"M*A*S*H is in some ways the most contemporary of its contemporaries. Its blend of madcap comedy and pitch-dark drama — the laughs amplifying the serious stakes, and vice versa — is recognizable in today's dramedies, from Better Things to Barry, that work in the DMZ between laughter and sadness." - The New York Times
"I was looking for stories, each in a different way, that showed how everybody left the war with a wound of some kind. ... The crazy behavior wasn't just to be funny. It was a way of separating yourself for a moment from the nastiness." - The New York Times
"I wrote a biography of the man that was largely glowing. Football heroics, overcoming obstacles, practical joker, etc. And, looking at it now, if I’m being brutally honest—I’d advise people not to read it. He’s a bad guy. He doesn’t deserve the icon treatment. He doesn’t deserve acclaim." - Poynter
"Where groomer has a pedigree as a legitimate term of opprobrium, ... miscegenation was invented out of whole cloth, intended as a bludgeon to preempt debate in a racist society where intermarriage was deemed an appalling notion, even among many white abolitionists." The election year: 1864. - Literary Hub
Although momentum behind AI-generated art has been building for a while, the release of Stable Diffusion might be the moment the technology really takes off. It’s free to use, easy to build on, and puts fewer barriers in the way of what users can generate. That makes what happens next difficult to predict. - The Verge
The story enacted by Viola Davis and her colleagues is fictional, but the Agojie did actually exist: a troop of women warriors, founded in the early 1700s in the Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin), which grew to 6,000 strong by their peak a century later. - Smithsonian Magazine
Back in March, early in the invasion, Sergiy Ivanchuk was driving escaping civilians from the besieged city of Kharkiv when his car came under Russian gunfire. Six months later, thanks to remarkable luck and hard work, he is safe in German and studying voice once more. - The New York Times
"I absolutely knew there was no way I would get out alive. I was going to ruin everyone's childhood. ... Everything that was presented as a virtue when (the novel) was taught to us in school gets questioned." - San Francisco Chronicle
"She has only 20 predecessors, most of whom held their positions for life. ... Over the centuries, the function of the master as primarily a musician composing and performing for the pleasure of the sovereign has evolved into something more akin to a poet laureate." - MSN (The Washington Post)
The 15 million yen (currently $104,000) prizes have been awarded to artist and dissident Ai Weiwei (sculpture), filmmaker Wim Wenders (theatre/cinema), pianist Krystian Zimerman (music), artist Giulio Paolini (painting), and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the firm SANAA (architecture). - Artforum
Management says that the museum will remain open to the public despite the walkout and picket line, which the union is staging to press for some progress in bogged-down contract negotiations that have dragged on for two years. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Robert Garland, a former DTH dancer mentored by founder Arthur Mitchell, was the company's first resident choreographer. He succeeds Virginia Johnson, a founding member of DTH who brought the company back to the stage after an eight-year hiatus caused by a debt crisis. - The New York Times
Modern dance in the United States did not emerge from a legible high-art context—a handful of individuals, mostly women, had to make their own, insisting on dance not as entertainment but as art, at a time when they had neither support nor recognition. - BookForum
