"Popularly known as horse dancing, dressage involves riders directing their horses to perform a series of moves, including pirouettes, that are thought to have military origins. … (British equestrian Becky Moody) explained what it takes to nurture and train an equine ballerina." - The New York Times
The proposal is twinned with the appointment of a music laureate. “If the legislation is ultimately signed into law, the home state of Jacob’s Pillow, Boston Ballet, and The Yard will get a shiny new government spotlight on dance.” - Dance Magazine
"Many of Lapham’s innovations at Harper’s and LQ were elegant systems of thievery. (Copyright holders were always paid for the republication of their poetry or prose.) The Harper’s Index and Readings Section and every issue of Lapham’s Quarterly were exercises in the arts of collage and anthology." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"I was very dehydrated. … I didn’t strike him too hard. I did nonetheless cuff or biff a young singer. … There is no excuse. Provocation yes, but not an excuse. … There has to be a degree of forgiveness and tolerance." Not entirely convinced? Neither is the interviewer. - Financial Times
He had an international career in a wide repertory and was a star at English National Opera, but his greatest contribution was in British music. Britten wrote several roles for him, and he made over 100 recordings, with his performances of Elgar, Britten, Walton, and British art song being highlights. - Presto Music
"An impassioned play about the murder of a Black man that implicates progressive white viewers … which opened in a white-dominated environment inimical to his ambition, (it) was not only among his most monumental accomplishments, but also … a revolution on the midcentury Great White Way." - The New York Times
"One 2017 study put its annual lift to Berkshire County at just more than $50 million. But the numbers tell a less convincing story when it comes to the museum’s economic impact on the people of North Adams." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
"Rachel Reeves, chancellor of the exchequer, told Parliament on Monday that the tunnel 'would not move forward.' Scrapping the project, which had a proposed budget of $2.5 billion, is part of Labour’s mission to fill a fiscal hole (left behind by Rishi Sunak's Tories) that’s $30 billion deep." - ARTnews
"Arts and cultural leaders were alarmed about Summerhall’s future, and the future of Scotland’s independent arts scene, after it emerged in May that the building’s owners had put the sprawling site on the market. … (But) its owners have confirmed they have offered the arts centre a new three-year lease." - The Guardian
The prestigious Soho Rep is giving up its longtime home in TriBeCa and will instead share space with Playwrights Horizons, a Midtown theater company, while trying to figure out a longer-term plan. - The New York Times
Over the past few weeks, new laws or regulations have gone into effect in Utah, Idaho, South Carolina and Tennessee that will make it more difficult for young people to access books and library materials that could be considered obscene or harmful. - The New York Times
In the face of these vast geopolitical movements, and accompanying humanitarian catastrophe, you can’t help but consider the purpose and the impact of cultural interventions such as ours. But everywhere we visit provides some different form of inspiration. - The Guardian
"We were so dissapointed. It started to Rain just before the Can Can began. 10 seconds before you saw us. We were trying to towel down and dry the stage off with rags." - Buzzfeed
The policy discourse framing culture as an industrial sector, which became a trend in the 1980s, has not proven effective - for the economy, society, or culture itself. - Culture Policy Room
