How do we weigh an artist’s accomplishment against his personal wickedness? “Do we believe genius gets special dispensation, a behavioral hall pass?” Should we draw clear distinctions between a transgressive work of art and behavioral transgressions? - The Atlantic
"I got the gig of a lifetime. There's no other way to describe it," says Richard Poole, who's been a member of the ensemble, playing small roles, for almost 25 years. - NPR
Noam Gagnon, who runs dance company Vision Impure, is premiering a solo work online at the Vancouver International Dance Festival. "My physicality is still pretty much the same," he says. "It's a little bit more textured and a little bit more colourful." - CBC
Boris Eldagsen says, "It was not about winning anything. ... I have been a photographer for 30 years before turning to AI and I’m very involved in the German scene in making workshops, lectures, and helping to draft up proposals for AI-related legislation." - Hyperallergic
That is to say, "the former Beatle debuts on two of Billboard’s dance charts with a new single titled 'Say Say Say'" - his first time on the dance charts in his entire career. - Forbes
"The class of 2023 are the children of “terror and the war on terror,' of credit crunch and austerity, too young to have known 'the brief period of hope' after the cold war – a funny way of saying they’re not always very funny." - The Guardian (UK)
The popular genre, derided and outcast from the movie theatres for a while, has made a return - but with different values, and often on streaming. ("Thirty-six new romcoms are coming out this year on film and streamed TV. That’s three a month!") - The Guardian (UK)
So are they Tubecasts? PodTube? Anyway, "more podcast listeners in the U.S. prefer to watch podcasts on YouTube than listen to audio-only version," and also, "people listening to podcasts on YouTube are more likely to be younger." No more "voice for radio" jokes. - Nieman Lab
"The strike authorization vote is meant to turn up the heat on companies such as Netflix and Walt Disney and convince them to raise the pay for writers, who say their compensation has suffered because of the streaming revolution." - Reuters
"Cutting off Americans’ access to one of their favorite sources of information and entertainment would be legally and constitutionally dubious. Worse still, it would be wrong on the merits." - The Atlantic
"The audience, which included Lin-Manuel Miranda, cheered not only the entrance of each principal performer, but also the first sightings of signature props, including the monkey music box and, of course, the chandelier." - The New York Times
Agents and publishers might quail, but "a good story conveys a sense of more going on in the background, more to be discovered. We choose to return to them because something in them—honesty, clearsighted wisdom, a sense of humor, surprising turns of phrase, depth of character—lingers, expands." - LitHub
The investigators "seized over 100 works from the Michèle Vasarely Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which houses pieces by the late artist Victor Vasarely and his son Jean-Pierre." The seizures are, depressingly, "just the latest in a long and bitter saga." - Hyperallergic
