Cool, but why the heck? "Guédelon is an example of experimental archaeology — which is a way to research how people did things in the past by trying to imitate them. It's about 'building to discover.'" - NPR
It was 1955, and he and a buddy were soaked to the skin when a couple sheltered, dried, and fed them. He later sent them a ceramic depiction of their black and white cat. - BBC
Native artists and others were protesting a "colonizer" statue in New Mexico when a 23-year-old wearing a MAGA hat shot and injured artist and climate activist Jacob Johns, Hopi and Akimel O’odham. - Hyperallergic
Perez's "minimalist but wildly experimental work, marked by spare, precise movements, helped ignite a budding Los Angeles dance scene after he moved west from New York." - Los Angeles Times
After earning her doctorate in music composition, she wrote "more than a hundred compositions in a seven-decade career, including seven operas, many orchestral works and a large body of chamber music." - The New York Times
"Creative Scotland will use National Lottery funding reserves to plug the gap, but said the moment was a 'tipping point' for an already fragile sector." - BBC
He's 90. One of his costars (John Standing) is 89; the other (Glenda Jackson) has died. "No wonder tempted them from retirement: meaty roles dry up as you approach 100." - The Guardian (UK)
"The debate over the series is growing increasingly heated as it becomes a surprising transatlantic export from the more traditionally buttoned-up Brits." - Washington Post
Twelve hundred things, to be precise, including Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood and a poem by Cranogwen, the first woman to win a Welsh national poetry prize. - BBC
