"The archive had been stored in four different locations across the building, with the basement store repeatedly flooding and threatening to destroy some of the artefacts. The collection is now housed in a fireproof climate-controlled studio in the building with a new reading room, and is open ... by appointment." - BBC
"While no reason was given, the announcement comes less than a day after a blast at Gaza’s al-Ahli al-Arabi hospital reportedly left hundreds of Palestinians, including many women and children, dead and has become a lightning rod for anger across the region." - The Hollywood Reporter
Individual stores develop their own looks. "Any design agency would have a heart attack if they could see what we’re doing,” said CEO James Daunt. “We don’t have any architect doing our design at any stage. And certainly the identity people would have a complete crisis.” - The New York Times
"Brand was sitting at home on Friday night watching football when the doorbell rang and a man in a van asked for help to unload some merchandise. 'I asked him, 'what are we going to unload?'. He said with a smile, 'well, the paintings of Medemblik',' Brand recounted." - Yahoo! (AFP)
"Bley was a force in jazz even before she made her first albums, her compositions recorded by notable modernists of the 1960s. … (She became) the pianist behind some of the most beloved compositions in the jazz canon, who recorded over two dozen albums between 1966 and 2019." - NPR
A.I.-centric handwringing concerns the potential to generate images with hidden, subliminal messages. The supposed danger is that brands will start producing carefully doctored images that subtly embed their logos. Previously, the existential threat was A.I.’s looming global takeover; now the concern is that it will be used to control and manipulate the masses. - Artnet
“In an era of cancellation and defenestration we sometimes forget that we cannot go on like this and that we have been here before. We know this because our greatest writers and artists have addressed this question in their own times." - Variety
Rather than keep stockpiles of expensive and obsolete technology in storage, museums have to find clever ways around software updates, from video game emulators to server farms to niche businesses like CTL. But they, too, have a life span as short as, or shorter than, those of light bulbs. - The New York Times
Do we surrender to this terrible violence and let our striving for peace die – or do we insist that there must and can be peace? I am convinced that we have to move on and keep the larger context of the conflict in mind. - The Guardian
We’re in a spiritual revolution. Access to astrology and other spiritual practices has proliferated across witchy corners of the internet, with many tools fully embracing artificial intelligence as part of the supernatural process. - Wired
Many of the orchestra’s musicians scattered. Some stayed, volunteering in field kitchens, doing what they could to help the effort to push back the Russians from the capital. And it wasn’t long before the orchestra started performing again – reuniting first at La Fenice, Venice’s opera house, in April 2022. - The Guardian
"For hundreds of years, writers enjoyed the punchy power of a well-placed !, wielding its mighty sword of 'here be feelings!' with aplomb and persuasiveness. Here are five ways that literature can recuperate the abused exclamation point." - The Millions
For those without college degrees, life expectancy reached its peak around 2010 and has been falling since, an unfolding disaster that has attracted little attention in the media or among elected officials. - The New York Times
New York Times editor and culture writer Sarah Bahr tags along with the paper's chief critic to a preview of Gutenberg! The Musical and talks to him about how (and why) he works as he does. - The New York Times
Half the staff at Bandcamp, the online music platform known for championing independent artists and labels, have been laid off following the recent purchase of the company by music licensing startup Songtradr. - The Guardian
