Like so many Texan artists before and after him, he had a tortured relationship with his home state and its mythology. He kept trying to get away from the cowboy thing. It kept sucking him back in. - Texas Monthly
"Wading through the streaming menus felt akin to babysitting hundreds of small children, all of them clawing at me, desperate for my attention. … Of course, that sentiment was wholly irrational and entirely wrong." Anne Helen Petersen explains why. - The Guardian
Drawing on its sports-mad nation's expertise in sports medicine, the Australian Ballet has developed physical therapy techniques to help dancers heal without surgery. In more than 15 years, not one of the company's dancers has had to end a career due to injury. - The Age (Melbourne)
"The 87-year-old's farewell took place in Sage Gateshead, directing the Royal Northern Sinfonia in an all-Haydn concert that effortlessly rolled back the years. It reminded us that this is a man who has changed classical music emphatically for the better." - The Guardian
More than five years after her fatal heart attack at age 65, she has a theater in Rabat, a petroleum research center and a metro station in Riyadh, corporate headquarters in Sharjah, the famous stadium in Qatar, and the central bank headquarters in her birthplace, Baghdad. - Vanity Fair
At the end of a confidential two-year process, an arbitrator ruled, and an appeals panel confirmed, that Spacey is liable for breach of contract for violating the production company's sexual-harassment policies. - Variety
For decades now, the town of Saint-Priest (in metro Lyon) has been acquiring works for its residents and businesses to borrow from the artothèque. One of those works, bought in 1988 for 100,000 francs (roughly $41,000 in 2021), was Richter's Abstraktes Bild 630-2. - Artnet
“I’ve been dreaming of this since I joined the museum a little over five years ago,” Pasternak said. “Our exhibitions and public programs have been embracing ideas for 21st-century museums, but our building is absolutely mired in the 19th century. So it’s time to catch up.” - The New York Times
Bowes Center signals a major expansion of the Conservatory of Music, which has most of its academic and performance spaces a few blocks away on Oak Street. - MSN (San Francisco Chronicle)
He "galvanized protests against the Vietnam War and started a controversial men’s movement with a best seller that called for a restoration of primal male audacity." - The New York Times
Matthew Aucoin finds impossibility to be a constant in the history of opera. “The art form’s first practitioners, in seventeenth-century Italy strove to re-create the effect of ancient Greek drama, which of course they had never heard.” - The New Yorker
Those without the vision to produce art as means toward an end, rather than the end itself, have placated the wealthy donors who are also the users of the product. - Alan Harrison
The Catherine Project’s commitment, borne out beautifully by our seminars thus far, is that great books are supremely egalitarian: They move and challenge us all alike. Indeed, what proves great books great is that they’ve stood the test of time. - Hedgehog Review
