Like the Delta blues or Yellowstone National Park, baseball is as indelibly American as it is painfully uncommercial. Left to fend for itself, the game will eventually disappear. The New York Times
"(They're) two celebrated dance artists with different styles, temperaments and cultural backgrounds. What they have in common is willingness — hunger, really — to take on weighty issues. Otake has been illuminating the environmental damage caused by nuclear accidents. Jones is intimately connected to the struggle against racism." - The New York Times
Moving away from “literal sensibilities” for logo choices, Opara tells It’s Nice That, the team went for a more symbolic direction, developing a morphing “M” which fluctuates in shape, texture and colour to reflect the transformative basis of Mellon’s work. - It's Nice That
A charter member of the Actors Studio, from the 1940s through the '90s he appeared in dozens of plays and films (ranging from Some Like It Hot to Yentl) and hundreds of TV episodes, with a specialty in variously ethnic gangsters and outlaws. - MSN (The Washington Post)
After successfully leading Scottish Opera, the Manchester International Festival, the Holland Festival, and the cultural program at the 2012 London Olympics, her firing from the Châtelet was (and remains) somewhat mysterious. She now takes over as director of Australia's Adelaide Festival through 2026. - The Age (Melbourne)
"On the auction block was a paper receipt for a 'Zone de sensibilité picturale immatérielle,' or a 'zone of empty space,' a 1959 conceptual creation. … Klein sold several such invisible 'zones' — each instantiated by a receipt — between 1959 and his death in 1962, accepting only pure gold as payment." - Artnet
From the Horatio Alger stories which launched the genre to memoirs by billionaires and even to Fifty Shades of Grey and other "billionaire romance" books (an actual category at Amazon), rags-to-riches narratives demonstrate that financial success is not, in fact, due to hard work alone. - The New York Times Magazine
WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had been removed from its websites because of plagiarized passages. Now Floyd says she's suing WNYC for racial, sex and age discrimination as well as defamation. - Columbia Journalism Review
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television station. … If the contract is approved, workers could be back on the job by Friday." - Robert Feder
The artworks, which belong to prominent Russian museums including the Hermitage and Tretyakov, were being returned from exhibitions in Italy and Japan. Finnish customs says it does not dispute Russia's ownership of the art and will keep it only for the duration of the sanctions. - Artnet
Wealthy Russian businessmen, many of whom are now sanctioned, have donated between $372 million and $435 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the US in the last two decades. The findings are laid out in a database created in 2020. - Hyperallergic
For certain kinds of tasks—playing chess, detecting tumors—artificial intelligence can rival or surpass human thinking. But the broader world presents endless unforeseen circumstances, and there A.I. often stumbles. - The New Yorker
Theaters and art venues appeared to be one of the most fragile institutions with the war. Most of them stopped functioning and closed up with the first sound of the sirens. Many actors joined in territorial defense, some went into the army, many are volunteering. Almost all theaters ceased to exist. - Arts Fuse
By his count, it is actually 37 more languages, with at least 24 he speaks well enough to carry on lengthy conversations. He can read and write in eight alphabets and scripts. He can tell stories in Italian and Finnish and American Sign Language. - Washington Post
