“The Gallery has been focused on bringing our IT systems back online,” the email read. “The Gallery has continued to be open to the public and our on-site membership, ticketing and Boutique systems are now functional.” - Ottawa Citizen
Last summer, Emmanuel Christian Center bought a 1901 church so dilapidated that the pastor decided on a gut renovation and sold all the furnishings to an architectural salvager. He took the windows to the city's Freeman Auction House to be assessed — and got quite a surprise. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
“Lacking regulation, the construction spurt has been like sprinting blindfolded, outstripping public consensus and leading to a breakdown in cultural thought and design.” - Bloomberg
Isaac Butler gives a hearty smackdown to the "anti-Stratfordians" he calls "Shakespeare Truthers," pointing out how they use the same techniques that 9/11 Truthers, Obama Birthers, anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy theorists use to wave away actual evidence and rationalize their own lack of it. - Slate
"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
