Harvard, the faculty members said, should abandon its practice of taking official positions on political or social issues, as it did during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and, more controversially, in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. - Boston Globe (MSN)
The Americas dominate this year's list, with three buildings in New York, two each in Vancouver and Sao Paulo and one in Mexico City. The other two come from the Asia-Pacific region, with one in Shenzhen and the other in Sydney. - Dezeen
"'It's so bizarre to me,' says the Last Comic Standing finalist Laurie Kilmartin. 'Because when you look at how modern standup started, it was a thing that happened in between strippers. It’s gutter art. We’re not trying to win a Pulitzer Prize.'" - The Guardian
“When you lose half a year of production, 2024 will be a downturn,” O’Leary says. “We have to be realistic. If any industry lost half a year of production, there would be an impact in the following year. - Variety
"Once, dancers were recognised purely on the merit of their performances as audience members didn’t have access to anything else. Yet 2023 couldn’t be more different, with attainable insights now ranging from pet snuggles to the brandishing of luxury leather goods (#ad)." - Gramilano (Milan)
After being labeled “state-affiliated media” and then “government-funded media” by Twitter shortly after Musk took over the company, NPR ceased posting on the social media platform where NPR’s main Twitter account had 8.7 million followers, and its politics account had nearly three million. - InsideRadio
Everybody hated Prince Harry's memoir, which nevertheless became the fastest-selling book in history. A country hit managed to divide much of America. A rock star kissed his bandmate on stage and got thrown out of a country. Gwyneth Paltrow briefly managed to get most people on her side. - BBC
There’s a gap between the backlash Chappelle generates online and his live shows with legions of fans. Amid this comedy culture war, he’s doubling down and cashing in. - The Wall Street Journal
Scientist Henkjan Honing and his colleagues have found that even newborns have the ability to recognize a beat and to notice when a regular rhythm is broken. - Nautilus
New research released by the American Library Association found that more than half of Gen Zers and Millennials surveyed in 2022 had visited a physical library location in the previous year. And of the Gen Zers and Millennials who said that they did not identify as readers, more than half still reported going to the library. - The Atlantic
"In a world … where moviegoing isn’t what it once was and blockbusters run three hours … a great trailer gets audiences motivated to check out a film on opening weekend. But the very best previews are so much more than that: They hold up as short-form works of art in their own right." - Variety
"If the former colonizers of Togo saw the Palais de Lomé, the country’s first major art and culture park, they might have found it a 'nightmare,' said Sonia Lawson, the center’s founding director." - ARTnews
An author puts a hold on releasing a Russia-set novel, private equity buys one of the big US publishers, controversies break out over the work of two big-name dead writers, book-banners (including a certain governor) on the warpath, people flip out over software … - Literary Hub
Preliminary findings from an upcoming report reveal that only a third of responding institutions say audience engagement is back to 2019 levels; for performing arts organizations, the figure is only 15%. 23% of the groups are still at "reduced capacity," down 10 points from last year. - WHYY (Philadelphia)
"Despite positive attendance numbers in the spring and fall, … several of the city’s larger organizations … are in a similar boat — single ticket sales are increasing, but not fast enough to cover the decrease in subscriptions. As an outlier, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust reports robust subscriptions for its Broadway series." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
