The Jeanne R. Johnson Education Center, opening next year in Dallas, is a joint project of the DSO and Tod Machover's Opera of the Future group at MIT's Media Lab. It will offer "STEAM-based learning activities that focus on dynamic music education" for grades 1-12. - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
In 2009, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution dropped its arts section altogether, and the region's cultural community was aghast. So a couple of the AJC's laid-off critics decided to launch ArtsATL to fill the gap. Despite one near-death experience, the site's now thriving — and even providing content to the AJC. - Musical America
"Around the country, in blue states as well as red, theater teachers say it has become increasingly difficult to find plays and musicals that will escape the kind of criticism that, they fear, could cost them their jobs or result in a cutback in funding." - The New York Times
In response to criticism on social media, the museum said in a statement, "While we can't speak about others considered for this post, (Amanda) Maples's breadth of experience and emphasis on sustained collaboration with artists and institutions in Africa and around the world set her apart from other candidates." - ARTnews
In a report in the Financial Times, three women employed in the Accra, Ghana office of Adjaye's firm accused him of sexual harassment, a toxic work culture, and even sexual assault. Adjaye admits to inappropriate personal involvement with employees but denies other charges. - ARTnews
Collective action by fans can create a sense of "belonging" within their community and lets them "express their identity". "However, I think something is changing more recently and we're seeing more isolated, disruptive, individual physical acts such as throwing items." - BBC
The music of today has grown up on the internet rather than adapting to it. Instead of using the infinite archive to show superior, selective taste, it takes influence with ambivalent abandon. - The Smart Set
In the latest bout of singers being pelted by concert fans, the country star Kelsea Ballerini was hit in the face by a bracelet thrown by someone in the audience at her Wednesday night show in Boise, Idaho. - Los Angeles Times
The film, reportedly budgeted north of $250 million, came in on the lower end of projections with $60 million in ticket sales from 4,600 North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. - Baltimore Sun
The ideal of nature as it used to be before human intervention and before we introduced what we now call “invasive species” is one that Western urbanites created in the late nineteenth century, chiefly as a foil for their own modernity. - The New Atlantis
The music industry is at a tipping point. There is still time for the creators and businesses within it to help shape what comes next, but that window of opportunity is both small, and closing. - Music Industry Blog
I was part of an Australian research team that wanted to understand how Google and Meta were able to have such different responses to the code. We examined policy documents and interviewed news media executives about their experience of negotiating with the platforms. What we found wasn’t all good news for journalism. - The Conversation
“I wanted to continue the way that Arthur Mitchell had started Dance Theatre of Harlem, and show how diverse ballet could be as an art form, how many different kinds of things it could say, and how many different ways it could say it." - Harper's Bazaar
Who knew that a scene in Barbie would tank the bright pink event in Southeast Asia? But "the film contains a scene that depicts a map with the 'nine dash line,' a representation of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea, which Vietnam says violates its sovereignty." - Variety
This phenomenon is because, well, the podcasts about The Bachelor are better than The Bachelor (and other shows), basically. Or in host language, "The recap podcasts are kind of the spice on an otherwise not very well-seasoned fish, which is the franchise." - Time
