One gallerist said that "the tents were built over ground-level plywood rather than on above-ground risers, like one would see at other art fairs. Another gallerist ... alleged that the gallery walls weren’t flush with the floors either, calling the entire thing 'a recipe for disaster.'" - Hyperallergic
Not really. "The studios that now must figure out how to appease actors and writers are wildly different in size and have diverging priorities. They all say they want to resolve the strikes. But some are more willing than others to compromise." - The New York Times
"SAG-AFTRA has published guidelines for how influencers should operate during the strike, calling on them to not promote struck companies or content unless obligated to do so by an existing contract. Even an unpaid fan post about a studio project" is strongly discouraged. - Los Angeles Times
Looks like no one fully knows. "The actors hosting podcasts that recap the TV shows It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, One Tree Hill and Bones, for example, canceled or did special episodes this week," but similar ones continued just as scheduled. - The New York Times
"Netflix and all these other streaming services debuted in an environment where shareholders were encouraging them to spend money for growth. Interest rates were low. Borrowing money was cheap." That era is over, and the reckoning is here. - NPR
"Since February, the Manhattan DA, Alvin Bragg, has returned 29 antiquities from White collection’s to Greece, 12 to Turkey, four to Iraq, two to China and one to Yemen. collecting has been described as naive or careless." - The Guardian (UK)
Had Bennett listened to "outside noise instead of his gut, he would’ve missed out on his greatest hits, an enormous second life in his career, and a veritable collection of prolific collaborations." - Vulture
Portland is taking a huge pot of money from a regional arts council - as "the tri-county area is in the midst of developing a long-term strategy, called Our Creative Future, for regional arts: Presumably, that strategy-in-the-making will have to take a sharp turn." - Oregon ArtsWatch
"In the past few weeks, as the 'Barbenheimer' hype grew, so did the animosity between the guilds and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. ... With both sides entrenched and the strikes expected to continue into the fall," the mood in Hollywood is confused. - The New York Times
"Barbie has gone boom. The film was a gambit by Mattel to enter the filmmaking space, costing $145 million to produce, not to mention more spending for a ubiquitous marketing campaign." And then there's Oppenheimer. - Variety
"The earliest of Matthews’s Shakespeare workshops for fellow cast members was in 2001, for ... Romeo and Juliet in Los Angeles. He also held the classes for the Broadway production of To Kill a Mockingbird and has led them for the Actors Center in New York." - The New York Times
“We weren’t really trying to develop the world’s whitest paint. We wanted to help with climate change, and now it’s more of a crisis, and getting worse. We wanted to see if it was possible to help save energy while cooling down the Earth.” - Artnet
Over time “you get this tiered work force of prestige workers and lesser workers” — fewer officers, more grunts. The writers’ experience shows how destabilizing that change can be. - The New York Times
Arts leaders say the city is treating the needs of cultural institutions like paper cuts, when the issues they’re facing are more like bleeding, gaping wounds. - KERA
