For nearly a year now, SF Symphony has operated without a CEO and has been without a chief financial officer since January — not a time for making major changes — and yet last week, apparently a reorganization of the administration began, involving a good number of layoffs. San Francisco Classical Voice
Arifa Akbar: "It is hard to tell if the industry is merely casting an appraising glance back at the gender politics of the past or if this is the legitimising of sexism under the cover of irony and knowing humour. Is yesterday's humour today's abuse – or vice versa?" - The Guardian
It’s hard to overstate the unlikelihood of a director as innovative and internationally celebrated as Sharon taking the reins of a decidedly regional (and in certain respects conservative) opera company like Detroit’s. - The New York Times
He took the helm of the Guggenheim in 2008, following the resignation of firebrand director Tom Krens. Only the fifth leader in the institution’s history, Armstrong inherited Krens’s ambitious expansion plans, which had seen the Bilbao outpost open in 1997 and the inking of a deal with Abu Dhabi. - Artnet
Human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts at random and use a combination of public and private data in order to calculate and report to shareholders the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service, Twitter said. - Reuters
There’s a preponderance of copaganda and superheroes saving the day and a category of narrative best described as wealth-aganda — stories focused on the interior lives of the rich, from the aspirational to the ridiculous to the unscrupulous. - Chicago Tribune
The 1937 translation was commissioned two years previously by wealthy American accounting executive Carl Tilden Keller, who already had versions of Cervantes's novel in Icelandic, Japanese, and Mongolian. The translators were two Kashmiri pandits who knew no Spanish and worked from an 18th-century English version. - The Guardian
It’s an irony that arguably the most radical movement in European thought should have been appropriated by the conservative forces of the market, but it’s also predictable. - Aeon
It only operated from 1933-1957 in North Carolina's Swannanoa Valley, and its great impact was through its summer program. But to see how important Black Mountain College was, you need only look at the astounding list of those who taught and studied there. - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
Moore, the notorious judge and Senate candidate from Alabama, sued Cohen for $95 million, alleging he was deceived and defamed in the latter's 2018 mockumentary TV series. A US Court of Appeals panel ruled that the series was obviously satire and held Moore to the release he signed. - The Guardian
It was a network of theaters, nightclubs, and church halls throughout the US where Black entertainers performed during the segregation era, and where many great musicians and actors got their start. It still exists, on a smaller scale, as a touring circuit for Black-oriented popular plays and music. - Atlas Obscura
Oxford's Institute for Digital Archaeology has lidar-scanned some of the sculptures at the British Museum; its robot is now chiseling copies of them from Carrara marble; those copies would go to London as the originals returned to Athens. Not everyone is on board with this plan. - The New York Times
When Wesley Wofford's touring sculpture of Tubman stopped there this winter, it was wildly popular, and the city commissioned him to make a permanent version. Some Black artists are furious that they didn't even get to submit designs; officials say they can't just turn Wofford's idea over to someone else. - Artnet
Featured on the commercial networks' coverage this week: a "Government Resignations Ticker", an anti-Brexit campaigner belting "Bye Bye Boris", a discussion of the Tories' future set to "Yakety Sax" (played at actor Hugh Grant's request), a star cameo by 10 Downing Street's resident cat, and a psychic pig. - Variety
"(He) memorably displayed his tough-guy screen presence as the trigger-happy Mafioso Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (among many other roles) but also proved, beyond his macho exterior, a versatile performer of wry expressiveness and unexpected vulnerability." - MSN (The Washington Post)
