The historic theatre was hit "twice in the span of a single week — a repeat offense by the same suspect that reportedly resulted in $45,000 in damages to the near-century old venue." - San Francisco Chronicle
Indie bookstores are thriving. "During the lockdowns these small shops discovered how much they were valued by their customers; booksellers tell me about switching to mail order, doing deliveries by bike and on foot, setting up subscription schemes ... reinforcing personal relationships that have built up over years." - The Guardian (UK)
Yeah, never a good sign: "The city gave up its customary percent for art ordinance as part of its contract with the property’s developer, Hollywood Park." And now, as the developer seems to refuse to move forward with artists' projects? There's little recourse. - Los Angeles Times
A Nambé Pueblo scholar describes how book bans might affect Native peoples. "We are few in comparison to nearly all other groups. If read Native books and develop empathy for us ... their actions will be shaped by us" rather than by stereotypes. - Learning for Justice
Boyce is the first Black woman to represent the UK at the Biennale. The jury "commended Boyce for raising 'important questions of rehearsal' as opposed to perfectly tuned music" in her piece Feeling Her Way, which combines music, sculpture, collage, and video. - The Guardian (UK)
"The movie’s deep, sometimes unnervingly honest explorations of racism ― not to mention colorism, white supremacy, colonialism and displacement ― still feel groundbreaking 30 years later." - HuffPost
Kinder Album says, "Now I need to draw, I don’t have time to think, I need to express the feelings of the moment, because tomorrow something else will happen. Before the war, I had a lot of time. Now I don’t." - The Guardian (UK)
Why not, she says - there’s no reason not to work just as hard promoting your book as you did writing it. "The worst that can happen is you’ve spent a little energy on something that didn’t result in you being a bestseller." - Irish Times
Panah Panahi is the son of acclaimed, and officially stifled, filmmaker Jafar Panahi. "No matter how hard you try to be positive and go on fighting, we feel completely trapped. The only possible option is this dream, sometimes reality, of fleeing." - The New York Times
Critic Marty Hughley responds to an opinion piece by the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and he's fine with audiences quieting the heck down. For instance: "Why is the shushing rude, but the intrusive sound that precipitates it isn’t?" - Oregon ArtsWatch
For Alaskans whose people's languages are Yup'ik and Iñupiak, "the spelling bee gives students the opportunity to practice reading and writing a language they might only speak or hear." - Alaska Public Radio
If people want to be happier, there are research-backed ways to do it - including "Search for transcendent truths beyond your narrow day-to-day life," and "Be active mentally," which both sound like great motivations to make, and experience, art. - The Atlantic
And he wants it enough to launch a whole project, with Film Foundation, to show one each month for free. (Which, let's face it, is pretty amazing - classic films, or even anything before, say, 2015! - are ancient according to a lot of film fans today.) - IndieWire
