“As opposed to a traditional set, there are no luxury trailers for the stars, no furnished dressing rooms or green rooms for the execs. Each member of the crew, from production assistant to top-billed star, receives the same treatment. And things move fast — some actors shoot all their scenes in one day.” - TheWrap (Yahoo!)
“A week after boos rained down in a ceremony honoring Chicago’s top storefront theater companies, the Joseph Jefferson Awards — known as ‘the Jeffs’ — are facing backlash. … The looming questions underneath all of the recent blowback: Are the Jeff Awards broken? After over a half-century in operation, what purpose do they serve today?” - WBEZ (Chicago)
“In his time, many composers were preoccupied with structural rigor. His quietly sensual works were humanist, exploring the common yet profound experiences of distorted memory, wonder and loss. His influence on music has arguably outstripped that of his mentor, the great downtown philosopher-composer John Cage.” - The New York Times
The Eurovision Song Contest Asia 2026, with finals scheduled for November in Bangkok, has confirmed at least 10 countries as contestants: Thailand, South Korea, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan. More are expected to join in coming months. - AP
The Louvre is still no. 1, with the Vatican Museums a distant second; the National Museum in Seoul surpassed the British Museum to take third place. Attendance at some legacy institutions still hasn’t recovered from COVID, but some new museums are popular, and numbers keep growing in Asia and Latin America. - The Art Newspaper
"Known for the organic beauty, narrative drive and humor of his productions, (he) became the most famous ballet choreographer in Texas, and one of the most celebrated in the country, during almost three decades at the helm of Houston Ballet and later at Fort Worth-based Texas Ballet Theater.” - The Dallas Morning News (Yahoo!)
A portrait, currently on loan to the Institute, in a UK collection that has long been dismissed as a workshop copy of an almost identical painting by Rembrandt was, in fact, also painted by the Dutch master, according to a leading scholar. (Scholars at the Art Institute are not yet convinced.) - The Guardian
Four hooded thieves forced their way through a first floor door in the museum’s Villa of Masterpiece overnight between March 22 and 23, but the museum chose to keep the audacious heist a secret, the police spokesperson told CNN. - CNN
He's the voice of some of the genre's most famous MMCs: aka male main characters, aka the internet's favorite "book boyfriends." His deep, resonant voice makes fans swoon and provides fodder for memes. - NPR
“Our strong balance sheet and cash generation gives us the flexibility to repurchase shares, while preserving ample capacity to invest in our growth strategy, and reconfirming our commitment to maintaining our credit ratings and our dividend policy.” - Music Business Worldwide
By bringing this ancestral dance to Times Square’s glowing billboards, Jeffrey Gibson turns a space of mass consumption into one of visibility and spiritual invocation – what he describes as ‘an ancestral call for strength and healing for all Indigenous people’. - Aeon
What happens when something as intuitive as color gets the full industrial treatment? Turns out defining 'blue' requires lab coats, corporate committees, and aesthetic philosophers. Welcome to the bureaucracy of beauty. - The Wall Street Journal
Streaming's rebel phase is officially over. HBO Max's confused British debut—complete with licensing tangles, bundling mysteries, and consumer bewilderment—proves digital platforms have become everything they once promised to disrupt. — The Conversation
After seasons of pretty faces in period costumes, the Netflix hit discovers that meaningful representation requires more than just colorblind casting—it needs actual storylines that grapple with identity and belonging. — LitHub
Slow War Against the Nuclear State excavates the visual complicity between art and annihilation. These cultural archaeologists prove that the camera didn't just capture history—it helped make the bomb possible. Click, boom. - Hyperallergic
