"The most important story about why Americans have become sad and alienated and rude, I believe, is also the simplest: We inhabit a society in which people are no longer trained in how to treat others with kindness and consideration." - The Atlantic
"In general we get in trouble if we don't do it. I've heard that even Alvin himself at some point asked if we could take Revelations out. But they told him what the box office numbers looked like with Revelations and without, and that was a sobering moment." - The Guardian
Also known as content houses or TikTok mansions, collab houses are grotesquely lavish abodes where teens and early twentysomethings live and work together, trying to achieve viral fame on a variety of media platforms. - Harper's
Peter John Higgs is suspected to have operated for years without detection and to have spirited away uncategorised items from the museum’s collection before selling them on the e-commerce site eBay. - The Art Newspaper
Two professors who use them explain how the format — visual information via image as well as text, in a form (comics) that very few people find intimidating — can get complex concepts across even to people with math anxiety. - The Conversation
“The challenge has been to transfer it all. I’d say we’ve preserved at least 100 performances. And we’re certainly not done. We are well aware that it is a remarkable collection and a historic documentation of that period. That’s why it’s one of our high priorities.” - San Francisco Classical Voice
Here, for instance, is Justine Bateman: "I stress that this is an existential threat. And if they can do this with actors, they can do it with writers, directors, cinematographers — everyone. We'll be replaced with Frankenstein spoonfuls of our own work." Todd Spangler considers how serious that threat really is. - Variety
Julie Wilson's home-based business in suburban northern Virginia is "considered the ballroom dance industry's leading consignment and consignment-rental dress company. Competitive dancers come here from far and wide, as do the frocks. The abiding aesthetic is more is more: feathers, sequins, fringe, crystals." - MSN (The Washington Post)
His design work on restoration of two New York landmarks, the Statue of Liberty and the Woolworth Building, first brought him renown. He went on to do the Ritz in Paris, the Getty Center in L.A., and the homes of the rich and famous from Calvin Klein to Bill Gates. - Architectural Record
Besides the much-discussed problems facing most American theaters, and that leadership at many of the city's companies has changed virtually all at once, there's this: "what once were internal disputes, such as debates over hiring, programming and the allocation of scarce resources, (have spilled) over into the public sphere." - Chicago Tribune
"Representatives from Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam sent letters to the museum, via U.S. investigators, in May and June, saying the prized relics had no legal export permits to lawfully leave their countries. The museum, they said, did not respond." - The Denver Post
Yes, COVID lockdowns and all that time at home certainly played a part, writes Mary McNamara, but there are other factors at work, especially this long after things have reopened. She also has an idea or two for addressing the problem. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is the latest US institution to raise its admission fees to $30, making it one of the most expensive art museums in the country. … Other museums, like the Guggenheim, Whitney, and Philadelphia Museum of Art, have recently taken similar measures." - ARTnews
“The sheer volume of new artists, artworks, and platforms is growing. Think about the impact that YouTube had on a generation of viewers—it completely changed the business. I think we are seeing the beginning of something similar here. The volume of work we will be exposed to is just exploding.” - Artnet
