Despite beginning the job just as COVID shut down live performance, Dominique Meyer has increased corporate sponsorships to €38 million and has seen both box-office revenue and cash-on-hand rise by 22% over his tenure. Yet, because he's French, Italy's new-ish nationalist government is replacing him. - AP
Most of the missing items are ancient gems and pieces of jewelry from Greece and Rome. Some were listed on eBay by the seller Sultan1966, including a piece of Roman jewelry reportedly worth £50,000 ($60,000) that was offered for a starting price of £40 ($48). - Artnet
The reality is that they are all scrapping over crumbs when the real betrayal is the state’s paltry investment in the arts. This includes the music education that would provide new audiences for orchestras and opera companies. - The Guardian
Language has been a central object of philosophical attention ever since the ‘linguistic turn’ in the beginning of the 20th century. What can the emergence of a second language-producing entity tell us here? - 3 Quarks Daily
While monuments to important figures and concepts are useful teaching tools, nothing is quite as impactful as physically confronting a space where historical tragedies have occurred. - The Urbanist
“Banksy changed the rules. If you want to organize something about Banksy, you have to change the rules also,” he said on a recent walk through the exhibit. - NPR
“They were made by God for Walt Disney,” said Dick Van Dyke, who starred in “Mary Poppins” opposite Julie Andrews. “They somehow managed to convey Walt’s meaning in those songs.” - Los Angeles Times
"In them one finds a little bit of everything: fragments and false starts, alternate endings, even drawings. The notebooks were where Munro tinkered and experimented, made detours and sudden revisions — where she surveyed the whole field of possibility before committing herself to a full, typed version of a story." - The Paris Review
Adobe marketing materials seemed to suggest it could replace photographers with AI outraged many customers, further igniting an ongoing battle between tech companies and creatives. - Fast Company
The closure and diminishment of so many arts institutions in our city should concern us all. The significant economic threat aside, it makes life here smaller and duller. - Toronto Star
Because one key witness is ill and has stopped cooperating, the investigation has collapsed, the accused get no chance to clear their names, reformers are seeing their best opportunity for change evaporate, and Irish dancing's governing body has ended up nearly bankrupt. - Irish Independent
Certainly, a clever riposte like this one written by composer Max Reger from his bathroom after a very negative one, has a satisfying feel to it: “I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.” - Nightingale Sonata
Co-producers meaning, in this case, the many individuals who provided or raised money to run the production — and these days, it takes a lot of them to get a show onto Broadway. The organizers say there's insufficient time to get all of them safely onstage; nevertheless, some are mightily miffed. - Broadway Journal
There is one immediate step with broad impact: real transparency throughout the dance economy. How can dance organizations do that? By making their annual tax returns available. - Dance Magazine
He departs this month after only six seasons, three of those cut short by the COVID pandemic. And, while proud of his work there, he acknowledges his discomfort not only with unfavorable reviews, but with the high-wattage celebrity aura that prominent figures need in New York. - The New York Times
