Ali Viterbi's multi-award-winning In Every Generation was to be the centerpiece of this year's JFest (officially, the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival). Previews, scheduled to start last Thursday, simply didn't happen, and this week the theater officially cancelled "due to personal and financial reasons." - The San Diego Union-Tribune
On Wednesday night, 21-year-old Brian Hernandez broke into the museum, went up to display cases and started smashing. He told the guard who intercepted him that he did it because "he was mad at his girl"; the guard told him to sit down until the police came, and he did. - NBC News
"The good news is that the public broadcast group has been operating without much help from the state or its Board of Regents for years, … with more than 75% of its funding coming from individuals, businesses, and corporations." - Inside Radio
The Italian conductor, who became music director in 2017, has extended his term through the 2026-27 season. (As of last September, he is also music director of Zurich's well-funded opera house.) Says NSO principal flutist Aaron Goldman, "However long we can keep him, we want to." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Institutional bureaucrats, not billionaires, have the power to constrain the possibilities for aesthetic development in the present. The figure of the contemporary artist we know today is an invention of the bureaucrats. - Tablet
We are well past the point of believing that casual or inferred approaches meet the need. With summer programs right around the corner, there is an immediate opportunity to prioritize students’ mental health in new, more robust ways. - Ensemble News
“When communities are allowed to craft their own narrative, that narrative is more complex. We are not imposing on or colonizing them with a form of performance that isn’t indigenous or locally grown to their space.” - American Theatre
One of the things that brought me back to moviemaking was Netflix and the idea of streaming and a streaming series. I think theaters are dead. I think they’ll be a niche thing for superhero movies. I haven’t gone to the cinema for decades. You know, I just prefer to watch it at home. - APNews
With 60 million active users, Boomplay is the most popular music streaming service in Africa. Leading the pack, it is one of a bevy of homegrown music streaming and content platforms that are offering alternatives to the on-demand global streaming model. - Global Voices
Paint names developed their own poetic style and, like a certain tradition of lyric poetry they make reference to nature to express mood or atmosphere. Werner’s Nomenclature of Colour (first published in 1814) constructs a system or taxonomy for the classification of colour... - Public Domain Review
"Every day on the respiratory ward at one of (Bishkek's) biggest hospitals, nurse Aidai Temiraly kyzy puts on the music and leads her patients in the Kara Jorgo, the national dance. ... The session is part of a treatment programme offered to people with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease." - The Guardian
"I disagree that any orchestra has a maximum quality level that can’t be exceeded... It’s a never-ending task, but if we look at it in the long run—if the job has been done well—after a couple or many years of working together, the orchestra will be objectively better than when we started." - Van
Viki (meaning "video wiki"), which specializes in programming from East Asia, has an estimated 100,000 volunteers subtitling in 150 languages for 53 million subscribers. Those translators are fiercely proud of their work and say they have to redo the work of paid translators. (They went on strike over machine translation.) - Vulture
A third of all Americans clock 45 hours or more of work per week, with 8 million reporting 60-plus hours. Compared with 1940, individuals now consume almost 90 times more screen-fed information. That’s 82 hours per week – or 69 per cent of our waking hours. That’s a lot. - Psyche
Since taking office last year, the country's culture minister has had people (including top executives) dismissed from the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, the National Film Centre, and a TV channel; last week, 40 staffers were sacked from the National Museum. - ArtReview
