"Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn't all look at them too closely, or for too long – but, if we don't look at them at all, I'm not sure what our writing is for." - Aeon
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the previous week. Attendance was 225,256, a tiny 1% drop. Average ticket price for all shows was $125.77. - Deadline
In which Emily St. James argues that the culture's arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which entertainment conglomerates keep people hooked on their ever-expanding mass of product. - Vox
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. - Psychology Today
"Just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ... By examining a party's record, we can assess the values that underlie their actions, and start to get a sense of their unwritten arts and cultural policies. So where do the parties stand?" - ArtsHub (Australia)
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social media sites, which can remove content containing unauthorized materials. - Washington Post
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in the nation's living memory. This isn't merely life imitating art; it is art that seems to have created the conditions under which life imitated it." - The Atlantic
"Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has played a big part both in Moscow's professed motivations for this invasion and in Kyiv's defiant response." - The Guardian
For 25 years, an enterprising Texan named Nancy Henderek has been bringing major artists to her hometown for a three-day festival with "bite-size samplings" (hence the name) from multiple works and companies on each program. And she helps edit some of those works herself. - The New York Times
The items — portraits of Napoleon and Josephine, locks of the emperor's hair, and his inkwell set — were stolen from a historic house museum in far southeastern Australia in 2014. Earlier this year, a Melbourne art dealer discovered the Josephine portrait listed on eBay for A$250. - Hyperallergic
"Santoya Fields said it wasn't an illness that led to her being unable to take the stage; it was the impact of what she described as an unsafe workplace and a lack of organizational support." - The Washington Post
"The coming Van Gogh in America exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts will include 72 Van Goghs, with 56 paintings and 16 works on paper ... (and) will for the first time reveal the story of the artist’s rise to fame in the US." - The Art Newspaper
When three staffers resigned last month, they claimed a culture of racism and misogyny kept them from being able to do their work, and the company engaged an outside investigator. She found that, yes, they were hindered from working properly, but not because of bigotry or prejudice. - San Francisco Classical Voice
When done properly, poetry can help to make science more diverse, equitable, and inclusive. Not just as a box-ticking exercise because making sure all sorts of people engage with science. - The Conversation
e established the Berggruen Institute. A prolific networker, Berggruen has recruited so many prominent names to the institute’s roster of supporters and advisers that it has been described as his own personal Davos. - The New York Times
