The nominations, for Best New Dance Production and Outstanding Achievement in Dance, are for the Toronto-based company’s appearance last October at Sadler’s Wells with the production “Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada,” which featured Angels’ Atlas by Crystal Pite, Passion by James Kudelka and islands by Emma Portner. - Ludwig Van
With the city government facing an $876 million budget deficit, the mayor has asked all city departments to expect 15% funding reductions. The de Young Museum and Legion of Honor may eliminate a quarter of their city-funded staff positions; other San Francisco museums are looking at similarly painful cuts. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The lawsuit argues that the new requirement — that grant applicants must affirm that their projects will not “promote gender ideology” — violates the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act. - The Guardian
“Researchers were surveying the northwest sector of the site (at Luxor) when they unearthed a partially broken ceramic vessel that held the artifacts. The well-preserved objects have been dated to the 26th Dynasty (664–525 B.C.E.).” - Artnet
As partner in Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he had a hand in designing numerous landmarks of contemporary public architecture, in New York — the High Line, the Shed, and major redesigns of Lincoln Center and MoMA — and elsewhere — the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and the Broad Museum in Los Angeles. - CNN
Dreaming Emmett, about the murder of Emmett Till, ran in Albany for four weeks in 1986 and then vanished; rumors had it that Morrison herself collected every script and other record of the play and destroyed them. It turns out that’s not what happened at all. - New York Magazine
The joy of an epic list like this one is that it can’t encapsulate everything: we know we’ve left some artworks off, simply because there was no shortage to choose from. We hope you’ll discover some amazing pieces here, reflect on some that are much-loved already, and debate the merits of others. - ARTnews
With local dance stores having closed, students at the Rock School were having to shop out-of-town for high-quality gear, especially pointe shoes. (Ballerinas go through a lot of those.) So, to both help local dancers and diversify its revenue sources, the school opened its own dance store. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The stunning collapse of the iconic company and MPC – which was founded in the Soho section of London during 1970 and was one of the world’s largest and most recognizable VFX vendors – was a tragic blow to an already volatile VFX business. - Variety
Cheryl Hickman, artistic director of Opera on the Avalon, will start a five-year term in July as chairperson of the federal Crown corporation the Canada Council for the Arts. - CBC
What I discovered after many years of studying this innate survival strategy is that high sensitivity means, above all, thinking deeply about everything. - Aeon
The play was Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, produced in 1996 by the Charlotte Repertory Theatre. Here’s the story of the fight about it started by a fundamentalist minister, the legal mechanism used to shut the play down, and the decades-long aftereffects of the debacle. - Charlotte Magazine
There’s been a bunch of authors and publishers lately saying, “Hey, this is hugely time-consuming. It’s an incredibly emotional process. What would happen if we stopped doing all this?” - Marketplace
Baltimore Center Stage, Maryland’s state theater, says it will refuse to comply with the NEA’s new guidelines — which state that applicants “will not operate any programs promoting ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’” or “gender ideology” — at the cost of its own potential federal funding in the future. - Baltimore Banner
The integration of AI and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) proved especially powerful. SAR technology provides high-resolution images of structures buried beneath the earth's surface, capable of penetrating natural barriers such as sand, vegetation, and ice. - Jerusalem Post
