One of soap operas' major problems in recent times has been a failure to bring in new fans on top of their existing ones. Much of culture right now is preoccupied with nostalgia, from the endless stream of reboots and remakes, to "all stars" reality shows. - BBC
Audiences are being more selective, according to researchers and arts leaders across the region. Some are scared to gather in crowded indoor venues. Others have lost the habit of attending. Still others are avoiding the hassle of driving and parking, instead staying at home. - KERA
Schjeldahl was a belletrist as a writer — a once fashionable, now vaguely disreputable genre of fiction, poetry and essay writing with an acute concern for “fine language,” which he, virtually alone, managed to make worthwhile for art criticism during a dense era of academically minded theory. - Los Angeles Times
Or, if you like horror books, then it's also Hanukkah and Christmas and Solstice and Valentine's Day rolled up into one in Louisville, where Butcher Cabin Books sports (fake) blood over its entire façade as well. - NPR
Nuttall, who also ran the chamber music series at the Spoleto Festival, was a violinist, "a charismatic musician who played boldly," with an "electrifying ability to engage flowed from his deep desire to communicate." - The New York Times
"People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup," one said, referencing last week's climate action of tomato soup on a Van Gogh painting. - NBC News
Emily Johnson's "expansive work often brings its viewer-participants into outdoor public spaces, drawing our attention to the land beneath and around us — to what has been here before and what could be in the future." - The New York Times
According to Abbott Elementary's Brittani Nichols, writers getting to produce episodes means something important, and it keeps the writers' room bonded, on track, and earning real credit for their work. - Slate
Callil "championed female writers and transformed the canon of English literature," including by bringing many women authors back into print. - The Guardian (UK)
And her play, new to Broadway, is "about 'the precarity of life' — the way that one bad break, financial or physical or emotional, can tumble a person into desperation — and the need we all have to be taken care of." - The New York Times
"The point isn’t that there’s something wrong with working from an office. It’s that there’s something right about working from home." Now, what does this mean for the arts? - The New York Times
Even though she's famous for memoir and novels of country life, she says, "I do not miss the deference which was shown to people in authority. That, I feel, led to the creation of megalomaniacs." - Irish Times
Proposed legislation in Canada, "the Online News Act, compels online platforms like Facebook and Google to share revenue with the publishers they aggregate their news from." Meta will not have it. - The Verge
