More than a year after allegations of abuse emerged, the Metropolitan Police are sending their evidence out. "The allegations against Brand come from a seven-year period when he was at the height of his fame - hosting national television and radio programmes, and starring in Hollywood films." - BBC
Her "refusal to compromise with movement that felt inauthentic (and) her instinctive pull towards the extreme and the subversive" were channeled into her first major piece, Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, which premiered in 2015 and has been touring off-and-on ever since. - Dance Magazine
Considering the way that many recent novels reference recent, niche cultural fragments most relevant to an incestuous class of urban media professionals, future generations would need a comically thick companion book. - The Walrus
For such a self-professed grump, she never left a reader hanging after a seemingly desultory setup. There was always a reward. And the jokes still work. - The New Yorker
More than 200 Russian curators and art historians, both in the country and in exile, have written an open letter claiming that Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery has “liquidated” its contemporary art department, following a restructure. - The Art Newspaper
Following 2024's "period of renewal," the festival’s return in 2025 will include an ambitious art and music program, alongside cornerstone events including Winter Feast, the Ogoh-Ogoh, Night Mass and the Nude Solstice Swim on the longest night of the year there, June 21. - ArtsHub (Australia)
A recent Nielsen BookData and GfK Entertainment report on global book sales for the first eight months of the year shows “rising revenues in fiction, while sales of nonfiction books are declining in many regions. The TikTok community BookTok is playing an increasingly important role.” - Publishers Weekly
The 1950s undoubtedly gave us some of the most significant critics in history, but there’s no value in being intimidated by them. Golden generations are made in hindsight – the next one might be closer than we think. - The Stage
"He was so versatile — his output included plays for radio and stage, films, short stories, novels and poetry — that he was best described as a storyteller. (He) forged a path away from the Latin American tradition of magical realism, looking for the moments of transcendence in everyday life." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Anyone paying attention to recent testimonies of artists, cultural workers, and leaders of arts organizations in New York City Council hearings to discuss the budget for arts and culture knows that, in New York, culture is in crisis. This dire context requires a systemic overhaul of the governance model that structures our sector today. ARTnews
The story of Scott Burton is a story about how fragile, mutable and, to some degree, arbitrary art history is. It illustrates how an artist’s legacy can be transformed by one decision. In Burton’s case, that choice was to leave his estate... to MoMA. - The New York Times
Right now the key benefit is in visual effects: what requires hundreds of hours and people to accomplish using CGI takes a second or two with generative AI. What's more, "agentic" AI (as it's called) can suggest optimum marketing plans and release schedules. - The New York Times Magazine
The closure of the almost 150-year-old edifice, one of the architectural jewels of Paris, will be followed by the closure for renovation of the opera’s giant newer stage, the Opera Bastille, opened in 1989, for at least two years from mid-2030. - France24
“We are now exploring whether creating a new well-capitalized company owned by our shareholders and comprised of our strong portfolio of cable networks would position them to take advantage of opportunities in the changing media landscape and create value for our shareholders.” - Fast Company
Eventually, I would learn that stories are not just a way of communicating science; they are intrinsic to science, actually part of doing science. - Aeon
