Stories

Or so this ballerina tells the adults taking her classes. - CBC

Christine Sun Kim "has become the very rare artist with a public platform that transcends the often insular art world." - The New York Times

How to handle, or how not to handle, memes about your movie: "The difference between the Morbius flop memes and the GentleMinions trend is that Sony mistook ironic fondness for the real thing." - Slate

When Dinnerstein was 27, "he traveled to Alabama with fellow artist Burton Silverman, a high school classmate, to chronicle the bus boycott in Montgomery." And they chronicled the living heck out of it, including prayer meetings and a trial of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Washington Post

In short, reading literary fiction seems to give readers a more complex worldview. - LitHub

Thomas Woodruff traded his career as an art professor for a full-time career as an artist. Like others who experienced the Great Resignation, he's found it freeing, even exhilirating. - The New York Times

Rogers posted a notice on its website Friday saying the outage was impacting both its wireless and home service customers and is also affecting phone and chat support. - Toronto Star

Many institutions have moved, or are on the verge of moving, significant portions of their collections off-site. Some are embarking on large-scale book de-accessioning projects, a process by which books are removed permanently from a collection. - The Walrus

"Though the exaggerated myths of early America often don't reflect reality, there are obscure lives whose remarkable stories go untold. From chases on the high seas, imprisonment in Egypt, and a (possible) personal connection to Franz Joseph Haydn, John Antes is one of these obscure figures." - Early Music America

While it might share a name with the historic Forbidden City institution, the $450 million Hong Kong museum is far from being a mere satellite branch of the Palace Museum in Beijing, which houses China’s Imperial Collection. - Artnet

There is often something compulsive about the act of writing, as if to cast out invasive thoughts. - The Paris Review

hat about the ways the museums are using the money they already have: Are they using it to effect positive change in the world—or are they adding to its problems? This is the question being asked by ​​Upstart Co-Lab, a New York-based nonprofit advocating for impact investing. - Artnet

The idea behind DanceLogic is that "both coding and dance use repetition and combination, so using dance as a hook to attract girls to the program could lead to an interest in coding." Saturday classes feature 80 minutes of dance class followed by an hour of programming lessons. - Chalkbeat Philadelphia

For nearly a year now, SF Symphony has operated without a CEO and has been without a chief financial officer since January — not a time for making major changes — and yet last week, apparently a reorganization of the administration began, involving a good number of layoffs. San Francisco Classical Voice

Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past or if this is the legitimising of sexism under the cover of irony and knowing humour. Is yesterday's humour today's abuse – or vice versa?" - The Guardian