"If the current spending pace continues through the end of the tour, the Eras Tour will have generated an estimated $5 billion in economic impact, more than the gross domestic product of 50 countries." - CBC
One day in 1990, I was flown first class from Dublin to Phoenix, Arizona, to read at the Irish Cultural Centre there. Five people turned up to listen to me. None of them had read my books, and it was clear that none of them had the slightest intention of doing so. - Esquire
Some 19th-century artists saw the advent of photography as a threat to painting. Instead of replacing painting, however, photography eventually liberated it from realism, giving rise to Impressionism and the Modern Art movement. - Science
That Riccardo Muti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at all is a miraculous anomaly due to a perfect storm of unexpected events. - New City
The idea, according to founding first violinist and Artistic Director David Harrington, was to commission 50 quartets from a variety of composers, and make those easily accessible, free of charge, to anyone who wanted to tackle them. - San Francisco Chronicle
At a time of unprecedented need, do organizations owe it to their communities to move more money out the door, even if it threatens its perpetuity? Or should trustees stay the course, ensuring that organizations can tackle challenges 10, 20 and 50 years from now? - Inside Philanthropy
The first half of the bridge—a gently sloped, 340-foot-long arm coming out of the High Line Spur, as the final section of the elevated park is called— mimics a woodland path flanked by more than 60 trees, 90 shrubs and more than 5,200 grasses and perennials. - Fast Company
When the much-younger artist ended her relationship with the titan, he destroyed her artwork and tried very hard to destroy her career — and the French artistic establishment cooperated, driving her to emigrate to the US. To this day, she has not had a major exhibition in her homeland. - The Guardian
“There’s no point coming here just to do one thing. Blowing in and out doesn’t work – financially! Performers get all that, and they live and play here for these two or three days alongside their audience. That’s the joy of the thing. Everyone is part of the community." - The Guardian
Dani Rowe hopes to end the company's apprentice program by 2030, instead treating — and paying — the young dancers as full company members. Indeed, she wants to raise pay for all of the performers (many of whom work second jobs) and extend their contracts from 34 to 44 weeks. - Oregon Public Broadcasting
Through Truman’s story, the movie predicted, with eerie acuity, the rise of reality TV, the transactions of social media, the banality of surveillance. But Truman is not the story’s true everyman. The people who watch The Truman Show are. - The Atlantic
"The (Davis School District) committee's reversal is the latest development in the debate over a Utah law allowing parents to challenge 'sensitive materials' available to children in public schools." - AP
Li Cunxin, who found international fame for his remarkable rise from rural China to become one of the world’s leading ballet dancers, has announced his retirement as the artistic director of Queensland Ballet due to health issues. - CNN
"Will the NT reach for a safe pair of hands (as) arts funding is squeezed and theatre is clawing back revenue lost over the pandemic? Or will it continue Norris's project of opening up the venue to new audiences? … Here is The Guardian's shortlist of potential contenders." - The Guardian
“This theater is being reborn and has restored its great reputation,” said Aleksandr Rostov, the theater’s new, Russian-appointed creative director in a video to mark the first anniversary of the strike, which he addressed to Mariupol residents and “our beloved soldiers and our own Russian army.” - Wall Street Journal
