How long does academic work take? How long should it take? Even more troubling, who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for an academic today? - Sydney Review of Books
It's all in the program's name: PORT, or Peer Organized Reciprocal Touring. Says one of the founders, "It's pretty simple. ... Org A hosts org B in their hometown, and after a period of time the roles are reversed." - Dance Magazine
Classic FM’s audience has hit a record low, falling under 5 million listeners for the first time with over half a million people switching off since the start of the pandemic. - David Taylor
Among the causes for which Hubert Parry's stirring setting of William Blake's poem has been enlisted (or co-opted): wartime patriotism, women's suffrage, English nationalism, the post-World War II welfare state, imperial nostalgia, mocking satire, marketing the film Chariots of Fire, the Falklands War, anti-Thatcher leftism, and 21st-century Kulturkampf. - History Today
The $50 Million gift represents one of the Tsai family’s biggest ventures so far into the performing arts. Joseph Tsai, who trained as a lawyer and serves as vice chairman of Alibaba, is more frequently associated with athletics. He is the primary owner of the Brooklyn Nets. - The New York Times
Said one of them, "This is about a legacy white employee who was in danger of losing her job for performance reasons, so she cynically appropriated the language of diversity and inclusion to try and hold onto that job — which if she lost it might have actually gone to a person of color." - Gawker
"At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how to frame queer history, and they have come to different conclusions about how these radical movements of marginalized people should be institutionalized." - The New York Times
"What matters now is whether this community can rebuild itself with fewer takedowns and more inclusion, less intramural finger-pointing and more outward-facing togetherness. Above all, end the canard that you can only reform an organization by ripping it apart, at least until it offers you a paycheck." - MSN (Chicago Tribune)
A Los Angeles judge affirmed an arbitrator's award of damages to the producers of the series: after Spacey was fired for sexual harassment on set, the entire sixth season had to be rewritten and reshot, with the number of episodes reduced from 13 to eight in order to meet deadlines. - Variety
"The arbitrator ruled that writers on original Netflix productions should be paid on the same level as the licensing fees the streamer pays for third-party titles, ... meaning that 216 writers for (140) films will receive $42 million in unpaid residuals." - The Wrap
The "Boboli 2030" project will include new amenities for visitors, gallery infrastructure, shoring up the landscaping against climate change, and conservation/restoration of the original structures and sculptures. Director Eike Schmidt said the goal is to make the Boboli Gardens "the finest outdoor museum in the world." - The Art Newspaper
New local laws that limit Airbnb-style short-term rentals and encourage students to keep their apartments over the summer are good for the city's permanent residents, but prices for temporary accommodations in August have soared as a result — high enough that the Fringe festival could become unviable. - The Guardian
The song Heated will have ableist language removed from it, while the song Energy will be rerecorded without one of the samples on which it is built. - The Conversation
In this future, people are citizens, rather than subjects or consumers. With this identity, it becomes easier to see that all of us are smarter than any of us. And that the strategy for navigating difficult times is to tap into the diverse ideas, energy and resources of everyone. - BBC
Today, critics can almost take for granted that we have emotional relationships with literary works—notably, ones of attachment. But if the literary work is “an object of the affections,” does it love critics back?4 Do critics rely on such a fiction? - Public Books
