“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
As part of an effort to control interference with elections, "state-affiliated media accounts will not be put on the 'For You' page, which is TikTok’s algorithm that recommends videos to users. The accounts will also be prohibited from advertising to markets outside of their home countries." - NBC News
A three-part Netflix documentary titled Dancing for the Devil looks into a Southern California management company called 7M and its affiliate Christian church, Shekinah. Members, generally separated from their families and friends, post frequent dance videos to TikTok that follow a particular 7M template. - The Guardian
"Ranging from life-sized bronze statues to tiny Roman coins, from oil paintings to mosaic flooring, the pieces span the 9th century BC to the 2nd century AD and amount to just one year’s stolen and trafficked art confiscated by Manhattan prosecutor Col. Matthew Bogdanos’s team and returned to Italy." - CNN
Little about this matter has turned out to be what it first appeared, and there's little independent confirmation besides the email address that messages to the paper came from, but for what it's worth, the self-proclaimed culprit says he's based in Nigeria but wrote in a Ugandan language. - The New York Times
"(He) had admitted arranging sex acts with someone he thought was a teenager, but was in fact an undercover police officer. … On Tuesday, the 70-year-old was given a 14-month prison sentence, suspended for two years." - The Standard (London)
