The most recent post on DBDT’s Instagram is an audition call. “All of it comes after filed unfair labor practice charges last weekend against DBDT, Dallas’ oldest continuously operating professional dance company.” - Dallas Morning News (MSN)
“Before the rash of streamers elbowed in, the landscape had been dominated by HBO and, later, by Comedy Central.” Then Netflix opened its bankbook. - The Hollywood Reporter (MSN)
For vanessa german, “one of the threads that connects her varied interests is a belief that art can restore our capacities to love ourselves and our communities — but only after we confront traumas and injustices.” - The New York Times
“Why riddle a puzzle? And yet that’s what the Voynich did, over and over again. The moment you felt you were getting somewhere, it coiled in on itself, retreating from your grasp, into another disguise.” - The Atlantic
And Paris isn’t trying to hide it. “'I haven’t seen anything quite like this,’ says Jules Boykoff, a professor and former professional soccer player who studies the impact of the Olympics on marginalized communities. ’Typically, hostile architecture is more subtle.’” - Wired
It wasn’t good news - or rather, it wasn’t good astronomical divination. “The futures foretold were almost uniformly bad news for the empire, though some signaled destruction for Babylon’s enemies.” - Artnet
"Hip-hop first landed in France in 1982, when an elite group of ambassadors from New York City, including ... popular breakers the Rock Steady Crew, toured the country. Crowds were often small, but by the time they had left, a contingent of French fans was hooked.” - The New York Times
If you build it (in this case, climate coverage), they will come. “In 2023, stories produced by the organization’s climate teams outperformed the average story on the website in 11 months out of 12, often dramatically.” Could they do the same with, oh, say, the arts? - Nieman Lab
How can we fix this? Gloucester, England, has one (extremely dreamy) idea - give artists money, and tell them you don’t expect an outcome. “This is about dreaming and developing and forming relationships and partnerships, and those things take time.” - The Stage (UK)
Wings was the first known US comic artist to produce work by a lesbian about lesbians. “After publishing her three comics, Ms. Wings turned to novels: She wrote four books about a lesbian detective” and spoke at many art schools, inspiring young queer artists. - The New York Times
Perhaps surprisingly - but perhaps not, if you’ve ever tried to figure out what to watch from 12 different streaming services - “there is such an appetite for classic films these days it almost feels as if they are part of the first-run calendar.” - The Guardian (UK)
No, this doesn't mean the piano etudes of Philip Glass. Ludovico Einaudi is the most famous of a school of keyboard composers such as Joep Breving, Nils Frahm, Lubomyr Melnyk, Riopy, and Sophie Hutchings. They draw far more streaming listeners than even Yuja Wang. Beving actually records for DG. - The Guardian
Collective action is the key: “A rural community may not necessarily receive the art it deserves, but it certainly gets the art it is collectively willing to work for. The majority of any given rural community must demonstrate a willingness to work towards arts vibrancy.” - SMU DataArts
During the 1930s, the Communist regime in Moscow set up Russian-style puppet theaters in the republics as a way to impart Socialist principles to children. In the Kazakh SSR, puppets caught on, especially when doing traditional stories, and the troupe in Almaty, no longer Communist, survives to this day. - History Today
