“We have more invention in front of us in the next 15 years than the last 15 — and our team is passionately committed to providing customers with the most expansive collection of compelling content anywhere in the world.” - Deadline
More than half a million such objects—by some accounts, more than ninety per cent of all cultural artifacts known to originate in Africa—are held in Europe, where they have long seemed destined to remain. - The New Yorker
May 2022 sees the latest technological advances in musical immortality when Abba return to the live stage after a 40-year absence. But this time they return as humanoids – the digital hologram “twins” of the original global phenomenon. - The Conversation
There doesn’t seem to be a widespread, clear understanding of the distinction between journalism and criticism in the New York art scene. - Hyperallergic
If truth is a problem now for everyone, if the idea seems empty or useless in ‘the era of social media’, ‘science denialism’, ‘conspiracy theories’ and suchlike, maybe that just means that ‘everyone’ has caught up to where philosophy was in 1922. - Aeon
"Far from being sweet and adorable, rabbits in the margins and illuminated letters of these texts ... are frequently shown wielding swords, axes, and bows and arrows as they fight against — and sometimes kill — those who often hunted them." - Mental Floss
Saad Mohseni, founder and CEO of Afghanistan's first independent radio and TV networks: "On one side, we're dealing with a culture ministry that's constructive and realistic, and on the other, an intelligence agency and a ministry of vice and virtue that are not." - Bloomberg Quint
Archivists and librarians around the world have been working to catalogue thousands of websites that hold pieces of Ukraine’s past and present, ranging from policy papers and census data stores to poetry museums to a Soviet-era club that teaches children how to operate railways. - Washington Post
Under a program called Books UnBanned, anyone in the US aged 13 to 21 may request a free eCard from the BPL, gaining access to hundreds of thousands of ebooks and audiobooks. The library has even selected a list of the most banned books to make readily available. - Book Riot
"The first event I went to was at the L.A. Times headquarters. I was so blown away. They had journalists there, and honestly, it was like Writers Disneyland. And the Festival of Books? I went for the first time when I was 8 … and it was like one of the best days.” - Los Angeles Times
"Russia's invasion of Ukraine has upended ballet, as prominent artists shun Russia's storied dance companies; theaters in the West cancel performances by the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky; and dance in Russia, which had opened up to the world ..., seems to be turning inward again." - The New York Times
Until the middle of the century, its most visible work was crafted by outsiders from the East or Europe, bewildered by what they perceived as the otherness of Southern California, its sun and light, its palm trees. That all began to shift in the 1960s with the emergence of the Watts Writers Workshop. - Los Angeles Times
This week, the Russian dissident leader's Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project released an extensive report on the conductor's wealth and its sources. Here's an English-language summary of the findings — including, the report alleges, "large-scale fraudulent misappropriation of charitable funds." - Van
Yes, it was that many of the migratory birds taking up residence at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center the past two summers, damaging the trees on the grounds and badly soiling the building. So, before the purple martins return this year, the orchestra is removing all its trees. - Main Street Nashville
