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
Children’s literature is definitely getting better at representation. Indeed, when I asked disabled friends and acquaintances to name their favourite disabled character, almost all of them highlighted books aimed at younger readers. - The Guardian
Although perhaps you might say that literary critics in a certain sense are custodians of the language. I think there has been a tradition, including people like Edward Said, Susan Sontag and Raymond Williams, who were not so much critics as they were moralists. - The Point
Using mass spectrometers and techniques from the field of molecular biology on residues from ancient containers, refuse, and even dental tartar, archaeologists and historians have been working to rediscover aromas ranging from myrrh to condiments to Cleopatra's perfume. - Artnet
"Perhaps (this) is why the campus lends itself so readily to satire; it's one of the few places contained yet familiar enough in which to stage a comedy of manners." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
A new Public Bodies Review Programme, announced by the ministry for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, will examine whether "arm's-length" funding bodies such as Arts Council England "should continue to deliver all of its functions." - The Art Newspaper
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which operates in the shadow of New York City. - KERA
