The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality. - The New Yorker
Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see the consolidation of CNN with Paramount-owned CBS News.” - Los Angeles Times
The CEO of Simon & Schuster has some thoughts about what will be going on a decade from now: "I fearlessly predict that the average book will be shorter.” - Boston Globe (Archive Today)
The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes, paint. Dance classes require mirrors and bars.” How’s the $35 arts tax doing? - Oregon ArtsWatch
"This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this point, and is unlikely to fade away any time soon.” Could gaming execs make a damn plan? - Slate
At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune
Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. "Eliza’s widowed years a kind of breakout,” actually, and the U.S. (and Washington, D.C.) would have looked quite different without her. - The Atlantic
Zhao, at the London premiere of her new Hamnet, said, “In Hollywood, in the film industry, we are not very good at preserving the language of ambiguity. If logos and mystery are in harmony, we would be living in a much better world.” - Variety
“It’s been over a decade since the New York Film Festival has deployed a ‘Secret Screening’ of a major Oscars contender — not since Martin Scorsese brought an unfinished Hugo to the festival in 2011, followed by Steven Spielberg premiering Lincoln to, appropriately, the Lincoln Center audience in 2012.” - Vulture
Quiara Alegria Hudes: "I think there is more space for our different communities in literature than in theater. It costs less, and you can get books for free at the library, that makes it easier.” - El País English
“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and to making Chicago the kind of beautiful, vibrant place that we’re all fighting for.” - Chicago Sun-Times
To get into Masquerade, you must go through Dylan’s door. Masquerade’s creative director, Shai Baitel, says that Phantom of the Opera and Dylan’s work have shared themes. For instance: “Bob is very connected to Paris. This is something that has influenced his entire career.”- Vulture
Yes, Bond, the action hero who famously solves problems without guns … er, sorry, that's Doctor Who. "Unsurprisingly fans went into a tizzy about the alteration.” - The Verge
Griffin was “an influential poet, playwright and prolific feminist author who pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, blending propulsive, poetic prose with history, memoir and myth.” - The New York Times
