The search results are full of ads. You can’t come up with the right string of words to get more useful results. The reviews, both on the retailer’s site and on third-party websites you’ve mostly never heard of, seem fake. - The Atlantic
Indigo says it can't process electronic payments, accept gift cards or deal with returns. But at one location in Toronto on Friday, the store was able to process credit and or debit transactions, but gift cards were still not operational. - CBC
It is hard to think of any human institution enduring for centuries of which it can seriously be said it was all good or all bad. If the British Empire was all bad, then it stands almost unique in the three millennia of recorded human barbarism. - Literary Review
As Inventor of the Future reveals, “Bucky” had a penchant for claiming sole authorship over projects within his orbit, even when they were largely realized through the diligent labor and intellectual rigor of others. - The Nation
possible. We’re not geared to it, because music is part of us—we get it so early in life that we’re not geared to something new. When I started “Silver Apples,” I began to make new metaphors for music, and I said, A piece of music is not a piece of music, it’s a record. - Van
Journalists don’t particularly like to hear it, but news stories make up only 2% to 3% of the average user’s News Feed on Facebook, and they are less engaging than friends-and-family content. People use Google to search for news, sure, but Google usually doesn’t put ads next to those search results. - NiemanLab
The Phare Circus, founded in 1994 by an art therapist, provides education and training for young people, many poor, and a livelihood for artists with a performing arts school in Battambang (Cambodia's second city) and a professional circus troupe in Siem Reap, near Angkor Wat. - The Christian Science Monitor
Call Me Dancer represents the strongest slice of the films on offer: works that engage the politics and economics of the dance world. These films often include talking as well as moving; they stretch the genre, the performers, even the audience. - Village Voice
Simone Young: "What does being a woman have to do with conducting? My tits don't get in the way. ... And it is maestro, not 'maestra'. But try just 'Simone', it's easier." (And by the way, "I found Tár fascinating ... but it's a work of fiction.") - The Guardian
Bacharach may have been a uniter, not a divider, but surely it’s easy to hear the complexity underneath that ease. The unpredictability and the equally wondrous rightness of so many of his key melodies are what keep them evergreen. - Chicago Tribune
"1. It is a truth universally acknowledged that democratic governments who produce National Cultural Policies sound decidedly naff. Sorry, but there's no escaping it. If they aim for the high ground, they come across as pretentious. If they focus on deliverables, they seem venal." - ArtsHub (Australia)
The program, which starts March 3, focuses on seven rising artists from around the country who were selected by Hirshhorn curators. Each week, the artists are commissioned to make a themed work — such as an exploration of gender — that is evaluated by Melissa Chiu, the Hirshhorn’s director. - The New York Times
Two weeks ago, following an alleged complaint from a visitor about art with a "destructive ideology." Russia's Ministry of Culture demanded that the Moscow museum bring its exhibitions "in line with spiritual and moral values." The ousted director, Zefira Tregulova, learned about her firing from the media. - MSN (The Washington Post)
Both Lahav Shani and Gustavo Dudamel are safe choices. Musicians and audiences feel comfortable with them. Unfortunately, challenging programs will probably be rare. - Van
At age 23, she and college pal Barbara Holdridge launched Caedmon Records with an LP of Dylan Thomas reading A Child's Christmas in Wales. The label went on to great success, recording writers reading their work and actors reading plays, creating the market for literature in audio. - MSN (The Washington Post)
