"These days libraries are bustling community centers, where being at least somewhat noisy is the new normal, especially when kids are involved. As someone who led hundreds of circle times at my library, I can tell you there's no quiet way to do the Hokey Pokey." - MSN (The Washington Post)
A new play based on Annie Proulx's story (not the 2005 film adaptation), starring Lucas Hedges as Ennis and Mike Faist as Jack, is in previews in London. Playwright Ashley Robinson has framed the story as a memory play set 30 years after the relationship ends. - The New York Times
"The school will be known as the Harry W. Bass Jr. School of Arts, Humanities and Technology. The largesse of the Bass Foundation follows a wave of philanthropic endowments in recent years that have dramatically reshaped the Richardson campus of a university founded in 1969." - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
"The former 216-seat theater of about 8,500 square feet will be reimagined as a nearly 20,000-square-foot, 230-seat, multiuse theater with the same name and in the same location, with improved accessibility and technological features. It is expected to be finished in 2025." - MSN (The Boston Globe)
The 2023-24 season for the orchestra, founded to fill the void left by the now-closed San Antonio Symphony, will feature two performances of one program each month from September through June. Among the conductors on the roster, all guests, are Sarah Ioannides. Jeffrey Kahane, and Lina González-Granados. - San Antonio Report
"Although the museum previously announced a long-term shuttering, it was expected to begin this year and last only through 2027. ... During the closure, the Centre Pompidou will focus its efforts on planned satellites in Brussels and Jersey City, which are now slated to open in 2025 and 2026, respectively." - ARTnews
PST, as it is known, began in 2011 with the theme of Southern California art history and was reprised in 2017 to focus on Latino and Latin American art. The events will now take place every five years under a new rubric: “PST Art.” - The New York Times
Gross box office receipts across the European Union and the U.K. were up 70 percent in 2022 to $5.5 billion (€5.07 billion), with an additional 250 million tickets sold, bringing total attendance figures to 657 million. The return of the studio blockbusters were the main drivers of the theatrical resurgence. - The Hollywood Reporter
Today, as costs of living soar and working-class artists still wrestle with the remnants of the pandemic, the creative culture that has been our calling card is facing a crisis. - The Tennessean
Quality in art is an emergent property: it arises in the doing, in a dialogic dance between the artist and the work. As the work takes shape, it shows the artist what it wants to be. - Persuasion
Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying for fake papers or undeserved authorship. “Paper mills have made a fortune by basically attacking a system that has had no idea how to cope with this stuff." - Science
Users can press the Shazam button to identify a classical music song or search for music. Then, tapping the menu icon on the track page and selecting "Open in Classical" will send the piece to Apple Music Classical. - Apple Insider
"To Frédéric Jousset, our most irrational ideas can sometimes be our finest. That thinking has led the 52-year-old thrill-seeker ... to build a giant museum-boat, deploy a fleet of buses to bring 100,000 kids to the British Museum, and tour museum masterpieces around the country in a truck." - Artnet
Anne Midgette, the former longtime classical music critic at the Washington Post, declined an honorary doctorate from the higher education institution and withdrew as keynote speaker at the commencement ceremony on May 20. - The Plain Dealer
"The strands of medicine, consciousness expansion, intoxication, addiction, and crime were tightly entangled in fin-de-siècle Paris, where ether and chloroform circulated among bohemian demi-mondaines" such as Guy de Maupassant and Jean Lorrain, in whose works and lives the effects of the fumes were quite evident. - The Public Domain Review
