"After his Trey McIntyre Project gave its final performances 10 years ago, choreographer Trey McIntyre didn’t think he’d work in-depth with another dance company. But then the Los Angeles–based BODYTRAFFIC changed his mind." - Dance Magazine
"This once-desolate northeast corner of downtown attracts millions of guests annually to renowned cultural institutions housed in buildings such as I.M. Pei’s Meyerson Symphony Center and Renzo Piano’s Nasher Sculpture Center. Still, the district is not without its challenges." - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
Also, the artwork thrown in the trash by accident, the four-year-old who accidentally smashed an ancient jar, the grown man who deliberately smashed an Ai Weiwei, the museum staffer who sneaked his own art onto the walls, and the women-only-no-men-allowed exhibition with the fake Picassos that weren't spotted for months. - CNN
The 12th-century Byzantine-style mosaics in the cathedral of Monreale, on a hill overlooking the Sicilian capital, Palermo, are exceeded only by those in Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. They cover almost 69,000 square feet and their gold leaf collectively amounts to almost five pounds of solid gold. - BBC
Then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi blocked publication and import of the novel not long after it was released in 1988. Last month, when the government couldn't produce the relevant paperwork, a court overturned the ban. At least one New Delhi bookstore reports that sales are good. - The Guardian
The company, which canceled all performances and laid off staff last last year, filed earlier this month for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, the legal step toward liquidating its assets and closing itself down. - BroadwayWorld
Yep, it's true. The 21-minute film, The Junky's Christmas (1993), was written and narrated by Burroughs and produced by no less than Francis Ford Coppola. And it's right there on YouTube. - Open Culture
On net, they conclude, Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being. - The Atlantic
Believing that you possess a perfect understanding of what the people want is a poor way to run an opera company—or any organization, up to and including a nation. What we call the “audience” is an ever-shifting assemblage of tastes, expectations, experiences, levels of knowledge, degrees of passion. - The New Yorker
In 1087, a group of three grain ships from Bari, the port on the heel of the Italian boot, decided to steal the relics of the patron saint of sailors and bring them back home. So off they went to the tomb in Myra in what's now Turkey. From there the story gets literally and figuratively messy (not to...
Unlike a record label, a tech company doesn’t care whether we’re hooked on the same hit on repeat or lost in a three-hour ambient loop, so long as we’re listening to something. - The New Yorker
The budget cut is a departure from Berlin’s previous plan to inject the city’s cultural spaces with new capital. In 2021, Germany approved a record €2.1 billion federal culture; a €155 million increase from 2020. - ARTnews
The sight of young people moving to K-pop’s electrifying beat has become part of the drama of this protest movement. Protest organisers are blasting out K-pop hits, and demonstrators are waving K-pop light sticks (portable devices associated with specific artists or groups), turning the protests into multicoloured musical rallies. - The Conversation
Nostalgia is a powerful lure, even when it comes to songs like "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" and movies like "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians." And retailers and radio stations and TV networks know it. - Tedium
When the librettist obtained a copy of the score, in early 1743, he didn’t like it. “His Messiah has disappointed me,” he wrote to a friend, “being set in great haste … . I shall put no more Sacred Words into his hands, to be thus abus’d.” - The Wall Street Journal
