Yeah, this is not great for domestic violence survivors. "We're seeing this proliferation of misinformation about a domestic violence trial. We're seeing people see entertainment in it." - CBC
"Cannes has strict rules around formal wear on the red carpet — black tie for men, evening gowns for women — but there are accommodations for traditional formal wear, such as Scottish kilts or Indian saris." Apparently, moccasins do not qualify. - CBC
The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from a pandemic where everything went virtual – only to reveal how much the physical and the actual matter. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
Pre-COVID, Boston’s arts organizations had a pragmatic approach—they prioritized ticket sales over experimentation. As a result, Boston’s arts sector produces fewer new works than its peer cities. Without new sources of funding, this innovation disparity will likely increase. - Commonwealth
How low has Putin driven Russian culture? Here are two indications. Thousands of scientists and other intellectuals along with hundreds of ballet dancers and other artists are leaving or trying to leave Russia, ashamed of Putin’s wars and immobilized by his repression. - Hedgehog Review
"It must be close to the Capitol, close enough to implicate and shame those inside it on a daily basis. ... After every mass shooting, turn on the lights and the microphones, and let no political leader who makes the symbolic pilgrimage escape speaking actual truth on the site." - MSN (The Washington Post)
As American arts workers watch and weep with envy, "Germany's new culture minister, Claudia Roth, has announced a 2022 budget of €2.3 billion ($2.4 billion). The figure is an increase of €148 million ($156 million), or 7 percent, over last year's budget." - Artnet
The people who coined the word, it seems, were the Word War II-era marketers at, of all companies, Alcoa. And through the 1980s and '90s, there were at least five books with "Imagineering" in the title. Here's the story of the word and how Disney co-opted it. - Tedium
"Interviews with more than a dozen museum professionals suggest that the Philadelphia History Museum ended up in (storage) far from the heart of the city because it was too diffuse, its vast collection too randomly accumulated, its many narratives unexplored, and its funding sparse and never assured." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Because the criminal case was overturned - though for reasons unrelated to Cosby's guilt or innocence - "the significance of Ms. Huth’s suit has risen in the minds of some of the many women who have accused Mr. Cosby of being a sexual predator." - The New York Times
Live Nation as a parent company did not directly receive any money from the program, but the government relief to its subsidiaries still protected its investments and improved its long-term outlook, however slightly. - Washington Post
Sunday's group was "carrying a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the festival was held. The group, dressed in black, also set off black smoke grenades as they paused on steps in front of the Palais des Festivals." - The Guardian (UK)
All that glitters is not pepperoni. It's not just advertisers competing with each other on Instagram, it's TikTok competing with Netflix competing with YouTube competing with LEGO Star Wars competing with ... a new Stranger Things pizza app? - Fast Company
Holland is the European Film Academy president. "The Polish-born director – who fled to France in 1981 when Communist authorities imposed martial law – said now was the time to stand up to Russian aggression in Ukraine." - Variety
