Once venues for younger children that provided rainy-day entertainment through exhibits and a scattering of hands-on activities, they’re expanding their scope by offering a breadth of learning and support for a broader age group. - The New York Times
The former Cincinnati mayor, who once said that he didn't mind being called the "grandfather of trash TV," hosted a "tabloid talk show known for outrageous arguments, thrown chairs and physical confrontations between sparring couples and homewreckers." - CNN
In the pre-#MeToo era, when we had yet to shift from feminism’s third wave into its fourth, it was easy—even forgivable—to miss what Tindall left hidden in plain sight. - Van
"Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a 'language game'. ... t is a place to play with words, and that is the entire point of the gathering: to think aloud under pressure and work out arguments in ensemble." - The Nation
Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be paid better; limited tenures for programming and casting directors keep companies from falling back on the same playwrights and actors; and so on. - San Francisco Chronicle
A decree has declared the traditional king of the region where the artworks were made, the Oba of Benin, their official owner. Now the museums and governments who'd been negotiating with Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments don't know whom they should be dealing with. - The Art Newspaper
The Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio "will be led by a Head of New Musical Theatre, who will commission, develop and produce new musicals in collaboration with creatives and partners." - WhatsOnStage (London)
To honor Kelly's 100th birthday, Jack Shear is dividing 146 works among 19 museums, with MoMA, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and SFMOMA getting 25 each. He's also giving $100,000 to those four and the Whitney and $50,000 grants to 45 other museums. - The New York Times
"Titled the 'Unlock Ticketing Markets Act,' the legislation aims to 'help restore competition to live event ticketing markets by empowering the Federal Trade Commission to prevent the use of excessively long multi-year exclusive contracts that lock out competitors, decrease incentives to innovate new services, and increase costs for fans.'" - Variety
Terry Gross isn't going anywhere; she remains as host and executive producer. Starting May 1, her on-air partner will be Tonya Mosley, a contributing interviewer for the show and former host of NPR's Here & Now, as well as creator/host of the podcast Truth Be Told. - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"You can imagine the challenges of getting the choir, the organ, the fanfare and the orchestra together. So yes, it's going to be very challenging, but potentially very exciting." - BBC
The 45-minute show from Edinburgh Castle, which began in 1982, usually attracts more than 250,000 spectators. Organisers said the world famous event would not run this summer as it had no sponsor. - BBC
“The governor got very angry over the position Disney took and he’s decided to retaliate against us, including the naming of a new board to oversee the property, in effect to seek to punish a company for its exercise of a constitutional right. And that just seems really wrong to me.” - The New York Times
There’s this huge sense of people claiming spaces and positions without truly investigating them. I’m trying to speak to this idea that art isn’t just art, but also the culture in which it’s situated. It’s completely changed because of this mass medium. - ARTnews
