Truly, says another indie bookstore in town, what were they thinking?! And on the venerable store's Instagram sort-of apology, the comments are, hm, not super favorable. - KATU (Portland)
“The Arts Council of Wales has called for statutory funding for the sector from the Welsh government, saying funding cuts could mean the sector does not exist in a decade.” - BBC
Riley’s “In C launched a maximal musical journey and one of the most remarkable in American music. If he was the father of Minimalism — or, more accurately, the affable uncle — he presented In C as a gift to the world, rather than a plan for action.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
Ms. Rachel is best known “for her enthusiastic and approachable ditties on key subjects, like potty training.” But recently, she’s been using her big YouTube platform to advocate, strongly, for child welfare in Gaza. - LitHub
His movie “had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war,” which ended up winning silver. - The Guardian (UK)
“Smoke was still billowing from the rooftop rotunda late on Saturday morning as crews used a drone to help tackle the blaze and crowds gathered on the street to watch and take photos” of the iconic round building. - BBC
Each of the brief snippets “will end with the words ‘If you hear something, free something,’ which is also the title of this ambitious public art project by the conceptual artist Chloë Bass.” - The New York Times
For instance, before the Rosetta Stone, scholars had assumed the symbols were ideographs or pictographs. Were they, in fact, phonetic symbols? Turned out that they can be both. And in which direction were they read? (Well, that depends.) And what about that quasi-cursive called hieratic script? - Artnet
The settlement allows Anthropic to avoid going to trial over claims that it violated copyrights by downloading millions of books without permission and storing digital copies of them. The company will not admit wrongdoing. - Washington Post
The landlord of the Bruns Amphitheater, where Cal Shakes performed from 1991 until it closed last year, is negotiating a 15-year lease with a new organization called Siesta Valley Amphitheater, which plans a “far more robust” slate of programming with concerts and film screenings as well as theater. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Work at cultural funding agencies in the United States—the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services —has been quietly picking up, after the administration of US President Donald Trump and its Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) slashed staff and cancelled grants. - The Art Newspaper
"To me, the greatest danger that Latin American literature foretells for higher education is the insidious way capitulation to authoritarians changes both individuals and institutions." - The Conversation
By 1937, the 16th-century portrait of King Herod’s stepdaughter with the head of John the Baptist was considered “unbearable for refined people,” so a Cologne gallerist separated Salome’s upper half to sell separately and returned the severed-head-on-a-plate to its previous owner. Now the restored bottom section and the top have been reunited. - Artnet
Scientist Ludwik Fleck is credited with first describing science as a cultural practice in the 1930s. Since then, understanding has continued to build that scientific knowledge is always consistent with the cultural norms of its time. - The Conversation
