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
Her breakthrough was 1981's Painting Churches, which won an Obie and, after its 1983 Broadway transfer, became a Pulitzer finalist. Also a Pulitzer finalist was the late-1990s production of Pride's Crossing at San Diego's Old Globe and Lincoln Center. In 1987, her Coastal Disturbances was nominated for three Tony Awards. - Deadline
"Nearly a year after a ceremonial groundbreaking for (the company's) new headquarters on North Broad Street, no actual ground has been broken and construction has yet to begin. The project has been set back by various factors pertaining to financing (and supply chains), the ballet says." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Artscape, which manages over a dozen buildings in the city that include both homes for artists to own or rent and studio spaces for them to work, sent an email to artists in its spaces Monday sharing the news that attempts to resolve increasing financial challenges were not successful." - CBC
