"The law, prompted by the frustration a legislator felt at not being able to buy tickets to Swift’s 2023 concert in Minneapolis, will require ticket sellers (for live events) to disclose all fees up front and prohibit resellers from selling more than one copy of a ticket, among other measures." - AP
These aren't climate-protesting art vandals, exactly; they're anti-inequality and agriculture protesters from the group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack). They threw orange-colored clay powder around the Hall of Mirrors to call for "universal, democratic and sustainable food." - Artnet
Arriving at the all-time peak of American hegemony in world art, Stella was the poster prodigy of a new breed of artists: post-bohemian, university-trained, professional from the get-go. - The New Yorker
ByteDance has said it can’t and won’t sell its U.S. operations by the deadline, leaving litigation as its best hope to maintain its U.S. market. The lawsuit accuses the government of trampling on TikTok’s First Amendment rights—as well as the free-speech rights of millions of Americans. - The Wall Street Journal
Thucydides knew that we did not have full control of the analogies that shape our deliberations, especially in public life. Our analogical vocabulary is woven directly into the cultural fabric, a product of the contingencies that shape collective memory. - Aeon
In the past year or so, the British Museum has been wrestling—often in public, and often to its considerable embarrassment—with what might be characterized as the twin legacies of Townley and Elgin. - The New Yorker
If we look at the longer history of the study of literature... it’s only at the very end of the 20th century that we got something that is professional, that can be called criticism, that has to do specifically with the judgment of literary works. - Public Books
Plenty of art today shows us how terrible the world is, and we eat it up. Maurizio Cattelan knows this, and will gladly take the opportunity to play sadist. Case in point: - ARTnews
Hübbe, who became a major star during his 18 years as a principal at New York City Ballet, returned to his homeland in 2008 to lead the national ballet company. He will depart from his current position when his contract expires in 2026. - DR (Denmark) (via Google Translate)
"The orchestral sector and the opera and ballet sectors are facing a funding crisis at the moment, which might mean that the focus is not really on changing the culture but just on survival. But that’s not an excuse." - The Stage
It's not clear that the toxins (which likely came from wine, food, and ointments) were enough to kill the composer, but they were certainly enough to explain his severe, chronic gastrointestinal problems and, most likely, his deafness. - The New York Times
The stunt at the Pompidou Center Metz was organized by performance artist Deborah de Robertis (the one who was arrested in 2018 for getting naked at the Lourdes pilgrimage site). Ironically, the Metz show includes a photo of de Robertis displaying her own vulva under the one painted by Courbet. - France 24
"We feel that our reporting is good enough to exist globally and we feel that it's important to add a different perspective than the dominant American perspective on global news, because the global language is English. And as we all know, two people reporting on the same story don't write the same story." - The Media Mix
"(The Madrid museum) said in a statement the work, titled Ecce Homo (Latin for 'Behold the Man') by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio will go on display from May 27 until October as a special one-piece exhibition following an agreement with its new owner, who has not been identified." - AP
Professors and students have a right to express themselves on campuses but universities have restricted when and how they can do so, with limitations on things like amplified sound outside classrooms. But when it comes to punishing or censoring particular ideas "that to me is inconsistent with the First Amendment and academic freedom.” - InsideHigherEd
