The sculpture, a replica of the 16th-century original (kept in the Bargello Museum) by Giambologna, is on a street corner near the Ponte Vecchio. Bacchus appears to be undamaged from the moment of passion, which, of course, the amorous young lady posted on social media. - CNN
"The BBC will lay off 500 more staff by March 2026 as its annual report paints a worrying financial picture including a near-doubling of its deficit to almost £500M ($646M). BBC headcount has fallen by 2,000 – or 10% – over the past five years." - Deadline
It helps that the Harris memes booted up shortly after Biden’s disastrous debate. It makes it feel as if the internet manifested her candidacy. Her boosters are now tipsy with their collective power. - The New York Times
Many galleries in Paris’s Saint Germain des Près area, one of the city’s major art hubs, were unexpectedly forced to close on Thursday, due to security measures put in place for the upcoming Olympic Games. - ARTnews
Although virtually "taking away" one of their five senses, the show banks on spectators' reliance on their four other forms of perception: the venue features a 3D -surround sound experience, a chemical company was tapped to create some of the scents used during the show... - Time Out New York
For months, the outlet has faced complaints from freelancers who say that the new owners, prominent L.A.-based trial lawyers Mark Geragos and Ben Meiselas, have refused to pay freelance writers, reporters, photographers and graphic artists. - The Wrap
In the last few months, there have been protests against overtourism and "bad" tourist behaviour around the globe, and both issues seem to be coming under greater scrutiny. - BBC
"Barely a decade has passed since (Rieko) Hirosawa started learning goze uta (blind women’s songs) – a genre of music spanning four centuries that most Japanese people have probably never heard. That she now plays with the composure of a veteran is remarkable …: not a single goze uta musical score exists." - The Guardian
I want to suggest some parallels between this 18th-century musical lingua franca and a familiar device from another medium: modern realist prose, which emerged through the 17th and 18th centuries – just when these musical conventions took shape. - Aeon
At Vineyard Theatre, her home for the last seven years, Suzanne Appel successfully managed the theater’s finances during the pandemic, keeping the entire full-time staff employed, and she created a four-year plan to raise employees’ wages more than 30 percent by 2026. - CultureOC
Travel is one of those things one generally doesn’t attack in polite company, the world of letters excepted. Its wholesomeness is assumed. It broadens the mind. It makes us empathetic and, by rewarding our curiosity, encourages it to develop further. Only a fool or a misanthrope would criticize travel. - Hedgehog Review
"When the 11th-century Chora Church was ordered to be reconverted into a mosque in 2020, many feared for the fate of its richly decorated interior, which features some of the world’s finest Late Byzantine-era mosaics and frescoes. After a tense four-year wait ..., it reopened on May 6." - Hyperallergic
In the 12 months since the movie’s release, little has changed in Hollywood. Buffeted by dual labor strikes that went on for months and a general retrenchment by entertainment companies trying to navigate the economics of the streaming era, the industry has retreated to its usual ways of doing business. - The New York Times
"InterAct Stroke Support operates all over the UK, … tak(ing) professional actors into hospitals to read poetry and stories to stroke survivors." Longtime Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington spends a day watching InterAct at work. - The Guardian
The very fun of being a creative is solving problems people don't even know to exist. Eventually, if you are creative and curious enough, one finding leads to another, and one way or the other, you learn more than just SEO, social media, and the thousand other things that felt overwhelming beforehand. - Creative Boom
