Twenty thousand finishers of the marathon are set to receive a medal reading, "There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met yet." - LitHub
It's not all selfies: "People are still engaging, if only for a moment, with what’s hung on the wall or placed in courtyards and parks." - Oregon ArtsWatch
She writes, "I want to be there to provide what writers do so well, which is a way to bring us together or help us make sense of the human experience." What that has to do with writers and actors on strike, no one knows (but the writers are picketing). - Vulture
Sable Elyse Smith:"The system itself is insistent. The fact that these things persist and keep developing and repeating themselves, kind of replicating the next generation." - Los Angeles Times
Instead, "they have become classics, cornerstones of the international repertory, ... danced everywhere by all the major ballet companies and most of the minor ones, too." - The New York Times
She writes them in longhand - twice, the second draft without referring to the first draft - and sometimes in iambic pentameter "just for fun." - The New York Times
It's OK to paint a short wall, or install work at mouse-height. But the insurance "carve-outs would effectively prevent artists doing public art and mural projects or installing their own work in galleries." - The Guardian (Australian Associated Press)
The Taco Bell Quarterly editor's thoughts: Taco Bell's advertising and image is "all sort of unhinged. ... So I knew that would fit in well with the creative writing community." - Slate
Photographer and activist Carrie Mae Weems and George C. Wolfe, director and producer, discuss what the "responsibility to invade" institutions looks like, three years after the death of George Floyd. - The New York Times
