"Hollywood did not create this country's desire for green lawns — that longing originated when wealthy Americans tried to replicate the resplendent gardens of French and English nobility of centuries past. Then Hollywood did what it does best: propagate the myth through relentless, omnipresent imagery." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Cambodian investigators have explained to the BBC the routes by which sculptures stolen from ancient temples made it to Britain, and two former looters identified items in the British Museum and V&A catalogues which they themselves had taken during the Khmer Rouge years. - BBC
"Broadway performers and stage managers who worked on four shows connected to producer Scott Rudin will be released from nondisclosure agreements under terms of a settlement between the Broadway League and Actors' Equity Association." Excepting financial info and IP, the union has barred NDAs from all future Broadway productions. - Deadline
The biggest change is the return of the requirement that a film must have a theatrical release during the relevant calendar year. However, that release no longer must be in either New York or Los Angeles; showings in Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, and the Bay Area also qualify. - The Hollywood Reporter
A new Public Bodies Review Programme, announced by the ministry for Brexit Opportunities and Government Efficiency, will examine whether "arm's-length" funding bodies such as Arts Council England "should continue to deliver all of its functions." - The Art Newspaper
Warren Tranquada, comes to Dallas from Newark, N.J., where for 13 years he has been executive vice president and chief operating officer of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, which operates in the shadow of New York City. - KERA
Expanding on an earlier excavation, the team discovered the tomb while digging within a dry moat that encircles the larger Step Pyramid of Djoser, a complex built for the late pharaoh who ruled from approximately 2630–11 BCE. - ARTnews
The ideas that made it shared a process we came to call “voice cultivation”: the collective, social process through which employees help lower-power team members’ voiced ideas reach implementation. - Harvard Business Review
Comparing data from the appendix of the economists’ study with data from the SUSB Annual Data Tables put out by the Census Bureau, I estimate that more than 20 percent of auto dealerships in America have an owner making more than $1.58 million per year. - The New York Times
True liberal education is the place where restless hearts can become discerning, and where the closed self can become an open soul. It is a stirring and consistent defense of liberal education. - Hedgehog Review
The bourgeois public sphere was always limited. And there are forms of fracturing and dispersal that have completely eroded the already fragile prominence of the anointed, generalist intellectual. - The Point
The mythology that has developed around the Tudor dynasty has made that seem an improbable question, but there are bits of evidence suggesting that, at least at the very end of his life, the King did indeed repent of the prosecution and execution of his second wife. - Mental Floss
Before 1953, the only paperback books were, literally, pulp novels; the cheap pulp paper on which they were printed gave the genre its name. Purchasing affordable, durable paperback versions of serious classic or contemporary literature, something we now take for granted, was impossible. Then came Anchor Books. - The American Scholar
An NFT has value because the buyer and their community believe it has value—which is true for all art and collectibles. And as time goes by, an NFT gains more of its own character, based on factors like who’s owned it and how they’ve used it. - Fast Company
"There are cultural, financial and emotional gaps between working-class creative people and the affluent, networked and mostly private school-educated gatekeepers of Australia's arts ... leading to an entire creative culture that, to an outsider, looks largely monolithic: a lot of white, wealthy people who seem to already know each other." - The Guardian
