Playwright Nottage: "I will tell you, in all honesty, I haven't been getting a lot of sleep," but that's OK. "The dream is to really be busy doing the thing that you love, deeply immersed in making art." - NPR
And n+1 magazine doesn't mean the ones you do in school. No, it's professional book reviews that are in trouble, according to that magazine. But hold up: "The only thing eulogized as frequently as the novel is the 'honest' book review." - Los Angeles Review of Books
"Basinski, who had taken classical violin lessons since childhood, played with the University of Buffalo’s symphony orchestra before embarking on his major league career in 1944." - The New York Times
"There are very few children’s books, or books in general, published in Karen in the United States, and much of what exists originated in St. Paul ... the library system has published three children’s books in Karen since 2015." - Sahan Journal (Minnesota)
Especially with one of its more famous podcasters, Joe Rogan. Now "a coalition of hundreds of doctors and public health experts have called out Spotify for allowing Joe Rogan to spread 'false and societally harmful assertions'" - but will anything change? - Washington Post
Too familiar, and too grim. On the upside: "Until the pandemic, the industry had been enjoying a sustained boom, fueled by a rebound in the popularity of musicals and by New York’s gargantuan growth as a tourist destination. And this downturn might not last long." - The New York Times
The shockwave of the series, and later the book, "Ways of Seeing reframed the conversation about how art is interpreted, focusing on the nature of ownership and the language of appreciation as well as the ways in which advertising appropriates the motifs of painting." - The Economist
Percussionist Sheriff Drumman "hand-crafted the metal that made the setup possible, cutting, shaping and bending each slab before adding the eye-catching details and the bright “#SheriffDrumman” sign hoisted high above." - Los Angeles Times
"The directors’ branch has been known to be an exclusive club that has snubbed" newcomers like Ava DuVernay and Shaka King. "Crowding the race this year are such big names as Joel Coen for The Tragedy of Macbeth and Steven Spielberg for West Side Story." - Variety
Basically, it's easier for the writers and creators of tales: "It is a tried and tested, tragic narrative formula that efficiently releases them into the wider world, as well as exposing them to danger." - The Guardian (UK)
To think - and to daydream. "These moments of quiet and emptiness throughout the day are nothing I really considered before. ... But leaving these small moments of my day unfilled changed how I walk through time." - The New York Times
Take the Olney Theatre Center, for instance: "On December 22, we were almost $100,000 above our goal for Beauty and the Beast. ... On December 23 we had to cancel the rest of the run," the managing director says. "Within a week we had lost $300,000." - DC Metro Theater Arts
Why is the BBC protecting Eric Gill's Prospero and Ariel? "Gill’s work ornaments a key national building. What, in his case, justifies continued public display of a piece whose revised but still monumental message is 'made by a famous child abuser'?" - The Guardian (UK)
Or at least, we'll learn that we repeat our mistakes. Take the pandemic, for instance. We need to study the now, one historian says - the problems of this pandemic "are 21st-century problems and demand 21st-century approaches." - Wired
