"Although the outside of Jacobs Music Center appears much the same as it did in March 2020, when the orchestra played its last concert there before the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown" and it was still Copley Symphony Hall, "the inside’s myriad top-to-bottom changes seem transformative and then some." - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Two miles of HVAC piping, two miles of plumbing, three tuning chambers, five miles of lifting cable, 300 cable pulleys, 85,000 pounds of rigging equipment, up to 150 workers a day, … - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)
Chris Kirkham, associate director of Hansons Richmond auction house in London: "I was invited to assess some antiques at a client’s home. During the visit the vendor took me to his garage and, lo and behold, out came this treasure trove of Surrealist lithographs." - CNN
"The scheme, Bookloop by Bookshop.org, allows customers to trade books they own for credit to use on the website. Readers can register books through the online valuation system and then either leave them at a DPD drop-off point or have them picked up from home." - The Guardian
"California College of the Arts is facing a $20 million deficit due to a dramatic drop in student enrollment, even as it prepares to open a $123 million expansion to finalize a consolidation of its Oakland and San Francisco campuses." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
"Under the agreement, reached with (AFM) Local 342, the minimum salary for CSO musicians will increase from $45,861 to $53,709 over the course of the (three-year) contract. Beginning in year two of the deal, the number of working weeks will increase from 38 to 39." - QCity Metro (Charlotte)
"The Hecht Museum in Haifa (said) the crockery dated back to the Bronze Age between 2200 and 1500BC — and was a rare artefact because it was intact. It had been on display ... without glass, as the museum believes there is 'special charm' in showing archaeological finds 'without obstructions'." - BBC
A conspicuous number of shows were themed around psychological maladies. These included plays about grief, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and gambling addiction. I had thought I was going to a festival, but this sounded more like a wellness convention. - The New York Times
No show charts the streaming industry’s decline in inspiration quite like “Emily in Paris,” or the rush to capture the maximum amount of attention with the minimum investment of capital. - The New Yorker
Since March 2023, more than 1,000 teams have entered this competition. In October 2023, the first letters and lines of Greek text were detected, and in February 2024, the first winners of the prize money. Their AI model spectacularly revealed parts of 15 columns from the innermost part of one of the scrolls. - The Conversation
CBCbooks, the division behind Canada Reads, is readying a new consumer-facing one-hour national literary program, Bookends With Mattea Roach. - Publishing Perspectives
Poetry has drastically changed after World War Ⅱ; it’s parted from art—including poems, waka, haiku, and novels written until around the end of the War—that adheres to a certain purposive style and “shape.” - Words Without Borders
When you peel away layers of cliché and coarseness accrued over the course of the twentieth century, you often find works that are full of variety, contrasting dance styles, storytelling, humor, and relatable, appealing characters. You can distinguish the good from the bad. These ballets were meant to keep people engaged, entertained, and moved. - Marina Harss
Not only did he take characters and stories from all walks of 14th-century English life, he borrowed phrases from Latin, French, and Italian; took his approach to writing in vernacular from Dante; and swiped narratives from Ovid and Bocaccio. He even stole the Chaucerian stanza itself: it's actually Machaut's rime royal. - Poetry Foundation
In 2012, Victoria Siddall rose to prominence after launching Frieze Masters, going on to become global director of the contemporary art fair, which takes place in London every October, and has offshoots in New York and Los Angeles. - The Guardian
