While the extremely affluent emirate has had commercial galleries and art fairs for years, the Dubai Museum of Art will be its first museum. (However, it will include space for art fairs and other commercial projects.) The architect is Pritzker Prize winner Tadao Ando. - Artnet
“Paramount on Wednesday began … the first wave of a deep staff reduction planned since David Ellison took the helm of the entertainment company in August” following a merger with Ellison’s company, Skydance. “Wednesday's cuts represent about 5% of the organization.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
“One of the men detained ‘was a target of the investigators – we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery’, (prosecutor Laure) Beccuau said. ‘He’s one we had in our sights.’ The other four ‘can give us information about how the theft was carried out’, she said.” - The Guardian
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau also said that the pair are believed to be the men who forced their way into the museum on Oct. 19. They have been given preliminary charges of criminal conspiracy and theft committed by an organized gang and remain in custody. - AP
A private collector brought a page from a mid-9th-century liturgical book to document dealer Nathan Raab, who, after research, identified some previously overlooked markings over the word “Alleluia” as notating the rising and falling pitches of a melody. - The Guardian
Archetypes belong to everyone: that’s why art galleries and libraries and arts councils receive public funding; that’s why Top 40 radio plays a Friday-morning megamix. As is typical in my line of work, I don’t consider the stories I’ve written my property; a story isn’t finished until the reader completes it. - The Walrus
Q: Why do you think people still talk to you? IC: Most people don’t read bylines, and the vast majority of people I interview have no idea who I am. - Columbia Journalism Review
A cult film is born through ritualistic traditions of audience attendance that must occur in a public, social screening setting like a movie theatre. The Rocky Horror Picture Show — the Hollywood-funded screen adaptation of Jim Sharman and Richard O’Brien’s successful British stage musical — owes its cult success to independent, repertory cinemas. - The Conversation
Eliot was not only a prolific, but also a powerful prose writer. Impressively, he emerges even in the earliest of this work as if fully formed. His voice is mature and assured in a 1909 review published in the Harvard Advocate, where he already perfected the performance of having read everything. - Hudson Review
In issuing his ruling, Judge Stein compared George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones to summaries of the book created by ChatGPT. The judge wrote that a “discerning observer could easily conclude that this detailed summary is substantially similar to Martin’s original work. - Publishers Weekly
“More than 3,000 museum employees from over 90 arts organizations, and representing different roles, participated in it; it is the second edition of a longitudinal study that will continue through 2030.” Job satisfaction is higher than in 2022-23, but ongoing concerns include low pay and the “new culture wars.” - The New York Times
Artistry is what the ’40s biopics get most wrong. Not just the facts, though the depictions of composition, collaboration and show-making are boldly inaccurate. “Rhapsody in Blue” makes a fuss about Gershwin’s use of a diminished-ninth chord in “Swanee,” a chord that appears nowhere in it. - The New York Times
“I think the understudies, the swings, the standbys and the alternates do so much work, with so little recognition, so much of the time — this is a little piece of paper that makes sure they’re acknowledged by the people who are watching them.” - The New York Times
Seven deep-pocketed philanthropic foundations are coming together to help fill in the gaps. The coalition announced on Tuesday the creation of the Literary Arts Fund, which will distribute "at least" $50 million through grants to various nonprofit organizations across the country over the next five years. - NPR
“The producers of The Lost King on Monday agreed to pay damages to an academic who sued for libel over his on-screen depiction. Richard Taylor said he suffered ‘enormous distress and embarrassment’ because of the 2022 film, which centers on amateur historian Philippa Langley’s quest to find the king’s remains.” - AP
