Okay, strictly speaking, it wasn't the United States yet, but the Puritan government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony suppressed Thomas Morton's book The New English Canaan back in 1637. - Smithsonian Magazine
"I ask myself whether, as so many theater companies grapple with ongoing pandemic-related challenges, I should reconceive my role. What ought arts criticism look like when the art can feel like it’s barely hanging on?" - San Francisco Chronicle
The MacArthur Foundation's citation for Patrick Makuakāne called him a "cultural preservationist," but it's not that simple. "I don’t take traditional dance elements and turn them on their head. But there’s no law against creating a hula to Roberta Flack’s 'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.'" - Slate
Jack Fisk is also one of the most difficult to recruit, going years (and, at one point, two decades) between films. And once a producer does recruit him, his work will be expensive, labor-intensive, and very, very detail-oriented. It will also be brilliant. - The New York Times Magazine
"Developed with Interpol, whose database of cultural objects stolen from museums, collections and archeological sites worldwide lists more than 52,000 artefacts, the $2,5 million virtual museum should open in 2025. Visitors will be able to navigate a succession of virtual spaces containing detailed 3D images of the artefacts." - The Guardian
Intentionally or not, the stage version of the polymorphously perverse cult classic, produced by North Texas's flagship theater company, has become a standard-bearer of opposition to the state law S.B. 12, which regulates any performance that "appeals to the prurient interest in sex." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"(WNYC's Sean) Carlson spoke to Casey York of the Off-Broadway League, Anna Glass of Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Jake Rosenthal of Elsewhere in Bushwick. Their conversation covered everything from how fewer office workers affect the city's culture to why big stars aren’t necessarily the future of show business." - Gothamist
"The latest WIF survey found 59% of respondents agreed the culture around sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct in Hollywood workplaces had improved in the (past) year. … At the same time, 46.2% of respondents said they or someone they knew had experienced abuse or misconduct … in the last year." - The Hollywood Reporter
The 49-year-old Nigerian is the first winner from Africa and the first since the award changed from annual to biennial. The $100,000 prize is the only one dedicated specifically to sculpture. - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
“It was a very hard decision,” Emily Moss, the music director of WCPE, a nonprofit station based in Wake Forest, said in an interview. “It’s been a hard day and a hard week.” - The New York Times
Musicologist Dr Shara Rambarran says virtual influencers-turned-popstars entering the arena may unsettle IRL (in real life) musicians "who want to put their music out there and not have to have that competition". - BBC
Earlier this month, the consciousness science community erupted into chaos. An open letter, signed by 124 researchers—some specializing in consciousness and others not—made the provocative claim that one of the most widely discussed theories in the field, Integrated Information Theory (IIT), should be considered “pseudoscience.” - Nautilus
