WTVP has been in crisis mode since at least September, when the finance director resigned, the CEO committed suicide, layoffs were made, and investigators discovered "questionable, improper, or unauthorized spending." Amid public pressure, 11 of 17 board members have stepped down. - WCBU (Peoria)
The complaint, filed by the Paris-based NGO Lumière sur le Patrimoine, alleges that the Metropolitan Museum, the Worcester Museum in Massachusetts, and the Glencairn Museum just outside Philadelphia have six window panels that were stolen from Rouen cathedral roughly a century ago. - ARTnews
"After a demanding (2½-year) program that included a gasp-inducing repair of the two cracking, 500-year-old limewood panels, Getty senior conservator Ulrich Birkmaier and his team stabilized the paintings, while bringing the images back to something close to what they likely were … in the 16th century." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
Mindi Madison and Alicia Wilson, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, have been sentenced to three years' probation and ordered to pay $270,876 each in restitution. - Inside Radio
"A three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit — viewed by many as the most conservative court in the nation — ... upheld a lower court decision to block key provisions of HB 900, Texas’s controversial book rating law, finding that the law likely violated First Amendment protections against compelled speech." - Publishers Weekly
The philosopher Peter Carruthers, who has written a fair amount, and variously, about inner speech, has argued that inner speech may have specifically arisen in evolution to enable the rehearsal and evaluation of overt speech actions. - 3 Quarks Daily
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre once had a live orchestra for all of its “Nutcracker” performances, but in an ugly move that still rankles local musicians, the company locked out the orchestra in 2005 due to financial difficulties and debt. The company has used recorded music ever since. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Eventually, TV’s contraction will yield a new Netflix, a new HBO, looking to exploit a desire for bold programming. In the meantime, this year’s Emmys felt like a party on the deck of the Titanic. - The New York Times
It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of Enlightenment rationalism. - Yale Review
This year’s efforts include responses to last year’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey and repairing damage in Ukraine amid Russia’s ongoing war. - Artnet
One of the pseudonyms is believed to be E. H. Gould, including a story about her house in Concord, Massachusetts, and a ghost story along the lines of the Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol.” - AP
Yes, the Central Intelligence Agency has a creative writing group for staffers; it's called Invisible Ink. Johannes Lichtman recounts his visit there, including his confusing, disorienting arrival at headquarters. - The Paris Review
Some reached the level where a career as either a professional musician or a doctor lay before them, before choosing the unquestionably sounder career path. But the existence of these orchestras is proof that the constraints of a medical life do not preclude creating music, and may well benefit it. - Van
Scholars don't really know all that much about the 15th-century German who invented the movable-type printing press, but here's a rundown of what is known of Johannes Gutenberg and of the machine that ultimately led to mass literacy and changed European history. - The New York Times
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. - Situation Interactive
