"Aid HQ -- a palatial faux Art Nouveau exhibition and cultural centre -- runs like clockwork. Basement: medicines. Ground floor: food and a stand where displaced people can register their needs. First floor concert hall: children's clothes and toys. Second floor: supplies for newborn babies." - France 24
The legendary performer "called her style of dance 'moving pictures,' which drew from her love of theater, postmodern dance, performance art, television and video art and which she often recorded herself." - Yahoo News (Los Angeles Times)
In the most jaw-dropping Kickstarter ever, the fantasy author has taken in (at the time of posting) $24 million for a year of special publishing perks for his fans. Some writers seem annoyed. But this is a one-time kind of thing, right? Right? - Slate
A real NY story: "The theater director Muriel Miguel grew up there, and lives there still. When she was a child, in the 1930s and ’40s, Native dancers and actors from all around the country would stop by the house while working in New York." - The New York Times
After the 2016 election, Fowler couldn't see the point in writing her book about John Wilkes Booth and Lincoln. "I knew pockets of the country clung to the Lost Cause , but I thought they weren’t hugely populated." - The Guardian (UK)
Dear Sam Elliott: As a fan of Westerns, maybe you should check out Zachariah, which "shot back at the genre's fatalistic masculinity by celebrating peace, pacifism and, most remarkably, intimate male friendship." - BBC
As the war in Ukraine enters its second week, cultural institutions worldwide are grappling with the question of whether to boycott Russian artists, in debates reminiscent of those around South Africa during the apartheid era. - The New York Times
The idea was that Gergiev could somehow retract his blatant politicization of music and adopt a purist guise when he walked onstage. In fact, if he had appeared at Carnegie during the invasion, it would have been a Putinist triumph: hard power and soft power operating in tandem. - The New Yorker
Fairly or unfairly, many tech companies with disproportionately young employees and leaders have gone from a shining example of how entrepreneurial capitalism can improve our lives to something that seems unhealthy and even sinister over the past several years. - The Atlantic
“It looks like the entire curriculum is developed to normalize sexuality, normalize nudity and normalize vulgar language,” said Mike Cochran, a school board member. “I think we need to re-look at the entire curriculum.” - The New York Times
It is an unusual production model in European theater, where directors tend to have the final word on every iteration of their work. The goal, Mitchell explained in a video interview, was to figure out new avenues for theater-making in the face of an environmental threat. - The New York Times
Anthony Amore, chief of security for the Gardner museum, tells Boston 25 News that a recent tipster prompted officials to take another look at the murder of career criminal Jimmy Marks, a known career criminal, because the killing may have possible links to the heist. - Smithsonian
"Due to our carefully built relationship," said a statement from the Dutch satellite, "we had access to one of the world's most famous art collections that we could use to complement our exhibitions. ... The recent attack by Russia on Ukraine means that neutrality is no longer tenable." - ARTnews
