In 1958, P. Lal, Anita Desai, and other Kolkata writers who gathered in a Sunday-morning adda (a long, often serious discussion, very typically Bengali) founded the publisher still known as Writers Workshop, dedicated to Indian writing in English, which gave a start to many authors now famous worldwide. - Literary Hub
"I find talking about the ridiculousness of the bans sometimes brings laughter, in the ways our people have learned to laugh to keep from crying. We do what we need to do: we resist, we inform, we amplify, we write.” - Harper's Bazaar
"Art dealer Robert Newland, who pleaded guilty last year to his role in a massive fraud scheme with imprisoned dealer Inigo Philbrick, has just filed bombshell new documents in a U.S. District Court ahead of his sentencing in New York next week." - Artnet
While Boal emphasizes that changes at PNB go beyond numbers, the numbers do reflect the company’s cultural shift. PNB’s current roster of 45 dancers (expanding to 47 in November) is now more than 50% Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). - Crosscut
The company's co-founders fled the Lukashenko regime in 2011, settling in London and leading clandestine rehearsals in Minsk via Skype. Now that the rest of the company has left Belarus, they're working out of Poland's national opera house with other exiled Belarusian and Ukrainian artists. - The New York Times
Already, many cord-cutters are piecing together their own bundle, subscribing to a mix of services including Netflix, Max and Hulu. The deal between Disney and Charter has made it clear that cable providers — which often provide broadband internet service — are eager to put together streaming bundles for them. - The New York Times
"Argentina's Federal Police shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person … during Tuesday's raids in the town of San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires." - AP
After 11 years under three successive leaders from overseas — Ethan Stiefel, Francesco Ventriglia, and Patricia Barker — and a certain amount of discord under the last two, the company has appointed Ty King-Wall, a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who was, for a decade, a principal at the Australian Ballet. - Stuff (New Zealand)
"For 19 years it has been called Sage (Gateshead) after a deal with its donor the Newcastle-based software company Sage. But the tech firm wants an arena and conference centre being built next door to be called the Sage in a £10m naming rights deal." - The Guardian
"New York City's pension funds and the state of Oregon took legal action on Tuesday against Fox Corporation, alleging in a lawsuit that the Fox News parent company failed shareholders by allowing the right-wing channel to recklessly spread lies about the 2020 election that opened it up to ... defamation cases." - CNN
The five recipients of the Japan Art Association's 15 million yen ($102,000) prize, conceived as a Nobel for the arts, are composer/trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, sculptor Olafur Eliasson, painter Vija Celmins, stage director Robert Wilson, and architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of last year's Pritzker Prize. - Finestre sull'Arte
The $300,000 quadrennial grant, like the MacArthur, can't be applied for, and candidates don't know they're being considered. Kantorow, now 26, is in illustrious company: among previous winners are Igor Levit, Kirill Gerstein, Piotr Anderszewski, and Leif Ove Andsnes. - The New York Times
The company's fourth general director, and the first to come from elsewhere (he had previously run Houston Grand Opera and Welsh National Opera), Freud will conclude his somewhat controversial tenure at the end of this season, two years before the expiration of his contract. - Chicago Sun-Times
The opera, symphony and several other organizations have new leadership. It's a changing of the guard familiar now in many American communities. - Oregon ArtsWatch
Concerns have been raised that artificial streaming - where devices run chosen tracks on loop - is hindering the music industry, with JP Morgan executives estimating as much as 10% of all streams are fake, according to the Financial Times. - BBC
