"ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV" — on the first weekend of college football season and halfway through US Open tennis — "after the sides failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement, (an impasse reflecting) the broader economic pain spreading throughout the pay TV sector." - Variety
The two-year-old museum is moving from the Dogpatch neighborhood into "The Cube," a modernist landmark downtown owned 70% by Vornado Realty Trust and 30% by the Trump Organization. ICA SF will pay no rent or utilities for the first two years of its lease. - KQED (San Francisco)
"The gallery released a statement Thursday, blaming the budget increase on 'unprecedented and unforeseen' recent construction cost escalation, saying this will force a change of the building design and indeterminate delay on construction. The design ... by Swiss architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron was unveiled in 2015." - Vancouver Sun
A highly respected soloist and chamber musician admired for the elegance and precision of his playing, Meneses died four weeks after revealing that he had been diagnosed with the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme. - Gramophone
The more elite the college, the more lenient the standards. At Yale, for example, 80% of grades awarded in 2023 were As or A minuses. But the problem is also prevalent at less selective colleges. Across all four-year colleges in the United States, the most commonly awarded grade is now an A. - Yascha Mounk
In the decades since Richard Tognetti became ACO artistic director at just 25, he has amassed some of the world’s most valuable instruments and talented musicians. - The Guardian
Stanford University’s announcement that 23 creative writing instructors will be pushed out of their jobs and replaced has set off a national backlash in the literary community and among students in the program. - San Francisco Chronicle
The eldest brother, John Sainsbury, despised aspects of the design, in particular the false columns in the foyer. Despite concerted pushback and the fact that the Sainsburys were footing the reported £40 million ($53 million) bill, the development went ahead. - Artnet
We live in the era of the “explainer movie” — a creation like those in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dune ecosystem, Star Wars constellation and, on the television side, the Game of Thrones series that has sweeping and sophisticated fictional worlds, extensive background lore and complex (or, at least, many) narrative arcs. - Washington Post (MSN)
Some tastemakers say today’s music scene is a soulless algorithmic wasteland — others say it’s more vibrant than ever. However you find it, don’t just rely on your Spotify or Apple Music algorithm to introduce you to new artists. - Washington Post
"The rain-soaked video game on (lead designer and writer Dhruv Jani's) computer screen, Folds of a Separation, is just one of many that Studio Oleomingus has created about India’s postcolonial history and its contemporary political climate." - The New York Times
“We see these celebrity replicas happening all the time, but our own data – us, the small people of the world – is being harvested at exactly the same rate … It’s not really the capacity of the technology , it’s the way flawed, dumb, evil people choose to wield it.” - The Guardian
"They had begun making their lives there around a date in December 2012 coinciding with the 5,125-year cycle of an ancient calendar, widely reported as a 'Mayan apocalypse.' ... Le Bloc had begun at the world’s end, they would say. The squat picked up where the world had left off." - The Paris Review
Although open-access advocates and library groups support the move, opponents argue the new policy will limit researchers’ ability to maintain control of their published work—and cut into the $19 billion academic publishing industry’s profit margins. - InsideHigherEd
"AI is already curating museum shows and biennials. Could it change how we approach, study, or regard art of the past, too? When it comes to AI and art history, it’s important to remember that, for many, this is not just a technological question, but an urgent ideological one too." - ARTnews
