By the end of last year, tax records show, it had more than a quarter of a billion dollars, stockpiling wealth at a pace that would be extraordinary for any company, let alone a nonprofit dance group from Orange County, N.Y. - The New York Times
"We have no ministry of culture in this country, and I hope we never will. No matter how democratic a government may be, no matter how responsive to the wishes of its people, it can never be government’s role to define exactly what is good, or true or beautiful.” - The Art Newspaper
Charles Dolan was one of the cable TV industry’s most aggressive operators and marketers. He created the nation’s first urban cable television network, Manhattan Cable, in the 1960s. He introduced feature-length, commercial-free movies on cable with his Home Box Office, for subscribers who paid extra to receive it. - The New York Times
“We’re making the same mistakes in our culture. We’re allowing the appropriation, the exportation. We’re trying to fix it for everybody else except for ourselves.” - The New York Times
"I would say that the era for old uprights is coming to a close. The inevitability is that one day, those pianos will be gone… The ones that have musical value — yeah, I'm sad about those." - CBC
But even the most borrowed books only represent a sliver: "When you actually look at what people read in New York City, it wasn't like 20% of our audience were only reading these books. It's only 1%. There is still interest in a broad range of subject areas.” - NPR
“Their first round of collective auditions took place last January and drew representatives from about 20 statewide companies. The auditions made it possible for casting directors to see actors from across the region and be introduced to talent outside of their organization’s existing roster.” - Baltimore Magazine
Bad, yes, but on the other hand, no one thought the industry could even partially recover from the first half of the year’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Story and The Fall Guy bombs, so things … might be looking up? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
This is not the fake Colombia of Disney's Encanto: “Many on the set considered it an honor to be part of the project. Several people told me it would be the most important work they would ever do.” - The New York Times
“Until John Thorpe, rooms in the great houses of England used to lead on, one from another, all grouped around a central entrance hall, and while some buildings had monastery-style external covered cloisters bordering central courtyards, these were always too nippy for a northern climate.” - The Observer (UK)
At this task, Gladiator II utterly failed: “None of us could remember how the new movie ended, which was particularly hilarious because we’d all just seen the damn thing; this was a few days after it had screened for critics.” - Slate
Yes, of course, but physicists have reconsidered the idea - and the cool thing is that “quantum reference frames might help resolve some of the weird paradoxes that arise in quantum thought experiments.” - Wired
“Publishers are investing in colorful patterned edges, metallic foil covers, reversible jackets, elaborate artwork on the endpapers, ribbon bookmarks and bonus content.” - The New York Times
“TikTok faces a ban if its parent company, ByteDance, does not follow a new federal law that requires it to be sold to a non-Chinese company by Jan. 19, the day before” the presidential inauguration. - Salon
