The contemporary fixation on extolling “freedom” as a cornerstone of artistic expression stems from a flattened understanding of history. Those for whom this is the jam and butter often reveal a particular obsession with power dynamics. - The Critic
Something in his brain shifted; later, he would tell people that it was as if someone had turned over a deck of cards to reveal the hidden faces behind the plain backs. Over the next several years, he would come to believe he had discovered Beethoven’s secret code. - The Atlantic
A single scribe is said to have written the codex, which is made up of 52 leaves - or 104 pages - over a period of 40 years at a monastery in upper Egypt. - CNN
This moment represents a new low for music journalism as a whole. But it’s in times like these that prefigurative visions come more clearly into focus. - Boston Review
The Trilogy firms—which are controlled by Canadian billionaire Gerald Schwartz, an Indigo board member and the husband of Indigo founder and CEO Heather Reisman—already own 60.6% of all of Indigo’s shares. - Publishers Weekly
"(Larry Goodman), interim president and CEO, announced Tuesday he would permanently fill the position. Goodman was formerly on the company’s board of directors when it launched an investigation into its workplace culture and practices." - WEWS News 5 Cleveland
During her 16 years at Random House, Morrison wrote hundreds of rejection letters. Usually typed on pink, yellow, or white carbonless copy paper, and occasionally bearing Random House’s old logo and letterhead, these are now filed among her correspondence in the Random House archives. - LA Review of Books
Benjamin Franklin, who founded the Library Company of Philadelphia In 1731. "(It) allowed members — at first, largely male artisans of modest means — to purchase (low-cost) shares in the library. … After early successes, the Library Company soon began allowing non-shareholders to borrow books, too, requiring only a small fee as collateral." - Smithsonian Magazine
Evidently, the time is ripe for a survey of the branch of cultural production concerned with the end of the world. And yet, tales have been told about it for as long as we’ve been doing story. - Literary Review
"The Worst Cafe in the World, a new, creatively interactive Off-Broadway production, … actually gives audience members a menu of theatrical moments to choose from, and based on their selections, the cast will piece together the show." - Time Out New York
News that the drawing is going on the market is likely to expand what has until now been a rather low-key, academic debate over the authorship of a work that has remained in private hands, and mostly out of the public eye, for the past five centuries. - The New York Times
He founded Sankai Juku, which did more than any other troupe to spread butoh in the West, in 1975 and had led it ever since. "Butoh performances are characterized by slow, intense and sometimes contorted movements. The dancers often appear with white body paint and shaved heads." - The Asahi Shimbun (in English)
“This campaign is going to solve a major problem that the symphony has wrestled with for years, of not having a big enough endowment to help balance its budget. It’s giving us future stability in a way that we’ve never been able to enjoy before.” - Charlotte Observer
"The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts can’t build its $175 million third phase until Orange County and the city of Orlando provide most of the funding, said arts center President and CEO Katherine Ramsberger. The center cannot raise that much money by itself, she added." - WFTV (Orlando)
