"Why would you scrap a movie that is all but finished before anyone except studio suits have had a chance to see it? The answer, for Hollywood bigwigs, is a tax write-off." - The Guardian (UK)
The show was focused on the legacy of Michael Fried's 1965 show Three American Painters. The new show, Three American Painters: Then and Now, was conceived and organized by SBMA’s former Deputy Director and Chief Curator Eik Kahng." Now show, and curator, are gone. - Hyperallergic
Peck isn't giving up the stage at City Ballet; indeed, she wore pointe shoes as she choreographed her new work. "If they tell me that something I want them to do can’t happen, I can be like, Actually, it can!" - The New York Times
In LAX's Orchestrina, "he light dims to a soothing cerulean. Swells of ambient music rise to meet passengers as the moving sidewalk whisks them through the terminal. Along the way, the music shifts between 30 compositions written in a single key (C major)." - Los Angeles Times
Even now, after mask and vaccine card protocols have abated, most theatergoers rely upon proof of purchase displayed on a screen. Will call is increasingly the domain of blue-hairs; the young and tech-savvy use apps like SeatGeek and TodayTix. - Public Books
A generation ago, this kind of laziness didn’t exist in the music business. Before streaming, everybody in the value chain needed new music. The record stores would go broke if people just listened to the old songs over and over. -
Gen Z seems to love public libraries. A November report from the American Library Association (ALA) drawing from ethnographic research and a 2022 survey found that gen Z and millennials are using public libraries, both in person and digitally, at higher rates than older generations. - The Guardian
Over the last three decades, a number of French movies have earned Oscar recognition, but none have been the official French Oscar submission. - Variety
Teaching a subject is important; it is also in a sense incidental. The classroom is, first and foremost, a place to train young minds toward a yearning for knowledge and a taste for argument — to be intellectually curious — even if what they wind up discovering challenges their most cherished convictions. - The New York Times
I found that, if we look beyond just “authors”—if we also take into account agents, scouts, editors, marketers, managers of subsidiary rights, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers—we end up with something like a conglomerate superorganism: conglomerate authorship. - Public Books
"A child of small-town Appalachia for whom the idea of going to New York City was like 'going to the moon,' he … danced with Martha Graham, was an early member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and led his own well-regarded troupe for 25 years." - The New York Times
We think of oligarchy as a foreign concept, but the truth is that American oligarchs abound, and many of them collect art. It’s a time-honored strategy. - Mother Jones
"(While) 80%+ of 100+ national magazines have lower readership than they did a decade ago, over the past two years, nearly 90% of those have maintained or actually increased readership." - MediaPost
It is easy, and accurate, to call “Rhapsody in Blue” naïve and corny. But, to be fair, it was still very early in the timeline of jazz and swinging Black music on record. - The New York Times
Jonathan Larson conceived the show as a monologue, with himself at the keyboard playing all the roles. After he died suddenly in 1996 and Rent became a smash hit, Tick, Tick … Boom! was adapted into a three-actor piece. But NPH and the Kennedy Center have bigger plans. - The Washington Post (MSN)
