“What critics of the prime-time cartoon either fundamentally misunderstood (or conveniently overlooked) was its core truths. Bart loved his parents. He went to church with them. The Simpsons sometimes struggled to make ends meet, and they didn’t always get along, but they stuck together. They were a typical middle-American family." - The Atlantic (Yahoo!)
Several platforms are proliferating across cyberspace, seemingly in response to a culture in mainstream art criticism that the authors perceive as risk averse. ‘No one was writing truthfully about art – it was just the same four or five legacy art magazines covering the same circuit of shows. - Frieze
And that’s almost no interference from network executives. Fox was the first new broadcast TV network in decades; new execs were intimidated by multiple Oscar-winner James l. Brooks, the animated series’s producer. So talented writers got to push envelopes with their scripts and were rarely overruled. - Slate (Yahoo!)
Your brain breaks apart fleeting streams of acoustic information into parallel channels – linguistic, emotional and musical – and acts as a biological multicore processor. - The Conversation
“In my opinion, they are asking for proof of things that are not tangible. We are really trying to jump through all of the hoops no matter how small. The hoops get tinier and tinier but the standards and criteria are not tangible.” - Dayton Daily News
According to a Pew Research Center poll conducted in March, 43 percent of Americans supported continuing federal funding for NPR and PBS, 24 percent backed ending funding and 33 percent were unsure. But the survey found a close correlation between partisan leans and views on funding. - Washington Post
“The orchestra has informed subscribers that the contemporary music series will be ‘paused’ for the 2025-26 season. There was no public announcement or acknowledgement. The CSO series presented just two MusicNOW concerts this current season, most recently in March.” - Chicago Classical Review
Opening arguments before a judge at the British High Court began on Monday. The trial could last for three weeks followed by a written decision from the judge expected at a later date. - AP News
They are the first major Hollywood studios to file copyright infringement lawsuits, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing fight by artists, newspapers and content makers to stop AI firms from using their work as training data — or at least make them pay for it. - Washington Post
Venezuelans suffering through the worst of Maduro saw themselves in the show, but so did committed Chavistas. Same for anti-Lukashenko protesters in Belarus, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring demonstrators, Jan.6 insurrectionists, anti-Beijing Hong Kongers, and Mormons. Zachary Pincus-Roth considers what they all see in the show. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects of the civic unrest compounded by an uncertain future as thousands of National Guard troops and Marines roll into town under President Trump’s orders. - Los Angeles Times
“I think it’s crazy that 20 years in, we still offer music for free. We’re the only service that doesn’t have a free service. As a company, we look at music as art, and we would never want to give away art for free. - The Hollywood Reporter
The bill, known on Capitol Hill as a “rescissions” proposal, is the closest NPR and PBS have ever come to a complete loss of federal funding. The bill would strip all federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. - CNN
“In his art work, seemingly endless numbers of nails, which would by themselves perhaps be perceived as potentially aggressive and hurtful, turned into harmonic, almost organic creations. His reliefs with the tightly hewn nails are reminiscent of waving grasses or fields of algae in a marine landscape.” - AP
