Weyni Mengesha will depart as of August 31 after seven years in the post. A statement said she is leaving in order to focus on her family and her freelance directing career. - Canadian Press (MSN)
"For five decades (she) mapped the Native American experience in dynamic and complex artworks. … The past few years have seen a reawakening (for) Smith’s distinct abstractions, collages, and sculptures, which unpack the historic injustices against Native American peoples, while shattering dominant cultural narratives." - Artnet
Women choreographed 30.6% of works presented by the largest 150 companies in the 2023-24 season, down 1.5 percentage points from the previous season. However, the percentage of world premieres choreographed by women rose to 48.8%. Within the largest 10 companies, only 14.6% of works were choreographed by women. - Dance Data Project
"The organization is also freezing federal hiring immediately and instating a five-day return-to-office policy," both pursuant to othr executive orders from the White House. - The Washington Post (MSN)
"The renovation project, branded 'Louvre New Renaissance,' will include a wide new entrance near the Seine River, to be opened by 2031, (President) Macron said in a speech." The project's cost is estimated to be 800 million euros. - AP
Much can be learned by close reading poetry, which is well written, that has withstood the test of time. By reading bad poetry, however, the critic can analyze the multitude of things that can go wrong in verse. - 3 Quarks Daily
The third scene of Eureka Day depicts a board meeting at a private school in Berkeley (!) after a student gets mumps. The board does it town-hall style, with a running feed, shown upstage, of the insane comments the online attendees put in the chat box. Yikes. - The New York Times
A film about a performance of “Hamlet” within the world of Grand Theft Auto suggests that the moral environment of revenge tragedy is not far from that of video games. - The New Yorker
"Triton (1653) is on permanent loan to the (Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam) courtesy of a private collector. A terracotta study model, it depicts the Greek god Triton poised atop a shell. … It went long unnoticed as its surface had been slathered with a thick coat of dark paint, hiding Bernini’s ornate detailing." - Artnet
The Smithsonian, which oversees 21 museums, including ones dedicated to American art, portraiture, and African American history and culture, has a unique structure. That means the decision to adhere to Trump’s freshly penned executive order isn’t so clear. - ARTnews
There is a “proliferation of damage in museum spaces, some of which are in very poor condition,” Des Cars wrote in the memo, which was published on Thursday by Le Parisien newspaper. - ARTnews
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman more or less created the country's contemporary dance scene when she co-founded and directed Australian Dance Theatre in Adelaide in 1965. She's been dancing and teaching ever since, and she now runs an artists' retreat and dance company in the bush outside Canberra. - The Guardian
As its playlists became increasingly dominated by music from content farms—low-wage operations producing dreck for somebody else’s profit—these mood classifications turned into what Ms. Pelly calls “streambait,” the aural equivalent of clickbait. - The Wall Street Journal
Today, the online platform that connects readers to local bookstores launched an e-reading platform of its own. For the first time, local independent bookstores can sell e-books to customers, says CEO and founder Andy Hunter. - USA Today
One of the largest arts centres on the planet and the world’s most visited museum, the Louvre attracts more than 8 million people a year. When it was modernised in the 1980s, it was designed to welcome 4 million visitors a year, yet now handles more than double that number. - The Guardian
