"After my amputation, it's kind of the same way. I don't look the same as other 21-year-olds my age, but I can still make my body look beautiful, I can still do the things that other kids do." - People
Our machines have crossed a threshold. All our lives, we have been reassured that computers were incapable of being truly creative. Yet, suddenly, millions of people are using a new breed of AIs to generate stunning pictures. Most of these users are not professional artists, and that’s the point. - Wired
The historic Rio de Janeiro building had, alongside its natural history materials, large holdings of Indigenous artifacts — collected in another era, usually plundered and presented without context. "The destruction was also a chance to start over and try something radical: asking Indigenous peoples what they wanted." - The New York Times Magazine
Millions of fans were locked out. In a later deleted blog post published by Ticketmaster on Thursday, the company said that 3.5 million people registered for the Verified Fan program, and around 1.5 million of them were given a special access code and “invited” to the sale for Swift’s tour. - The New York Times
"Roger Lynch ... inherited a company of fiefdoms (which) competed with one another for advertisers and cover stars. ... Three-and-a-half years into the job, Lynch has tried to unify the company ... and has shifted investment toward digital and video, turning a storied magazine-company brand into a leading multiplatform player." - The Hollywood Reporter
War has always provoked remarkable writing. Anton Filatov’s blog posts on Facebook are a 21st-century version of this, and they have gained him a growing audience. - The New York Times
"The piloting process has been fun, but it's complex when you're navigating an incredibly interesting moment in our business. Even if CNN wasn't having its own moment, podcasting is going through some growing pains, and I made my leap in the middle of all that." - Vulture
"By the time he was 40, he had written more than 400 art songs, as well as three symphonies, several one-act operas and a great deal of chamber music. ... By this point, however, Mr. Rorem was at least as well known for his diaries as for his music." - The Washington Post
"In a surprise announcement that comes one week before Afton Battle's last day as Fort Worth Opera general and artistic director, the company has named Angela Turner Wilson its new leader. Wilson is a Fort Worth-based opera singer" and chair of the Vocal Arts Division at Texas Christian University. - CultureMap
"The Creatives Rebuild New York initiative has announced that it is spending $43.2 million to distribute monthly payments of $1,000 to 2,400 artists and other creatives living across the state. Lasting for 18 months, these cash payments come with no strings attached." - Artnet
Curtis Studio, as the label will be called, will feature artists in residence as well as student ensembles. The inaugural album, to be released on December 6, is Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, played by the Curtis Symphony Orchestra under conductor Osmo Vänskä. - Gramophone
"Do these attacks not reveal the fragility of what we hold dear? Do they not make us think about what we want to save for the next generation? Yet the answer to these questions is mostly no. Instead, these attacks feel part of a helpless careering towards climate chaos." - The Guardian
"There is no relocation," Harry Brünjes told a group of MPs this week about Arts Council England's decision to defund the company unless it leaves the capital for a city such as Manchester. "This is closing ENO down. This is losing 600 jobs from London." - London Evening Standard
The dance festival's second stage was destroyed by a fire almost exactly two years ago. A lead grant of $10 million grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, plus insurance payouts and further donations, will fund a new $30 million theater to open in 2025. - The New York Times
Last April, a theatre in Stuttgart named Churchill the winner of its 2022 European Drama Award, worth €75,000. When the jury discovered that she's a vocal critic of Israel and supporter of the BDS movement, it cancelled this year's award entirely. - The Guardian
