"Given how he’s become an exalted landmark on the high road of culture, it’s easy to forget that there’s always been a secret smugglers’ path to a more salacious and subversive Shakespeare, one well known and beloved by artists and theater people." - The New York Times
At the Met Museum, 68 Pueblo potters and cultural leaders organized a new exhibit. "The objects were all selected by members of the Pueblo Pottery Collective and the labels highlight Pueblo peoples’ voices and perspectives, rather than the traditional museum label style." - The New York Times
Lisa Edelstein "recently was paid 97 cents in residuals for the two episodes of Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce which she wrote and starred in." Ninety. Seven. Cents. - Variety
"For centuries, and no matter how much it has changed, Europe, for us, has meant art and architecture, science and philosophy, fashion and fame, sex and perfume — and some connection to the past." - The New York Times
The state of Florida under Ron DeSantis certainly has come to resemble a parody of itself, and, well: "Students in a Florida school district will be reading only excerpts from William Shakespeare's plays for class rather than the full texts under redesigned curriculum guides." - NPR
For instance, there's the Wild Boar, or the Crystal Palace dinosaurs: "Scientifically, they’re wildly inaccurate. But in every other way, they’re perfect: endlessly surprising, vividly alive; an enduring memorial to our Victorian ancestors’ hunger for knowledge." - The Observer (UK)
Perhaps it's time to revive the film of the stage version? But early on, "there was good reason to think that a film version could be viable, at least before the bottom fell out for movie musicals around the end of the 1960s." - Variety
Memes are a form of currency that go far, far beyond the original spark. And though Last Voyage of the Demeter might as well not be in theatres at all, at least we can all enjoy multiple levels of Dracula memes. - Vulture
"'She was a special person and merited a special send-off,' said Patrizia Mosca, a newly retired civil servant who said that she didn’t typically attend public funerals — 'not even for the popes.' But Ms. Murgia was different." - The New York Times
"Critics say the MPA has long held a double standard against movies with LGBTQ characters, slapping them with higher ratings than movies featuring heterosexual characters this further stigmatizes people from queer communities by making it more difficult to access films that depict their lives." - CBC
"It feels as if one whole wing of digital media is devoted to avenging the frustration felt by future content creators in their bored secondary-school years." - Irish Times
Many viewers are, while not thrilled that their favorite actors, writers, and designers are out of work, relieved to have some time "to catch up after the breakneck pace of the so-called Peak TV era, when dozens of shows were premiering each month." - The New York Times
Maurice Tabard, once the assistant to Man Ray, helped discover "many of the techniques that became associated with the movement – solarisation, multiple exposures, the burning of negatives, all of which were designed to bring chance and free association into photographic practice." - The Guardian (UK)
Matthew Mercer has some ideas - and a commitment to storytelling in the fantasy realm. "Critical Role is a miraculous success, with 2 million YouTube subscribers and an additional 1.3 million followers on Twitch." - Slate
