She will complete her seven-year term at the end of this season, though she will remain director of the company's Vanguard Initiative for emerging opera composers. - WFMT (Chicago)
Ita O'Brien, who helped launch the profession in Great Britain, is at the Gran Teatre del Liceu working on the European premiere of John Adams's Antony and Cleopatra. - The Guardian
"Dubbed the first Black action hero, Roundtree became one of the faces of the 1970s blaxploitation movement when he starred as the street-smart New York sleuth." He appeared in more than a dozen other features and several television series. - The Hollywood Reporter
Unlike El Greco or Van Gogh, very few artists are household names these days. Fame in the art world is about having currency in the right circles. As those chosen to be on show at the art fair Frieze testify to, some artists achieve ultra-recognition ultra-young. Surprisingly, this can be a disaster. - The Conversation
The term dystonia is rooted in the Latin prefix dys, or difficulty, and tonus, meaning tone or tension. It refers to involuntary disruptions in muscle tone that cause spasms and shakes. It has been divided into many categories and subtypes, depending on the body parts affected and the age of the person when it began. - The Guardian
“We’ve received our ratings from Nielsen, and they said it is not even close,” said All Classical’s President and CEO Suzanne Nance. “We’ve been pulling a 6.5 market share, and the closest competitor is 3.0.” - The Oregonian
The key aim was to use music to connect young people from Catholic and Protestant backgrounds on both sides of the Irish border. Almost 30 years on, this remains the central goal of the 140-member orchestra. - BBC
A recent set of studies in the journal Psychological Science suggests that a more personal factor – specifically, how much a piece of art seems to relate, in one way or another, to you – can contribute greatly to its aesthetic power. - Psyche
"The audience and engagement that we get from X is small. Among our social media platforms, X is among the smallest sources of traffic," a CBC spokesperson told The Canadian Press when asked why it hasn't fully returned. - Yahoo!
Since 2021, the agency has given general operations funding only to organizations with budgets under $250,000. In March, the CAC lifted that cap — and then reinstated it in August. Many larger organizations spent time completing the very involved application, then learned they weren't eligible after all. Why? - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
Reports said that many Americans were paying for up to six streaming services. Since then, numbers have mostly returned to pre-pandemic with Americans paying for about three or four subscriptions. - Cordcutters News
Devon Rodriguez, known for his live drawings of subway riders, has millions of fans on Instagram and TikTok. Ben Davis reviewed Rodriguez's first solo show (whose opening was covered by CNN), and Rodriguez sicced his fans on Davis — who says this all "raises some larger issues worth thinking about." - Artnet
The lawsuit comes two months after a New York judge issued a search warrant citing “reasonable cause” to believe the statue, which was legally acquired by the museum almost four decades ago, was stolen property. - CNN
"(Zelia Nuttall) was the first to decode the Aztec calendar and identify the purposes of ancient adornments and weapons. She untangled the organization of commercial networks and transcribed ancient songs. … Having taught herself Nahuatl, she was the first to transcribe and translate ancient manuscripts." - Smithsonian Magazine
Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. - MIT Technology Review
