"Texas A&M University has extended an offer to students affected by the surprise closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, allowing them to apply for transfer for the fall semester. … The school has 20 to 30 spots in its performance and visual studies programs that it could confidently fill." - Artnet
"Best known for her role opposite Jean-Louis Trintignant in Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman — for which she received an Oscar nomination for best actress — Aimée also starred in such art house standouts as Fellini’s La Dolce Vita and 8½, Demy’s Lola, and Bertolucci’s Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man." - The Hollywood Reporter
"She began her position in 2021 and was instrumental in reshaping the resident program and was responsible for principal casting for mainstage and concert productions. She also worked with the development team to secure funding for the resident program, among others." - OperaWire
"(He) was playing the roguish John Falstaff in “Player Kings,” an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s two “Henry IV” history plays, directed by Robert Icke. Theatergoers were startled when McKellen lost his footing and fell off the stage in a (fight) scene." The 85-year-old actor is expected to fully recover. - AP
Increasingly, customers are visiting physical banks to receive guidance on products such as mortgages, loans and financial planning, while accessing more basic services online. These trends are industrywide, and Citi isn’t the only bank to rethink its physical spaces in response. - Bloomberg
One obvious point is that if you’re looking to develop a winner, an off-Broadway or regional theater is the way to go. For all their economic travails, nonprofits companies simply do it better. - Los Angeles Times
“Style isn’t something you apply later,” Amis said in 2021, explaining why he couldn’t abide JM Coetzee. “It’s embedded in your perception, and writers without that freshness of voice make no appeal to me. What is one in quest of with such a writer? Their views? Their theories?” - New Statesman
Even in an age when people frequently wrote by hand, messy and at times illegible handwriting was still a common problem. They even had a word for it: cacography, calligraphy’s evil twin. - The Conversation
Scientists working in the emerging field of epigenetics have discovered the mechanism that allows lived experience and acquired knowledge to be passed on within one generation, by altering the shape of a particular gene. - The Guardian
The rise of web-connected LLMs is rapidly undermining traditional web publishing. It’s clear industry professionals are deeply concerned. LLMs reduce human web traffic, evade ads, and scrape content without proper attribution, all of which erode publisher revenue. - Shelly Palmer
The city deserves a replacement that is similarly expressive of the working harbor’s importance to the city and its location as a gateway between the port and the Chesapeake Bay. This new structure must also serve as a memorial to the lives lost in the collapse. - Bloomberg
Gunn’s early poetry was erudite, witty, and elegantly wrought, but it was usually coolly detached, framed in meter and rhyme. As he progressed as a poet, he experimented with free verse and syllabic friskiness, juggling tradition and innovation as he merged high and low themes. - ArtsFuse
The Metropolitan Opera revealed its finances for 2023-24 season, including the fact that it had sold 72 percent of available tickets. The number was up from the previous season which only saw 66 percent of available tickets sold. - OperaWire
The Governor vetoed $32 million in grants that would have supported 663 arts and culture organizations around the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture. Less than 10 years ago, Florida ranked third in the United States for arts funding. The FY25 budget puts Florida squarely at the bottom. - Broward Arts Calendar
It’s not easy, just like a physical sports game. Some so-called observers “will have the ability to jump between player perspectives, seeing exactly what's on their screen. Others will control in-game cameras on the ground or in the air, taking a bird's eye view of the match.” - BBC
