"After Birmingham city council declared itself in effect bankrupt this month, there has been growing speculation about what assets could be sold to help balance its books, with concern for the Library of Birmingham and the city’s main museum and art gallery." - The Guardian
"The three-time Oscar-nominated Polish director is going ahead with her defamation suit against minister Zbigniew Ziobro after Ziobro refused to apologize for public comments in which he compared Holland’s new film, the refugee drama Green Border, to 'Nazi propaganda.'" - The Hollywood Reporter
"The decision to do the film the way I did (came from) working in a country that uses police, and its military forces to block freedom of expression and freedom of work for journalists and documentary makers. Fiction becomes the only way to show what’s going on." - The Hollywood Reporter
“They are taking my work and presenting it as theirs,” said Christos Tsirogiannis. “They are showing off with my academic work and not giving me the credit. It is an abuse of my intellectual property. But now, enough is enough.” - The Guardian
The change, which takes effect in fall 2024, "follows other acting programs that have stopped charging tuition, including the Yale School of Drama, which became tuition free for all students in the school starting in 2021 after a $150 million gift from David Geffen." - The Hollywood Reporter
"(His) extraordinary acting career took him from Laurence Olivier’s nascent National Theatre to screen roles in The Singing Detective and the Harry Potter films. … admired by generations of fellow actors, he excelled in plays by Pinter, Beckett and Ayckbourn." - The Guardian
— the man everyone presumed it would be. Christian Thielemann will become general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and chief conductor of its famed orchestra, the Berlin Staatskapelle, as of Sept 1, 2024. - AP
It is not just the losses that are so damaging but also the way the museum has dealt with the issue since antiques dealer Ittai Gradel alerted its bosses after he became suspicious about objects being sold online. - The Standard
Recent research shows that more active engagement with music can be a boon for our mental and even physical health... The scientists behind these results describe the new field as “music medicine”, with the prescription of playlists a treatment for common ills. - The Guardian
The Spotify-developed tool uses OpenAI’s recently released voice-generation technology to match the original speaker’s style. That, according to Spotify, results in a “more authentic listening experience” that sounds “more personal and natural than traditional dubbing.” - Variety
Such systems, sculpted for an industrial society, falter in the face of a postindustrial, information economy. Schools were built for a world before the vast library of human knowledge became instantly accessible at our fingertips, through the computers on our desks and smartphones in our pockets. - The Guardian
Lina Khan made her reputation with a very different idea: What if pleasing the customer was not enough? Low prices, she argued in a 95-page examination of Amazon in the Yale Law Journal, can mask behavior that stifles competition and undermines society. - The New York Times
"We say we need new audiences, but the reality is we're really churning through the new audiences we do get." In the arts world, this problem is severe: Ninety percent of first-time orchestra attendees at the largest orchestras in the U.S. never return. - Inc
How did a show that Team Sondheim suggested was incomplete at the time of his death get to a point where it was ready for public consumption? - The New York Times
"For a start, the boundary between the emperor and his acting parts was a significantly blurry one. … The awful black hole at the centre of Roman autocracy was that it was always as hard to tell an emperor from an actor as it can sometimes be for us." - The Guardian
