The Hong Kong Arts Development Council confirms that it withdrew HK$1 million ($127,000 US) from the projects, but it won't say what those projects are or why exactly they're being sanctioned. The council also modified its rules to withhold grants for projects it deems anti-government. - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Free thinkers and sceptics, they imagine themselves as emancipated from imprisoning beliefs. Yet most of what they, and you, know comes not from direct experience or through figuring it out for oneself, but from unknown others. - 3 Quarks Daily
Change Your Mind, by the collective Say Nothing and Leave, "fashions a psychological experiment. ... Answer some questions, take a 'pill' that looks suspiciously like a common candy, don some goggles and headphones, undergo a procedure, and poof! You can 'delete' the most noxious aspects of your personality." - San Francisco Chronicle
In the growing sector of the contemporary art world which focuses on environmental issues, participants in the art (artists, critics, and the general audience) disagree on the intention of each work of art: does it merit only aesthetic praise, or is it a successful work of climate activism? - 3 Quarks Daily
"Today, 16mm is no longer optimal for the amateur. Analog film is expensive, fewer labs can process it, and it doesn't allow the (flexibility) that video does. But even as it turns 100, 16mm still has a unique look that neither 35mm film nor video can rival." - The New York Times
"Duty managers are also equipped with bodycams, which – along with the training – often helps to lower the temperature when customer interactions become heated." - The Stage
"In a five-year renovation, Het Loo" — the hunting lodge built by King William III to rival Louis XIV's Versailles — "has been lifted several millimetres, its courtyard dug and drained 10 metres deep, and a new concrete basin poured in to provide another 5,000 m2 of exhibition space." - The Guardian
In 2004, the longtime ABT star was personally invited by President Saakashvili to direct the State Ballet of Georgia, which had fallen into late-Soviet and post-Soviet decay. Now she's leading a troupe full of dancers she trained herself on an international tour. - The New York Times
"(His) cartoons were an unmistakable fixture in The New Yorker and other magazines for more than 60 years. … He considered his work a form of doodling sociology. He was especially interested in people who were irony deficient." - MSN (The Washington Post)
"We value small businesses, yet we give too much of our business to the large and the powerful," says the award-winning author, "and often, increasingly, we have hardly any choice. … (I don't) believe corporations should have as much control over our lives as they do." - The Guardian
"The owners of 54 Below, a popular forum for both Broadway stars and rising performers and composers, say they intend to raise close to 20 percent of an annual budget approaching $10 million from supporters ... to offer discounted tickets and subsidize artists' production costs (and) livestreaming." - The New York Times
"The DVD service, which still delivers films and TV shows in the red-and-white envelopes that once served as Netflix’s emblem, plans to mail its final discs on Sept. 29, … ending an era that began a quarter century ago when delivering discs through the mail was considered a revolutionary concept." - AP
Effective immediately, Alexander Shelley, a 43-year-old native Londoner who's also Principal Associate Conductor of that city's Royal Philharmonic, has been appointed artistic and music director of the Naples Philharmonic and Artis—Naples. He succeeds Andrey Boreyko, who stepped down last summer. - Naples (Fla.) Daily News
My findings suggest that girls are internalising and aspiring to the beauty ideals that they are consuming via social media. There is a pressure to adopt a polished, physical appearance through filters, which may have emotional repercussions. - The Conversation
A projection system, true to its name, projects images onto the big screen. An LED wall is akin to a sophisticated, massive TV screen, and its use would render the projection booth a thing of the past. - The Hollywood Reporter
