“As the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable once noted: ‘There is a kind of collective schadenfreude in the revelation of defects in great buildings and flaws in great men.’ Few figures bear this out more fully than Wright.” - Aeon
The Federal Trade Commission last May began requiring Ticketmaster to disclose concert ticket fees upfront – a practice known as all-in pricing. But documents obtained by the Guardian in public records requests show how Ticketmaster simply raised other fees so it wouldn’t lose money. - The Guardian
For the first 40,000 years of its existence, it was simply an abstract symbolic system to process complex data; only in the last 3,000 years did mankind acquire the strange notion that these sign-systems might correspond to the grunts and gurgles they used for everyday communication. - Unherd
China has ordered a sweeping, nationwide audit of its state-run museums after a scandal at one of its top institutions revealed that national treasures had quietly slipped into the private market, according to Hong Kong newspaper South Morning China Post. - ARTnews
The network is launching the new video podcast and cross-platform show NPR Newsmakers, which will feature long-form interviews with some of NPR’s highest-profile reporters and hosts. - Inside Radio
Last week, the Federal Government’s recently established Parliamentary Inquiry into Arts and Cultural Philanthropy held its first significant hearing. - ArtsHub
Among the Largest 50 companies, in Fiscal Year (FY) 2024, artistic directors earned an average of $240,741. This represents an increase compared to FY2023, during which the average compensation was $227,650. - Dance Data Project
New York is missing out on the ideas of designers who could find surprising paths through an obstacle course of conventions, whose experience with the constraints and cultures of other continents might loosen New York’s rigid set of habits. - New York Magazine
Ever since a publisher’s clever marketing trick in 1923, Norwegians have associated the period around Easter with crime fiction. The phenomenon is called påskekrim (Easter crime) and it’s ubiquitous. And since Norway is usually still cold this time of year, holing up and reading makes sense. - BBC
“Are they evil or are they sick? While novelists writing in the years of the War on Drugs were asking this question about serial killers, the general public was asking the same question about drug addicts.” - Literary Hub
The museums’ management acknowledged an attack earlier this year, but denied any major security breach or theft of data. The statement came after Corriere della Sera reported that hackers had infiltrated the galleries’ network, taken control of the photographic server, and sent a ransom demand to the director’s personal phone. - Reuters (Yahoo!)
Shawn and Eisenberg, an author and actress who has been Shawn’s partner for five decades, performed with scripts in the Off-Broadway production of What We Did Before Our Moth Days to fill in for ill co-stars Hope Davis and Maria Dizzia. - Playbill
The 185-acre Baps Swaminarayan Akshardham, completed in 2023 and known for its intricate carvings in white stone, has for years faced allegations of visa fraud and maltreatment of its construction workers and artisans. Now some of those workers says they’ve developed bronchitis and silicosis, with two having died. - The Guardian
Composer Chris Rogerson will lead the summer festival in the Colorado resort town, taking over after the 16-year tenure of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. Rogerson is the first composer to direct the event: before McDermott were flutist Eugenia Zukerman and violinist Ida Kavafian. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its governing Board of Regents has slowed in the wake of President Trump’s efforts to gain control of the institution.” - The New York Times
