WNYC announced last week that 41 stories by a single author — unnamed by the station but reportedly former host Jami Floyd — had been removed from its websites because of plagiarized passages. Now Floyd says she's suing WNYC for racial, sex and age discrimination as well as defamation. - Columbia Journalism Review
"Striking broadcast technicians at WTTW-Channel 11 reached a tentative contract agreement with management Wednesday, likely ending the three-week work stoppage at the public television station. … If the contract is approved, workers could be back on the job by Friday." - Robert Feder
The artworks, which belong to prominent Russian museums including the Hermitage and Tretyakov, were being returned from exhibitions in Italy and Japan. Finnish customs says it does not dispute Russia's ownership of the art and will keep it only for the duration of the sanctions. - Artnet
Wealthy Russian businessmen, many of whom are now sanctioned, have donated between $372 million and $435 million to more than 200 nonprofits in the US in the last two decades. The findings are laid out in a database created in 2020. - Hyperallergic
For certain kinds of tasks—playing chess, detecting tumors—artificial intelligence can rival or surpass human thinking. But the broader world presents endless unforeseen circumstances, and there A.I. often stumbles. - The New Yorker
Theaters and art venues appeared to be one of the most fragile institutions with the war. Most of them stopped functioning and closed up with the first sound of the sirens. Many actors joined in territorial defense, some went into the army, many are volunteering. Almost all theaters ceased to exist. - Arts Fuse
By his count, it is actually 37 more languages, with at least 24 he speaks well enough to carry on lengthy conversations. He can read and write in eight alphabets and scripts. He can tell stories in Italian and Finnish and American Sign Language. - Washington Post
Those scrappy days of shoestring budgets and ad hoc responsibilities — with everyone, including the members of the quartet, pitching in as needed — are now long past. Kronos has become a new-music juggernaut, with a catalog of more than 1,000 commission works and a discography including more than 60 items. - San Francisco Chronicle
"I spend my days writing optimized blog articles that feature short paragraphs and less-sophisticated wording — proven SEO winners — to help my clients appear at the top of search results. ... (My clients') instructions are usually simple: 'See what the top articles are doing, and do it better.'" - MSN (The Boston Globe)
What if we put video game designers inside the gallery context? How could they reimagine the world of gaming for a more collective audience and with that kind of spatial format for their work? - ArtsHub
"Because to write about anything, you have to declare something and I find that very hard to do. I do very much feel: 'Is my blue the same blue as your blue?' I have that about everything." - The Observer (UK)
These modern bastardizations have eighteenth- and nineteenth-century precedent. Singers notoriously inserted their preferred arias into opera scores, however unrelated to the opera at hand. - City Journal
"The arts center will be the centerpiece of a 53-acre park on the Sarasota bayfront. It will have a 2,250-seat main stage theater and a 400-seat flexible performance and event space ... (as well as) a lawn where people can watch movies or performances in the open air." - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Artists do not deserve financial support just for being artists. Selling one’s art is a different story altogether and requires at least 2 parties to be in agreement. Artists are no more deserving of financial support than any other worker, thinker, or creator. - Alan Harrison
