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How Strong Is Disney’s First Amendment Case Against DeSantis?

It looks like "Disney’s retaliation claim is a strong one because corporations have substantial rights to express their views under the 1st Amendment, just as individuals do, and DeSantis seems to have targeted the company for doing just that." - Los Angeles Times

We Need To Remember Not Just What We Listened To And Watched, But How

And that how is together. "The very idea of collectively tuning in to history as it happens has been altered, as the profusion of channels and platforms now funnels audience members into self-segregated affinity groups." - Nieman Lab

The Joys And Perils Of Staging Don Giovanni

The opera is a work "of slippery psychology, frank humanity and, crucially, crystalline construction that punishes any mistake onstage or in the orchestra pit." - The New York Times

When One Actor Ruins A Whole Show

David Choe's acting isn't bad. But "instead of being able to enjoy its cathartic portrayals of Asian American rage, I found myself disturbed every time Isaac appeared onscreen, wondering how much of the character’s aggression was a performance and how much of it was channeled from Choe’s documented misogynoir." - HuffPost

BBC Chair Who Had Improper Dealings With Boris Johnson Has Resigned

"The probe was set up after reports in the Sunday Times revealed Sharp, a close associate of Mr Johnson, had played some role in the PM's personal finances at the same time as he was seeking to secure the senior BBC job." - BBC

Principal Ousted In Michelangelo’s David Controversy Sees The Real Thing In Florence

"'There is nothing wrong with the human body in and of itself,' Carrasquilla said while visiting David on Friday, according to a statement from the museum. She likened the setting to a church, remarking on the 'purity' and 'humanness' of the sculpture." - Washington Post

Found In Manhattan: Manuscripts Likely Looted From A Greek Monastery During WWI

The manuscripts, dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, were probably lost in 1917 "when Bulgarian combatants are said to have plundered nearly 900 items from the Theotokos Eikosiphoinissa Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery, often called Kosinitza." - The New York Times

Why Rural Artist Residencies Are So Important

Residencies need funding to continue to exist - and not to charge the artists for their time - but "even when funding is available, residencies can be exclusionary simply because they require artists to take time away." - The Guardian (UK)

Flagship HMV Music To Reopen Its Shuttered Flagship Store In London

It said the return to 363 Oxford Street was due to a "dramatic turnaround", with HMV returning to profit in 2022. The store will have different branding and a new layout. - BBC

The Indigo Books Cyberattack Portends Many Bad Things

Indigo’s data breach is a nightmare for those affected, many of whom now live in fear their information will be made public at some point or used for an identity theft. Book publishers and distributors were also left scrambling to mitigate the consequences. - The Walrus

Clubhouse, Embraced By The Art World, Lays Off Staff, Tries To “Reset”

Clubhouse, the live audio app that once drew big buzz and interest in a multi-billion-dollar takeover, is “resetting” and letting go of 50% of its staff of a few dozen workers. - Deadline

Independent Film: An Alternative History Of Movie-Making

Instead of embodying the mainstream, twentieth-century independent filmmaking formed a crucial alternative to it—a virtual counter-history of cinema. A list of the best of these movies reveals the exclusions and suppressions that many of the prime artistic voices of filmmaking endured in the era of studio hegemony. - The New Yorker

New Trend: Fake Books As Decoration

While some people are going all in and covering entire walls in fake books, others are aghast at the thought that someone would think to decorate with a book that isn’t real. - The New York Times

Do Funders Not Trust Us?

Enter trust-based philanthropy—a type of support defined by mutuality, transparency, and unrestricted funding. This is a model that has gained popularity across the philanthropic sector, but it has yet to take hold in the arts. - Artnet

The Joys Of Berlinglish

An editor at Exberliner, the English-language monthly magazine for expats in Germany's capital, considers the quirky ways in which Deutsch and English mix in Berlin — and what it means to be a native speaker of the tongue everybody else uses as a second language. - The European Review of Books

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