Chief content officer Bela Bajaria: “I think it’s really a bummer for the 100 incredibly talented people who made an amazing movie. … And if you look at the nominations, and all of this awards love that it’s received, I think it’s such a bummer that it distracted from that.” - The Guardian (UK)
Wydro was "a playwright, director and producer who with his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured their life savings into the Off Broadway gospel musical Mama, I Want to Sing, an enduring work of Black theater that ran for more than 2,800 performances .” - The New York Times
Author Louise Penny of the Inspector Gamache series: “I was supposed to launch The Black Wolf at the Kennedy Center in DC, but in the wake of Trump taking over, I have pulled out. … It was, of course, going to be a career highlight. But there are things far more important than that.” - CBC
“Tilted Axis has carved out a unique literary niche, and has caught the attention of critics and prize juries, landing major awards and winning acclaim for writers who were unknown in the Anglophone world.” - The New York Times
After years of lawsuits that included information about just how the statue was trafficked into the United States from a site in Turkey that had been buried in volcanic rubble for two millennia. - Artnet
“In January, Torres made history as the first Brazilian actor to win a Golden Globe. Brazilian fans have been euphoric ever since, exalting every social media post about her and the film with likes in the millions.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Turns out that the mass production of cards led, in effect, to the manufacturing of emotions (not only affection) in and for the people who would buy them. - The Conversation
Even a president as attuned to the details of Kennedy Center programming as Nixon didn’t try to directly take a hand in running the place. As in so many other instances in the last month, it’s remarkable how little opposition Trump has encountered in setting out to do whatever he wants. - Van
"At stake: the immortality conferred on those who make a once-in-a-century intellectual breakthrough. Three men — driven by boundless curiosity, a love of risk, and the distinctive demons of aspiration and ambition — were most responsible for making the contest possible." - Smithsonian Magazine
We must recognise that the natural and the mental order of things go hand in hand. Neither can be fully understood without the other. And neither can be traced back to the other. - Aeon
Events have moved quickly since Thursday night when Creative Australia sensationally dumped the Sydney-based multimedia artist Khaled Sabsabi as the nation’s representative for the 2026 edition of the Venice Biennale. - The Art Newspaper
