Here's an explanation of the origins of the arts branch of the Games, a timeline history, and a preview of some of what will be seen in Paris through this summer. - Euronews
The glass-clad church, perched on an oceanside bluff in Los Angeles County, has suffered severe structural damage as the ground underneath it shifted due to the heavy rains of recent years. It will be taken apart and stored until a new site has been chosen. - The Architect's Newspaper
To put it bluntly, a subsidy meant to support commercially risky work like A Strange Loop or Stereophonic or a revival of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People shouldn't be going to Phantom and The Lion King as well. - The New York Times
While it's too late to restore the first of the string quartet's scheduled performances there, the second, for Saturday night, was reinstated with additional security measures and an earlier starting time. The venue's stated concern was over property destruction during Gaza-related demonstrations at a nearby university. - The Strad
These raises were part of the museum's first union labor agreement, which was negotiated in 2022. Even so, the issue isn't settled: there's a binding arbitration case about it that's now on hold until a new contract is negotiated next year. - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
Many of the network's reporters believe that this extra layer, called the "Backstop," was put in place only because of right-wing pressure over allegations of bias and will only cause bottlenecks in the reporting process. They're even more concerned because the execs won't say who's paying for it. - The New York Times
A brochure issued in July 2021 on the OCI website says that if the status is cancelled for any of the reasons stated, the person would also be blacklisted, preventing their entry into India. The brochure does not make any mention of an appeal. - The Walrus
YouTube is consistently the most watched streaming service in the U.S. on a TV in the U.S. every month, even beating Netflix and Amazon’s Prime Video since February 2023, according to Nielsen. The service accounts for nearly 10% of television viewing, the data firm said. - Los Angeles Times
What Munro did was not so much write about women as write from inside them. When her characters don’t understand exactly what they’re feeling, she expresses it in such a way that you can both feel the confusion yourself and see beneath it to its cause. - The New Yorker
Claire Bishop argues that our smartphone-induced state of distraction can also be generative. The art work, she writes, “is less self-important, less total; it grants us the space to be mobile and social, to react, chat, share, and archive as we watch.” - The New Yorker
Gina Rinehart, a mining magnate with a knack for attracting controversy and a lack of awareness of the Streisand Effect, is unhappy with her likeness in a series of portraits by Vincent Namatjira, one of the country's leading indigenous artists, at the National Gallery in Canberra. - Time
So strong are the associations between Munro and her origins in southwestern Ontario that for some, the area around Huron County came to be known as “Alice Munro Country.” - The Conversation
"(The $3 million per production credit) has been lauded as a lifeline for the struggling theatre industry, ... (yet) funds often do not arrive until at least 18 to 24 months after the application has been submitted, which can be long after the shows shut on the Great White Way." - Forbes
The new work, which uses games to improve AI, stands in contrast to past approaches, which measured an AI program’s success via its mastery of games. - Quanta
