Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting to assign conspiratorial meaning to the tiled global map, set beneath arching train tracks and titanium poles, have racked up more than 1.5 million views. - The New York Times
That a collection is as well versed in Rechy as it is in Dudamel tells you a lot about the writer, as well as about the time and place in which he was writing. - LA Review of Books
“We have a bunch of A.I.s that are creating a bunch of entertainment that people are kind of OK with.” In their attempts to push back, the writers have what a lot of other white-collar workers don’t: a labor union. - The New York Times
But you probably will. "Contentious labor talks in Hollywood are rarely settled without the pressure of a contract expiration deadline bearing down. The stakes and the tension feel especially heightened this time around." - Variety
"Noh Huyn-soo was filmed brazenly removing the banana, which was duct-taped on to a wall at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, unpeeling it and eating it in front of stunned onlookers before reattaching the banana skin to the wall using the same tape." - The Guardian (UK)
"Multiple people who attended the L.A. Phil concert on Friday reported hearing a woman making a moaning noise during the symphony’s second movement." - Los Angeles Times
"It’s the first topic that comes up in every meeting, every phone call, and everyone claims to have their own inside source about how long a strike will go on and whether the directors and actors will also go out, which would truly be a disaster." - The New York Times
The cartoon depicted Richard Sharp, "who is Jewish, with exaggerated features and carrying a puppet of Rishi Sunak. One Jewish group said it 'falls squarely into an antisemitic tradition.'" - BBC
"For years, it seemed like the piano was disappearing from British public life. The bulky instruments were cast out of homes and schools and offered for free online. But now ... the piano seems to be making a 21st-century comeback in homes, on streets and online." - The Observer (UK)
One explanation: "In addition to being a woman and a woman of color, she was considered a craft artist operating on the fringes of the art scene." - The New York Times
"Investors are no longer sure streaming is a great business; the streamers are searching desperately for new ways to make money. The golden age of high-flying, big-spending streaming seems to be over." - The Verge
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, whose new novel incorporates a lot of trademarks in prisons: "Once you go into that for-profit model and also think about the slave labor that the incarcerated people in our country are doing ... there's so much profit existing in the carceral space." - NPR
Bel Powley, who's playing Miep Gies, the woman who hid Anne Frank's family: "I’d shied away from second world war stories – because it’s always all about men. ... So another thing that excited me about A Small Light was it’s completely told from a woman’s perspective." - The Observer (UK)
"When you’re portraying character, first of all, that’s an athlete. Also portraying a character that has to be half naked on stage for certain moments in the performance, you go about it differently on your day." - Slate
"I learned from my theater community that Sondheim was the goal, and that if you get the opportunity to do Sondheim, you take it, no matter what time and space and place it is." - Los Angeles Times
