The billionaire chief of the Estée Lauder cosmetics company had special relationships with the Whitney Museum (he was a former board chairman) and the Met Museum, to which he donated the Lauder Collection of more than 80 Cubist artworks collectively worth over $1 billion. - ARTnews
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against the enormous hordes of tourists placing massive stress on local infrastructure, environment, public space, and most of all housing markets. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“The Louvre’s spontaneous strike erupted during a routine internal meeting, as gallery attendants, ticket agents and security personnel refused to take up their posts in protest over unmanageable crowds, chronic understaffing and what one union called ‘untenable’ working conditions.” - AP
Following the early departure of Lourdes Lopez at the end of this past season, the company has appointed 45-yeard-old Gonzalo Garcia, a former principal at San Francisco Ballet and New York City Ballet who is currently repertory director for the latter. Garcia succeeds Lopez and MCB founder Edward Villella. - Miami Herald (MSN)
Thunderbolts* - beloved by critics and indie fans - isn’t going to break even. But was the point of this particular film to make money ... or to set up the next ten Marvel movies? - The Guardian (UK)
The fate of Ellmann and his Joyce biography highlights the disorienting transformation of literature as a field of study. The canons dismantled during the Theory incursion of the 1970s and ’80s introduced a more inclusive world of letters, even as the upheaval left English departments fragmented. - The Atlantic
Our analysis of the dataset shows how there is still a ways to go before women’s writing is valued — awarded, remunerated and read — equally to men’s. - The Conversation
Nearly half the company’s dancers — including its top two female principals — are leaving after a season marked by strained relationships with leadership, internal strife and what the dancers describe as a toxic work culture. - SunCoast Searchlight
Awards were overridden in subject areas spanning architecture, biology, engineering, agriculture, animal sciences, medical sciences, music and history, it says, accusing the administration of "injecting politics and ideological mandates into the Fulbright program." - NPR
“It’s not just a genre,” he told me over email. “It’s a form expression for a younger generation of artists, which is both natural for them, profoundly inventive, and engaging for their viewers.” - Artnet
The researchers calculated each individual's "listening radius"—roughly how far they roamed across genres and artists. They found that people living in larger urban areas also tend to listen to a broader variety of music, expanding their personal musical repertoire. - Phys
The increase in music majors may be related to the COVID-19 pandemic. “It turns out people turned to music in their time at home, and they came back — just a (f)lood of people who had really committed themselves to it and wanted to be serious about continuing it." - The Daily Cal
“The advertising world might be at their funeral without even realizing it,” said Geoffrey Colon, an entrepreneur who spent two decades at creative agencies and tech giants. To sum it up, he said: “Iceberg ahead.” - The New York Times
"The 'Main Title' music from Jaws has inspired generations of commercial and cultural riffs and rip-offs — since filed under a larger surge of Jaws-inspired content termed ‘sharksploitation’ — that have dulled its bite a bit.” - Washington Post (MSN)
“Many of the buildings on the original list were not ‘underutilized’ at all. They were simply being used for government work that the president didn’t like or by government officials whom the president wanted to punish.” - The New York Times
