The news stories coming from the state have been mostly about bannings on a school district or city/county level. This past spring, Gov. De Santis signed a law requiring all Florida school to remove all books considered "pornographic" or "inappropriate." - Salon
Nataki Garrett has reduced the amount of Shakespeare in the company's programming, introduced color- and sometimes gender-blind casting as well as non-traditional stagings, made staff working hours more humane, and lowered ticket prices. And she's gotten death threats. - NPR
The city council has approved a plan to sell the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, as well as other historic buildings, to a city-owned property developer. Why? To get cash to pay the settlement in an equal-pay lawsuit. - BBC
If there's a cinema anywhere near you that shows them, you're out of luck. Streamed broadcasts will only be available in countries (and areas of North America) where the cinemacasts are not. - AP
Buildings fall for a host of reasons, and their variety is on display here. Fire is a common leveller, as is urban renewal. Why certain structures are deemed worthy of salvation is less concrete. - The Walrus
The reading world is divided between those who care about covers (specifically paperback covers) and those who find this odder than worrying what packaging sausages come in. These are often the same people who can’t understand why anyone would keep a book they had already read. - Irish Times
It is now a common belief that something has gone horribly wrong with the Internet, but as with anything so hard to define, the contours of its fault lines are blurry. Solutions, naturally, have proved even more elusive. - The Nation
For the Victorians the word “utopian” did not carry the negative connotations of impossibility, naïveté, and dunderheadedness that it does for us now—the writers and thinkers who used that word were for the most part engaged in actual utopian projects, whether literal or literary (or both). - 3 Quarks Daily
The idea that art is only art when it shows evidence of the artist’s handicraft is, at this point, so ludicrous that it barely needs addressing. People who say that anyone can make AI art are the latest in a long line of people who said the same thing about some of the most important art of the 20th...
Reid’s accomplishments at the museum included launching an 8-year, $320 million expansion and renovation, designed by architect Rafael Vinoly, that transformed the institution by upgrading and enlarging its galleries and giving the museum a central atrium. - The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
The arts is celebrating going back to normal – live events are back on; streaming is being turned off – but for many of us it’s as though the industry has their fingers in their ears and their backs turned on those who aren’t safe to participate. It’s infuriating and painful to watch. - The Guardian
What harm is done by letting conductors into our chamber music? More than you’d suspect. Collaborative pianists — we only recently stopped calling them “accompanists” — have struggled to acquire a modicum of dignity for their vocation. - The Critic
The Greeks used Laurus nobilis, or “bay laurel,” as a remedy for rashes from other plants and boiled it down for antiseptic and first aid applications. But the use of crowns crafted from laurel sprigs emerged for different reasons. - The Conversation
