"Jacksonville's Douglas Anderson School of the Arts has canceled performances of a play involving censorship and the first lesbian kiss in American theater, triggering a storm of social media debate." The county school administration described Indecent as "inappropriate for student cast members and student audiences." - The Florida Times-Union (Jacksonville)
Vandals in the crowd seriously damaged several paintings and sculptures and destroyed a couple of pieces entirely — this on top of the damage they caused to the landmark Oscar Niemeyer buildings themselves. - Artnet
"The Louvre in Paris, the world's most well-attended museum, will now limit the number of daily visitors to 30,000 'in order to facilitate a comfortable visit and ensure optimal working conditions for museum staff.' … Prior to the pandemic, the Louvre could welcome up to 45,000 visitors each day." - ARTnews
Following a three-month hiatus from conducting due to a neurological condition, Barenboim announced that he'll retire as general music director of the Berlin State Opera, whose stature he's credited with reviving following decades of Communist-era stagnation. - The Guardian
If you really dive into this thing, you’ll begin to learn how musicians hear, how they think, how they remember, how they forget, how they emulate, how they worship, how they fortify and defy their own tastes, how they communicate with one another, and, ultimately, how they experience the world. - Washington Post
For the nation’s viewers, I think, this juvenile practice communicates something unserious: Which beaming retinue can clap harder for its standard-bearer? - Washington Post
“We suffer from an overabundance of history not as a method of or analysis, but as anachronistic data points for the articulation of competing politics.” - The New York Times
The Globes have long had a reputation for booziness and irreverence. Will the revived ceremony still be seen as a less-staid alternative to the Academy Awards? Or will the Hollywood Foreign Press take the show more seriously? - The New York Times
Drawing on a rich tradition of comics that depict counterfactual and dystopian futures, this graphic novel breathes horrifying visual life into a world in which there was no peaceful transition of power in 2021. - The Conversation
We honor many protesters, past and present, who broke the law to advance a good cause. Suffragettes targeted great art in their struggle to obtain votes for women, and, unlike today’s eco-activists, deliberately slashed paintings. Today, however, we regard them as heroic feminist pioneers. - Project Syndicate
Data from millions of manuscripts show that, compared with the mid-twentieth century, research done in the 2000s was much more likely to incrementally push science forward than to veer off in a new direction and render previous work obsolete. Analysis of patents from 1976 to 2010 showed the same trend. - Nature
Together, the company’s first-ever female leadership team will strive to innovate in ways that keep it at the vanguard of forward-thinking arts organizations while maintaining a passion for ballet that’s as lively as the art form itself. - Nob Hill Gazette
With a country in flames across Poland’s eastern border, I traveled to Krakow last month to erase some of that distance. I wanted to see how art is conducted on the outskirts of a combat zone — what a war in progress and the miseries it ignites do to an artistic discipline that must exist vitally in the moment....
Why? "Film and TV sets can be stressful and dangerous places to work. The pandemic added a raft of anxieties as cast and crews returned to work to face rigorous safety protocols." And then there's intense pressure from the streaming boom. - Los Angeles Times
