Having gotten $69 million for the digital artwork that started NFT madness (which he predicted would be a bubble), the artist formally named Mike Winkelmann has set up a workshop where he's making physical sculpture as well as stuff for screens and generally getting serious about art. - New York Magazine
Writer’s block is a luxury she can’t afford, which is why as soon as she heard about an artificial intelligence tool designed to break through it, she started beseeching its developers on Twitter for access to the beta test. The tool was called Sudowrite. - The Verge
Inside the 602-seat venue, called @sohoplace, "sophisticated acoustic design means there is no need for mics or bellowing onstage – and most impressively, no noise from the nearby transport network. ... Although the opening production will be staged in the round, the space is flexible enough to accommodate several configurations." - The Guardian
Today it's different: The culture of personalities has taken over in all fields, with social media and all this. So I feel that today, when there is so much more equality — and of course, there still could be and should be more — we could finally speak about music. - NPR
Specifically, logopenic primary progressive aphasia, a form of Alzheimer's disease described thus by one of Durang's medical specialists: "instead of starting in the memory parts of the brain, it's starting in the language parts of the brain." His long-term memory and executive function are, so far, unaffected. - Broadway News
"The answer lies in the expectations that Austen fans, a particularly passionate and opinionated crowd, bring to her work. The problem isn't that (the new, much-criticized Persuasion) takes liberties — every iteration does; that's practically the point — but what sort of liberties those are." - The New York Times
"Because every hard-of-hearing person has a different history with music, and because every brain is different, how an individual's vibrotactile sense may fill in for the loss of hearing will vary. Either way, vibration communicated through touch offers a wealth of musical subtlety that researchers are now quantifying." - Nautilus
"It is a game you can train for, one you can become tremendously skilled at, but that skill and work is such a basic requirement that it may as well not matter. People don't win by being good at it, they win by being able to foot the bill." - Van
"Eric Ting is leaving his position as artistic director of California Shakespeare Theater, the company announced Wednesday, July 20, bringing to an end a dynamic, artistically vibrant seven-year tenure that has given the Bay Area some of its finest theater in recent memory." - San Francisco Chronicle
"Around 100 employees and additional supporters (were) marching in front of the company's corporate headquarters in Manhattan in the sticky heat for higher wages, better family leave benefits and a stronger commitment to diversity from the company." - The New York Times
211 large-scale cultural infrastructure projects were completed in 2021 - $11.2 billion – the highest annual volume and value of completed projects since 2016 (and by some margin). Last year only 104 projects were completed with a value of $5.7 billion. - AEA
Plantation workers there earn twenty or thirty dollars a month; as artists, they make much more. The collective has brought in more than a hundred thousand dollars since its creation, and it has had shows in cities including Berlin, Warsaw, Amsterdam, Tokyo, New York, Copenhagen, and Jeddah. - The New Yorker
The tension reflects the paragraph’s curious history as a punctuation mark and unit of thought. In fact, what is a paragraph? only gets more complicated as we gaze further and further into the past, as the paragraph gradually dwindles to a thin line in the margins. - Hedgehog Review
After 1945 a new form of artistic patronage arose, reflecting the rise of that icon of midcentury capitalism, the American corporation, and creating a new genre: what Alex J. Taylor calls “corporate modernism.” - The Wall Street Journal
The lions were removed for their spa treatment on June 14, having been outside for 128 years, Art Institute objects conservator Rachel Sabino told the Tribune at the time. It was their “first deep cleaning in decades,” Sabino said. - Chicago Tribune (MSN)
