The hope among ACT staff members, both past and present, is that, as this entity prepares to launch, ACT’s artist-focused legacy continues on through this murky transitional period into a new, united future. - Seattle Times
“More than 20 key stakeholders behind its success — from author Margaret Atwood and adapter Bruce Miller to producers, executives and the cast led by Elisabeth Moss (June/Offred) — share how the Trump-era drama captured the cultural zeitgeist … and launched a Gilead universe with sequel series The Testaments.” - The Hollywood Reporter
The teenaged Benjamin Appl was Fischer-Dieskau’s last private student, working with the baritone for three years until his death in 2012. Here Appl recalls what made Fischer-Dieskau’s singing unique, what studying with him was like, and some of his late-life emotional torment. - The New York Times
Charles McNulty looks at the history of L.A. Theatre Works, which has drawn on Hollywood’s extraordinary talent pool to perform and record audio drama, both before an audience and in a studio, and broadcast it on public radio. - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
“Striking juxtapositions, and the often contentious stories behind them, lie at the heart of the (Victoria & Albert Museum’s) new £65m facility, which provides a thrilling window into the sprawling stacks of our national museum of everything. But it is much more than just a window – it’s a total immersion.” - The Guardian
“United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County. The lawsuit, filed in April 2022 by seven Llano, Texas, library patrons, concerns the removal of 17 books from the Llano branch library.” - Publishers Weekly
For more than 40 years (he) wrote with clarity, wit and love about a city in transition from the era of “urban renewal” slum clearance and suburban flight into new ideals of urbanism. - The New York Times
The museum of ancient Greco-Roman art and its collections survived the January fires, but 1,300 damaged trees have been removed from the grounds. The Villa will reopen on June 27 — on a limited Friday-to-Monday schedule, reservations required — with North America’s first major exhibition of art from the Mycenaean civilization. - Los Angeles Magazine
There’s no other system of encoding information quite like khipu, the knotted strings and cords used to keep records in the Inca Empire. For years, the research into their meaning was at a standstill, but in recent years there’s been progress in both recovering lost khipu and deciphering them. - The Atlantic (MSN)
The art schools were easy to get into and their teachers were well regarded. The schools’ core view was that the postwar world would be creative, incorporating a number of disciplines. Their graduates would be in tune with culture. - The Wall Street Journal
“The big leap that the OSS made was book knowledge: the accumulation of a vast amount of seemingly trivial information, if analyzed intelligently, … would be directly valuable in deciding the direction of battles and of the war. … This work is exactly the kind that librarians and archivists undertake routinely, every day.” - Public Books
This season, Arden has given Broadway its most surprising and heartwarming new musical, “Maybe Happy Ending.” The show, which originated in South Korea, is a futuristic rom-com about two robots nearing the end of their life cycles. - Los Angeles Times
Small wonder that the “Odyssey," a staple of the Western canon and the progenitor of so much, from sci-fi to rom-com, has been enjoying a bump in popularity of late. - The New York Times
In an era when Wisconsin has consistently ranked near the bottom in per capita arts spending nationwide — and with ticket sales declining since the COVID-19 pandemic — infighting over this funding has become more intense. - WUWM
“Storm King now boasts one of the world’s greatest collections of outdoor sculpture, with more than 100 works by 20th-century greats, but it has always lacked electricity, piped water, and most of the other hallmarks of civilisation.” Until now. - The Guardian
