The school, which has seen a big drop in enrollment over the past five years, had not notified staff or students as of this afternoon and only alerted its accrediting agency on Wednesday, the first day of the summer term. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Helen insisted that it was the poem’s shape—its form, the thing that made it look unlike any other type of utterance—that gave it meaning. In clear and elegant language, Helen proved this time and again across her 60-year career. - LA Review of Books
Before you start yours, consider this: What you think is riveting about your life might not seem so to others. As one publisher put it, too many submissions are “just the writer’s own story, which is ultimately boring.” - The Atlantic (MSN)
Music writers of 2024 have achieved a remarkable synchrony with consumers, such that, for the first time in living memory, the most popular musicians in the world also happen to be making the best music. And this consensus is doing bad things to the psychology of the otherwise intensely normal people who love them. - Defector
In Q1 2024 the share of audience demand in the US for foreign language shows was 13.6%, which is smaller than the share of demand for non-English shows in the past two years. - The Wrap
Dissatisfied with his paintings, he took knives and his own boots to them rather than send them to hotly anticipated Paris exhibitions, including one scheduled for 1907, which didn’t happen until 1909 for this very reason. - Artnet
That women directors are leading all three Shakespeare productions at the festival this season signifies an important shift for the company, which for decades favoured men over women for prestigious directorial opportunities. - Toronto Star
Rushil Ranjan of Orchestral Qawwali Project: "I find it astounding how much (they) can draw from 90 minutes of repertoire with just a three-hour rehearsal. Further, Indian Classical musicians in this country play at the highest standard. The wonderful thing is these musicians have grown up in each other’s orbit." - Classical Music (UK)
I am a jealous opera singer. When I’m in the audience of any opera production, at least once I’ll think to myself, “It could be me up there.” This statement is true: the opera industry is unjust and random. - Van
"When you’re searching for excellence, even books you might have enjoyed under normal circumstances start looking mediocre, and the process quickly becomes a slog that drains the joy from reading. But the monthly discussions with my fellow jurors — always lively, thoughtful, and respectful — were restorative." - The Ed's Up
Edison Research’s Share of Ear data shows podcast listeners spent a third (32%) of their audio listening time with podcasts. That beats out AM/FM radio by ten points and it’s well above streaming music (18%) or satellite radio (5%). - Inside Radio
"In 1913, on the last day of the history-making Armory Show, … displeased with ... Matisse’s Blue Nude (Souvenir of Biskra), the students accused 'Henry Hair Mattress' of 'artistic murder, pictorial arson, artistic rapine, total degeneracy of color, criminal misuse of line, general esthetic aberration, and contumacious abuse of title.'" - Artnet
Combined, the “white collar” class of creatives, managers and specialists accounted for eight out of ten jobs in Hollywood in 2022, up from seven out of ten jobs in 2013. - Variety
Critic Bilge Ebiri, who's been advocating for such an award for years, walks through, and takes down, the arguments that have for decades been put up against a Best Stunts Oscar. Then he recounts an anecdote that points to the likely truth of the matter. - Vulture (MSN)
Both art institutions and artists face existential challenges in negotiating this AI universe and its emerging financial model. Art-world experts consulted by The Art Newspaper have offered a mix of pragmatic, creative, combative and hopeful responses to the report and to the state of the AI industry. - The Art Newspaper
