The renovation and expansion of the venue will take four years longer than originally planned, and the cost, originally projected at under €1 billion, will soar and could double. Critics of the project are now calling for alternatives, saying that even a new building would be less expensive. - Pizzicato
Jamison was Ailey’s muse, as complicated as that word is, and she was able to bring his feelings, his ideas to life because of who she was. - The New York Times
“Over the years it has become more and more pervasive to the point where, on those rare instances when a performance doesn’t get a standing ovation, you can see it on the actors’ faces, like ‘What did we do wrong?’” - The New York Times
Thanks to a major bequest from this past summer, the company — founded 18 years ago as a shoestring summer operation — has moved into a (slightly) larger venue, has a balanced $5.2 million budget, and gives its dancers an all-too-rare 52-week contract with livable pay and four weeks' vacation. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“The arts are unifying to our country, and I think it’s going to be the salvation of our country,” she said Saturday at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, “where we can come together, forget our differences, be inspired, laugh together, cry together.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
New data from subscription analytics provider Antenna offer a deeper look at the subscription pausing habits customers are developing as services like Netflix, Disney+ and Apple TV+ become the go-to way of watching TV in many households, instead of cable. - The Wall Street Journal
"I have written three new plays that are going to be on in different places and I have done that partly because of my sense that I don’t have much time. I am trying to write a lot of stuff while I can." - The Observer (UK)
The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March after Harbourfront Centre management declined to renew its lease. - Ludwig Van
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted of the crime and spent four years in prison. Perugians have hung banners around town reading "Respect for Meredith." - Variety
Ballot Issue 55, which was approved by Cuyahoga County voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin, more than doubles the existing surcharge on tobacco products. As the prevalence of smoking has declined, revenue from the tax had fallen by half over the past two decades. - Cleveland Scene
"The bronze bells of the Notre-Dame Cathedral have not pealed together since 2019, when a furious blaze consumed the centuries-old landmark right before the eyes of horrified Parisians. For Paris on Friday, they tolled once again." - The New York Times
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more than fantasy wish-casting, driven by a top-down desire to inorganically bring into the world something that can only exist organically." - Vulture (MSN)
The child of Auschwitz victims, he was sent to Britain by the Kindertransport project and studied in London. After years of hardship, he got a major solo show in 1978, won the Golden Lion at the 1986 Venice Biennale and became one of his generation's leading painters. - The Guardian
"The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, Banksy, Pablo Picasso, Joan Mirò, Francis Bacon, Wassily Kandinsky, Henry Moore and Gustav Klimt," potentially worth €200 million. - AP
