Demonstrations are frequent enough in the country that they have taken on a ritualistic dimension, and often feature overtly theatrical elements designed to grab the attention. - The New York Times
Gorsuch’s fairness question resonates right away. Why these debts and not others? Why them and not me? These are rhetorical questions, and they have a rhetorical purpose: to frame student loan forgiveness as a sucker’s game. - Slate
In Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Pennsylvania plays and musicals have been challenged or canceled recently. Parents or school officials have complained that the content isn't family friendly. - NPR
While the Inclusion List shows that over the years the nominees have grown more diverse, the proportion of nominees who are part of an ethnic minority is still "nowhere near what it needs to be. - BBC
The essential difficulty is that the vast majority of art museum professionals have limited training in how to identify and address contemporary manifestations of this history. - Hyperallergic
While technology is making composing more accessible to more artists, there's another important shift going on: scoring Indigenous stories with Indigenous music — rather than a cliché of rattles and drums. - CBC
One of the most consequential developments of our moment is that the experiences that create sensory memories are disappearing even faster than temperatures are rising. - City Journal
Nataki Garrett went from artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to interim executive artistic director — because the executive director position was eliminated, along with more than a third of the staff and over 10% of the budget. If only that were all she had to deal with ... - San Francisco Chronicle
To reinvigorate the red carpet preshow, Oscars organizers hired members of the Met Gala creative team. Expect much more star power, specialized lighting (to make a process that happens in daylight seem more like evening) and better integration with the theater’s entrance. - The New York Times
"Launched in 2018, danceLogic blends the two to introduce girls to coding and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics). The Philadelphia-based program is the brainchild of Franklyn Athias, a retired Comcast executive, and (arts nonprofit executive) Betty Lindley." - Dance Magazine
Think of it as an ongoing planetary spam event, but unlike spam—for which we have more or less effective safeguards—there may prove to be no reliable way of flagging and filtering the next generation of machine-made text. “Don’t believe everything you read” may become “Don’t believe anything you read” when it’s online. - The Atlantic
Artist/software developer Josie Williams created four chatbots, each built on a dataset consisting solely of the works of a great African-American writer: James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Octavia E. Butler, and Zora Neale Hurston. A visitor interacts with the bot, whose responses are assembled from that author's own words. - Artnet
Weinberg’s departure is not entirely unexpected given his age, 68, and his long tenure at the museum. But his departure also signals an inevitable changing of the guard that promises to substantially alter the landscape of the museum world — particularly in New York. - The New York Times
He was already a successful designer for opera and ballet (who got his start with David Hockney) when, in the 1990s, he started writing stories about a pig for his niece Olivia. He published his first Olivia book in 2000, and the series became a juggernaut. - MSN (The Washington Post)
The new contract "will increase salaries by 30 percent, on average, with entry-level employees set to receive a greater raise, to $54,101 from $40,500. Employees will also receive a one-time bonus of $1,000 because the deal was ratified." - The New York Times
