The performances that work best for both haptic tours and live audio descriptions are dance and theater productions that offer a mix of visual and auditory elements. - San Francisco Classical Voice
Today's "executive butlers," who service the ultra-wealthy (who aren't just old-line nobility anymore) at England's grand country houses, are a cross between chief housekeeper, maître d', executive assistant, and concierge. - The New York Times
"It feels like another sign that A.I. is not even close to living up to its hype. In my eyes, it’s looking less like an all-powerful being and more like a bad intern whose work is so unreliable that it’s often easier to do the task yourself." - The New York Times
"'We’ve been trying to program Hockney’s Turandot for 30 years,' said Rupert Hemmings, vice president of artistic planning for L.A. Opera, which … has spent $80,000 to rent the production assets … from San Francisco Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago, which commissioned (them) 34 years ago." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
"It’s a rough road, one that requires creative and focused marketing strategies and the willingness to do all the work a studio would normally do. But at a time when the once-buzzy acquisition market at Sundance and other festivals has slowed down, it’s an option more filmmakers find worth taking." - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
"The Kirkland (Museum of Fine & Decorative Arts) will become a curatorial department to the Denver Art Museum," explains DAM director Christoph Heinrich. "The unique situation is, of course, that this is a curatorial department that comes with its own building, and with a brand-new collection of more than 30,000 objects." - Westword (Denver)
The concert hall (not to be confused with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, a separate organization) called off the performances in the wake of demonstrations against Israel's war against Hamas at the University of Amsterdam which caused €1.5 million in damage. - NL Times
"In her response, (Patricia de Stacy) Harrison cited the Public Broadcasting Act’s requirement that CPB facilitate the development of 'high-quality' programming from 'diverse sources' while giving public broadcasters 'maximum protection' from extraneous interference and control." - Inside Radio
"On Tuesday, 97% of Condé Union members voted 'yes' on a three-year deal" settled after 18 months of negotiations. "The agreement, which averted a threatened strike from workers at the Met Gala, boosts wages by $3.6 million in total and converts company permalancers into full-time staffers." - The Hollywood Reporter
"A French court on Tuesday acquitted film director Roman Polanski of defaming British actress Charlotte Lewis after she accused him of raping her when she was a teenager. … She sued for defamation after Polanski called her allegations a 'heinous lie' in a 2019 interview with Paris Match magazine." - Reuters
Thinking of memory as an adaptive trait has a less obvious and perhaps more interesting corollary: “Viewed through this lens, it is apparent that what we often see as the flaws of memory are also its features.” - The New Yorker
They call it “filler,” and it’s hard not to regard it as something bordering on the sublinguistic, an almost intolerable torturing of the magnificent instrument bequeathed to us by Shakespeare and his successors. - Hedgehog Review
Sanborn was known for luxurious saxophone melodies on songs including "Maputo," but his sound — informed by R&B and global funk— and his legacy extended far beyond his jazz roots. Often perceived as a "smooth jazz" artist, Sanborn loathed that term. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Ms. Battle was greeted with an immediate and prolonged standing ovation—the first of many—from her eager audience as she walked onstage in a black dress with a long, turquoise-colored wrap. - The Wall Street Journal
