for the plants to grow into Oudolf’s vision.) - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“The problem was that authorities did not check the video for historical accuracy. In a scene of Parisians jubilantly celebrating the 1944 end of Nazi occupation, a soldier wearing a German-style helmet can been seen in the crowd. In the background, someone on a balcony waves the flag of Japan.” - Artnet
“They will also be paid more for their appearances outside of cheering for the Dallas Cowboys. It’s a happy ending to a grueling season and a key milestone in the dancers' long fight for fair pay.” - Time
Sunset Boulevard has seen its weekly gross up more than $400,000 to $1.7 million. Purpose and Oh Mary! had grosses rise by well over $100,000, a large sum for spoken-word plays; Maybe Happy Ending got a smaller boost. Real Women Have Curves, on the other hand, is now closing early. - The Hollywood Reporter
Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of Perry’s BET series The Oval, alleges that Perry used his power to assault, harass, and exploit Dixon, promising career advancement and then using threats of professional retaliation to keep Dixon quiet. Perry maintains that Dixon has invented the entire thing to extort Perry. - AP
“As the conflict with Israel continues to escalate, Iran has closed its museums and cultural heritage sites until further notice, according to local news reports. Officials have also ordered valuable artefacts across the country to be relocated to secure storage facilities.” - The Art Newspaper
“His technique was sufficient but rarely dazzling, and his tone was full and generally attractive but not especially lustrous. ... What attracted listeners was his musicianship — his distinctive mixture of welling songfulness and formal rectitude, his willingness to take listeners deep into the heart of anything he played.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
In this case — the Montreal-based troupe The 7 Fingers, rehearsing in New York for a show opening in two days — the injury didn’t happen to the aerialist making a daring drop from a trapeze to the ground. It happened to one of the guys on the ground catching her. - The New York Times
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube - overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute. - BBC
A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum in the Italian city of Verona was caught on closed-circuit TV sitting on artist Nicola Bolla’s Swarovski-encrusted “van Gogh” chair. The piece folded under the man’s weight, and the pair promptly ran from the room - ARTnews
Streaming accounted for 44.8% of viewership via TV screens during the month, the report said, while broadcast (20.1%) and cable (24.1%) together represented 44.2% of overall tune-in. - Deadline
A rehang tends to elicit strong reactions from anyone with a stake in the collection – and in the case of a public gallery, “anyone” means “everyone”. Unsurprisingly then, it has only been done twice at the National Gallery since the second world war. - The Conversation
The paper mills have various techniques to take advantage of desperate or lazy researchers and to trick publishers: some operate as a marketplace in which extra authorship slots on already--accepted papers are up for grabs. Others take published papers and use AI to tweak text and graphics to escape plagiarism detectors. - Nature
It started as a joke, of course. The first really angry protest on the issue happened on a hot summer day in Barcelona, and demonstrators brought water guns along to cool off. Then things got a little (ahem) heated, tourists were shot at with H₂O, and an icon was born. - AP
Generally, we want geniuses to be good with their minds rather than with their hands, but we can make an exception for a surgeon or a chef. We expect them to discover new realms of knowledge; Their talent should be incomprehensible to the masses, unless they’re a politician. - The New Yorker
