“'I’m afraid leather forearm bracers have nothing to do with ancient Rome,’ says Alexander Mariotti, a historian and specialist in gladiatorial combat who worked as a researcher and script consultant on . ‘They don’t appear in any imagery or sources … they just look good on film.’” - The Guardian (UK)
Fishman “was sitting in a restaurant in Adams Morgan one night in 2003 with his wife, attorney Stephanie Richards, when they grabbed a napkin and pen to outline his vision for a jazz festival in the nation’s capital.” - Washington Post (MSN)
"What began with … piling the family and their sets into a van and putting on shows for churches and home-school groups has evolved into a performing arts conservatory, a 300-seat theater and a twice-annual residency at the Museum of the Bible just south of the National Mall." - The Washington Post (MSN)
It is nearly double the size of its original location, at 11 East 26th Street in New York, which opened in 2012 and closed in 2020 and pivoted to virtual programming during the pandemic. - The New York Times
He did it without Chabon, for starters: while the author happily gave rights to The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, opera is simply "not his thing." So Bates and librettist Gene Scheer set about adapting the Pulitzer-winning novel — and the result will open the Met's season next fall. - AP
It's called Nintendo Music — and on it, you can listen to dozens of hours of music from games like Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong. The app has had more than a million downloads since it launched on Oct. 30. - NPR
Late last spring, Donna Fay Burchfield, dean of the University of the Arts School of Dance, was as shocked as everyone else when she saw media reports that the Philadelphia school was closing. Here's how she found a new home for the UArts dance program in, of all places, rural Vermont. - Dance Magazine
Such a high-value donation of art is uncommon in the UK; the last headline-making gift received by the British Museum was a bequest from a late trustee worth £123 million, or $156 million. - ARTnews
The reality is that access to these careers often comes down to personal connections and the kinds of skills that are fostered through private education and existing networks in the arts. - The Conversation
"Plans (are) to relaunch it in January as a parody of conspiracy theorists. 'Our goal in a couple of years is for people to think of Infowars as the funniest and dumbest website that exists,' said Ben Collins, The Onion’s CEO. 'It was previously the dumbest website that exists.'" - AP
You can see how certain architectures for looking were created in the 19th century to produce what gets called “attention”—museums changing their hanging practices. The modern white-cube gallery, with a single line of works on the wall, is all about producing focused attention, a kind of one-to-one relationship between work and viewer. - The Nation
Calkins’s critics say that her refusal to acknowledge the importance of phonics has tainted not just Units of Study—a reading and writing program that stretches up to eighth grade—but her entire educational philosophy, known as “balanced literacy. - The Atlantic (MSN)
