"As the music director and conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra and New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Nézet-Séguin has his back to the world’s swankiest audiences. And as the 49-year-old’s sense of style evolves … judge-y fashion tongues are a wagging. Tattooed and platinum blond, Nézet-Séguin is unbothered." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
The lawsuit claims Suno and Udio’s software steals music to “spit out” similar work and asked for compensation of $150,000 (£118,200, A$225,400) a work. - The Guardian
This school, East Fork Lutheran School, is on the Fort Apache reservation in Arizona, as was the ceremony at issue. And this happened not in 1919, but in 2019. - The Guardian
This year, City Council is asking for an additional $53 million, above a base line that has not much changed to meet the demands of inflation in many years, specifically to support more than 1,130 cultural organizations. Many of these have struggled in the wake of rising labor costs and the end of federal Covid aid. - The New York...
The CEO of Talpa Studios, part of Dutch media conglomerate the Talpa Network, explains it as, ultimately, an issue of language — which is to say, yet another example of the Netherlands' long history of coming up with things to export to a world that doesn't speak Dutch. - The Hollywood Reporter
Allen’s estate, which has been managing and winding down his vast array of holdings since his death in 2018, confirmed to GeekWire that the 12-year-old museum is closed for good. - Geekwire
"Most of the country expected the election would be called in autumn, so when the announcement came that it would be done and dusted less than a month before the Fringe opens, comedians who dared to tackle politics in this volatile year were suddenly faced with serious rewrites." - The Observer (UK)
The six-foot-tall statue of America’s 16th president, by Richmond artist Sandy Williams IV, was installed in February on the campus of Garrison Elementary School in Northwest Washington. The noble rendering, meant to draw attention to the Civil War era and its aftermath, was placed under towering trees sure to provide ample shade. - Washington Post
"In April, a beneficiary of his sister-in-law’s estate in Paris auctioned (Léopold Sédar_ Senghor’s private library of over 800 works, including 343 signed books. Worried about preserving his cultural legacy, the Senegalese government stepped in to halt the sale and bought the entire collection last month." - The New York Times
The museum, part of the Smithsonian, is centered on the 12,000-odd works assembled by Latvian-American industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, who was persuaded to donate all that art by then-First Lady Lady Bird Johnson. The Hirshhorn's current exhibition unites 200 of his masterpieces which have never before been displayed together. - El País USA
After a tribunal ruled that Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) may not restrict the conceptual art installation "Ladies Lounge" to "persons who identify as ladies," artist Kirsha Kaechele decided that "a few of the bathrooms in the museum could do with an update. Some Cubism in the cubicles." - CNN
"(Joan) DeJean ... died in December at age 75 and left BalletX a remarkable gift: $7.4 million. A donation of that size is substantial for any arts group. To BalletX, a bright but mid-sized star in the Philadelphia cultural firmament, it’s enormous." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
"The Grant Park Music Festival has long had a tradition of bold, adventuresome programming. But none of the festival’s leaders have done more than Carlos Kalmar, who has made offsetting familiar classics with intriguing combinations of new and unusual works from the past a defining hallmark of his tenure." - Chicago Sun-Times
"The University of North Carolina’s WUNC Raleigh-Durham (91.5) will shutter adult alternative digital radio station WUNC Music at the end of the month. The station, which broadcasts on WUNC-HD2 and wunc.org, was launched in 2016 with the original intent of placing it on a terrestrial radio signal." - Inside Radio
"After 18 years at the Boston Globe, I am moving on from my position and joining the faculty of Tufts University, where I’ll be taking up a newly created professorship in music history and public humanities, beginning this fall." - Twitter/X
