“Los Angeles is a city of constant change — it reinvents itself, tearing down old buildings and putting up new ones. Hollywood is also in constant flux and turmoil. Maybe Hollywood is processing its own anxieties about change and inflicting upon its hometown.” - Los Angeles Times
In English, that is (oh, and Spanish as well). “Could the now dominant mythological and scientific ‘Metamorphosis’ eventually give way to the aptly unadorned and existentially suggestive ‘Transformation?’” - LitHub
We know what real, and terrifying, cancel culture and real corporate capitulation look like now, thanks to Paramount Global, law firms, and a certain president. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Matthew Christopher Pietras “found himself eagerly courted by institutions that are desperate to find new generations of young patrons. He was invited to join the board of the Met Opera and began sponsoring galas.” Then things went horribly, tragically awry. - The New York Times
Celebrity can be weird these days: “The 37-year-old actor has for years now been a subject of TikTok thirst edits and calls for him to nab the lead in the most anticipated book-to-screen adaptations of the day.” And yet, reality. - Slate
Sketched on discarded road signs, “the artwork’s surface depicts hundreds of stringybark blossoms and thousands of bees, referencing the songline of Wuyal, the honey hunter – an important ancestor for the Marrakulu clan.” - The Guardian (UK)
Opera lovers trying to find hotel rooms or Airbnbs - or anything at all - near their favorite summer opera festival are now competing for space with 100,000 parents and grandparents who want to see their kids play at baseball camp. - The New York Times
“The Emmys continue to saturate the zone with their favorite shows, clogging up the supporting performance categories (and sometimes even lead, or writing and directing) with the same titles in a single year, edging out exemplary performances.” - Vulture
“The consolidation of the English-language publishing industry in the 1980s and 90s gave its most successful writers a worldwide reach and a critical impact that no authors from other countries could aspire to.” But that very success might have changed things. - The Guardian (UK)
Robby Hoffman "recently received her first acting Emmy nomination — for the role of Randi” on Hacks. It was relatively quick success, after she ditched accounting for acting (yes, really). - The New York Times
“Over the course of her nearly 70-year career, Ruysch shunned radical innovation and experimentation, and opted for the subtlest of variations on a theme. No grand gestures or avant-garde maneuvers. Just refinement, focus, and perfection. Flowers and fruit.” - The Atlantic
“The exhibition, Saved Treasures of Gaza, at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe brings what curators called a sense of ‘urgency’ to explain the rich history of a place that has been a crossroads of cultures since Neolithic times.” - The Guardian (UK)
"Fallon is a professional. If he has any reservations about interviewing Gutfeld, … made headlines by joking that conservatives should proudly reclaim the word ‘Nazi' like Black people have reclaimed the N-word … they’re not apparent.” - Vulture
Morgan “arrived in Paris in 1948, having dropped out of Juilliard after the French nightclub impresario Bernard Hilda offered her a chance to sing at his venue on the Champs Élysées.” When she returned to the States, it was with a French-inflected flair. - The New York Times
