If it remains at all, it will be as a sham vehicle through which the administration will fund its favored projects, such as non-Equity shows at the Kennedy Center and Trump’s sculpture garden of who he deems to be heroes. - Howard Sherman
The tourist was visiting the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Xi’an, a city in western China that was the capital during several ancient dynasties, when he “climbed over the guardrail and the protective net and jumped” more than 15 feet into Pit No. 3 on Friday. - ARTnews
Criticism, done well, is performance. Criticism done best opens the lives of writers, as well as their literature. Henry James’ speech on Balzac (which was later revised and published as an essay) includes his central literary thesis. - The Metropolitan Review
Old men are entitled to a little nostalgia, and Gioia isn’t the only postwar culture hero looking to escape, to some extent, into the past. - Commonweal
While Americans get news from social media, they often don’t see those sources as trustworthy. And while Democrats see most traditional news sources as trustworthy, the most trusted news sources among Republicans are generally acutely partisan ones such as Fox News and Newsmax. - Washington Post
Museums in Canada face several challenges to housing and preserving their collections, let alone displaying those items. And overcrowding is becoming a bigger issue, experts say, from what might be a surprising source — Canadians donating way more fine art and artifacts than the museums can possibly use. - CBC
If copyright protections were to be stripped away, then so begins the unraveling of the entire value proposition that union members past and present have fought so hard to maintain in the film and television industry. - The Hollywood Reporter
More than 500 Broadway artists are calling for "accountability, justice, and respect" after theater legend Patti LuPone received widespread pushback over recent comments she made about fellow stage icons Audra McDonald and Kecia Lewis in a recent New Yorker profile. - Entertainment Weekly
“The structures are built using a range of materials and passive cooling principles. The facade of the Bima microlibrary in Bandung was built in 2015 with 2,000 discarded ice cream buckets.” - The Guardian (UK)
“There are a lot of really beautiful shows that just are never going to attract the audience, and/or support the budget, that you increasingly need to put on a flashy Broadway show.” So? Commercial theatre returns to Off Broadway. - The New York Times
A professor of political science writes that there's “extensive research finding correlations between one’s tendency to believe in the bootstraps version of the American Dream and exposure to shows like America’s Got Talent, American Idol, and Shark Tank.” - Salon
"When Domingo Hindoyan, the Venezuelan chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, made his debut with L.A. Opera last November with Roméo et Juliette, Times classical music critic Mark Swed called it 'a coup for the company.’” Now comes an even bigger coup for the opera. - Los Angeles Times
“Victor appeared in a number of television series through her decades-long career, including as Lupita on the comedy Weeds” - but most people younger than 50 know her from her role voicing Abuelita in the 2017 movie Coco. - The New York Times
Natalie Venitia Belcon "insists that in her downtime, offstage, away from journalists, she is an everyday sort of woman who prefers oversize T-shirts and yoga pants. She loves to put on her bunny slippers and watch the UFC.” - The New York Times
