“Regularly staged behind large Plexiglas sheets that forced the audience to watch reflections of themselves perceiving the show, the plays had mesmerizing ways of generating momentary amnesia in viewers. It was far more than just spacing out." - Artforum
Venturing even a tiny bit beyond the red edge of the rainbow, into the undiscovered country of the infrared, is a transformative experience: it reveals an entire hidden Universe, a previously walled-off layer of reality that we are now exploring every day as results pour in from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). - Aeon
“When I’m dancing with her, I feel her feeding energy back to me. It’s not quite like being on stage with another human, but she’s not just an inert thing that I have to feed with my energy in order to bring it into the dance.” - ArtsATL
The orchestra unveiled details of its three-year comprehensive campaign in April 2024, after having already quietly raised $41 million since 2022. As of Wednesday, the campaign exceeded its goal, raising $50.1 million — marking the largest fundraising effort in the CSO’s 93-year history. - Charlotte Observer
San Diego Ballet executive director Matt Carney: “We've been really tasked right now to solve problems we weren't anticipating. So the cut with the NEA: we had seven days to make an appeal; they sent that email out on Friday; you get it on Monday, and now we have four days.” - KPBS (San Diego)
Rutger Bregman, 37, is a Dutch historian who has written best-selling books arguing that the world is better (mostly meaning wealthier, healthier and more humane) than we’re typically led to believe, and also that further improving it is easily within our reach. - The New York Times
"After a weekend of seeing four very different plays at four unique theatres, the word that hung in my mind was diversity. So many people have talked, trained, cried, pushed, borrowed, and begged for the theatre to be a place of multitudes. That's why the sociopolitical tumult of the current moment is especially piercing." - American Theatre
During the height of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Boston’s daily newspapers employed some of the nation’s best-known film critics. All of them were women. They tended to travel as a pack, lugging typewriters and formal gowns to movie premieres all over the world. - WBUR
“Art conservators were starting to panic after two critical ingredients for a glue called Beva 371 and used to line historical canvases were discontinued. However, researchers … have developed a new, safer version of the adhesive (which) comes in various forms, including a solvent-free extrusion that looks like rice noodles.” - ARTnews
“After the close of the season in October, the Mann will begin the work of creating a roomier campus (in Fairmount Park) and constructing new or expanded structures wrought in a nature-inspired wood and stone aesthetic. … Construction is expected to be finished for a reopening in May of 2026.” - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
“On May 14, Eksmo, Russia's largest publisher … sent a letter to ‘all interested organizations’ (including booksellers) with a list of 50 titles to be ‘disposed of on site or returned if unsold.’ … A government crackdown came a day later, resulting in the arrest of eleven current and former employees of Eksmo.” - Publishers Weekly
“The 1897 canvas, Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona,” which was on sale at this year’s TEFAF in Maastricht, “had reportedly resided in Hungary for decades, but conflicting accounts from Hungarian and Austrian authorities have raised questions over whether the work was legally cleared to leave the country.” - Artnet
“Librarians, who normally curate book collections, would need the school board’s approval before buying books under Senate Bill 13. ... District officials could appoint local advisory councils to review books and make recommendations (for buying or removing particular titles) to the school board.” - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
Michael Kimmelman: “By far most promising aspect of the plan is to open the park up to a neighborhood it has long walled off. It aims to rectify an approach to city building from the bad old days of urban renewal.” - The New York Times
“In dozens of fiction and nonfiction books,” the Kenyan writer “traced his country’s history from British imperialism to home-ruled tyranny and challenged not only the stories told but the language used to tell them.” - AP
