On October 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland started the protest-fossil-fuel-subsidies-and-call-attention-to-climate-change-by-vandalizing-artworks phenomenon by throwing tomato soup at van Gogh's "Sunflowers" at London's National Gallery. The judge in their case told them to prepare themselves for prison when they are sentenced on September 27. - BBC
The four unions representing over 14,000 "cast members" at Disney's southern California resort properties ratified a three-year agreement which includes an immediate 20% increase in pay and a minimum starting wage of $24 an hour as well as, for the first time, longevity pay. - Deadline
"(He) was considered one of the most original and prolific musical voices in Europe and the most performed German composer of contemporary classical music. … He insisted that great art results from aesthetic liberty and intellectual rigor, not adherence to predetermined ideas about beauty." - The New York Times
There is a fundamental disconnect between what feels popular and what is statistically popular, which has contributed to this weird tension among pop fans. - The Guardian
Instead of worrying about the quantity of screen time that preschoolers engage in, the new guidelines suggest, parents should consider the quality of it. Preference should be given to activities like interactive educational programs or family movie nights over solo passive viewing of, say, cartoons on a tablet. - The Walrus
The movie brought in $205 million in its first weekend domestically at the box office, according to Comscore estimates. It cost $200 million to produce, according to Variety. - Los Angeles Times
“The concept is to award financial aid in a way that results in the maximum total amount of net tuition revenue for the institution.” What this means is that institutional financial aid dollars that used to go to financially needy students are being used to provide discounts to entice affluent ones to enroll. - InsideHigherEd
The central focus of the project was the coin, its removal from its display and its deposition in a donation box at the museum. Sartuzi has described the practicalities of the project, which included preparing a replica of the coin to replace the original, and the focus of reporting has been on the objects. - The Conversation
Because the process is as simple as it is stultifying, memorizing a poem always begins as a crime. The tedium of repetition reduces the hewn gemstone to a pile of gravel in which only the occasional dull agate stands out. But as you run your hands through the rock, the lines come together again. - Washington Post
His goal: “to ask questions, not to provide ready-made answers, to say, in effect, look at this, see how much more beautiful and strange and full of possibility is the world than can be imagined by the mythographers at Time or NBC.” - Harper's
Billions of people access social media monthly, but users are posting less and favoring a more passive experience, surveys of users and research from data-analytics firms say. - The Wall Street Journal
The dance was dreamt up by Kelley Heyer, a New York-based actor and content creator who decided to film herself making it up “on a whim”. - The Guardian
Josh Hartnett, raising goats (and four children) in Hampshire, says, that “‘unlike when he’s in New York or LA, ‘where people only want to talk about your career,’ he says, here ‘nobody cares,’ which is just how he likes it.” - The Guardian (UK)
Like, a lot. Deadpool & Wolverine "shattered the opening record for R-rated films previously held by the first Deadpool ($132m) and notched a spot in the top 10 openings of all time.” - The Guardian (UK)
