On the surface, Goodreads seems to have mission clarity. It bills itself as “the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations” and frames its function as one of community making. In practice, Goodreads is great for many things, but none of them includes what it’s ostensibly “for.” - The Walrus
Since NewMusicBox launched in May 1999, it has published in-depth interviews Oteri conducted with many of America’s most significant musical creators of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including Elliott Carter, Ornette Coleman, Meredith Monk, Tania León, Willie Colón, Du Yun, and Jeanine Tesori. - NewMusicUSA
A paradox is operating here: why would such an influential visionary and radical creator as Schoenberg receive minimal attention and performances of his masterworks today? - LA Review of Books
Given the economics of falling enrollments, bloated administrations, ballooning deficits, and cultural illiteracy, it suggests something far more insidious, namely that Brandeis, of all places, considers an arts education at the highest level expendable. Taking into account the legacy of the university’s music department, that’s a chilling conclusion at which to arrive. - ArtsFuse
Netflix says games are a key part of its proposition to stay relevant with audiences in years to come, and is slowly ramping up plans to offer more gaming experiences to subscribers. - BBC
Author Carlos Fonseca: "I now always say that I have a little (of translator)Megan McDowell in my mind, even when I write in Spanish." (podcast with transcript) - Slate
Time and time again, presidents have wrestled with or in some cases openly fought back to challenge the ways they were being pictured. They sought control. By that standard, Mr. Trump’s mug shot is no outlier. Not all presidential portraits look like the ones hanging in our museums. - New York Times
Vicente Lusitano had been dimly remembered, largely by music historians, for "a notorious dispute which he won, then lost, but is now winning again." Scholar Garrett Schuman explains what's now known about Lusitano, why he fell into obscurity, and the revival of his (often gorgeous) works this decade. - Early Music America
“We very much came with an agenda, which was we were going to tell a different kind of story about Lincoln Center, to fundamentally shift the institution in terms of who leads it, who represents it, who’s on our staff, who’s on our stages, who’s in our audiences.” - The New York Times
"A passionate cohort of dancers (have) repackaged the footwork for a new generation. MC Hammer's running man and underground raves in the '80s popularized the moves, and now it's in the zeitgeist once more, courtesy of viral TikTok and Instagram videos." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The huge loopholes in the management and security of cultural objects in the British Museum exposed by this scandal have led to the collapse of a long-standing and widely circulated claim that 'foreign cultural objects are better protected in the British Museum'," the editorial reads. - BBC
Once Graham Greene reviewed the novel (in its original printing from Paris) in the The Sunday Times in 1955, George Weidenfeld knew he wanted to publish it in the UK. Then came a campaign for the passage of an updated Obscenity Law, without which there would be no hope. - Literary Hub
A recently released film titled The Witness, about a touring violinist, caught in Kiev as the invasion begins, who sees (entirely fictional) atrocities committed by (fictional) neo-Nazi Ukrainian troops, is part of a wave of propagandistic feature films produced by the Russian state. Will Russians go see it? - AP
"From studio rentals and set construction to dry cleaning for costumes and transportation to sets, it's hard to find a corner of the Los Angeles economy that has entirely escaped the reverberations. … Restaurants, coffee shops, even nail salons that neighbor major studios — they're all desperate for a quick resolution." - AP
