His movie “had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war,” which ended up winning silver. - The Guardian (UK)
“Smoke was still billowing from the rooftop rotunda late on Saturday morning as crews used a drone to help tackle the blaze and crowds gathered on the street to watch and take photos” of the iconic round building. - BBC
Each of the brief snippets “will end with the words ‘If you hear something, free something,’ which is also the title of this ambitious public art project by the conceptual artist Chloë Bass.” - The New York Times
For instance, before the Rosetta Stone, scholars had assumed the symbols were ideographs or pictographs. Were they, in fact, phonetic symbols? Turned out that they can be both. And in which direction were they read? (Well, that depends.) And what about that quasi-cursive called hieratic script? - Artnet
The settlement allows Anthropic to avoid going to trial over claims that it violated copyrights by downloading millions of books without permission and storing digital copies of them. The company will not admit wrongdoing. - Washington Post
The landlord of the Bruns Amphitheater, where Cal Shakes performed from 1991 until it closed last year, is negotiating a 15-year lease with a new organization called Siesta Valley Amphitheater, which plans a “far more robust” slate of programming with concerts and film screenings as well as theater. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Work at cultural funding agencies in the United States—the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services —has been quietly picking up, after the administration of US President Donald Trump and its Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) slashed staff and cancelled grants. - The Art Newspaper
"To me, the greatest danger that Latin American literature foretells for higher education is the insidious way capitulation to authoritarians changes both individuals and institutions." - The Conversation
By 1937, the 16th-century portrait of King Herod’s stepdaughter with the head of John the Baptist was considered “unbearable for refined people,” so a Cologne gallerist separated Salome’s upper half to sell separately and returned the severed-head-on-a-plate to its previous owner. Now the restored bottom section and the top have been reunited. - Artnet
Scientist Ludwik Fleck is credited with first describing science as a cultural practice in the 1930s. Since then, understanding has continued to build that scientific knowledge is always consistent with the cultural norms of its time. - The Conversation
Blame it on the excitement over the $85 million renovation of the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, or the yearlong hiatus that it prompted. Blame the star-studded “Twelfth Night” production, featuring Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o. But whatever you do, get in line early. - The Wall Street Journal
“Grosvenor gained acclaim in New York during the 1960s when he showed his work alongside famed Minimalists. … But the sculptures made by Grosvenor in the following decades diverged from Minimalism, even though these works, too, were spare and made from industrial materials.” - ARTnews
Arts educators and advocates successfully killed a proposed move in Arizona's Peoria Unified school district to bar arts educators from renewing memberships in their professional associations. - Playbill
“When I left the Smithsonian, a number of organizations reached out, and they were all different types,” Sajet told The Washington Post, adding that the Milwaukee Art Museum — whose collection contains more than 34,000 works, from antiquities to modern and contemporary art — felt like “a really good fit." - Washington Post
