"Alejandro Triana Prevez, a 30-year-old Cuban national, was arrested just days after the 75-year-old New York gallerist was found dead in his apartment in Rio. … Prevez’s lawyer Greg Andrade revealed that his client had confessed and alleged the crime was masterminded by another person." - Artnet
"The comic-turned media mogul (Byron Allen) has made a $14.3 billion offer to buy all outstanding shares of Paramount Global. … The deal would also see Allen Media Group assume Paramount’s roughly $15 billion debt load, valuing the shares at about a 50% premium to their recent trading prices." - The Hollywood Reporter
"The biggest player in this new genre is ReelShort, an app that offers melodramatic content in minute-long, vertically shot episodes and is hoping to bring a successful formula established abroad to the United States by hooking millions of people on its short-form content." - The New York Times
"Sotheby’s was cleared Tuesday in Manhattan federal court of claims that they helped Swiss art dealer Yves Bouvier defraud Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, in a high-profile civil case that has stretched on weeks." - ARTnews
"With her raven hair, lithe frame and smoky voice, Ms. Rivera cut a mesmerizing Broadway figure for more than six decades, her name synonymous with vitality and longevity on the musical stage. She was a reliable box-office draw, … and proved choreographically adaptable from Bob Fosse to Jerome Robbins." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Set up under the patronage of George IV to “reward literary merit and excite literary talent”, the society still has royal sponsorship from Queen Camilla. But those critical of its recent past speak of a “shambolic” and “clubby” institution – a place intended to shelter elite talent, rather than represent the wider community of accomplished writers. - The Guardian
Outernet in December announced that it recorded 6.25 million visitors in its first year of operation, while the British Museum attracted 5.83 million visitors in 2023. The world’s most visited art museum, Musée du Louvre in Paris, received 8.86 million visitors last year. - The Art Newspaper
Unless there's a turnaround in the sector, arts leaders who spoke with the Star say the once-thriving sector in Toronto — one of the largest theatre centres in the world — could become a shell of its former self. - Toronto Star
Nina Yoshida Nelsen, a mezzo-soprano and the cofounder of the Asian Opera Alliance, joined the company as an artistic adviser in 2021. She becomes the first person to hold the permanent artistic director position following the 2021 departure of general and artistic director Esther Nelson. - MSN
She’d like to involve the audience, sharing extracts or work-in-progress and getting feedback, like a TV pilot or test screening in film. “We’re competing with Netflix,” she says. “That’s the level of excellence and slick production values our audiences expect. We’re competing with Broadway, with Disney.” - The Guardian
"When (he) died in poverty in 1840, he was almost forgotten by the contemporary art world. As his 250th birthday approaches, his reputation is reaching new heights — and the anniversary year is likely to propel it into the stratosphere." - CNN
The new parlance is a Spanish-influenced dialect of English being spoken in Southern Florida, a lingo-infusion born out of decades of immigration from Spanish-speaking countries, most notably Cuba since the end of the revolution in 1959. - IFL Science
"In deference to this milestone, the film’s enduring appeal in J-school classrooms, and its rent-free existence in the backs of reporters’ minds, Poynter spoke with more than a dozen people involved in either (Stephen) Glass’s rise and fall or the making of Shattered Glass over three months." - Poynter
