His departure comes as the orchestra’s musicians and the administration are in the midst of heated talks over a new labor contract; the current agreement expires in September. The musicians have been seeking large wage increases. - The New York Times
The tracking company found that production in the United States was down about 40% in the second quarter of 2024 compared to peak-TV levels of filming activity during the same period in 2022. For nearly two years, Hollywood has suffered a stark decline in film and TV shoots. - Los Angeles Times
Two of them involve Legos. One is about a quilt, another about Dr. Frankenstein and his monster, and yet another is about industrialized agriculture, with English as a monocrop. - The Paris Review
We find the volume of new projects – both announced and completed – increasing, while we see the value of investment decreasing, reflecting the current economic uncertainty affecting both the public and private sectors. - AEA
"A lover of brutalism might blanch to learn that the (National Building Museum) has gathered proposals from six architecture firms for reimagining six of our most polarizing buildings. … The buildings featured are at least 50 years old. Most are out of favor with both contemporary tastes and technology." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Before she fled Hollywood for her native Texas in the mid-1990s, Duvall had a thriving career as a versatile, one-of-a-kind actress and head of her own production company, Think Entertainment. - The Hollywood Reporter
"The eight films, which feature some of the UK's top performers, will receive their premiere screenings at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, the city in Kent where the writer was born. The viewings, between 16-24 August, will mark the 460th anniversary of Marlowe's birth." - BBC
At the turn of the 20th century, he gifted six concert halls to different Steel City suburbs. The musical halls were built with uniformly excellent acoustics, each a historical gem in its own right. Perhaps the grandest symbol of opulence: most had functioning pipe organs, also called the “king of musical instruments." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Choreographer Wayne McGregor, artistic director of the Biennale's dance division, made a point of selecting work that he describes as "innovative, edgy, and perhaps more difficult to like." - Dance Magazine
Combined with the app’s 2023 revamp, which added a TikTok-like discovery feed, artist profiles where creators can hawk merchandise and concert tickets, as well as the ability to post to stories, Spotify’s app is shaping up to be a social network centered around all things audio, not just a music-streaming app. - TechCrunch
"Film isn’t reality, no matter how it’s shot. … I guess people are so afraid of being tricked or manipulated that they feel if they impose a set of rules, somehow they don’t have to be afraid anymore. I would like to assure them that they still need to be afraid." - Nieman Lab
The one-act by American writer Joshua Kaplan, titled TERF, doesn't premiere until next month at the Edinburgh Fringe, yet right-wing media on both sides of the Atlantic have attacked it — sight unseen — as hostile to Rowling, a well-known critic of alleged excesses of the trans rights movement. - The Hollywood Reporter
"When studio grip Rico Priem, 66, died on the freeway after pulling two 14-hour overnight shifts in a row on the Pomona set of the TV series 9-1-1 in May, a common refrain among crew members became, 'That could've been any of us.'" - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Kirsha Kaechele, the artist-curator behind the "Ladies Lounge" installation at the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), said she painted the faux-Picassos specifically for this project ("to match the color scheme") and has been waiting for weeks for someone to figure that out. - The Guardian
"Art history, visual and performing Arts, and graphic design majors nationwide have the bleakest employment prospects across all college majors in the United States, according to data analyzed by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the first quarter of 2024." - ARTnews
