The Galleria dell’Accademia’s director, Cecilie Hollberg, has positioned herself as David’s defender since her arrival at the museum in 2015, taking swift aim at those profiteering from his image, often in ways she finds “debasing.” - AP
Well, obviously not for Fox News, but otherwise, NBC News's rapid hiring-and-firing of former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel after an on-air staff rebellion (because she peddled 2020 election disinformation) makes observers wonder if hiring a professional election-denier "is just too costly for a self-respecting newsroom with a public service charter." - AP
Note that all of these centerings would be about things most consider good, and even crucial, but the question would be why the university, as a general rule, should make any of those things the essence of what an education should consist of. - The New York Times
On retiring: "At this stage in my life, dancing takes up the whole day, for my body, the training. I have the energy for one thing or the other." On becoming the boss: "I’m actually really enjoying the management part, … which for me is quite surprising!" - Bachtrack
Perhaps the frisson of cleverness (I know where that’s from!), or the flip-side cringe of ignorance (I should know where that’s from!), is enough to spur you to buy a book, the way a search-optimized headline compels you to click a link. - The New York Times
Small Press Distribution, founded in 1969, was the country's only not-for-profit literary distributor. It served roughly 400 small. independent presses and was known for getting unknown or experimental books to stores and to readers. Titles it distributed won over 100 literary awards in the last five years alone. - KQED (San Francisco)
It’s unclear what the ethical line is between scam and regular usage. Some A.I.-generated scams are easy to identify, like the medical journal paper featuring a cartoon rat sporting enormous genitalia. Many others are more insidious, like the mislabeled and hallucinated regulatory pathway. - The New York Times
As amanuenses, copyists, assistants, rehearsal pianists, and performers, Vally Lasker, Jane Joseph and Nora Day did the countless necessary parts of the work of composition which Holst, who suffered from neuritis in his hands, was physically unable to do. - The New York Times
The 99-acre West Kowloon Cultural District was given a start-up fund (called an "endowment" there) of HK$21.6bn (US$2.8bn) by the enclave's government in 2008. That fund is projected to run out one year from now, potential rental income is limited, and no further state funding has been announced. - The Art Newspaper
He was the first Black man to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar (in 1983 for playing the drill sergeant in An Officer and a Gentleman), and won an Emmy for his role as Fiddler in the 1977 series Roots. His last screen role was in the 2023 remake of The Color Purple. - AP
"Bedford Media, the holding company founded by model and entrepreneur Karlie Kloss and her husband, investor Josh Kushner, has acquired the publishing rights to Life from Dotdash Meredith. Bedford says that Life will be relaunched as a print magazine, with a 'vibrant' digital and video presence." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Beginning in the late 1970s, (he) began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and over through the decades, … (with) the shimmering, self-contained quality of letters or numbers." - The New York Times
"Hundreds of employees from the Art Gallery of Ontario gathered on the picket line as they began strike action Tuesday. After months of negotiations, union members ... voted to reject the gallery's latest contract offer, saying it doesn't address wage increases, protections for part-time workers and contracting out positions." - CBC
Senior management at GBH, which under the call letters WGBH operates both an NPR affiliate and a TV station which produces a number of national PBS shows, says it is "facing financial headwinds. … While final decisions have not yet been made, layoffs are not off the table." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
The loss of the bridge is first a human tragedy. Then it is an economic shock, with a radiating toll that won’t be fully understood for years. But it’s also a powerful symbolic shock, given the metaphorical power of bridges as a form of connection. - Washington Post (MSN)
