Celebrity has a tendency to reduce talent, even of the most prodigious kind, to a series of narrow gestures, a sort of mimeograph of itself. The Dude sure seemed to embrace the L.A. lifestyle, to take quickly to Soho House and Osteria Mozza, and having a hot dog at Pink’s named in his honor. - Los Angeles Magazine
"A pair of previously unknown and 'exceptionally rare' portraits by Rembrandt sold for over £11.2 million ($14.2 million) Thursday after they were discovered in a private collection in the UK. Depicting relatives of the Dutch master, the intimate paintings are the last Rembrandt portraits still in private hands" - CNN
If all this still seems dizzying, the bottom line is that the next year will decide the station’s fate. Perhaps not since the demolition of the original McKim, Mead & White building has there been similar momentum and a similar alignment of the political stars. - The New York Times
For immigrants, it's seeing their own history on a Broadway stage; for their children, it's a major lesson. ("Growing up, the only thing I really knew about Imelda was her shoe collection.") For the all-Filipino cast, it's revisiting "a past that's hardly in the rearview mirror." - The New York Times
"Here's what to know about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos, the People Power Revolution of 1986 and the controversies the show" — Here Lies Love, now on Broadway after runs Off-Broadway and elsewhere — "has faced." - The New York Times
"Nothing bothered me more than being cast in Lifted, a 'groundbreaking' show designed to feature only ABT's Black dancers. … I trained to be an elite dancer, not a Black elite dancer. Emphasizing my race before my skill infantilizes me; there's no such thing as a Caucasian-American dancer." - The New York Times
Museums and archives have lost their collections to bombing, at least one performing arts center has been burned down, and some places whose buildings and collections remain have holes caused by artillery in their roofs and walls — this as the rainy season is coming on. - ARTnews
"Threads, the latest of Meta's copycat innovations, faces a long slog in its bid to topple Twitter as the microblogging platform of choice. … But Threads comes with big potential, thanks to its polished tech, built-in user base, and a reputation for better moderation that's likely to please big-money advertisers." - Wired
As of Sept. 1, Tim Bond, who was the festival's associate artistic director from 1996-2007 and is currently AD at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, succeeds Nataki Garrett, who departed in May after an extremely challenging four-year tenure which included COVID closures, wildfires, and financial crises. - Ashland.news
The photograph is deeply entangled in our contemporary experience, playing a crucial role in recording and informing our understanding of the world. Which means photography has a number of overlapping histories: as a technology of seeing, a social document and an aesthetic practice. - The Conversation
The King’s College team developed a 25,000-pixel photon sensitive camera that uses a technique called macroscopic fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) to harness the natural fluorescence in centuries-old varnish. - The Guardian
Robert Jenrick told staff to paint over artistic depictions of animals etched onto the walls of Tug Haven, an asylum intake unit in Dover, Kent, in order to create a “law enforcement environment” - The Art Newspaper
His two years in Vienna—plus a Ph.D. in art history that involved study of the Habsburg collections—have given him insight into the institution he will be running. His top priority, he says, is raising the KHM’s international profile.
The MSG Sphere’s 580,000 sq ft fully programmable LED screen, named the Exosphere, was illuminated for pre-launch testing overnight to celebrate the Fourth of July. The show started with a welcome message, “Hello world”, followed by fireworks and stars and stripes animations. - The Guardian
