"Dancers at a North Hollywood topless bar," Star Garden, "will become the only strippers in the United States to gain union recognition after the club's management withdrew challenges to their guild election, the union announced Tuesday. … The strippers join the ranks of the Actors' Equity Association." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"Pandora VII, which resulted in crackdowns across 14 European countries and was led by Spanish authorities, involved checks across airports, ports, border crossings, auction houses, museums, and private residences. The operational phase took between September 13 and 24, 2022." - Artnet
"PEN America, Penguin Random House, a group of authors, and a group of parents have filed a federal lawsuit against a Florida school district over the 'unconstitutional' removal of books from school libraries." - Publishers Weekly
"The law will prohibit downloads of TikTok in the state and fine any 'entity' — an app store or TikTok — $10,000 per day for each time someone accesses TikTok, 'is offered the ability' to access it, or downloads it. … Penalties would not apply to users." - AP
The Asante people's traditional monarch, "the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, who attended the Coronation of King Charles, later met the museum director (to discuss) works taken from the Asante palace in Kumasi during the war with the British of 1874." - BBC
"The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten (10th-century) parchment volume containing a nearly complete Hebrew Bible, was purchased … on behalf of the American Friends of ANU and donated to ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv." - AP
As the ice floe keeps shrinking, watching the cycle play out feels increasingly grim. Online, writers and editors trade condolences, often in lieu of being able to offer one another anything more concrete, like work opportunities. - The Walrus
As I’ve argued before, the habit of reducing the complexities of identity and culture to a matter of ownership is an artifact of our own property-rights-obsessed culture. We’ll do better to talk about “disrespect,” and disrespect isn’t the issue here. - The New York Times
It was the shuttering of an art space that served Santa Fe for over four decades. Five weeks later, with a board member-initiated fundraising campaign securing pledges and donations of over $300,000, CCA reopened in a purely cinematic capacity last Thursday, May 11. - Hyperallergic
He was one of the first who saw machines had something to offer to the artistic process. The artistic technique for which Warhol became best known treated the mechanical part of the process, the screen print, as a transformative element, even though it was technically “just” a recreation of something that already existed. - Tedium
The comparison for the Pompidou project is the Louvre Abu Dhabi. In that landmark 2007 deal, the UAE paid France €1 billion for a 30-year agreement that granted the new museum the priceless Louvre brand, as well as expertise and guidance on exhibitions and acquisitions, and, perhaps most crucially, art loans. - Art in America
Much of modern pop could be described as a hook-delivery device: ‘Bad Romance’ by Lady Gaga or ‘Shake It Off’ by Taylor Swift, for example, are packed full of musical moments that stand out to the listener and are easily remembered. - Psyche
The auditorium, carved out of a hillside in Syracuse on Sicily's southeastern coast, "seats 5,000. The stage is 27 metres wide and 44 deep; acting, direction and design are correspondingly epic. Yet ... psychological detail is still achievable even in this vast arena." - The Guardian
With a roster of 124 active shows, PRX has been a steady, albeit low-key, podcast publisher. It had nearly 6.6 million unique U.S. listeners to its podcasts during April with more than 58 million downloads, according to Podtrac. - Inside Radio
The great French actress wasn't the first to be famous solely for being famous (that phenomenon came later), but she was the first to consciously use the media to gain worldwide fame and the first to use that fame to get rich from ancillary self-branded business ventures. - Smithsonian Magazine
