The Metropolitan Museum of Art, apparently no longer content with just being America’s largest and most famous art institution, has a rapidly growing licensing strategy to help it move into even more homes and the daily lives of people around the world. - ARTnews
Activists with the British group Just Stop Oil, which started the climate-protesting art-vandalism trend, disrupted a West End performance of Les Misérables during (of course) the anthem "Do You Hear The People Sing?" Then they padlocked themselves to the scenery and the performance was ended. - BBC
"But the opera, with music by Jake Heggie and a libretto by Terrence McNally, had never been performed in a prison until last week at Sing Sing, which is home to more than 1,400 inmates." - The New York Times
On Monday, the Latino Theater Company announced $9 million in grants to 52 Latino theaters in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Santa Fe, N.M., Denver, Providence, R.I., and St. Paul, Minn. - Los Angeles Times
"The arts and culture sector has long been able to hire administrative staff at below market rates on account of their employees’ passion for the art form. Well, the pandemic has changed that, and the sector is experiencing some severe growing pains." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Pritzker-winning architect at one point said that the troubled project led him to decide never to work in the US again. In fact, there were factors Zumthor had failed to anticipate (such as the site being on a bed of tar in an earthquake zone). - The New York Times
For more than two decades after Ukraine's independence, Russian-language titles accounted for more than four-fifths of the country's book market. That began to change after Russia's 2014 invasion of Crimea and the Donbas, and since 2022, even most of the native Russophone authors in Ukraine have switched to Ukrainian. - The Guardian
The assault took place in 1995 after a business dinner between the producer and the actress. She is suing CAA, then her agency, for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty, and Miramax (Weinstein's company) and Disney (which owned Miramax at the time) for negligent supervision and retention." - Variety
"'Yesterday afternoon, a tragic event occurred at The Courtauld Gallery premises that led to a fatality,' the museum said in a statement on Tuesday. 'The police are not treating the event as suspicious.' … Additional information about the incident has not been released. The gallery is expected to be closed through Friday." - ARTnews
The DG recording of Nielsen's 4th and 5th with the Danish National Symphony also took the Orchestral award; among other winners are the London Philharmonic in Tippett's Midsummer Marriage (Opera), Krystian Zimerman playing Szymanowski piano works, and mezzo Helen Charlston's ‘Battle Cry: She Speaks’ (Concept Album). - Gramophone
The committee awarded the 11 million Swedish kronor ($1 million) prize for the 64-year-old Norwegian writer's "innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable." - AP
Black country singers and journalists are being called racial slurs by fans and openly LGBTQ+ performers are having to back out of performances. - The Guardian
The fellowship is “intended to encourage people of outstanding talent to pursue their own creative, intellectual and professional inclinations,” and comes with a $800,000 stipend, according to the foundation’s website. - The New York Times
The reasons vary, but more writers are dropping speech marks to explore distances between readers and narrators and even to eliminate hierarchies. - The Walrus
