Randall Kline was the driving force behind the opening of the $64 million SFJazz Center at Franklin and Fell streets, which opened its doors in 2013 as one of the only major venues in the country devoted to jazz programming. - San Francisco Chronicle
Renee Fleming’s comment that, as a singer, she doesn’t travel as much as instrumental soloists came just a few minutes after mentioning that she had seen Yannick Nézet-Séguin open the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season and Carnegie Hall’s season—commuting to Paris for concerts in between. - Van
David Patrick Stearns looks at "a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians" titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann, Illustrations by Terezín Artists. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Prescot is believed to have been the site of the only purpose-built Elizabethan theatre outside London, built in 1593. No plans of the original have survived, so the new venue is a replica of the Cockpit-in-Court, designed for Charles I by architect Inigo Jones at Whitehall Palace in 1629. - BBC
"What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo's intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the sensory, spiritual, and political affinities and ambitions behind Italian Futurism's radical new music." - The Public Domain Review
For all intents and purposes, Rita and Jerry Alter were a totally normal couple living in the New Mexico suburbs—except for one thing. They had a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth $160 million hanging behind their bedroom door. - Smithsonian
"Several weeks in, it's clear many overestimated the Russian army's will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army's will to resist an opponent superior in number, equipment and positioning." Two professors attribute this to the Russian and Ukrainian mindsets, as manifested in the countries' fairy tales. - The Conversation
The sceptical way of life, on Sextus’ presentation, follows a certain rhythm. You feel puzzlement about something. You search for knowledge about it. You arrive at two equally weighty considerations about what is happening. You let go trying to find an answer. - Aeon
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she has done many objectionable things and completely avoiding Andrew Lloyd Webber's show. - Pointe Magazine
With these actions, Europe is cementing its leadership as the most assertive regulator of tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. - The New York Times
Nancy Allen: "I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I've written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally inspired by actual crimes committed in the Ozarks, where I live. And the reason I write these stories is simple. Women are in peril here." - CrimeReads
No, it's not that they thought show business was too risky: they literally could not conceive of such a thing as earning a living by telling people jokes you made up. Of course, now that he's on television every week (Saturday Night Live), it makes more sense to them. - Vulture
"About a week after Broadway shut down, Scott and Catherine Ricafort McCreary launched a support group for artists interested in making a career switch. 'We thought: If your job is gone, there's never a better time to learn what we did." The group? Artists Who Code. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The collective pause spurred an unprecedented reflection on what they weren't getting from their prepandemic jobs and what precarious elements they had tolerated. ... Some are leaving the door open to return to theater someday. Others say they'll never go back. Here are 10 of their stories." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Funded by the US Embassy as part of the World Monuments Fund's 15-year Future of Babylon project, the current work includes stabilization and conservation of the Lion of Babylon statue, the Ninmakh Temple, and the famous Ishtar Gate, which will be completed this summer. - The Art Newspaper
