She wrote The Shadow of a Doubt in 1901 and came close to seeing it staged briefly on Broadway, only for the project to fall apart for still-unclear reasons. The script lay undiscovered until 2016, and it's now onstage at the Shaw Festival in Ontario. - The New York Times
"The Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced on Tuesday that it has exceeded the $750-million goal set for its fundraising campaign for a new building — the David Geffen Galleries, designed by architect Peter Zumthor. … Reaching its final goal has been a long road for LACMA." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Lauren Pazienza, 28, acknowledged throwing 87-year-old Barbara Maier Gustern, a beloved teacher and performer, onto a Manhattan sidewalk and then walking away in March of 2022. Pazienza will spend eight years in prison, minus the time she has served since her bail was revoked in May 2022. - AP
After conducting two acts of Berlioz's Les Troyens at a festival in France, Gardiner allegedly berated bass William Thomas, slapped and then punched him, all in front of the other musicians. Gardiner has withdrawn from the remaining dates of this touring project, including the BBC Proms. - MSN (The Telegraph, UK)
The Carabinieri have identified two German tourists in their early 20s as the alleged culprits who spray-painted letters and numbers associated with a Munich soccer team on columns of the Vasari Corridor, a covered passageway connecting two historic palaces. - AP
During its run, scientists have published thousands of papers and made significant strides in neuroscience, such as creating detailed 3D maps of at least 200 brain regions, developing brain implants to treat blindness and using supercomputers to model functions such as memory and consciousness and to advance treatments for various brain conditions. - Nature
By releasing the proposal, the companies are essentially going around the guild’s negotiating committee and appealing to rank-and-file members — betting that their proposal will look good enough for members to pressure their leaders to make a deal. - The New York Times
Thanks in large part to Barbenheimer, summer revenue now rests at $3.797 billion, a 16.6 percent spike over the same summer corridor in 2022. And the deficit from summer 2019 — when revenue hit $4.34 billion — has decreased from 15 percent to 5.4 percent. - The Hollywood Reporter
Searches on Amazon — estimated to control at least half of all U.S. book sales, and an even bigger share of the growing e-book market — are increasingly turning up mediocre AI-generated titles filled with unreliable information and soggy prose. - Axios
These tools are mainly targeting creators, who can use copyright-free music in their videos or podcasts. The developers are also hoping that musicians notice their tools and blend them into their sample or song-making process. - TechCrunch
In a warning letter, two attorneys allege that "NBC has exceeded the moral and legal limits permissible in a civilized society … (with) a pattern and practice of grotesque and depraved mistreatment of reality stars and crew members. … Please be advised that the day of reckoning has arrived." - MSN (Vulture)
“Work has come to a halt … The offer of European gigs simply dried up … My band simply can’t make any kind of living in the tiny UK market, so we basically have folded as a working band.” - The Guardian
The Wildensteins' business goes back five generations and 150 years; family members have always been secretive, even by art-world standards. But a lawsuit by a disinherited widow has uncovered what a prosecutor alleged is "the longest and most sophisticated tax fraud" in modern French history. - The New York Times Magazine
"Creativity can’t happen without sentience, and there are now arguments that some AIs are indeed sentient. If that is true now or in the future, then creativity might be possible. I view this possibility with a certain dreadful fascination." - The Atlantic
