In a video on social media, he said there was now a culture "where a claim is made with the idea that a settlement will be cheaper than taking it to court, even if there's no basis for the claim". - BBC
Policies that favor wasteful new construction, and do little to encourage environmentally minded retrofits, have hindered the building industry’s ability to curb its footprint. - Fast Company
The late co-founder and longtime owner Mitzi Shore always envisioned the historic institution on L.A.’s Sunset Boulevard as an “artists colony,” a protected enclave where young talent could grow without worrying about money, consequently she mostly didn’t either. - Variety
As of February 2022, there were more than 817,000 unique program titles across traditional TV and streaming services in the U.S., with many of those titles featuring hundreds of individual episodes or chapters. Variety
On top of COVID troubles, whoever runs ENO faces the perennial problems of precarious state funding and being the underdog company in London. Annilese Miskimmon is greeting these issues, and hoping to pull in new viewers, with Poul Ruders's adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. - The New York Times
The data (as well as Aristotle’s intuition, per his question about the prominence of melancholics in the arts) suggest that the answer is yes. - LitHub
"When people ask Harout Bastajian how a Christian is creating the decorative program of a mosque, he likes to answer, 'God works in mysterious ways, brings us all together to decorate his house of worship.'" - Hyperallergic
The fact that Ukraine feels more culturally familiar to many people watching these events closely has had a profound impact not just on the kinds of images that are circulating, but also how they circulate. - Washington Post
Native to the East African coast, Swahili developed as a lingua franca for various nationalities doing business in busy ports like Zanzibar. Now Swahili is spoken, written, read, and broadcast across a huge swath of the continent by 200 million people, for most of whom it's a second language. - Quartz
"The thing that always struck me about the symphony is that you have the sense that the listeners are enduring the first three movements in order to get to the choir." - Baltimore Magazine
"Blurring the lines between a walking tour and the theater, Chasing Andy Warhol sets off from New York's Astor Place Cube, with actors lying in wait with carefully positioned props. All throughout, a bewigged Warhol consistently eludes the audience and the play's tour guide." - Artnet
Artur Solomonov describes the mood in the Russian theaters in the wake of the invasion as “complete shock . . . the realization that our way of life has ended.” - Stage Raw
The former ABT star, now artistic director of the Australian Ballet, wanted to bring together leading dance companies from all over the country for a festival. That gathering, called DanceX, was to open last September but was foiled by a COVID lockdown. DanceX will happen this October. - The Age (Melbourne)
In January, the Casino di Villa Boncompagni Ludovisi, also known as Villa Aurora, was put up for auction with a floor price of €471 million ($546 million), and nobody bid. This week the mansion went back on the block at a 20% discount (€376 million/$410 million). Still no buyer. - Artnet
WUNC is no. 1 in the ratings for the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill radio market, has $20 million in cash reserves, devoted listeners ready to donate, a growing newsroom, and signals in several other parts of the state. What ambitious new plans can it, and will it, pursue? - The Assembly (North Carolina)
