Since March 2023, more than 1,000 teams have entered this competition. In October 2023, the first letters and lines of Greek text were detected, and in February 2024, the first winners of the prize money. Their AI model spectacularly revealed parts of 15 columns from the innermost part of one of the scrolls. - The Conversation
CBCbooks, the division behind Canada Reads, is readying a new consumer-facing one-hour national literary program, Bookends With Mattea Roach. - Publishing Perspectives
Poetry has drastically changed after World War Ⅱ; it’s parted from art—including poems, waka, haiku, and novels written until around the end of the War—that adheres to a certain purposive style and “shape.” - Words Without Borders
When you peel away layers of cliché and coarseness accrued over the course of the twentieth century, you often find works that are full of variety, contrasting dance styles, storytelling, humor, and relatable, appealing characters. You can distinguish the good from the bad. These ballets were meant to keep people engaged, entertained, and moved. - Marina Harss
Not only did he take characters and stories from all walks of 14th-century English life, he borrowed phrases from Latin, French, and Italian; took his approach to writing in vernacular from Dante; and swiped narratives from Ovid and Bocaccio. He even stole the Chaucerian stanza itself: it's actually Machaut's rime royal. - Poetry Foundation
In 2012, Victoria Siddall rose to prominence after launching Frieze Masters, going on to become global director of the contemporary art fair, which takes place in London every October, and has offshoots in New York and Los Angeles. - The Guardian
"The Broadway or West End grind, in which a cast can perform the same show eight times a week for months or years on end, is particularly suited to monotony-breaking mischief." Thomas Floyd offers up some choice examples. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“Where My Bus At” highlights the budget cuts made to school bus routes. In April 2024, the county board of education voted to remove most school bus routes. - Blavity
"I spoke to many UK venues that London City Ballet once toured to, and it seemed these days few British ballet companies are passing through them. … Large-scale companies cannot necessarily fit into the mid-scale venues I was looking at … (and) a flexible company of 14 dancers with a mouldable repertoire felt (workable)." - Gramilano
“Vision is one of the most obvious and direct ways to process input, but when you think about it, you use your ears a lot for clues from the environment to get around. You aren’t even often aware of how you use sounds to navigate along with vision." - The Scientist
A few architects share ideas for cheering up forbidding concrete hulks like the FBI headquarters, Hubert Humphrey Building, and Hirshhorn Museum. Others, however, like them just as they are. It took only some white paint on a few slabs in subway stations for a campaign to arise demanding, "Keep Metro Bleak!" - Smithsonian Magazine
Georgian anti-Putin drama The Antique, which was due to premiere in Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA), has had its screenings suspended following the issuing of an emergency decree on behalf of Russian and Croatian producers claiming copyright issues with the screenplay. - Deadline
Company founder Jawole Willa Jo Zollar has handed the reins to co-artistic directors Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis. "In the spirit of sankofa — the Akan word for holding our history while imagining our future — here are some lessons these leaders have uncovered in their stewardship of this organization." - Dance Magazine
After two career collapses (one due to cocaine, one to a nervous breakdown), he has "carved out a space in Hollywood of his own, a sort of sui generis everyman who might not fit as a rom-com or action star but could instead do just about anything else." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Electors in Albany, Western Australia (about 4½ hours south of Perth) voted to remove two sex education titles, one aimed at teens, from public library shelves in what the local LGBTIQA+ advocacy group called a "moral panic" and an attempt to conflate sexual minorities with child grooming. - ABC (Australia)
