Ben Glover is a creative captioner, integrating captions for the hearing-impaired into set and lighting design. Nadine Beasley provides live audio description for the visually impaired and even leads advance touch tours of the set and costumes. Shona Louise consults on everything from wheelchair access to website design. - The Guardian
The Aspen-Festival-for-hipsters is crossing both the Pacific and the Equator: SXSW Sydney will run October 15-22 this year, focusing primarily on creative industries in the Asia-Pacific region but including participants from the US (Silicon Valley and Hollywood in particular) and elsewhere as well. - Adweek
That declaration comes from the federal lawsuit that Yuga Labs, which created the Bored Ape Yacht Club, against artist Ryder Ripps for alleged "trademark infringement, false advertising, unfair competition and cybersquatting." Ripps says his project "uses satire and appropriation to protest and educate people." - Reuters
Asking "What's more important? This painting? Or a future?" (as if they were mutually exclusive), members of the group Just Stop Oil glued their hands to the frame of a landscape in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery on Wednesday and a van Gogh at London's Courtauld Gallery on Thursday. - Artnet
"For some, the drop has been small, but for most, the average decline is about 50 percent of 2019 sales. Local theater leaders say they're not certain why sales have fallen," citing several possible factors. - The San Diego Union-Tribune
The retailing-giant-turned-streaming-giant already has a $1 billion-per-year deal for NFL games and a similar deal for the UK's Premiere League soccer. Now Amazon has acquired British as well as German and Italian rights for UEFA Champions League matches, which feature Europe's top soccer teams. - The Hollywood Reporter
The Ted Shawn Theater is now open again for business, half of its exterior wood weathered and historical-looking, the other half clean and new. (The second theater has not yet been rebuilt.) - The New York Times
“Platform co-ops offer a more democratic and equitable alternative to traditional companies, and they have the potential to create good jobs, boost local economies, and increase resilience in the face of future shocks.” - Wired
If COVID-19 has been an X-ray of society’s fracture points, scammers have not only looked at the film but pressed on the wounds. Since the start of the pandemic, both prophylactic and postexposure measures have been rife with fraud. - Harper's
The 17,000-square-foot space features “The Gallery: Mona Lisa’s Perception,” featuring six digital versions of the “Mona Lisa,” hanging in one room. At first, they appear to be replicas of the famous painting, but when you stand before them, they come alive, displaying lively LED art. - Las Vegas Weekly
"They almost certainly see themselves as comedians, not media critics, but they haven't hesitated to judge the content they discuss. They cover an arena influential among young people but sometimes ignored by traditional media. Knowingly or not, they have begun teaching their audiences media criticism." - The New York Times Magazine
The survey compared responses by older adults to those under 55, and while there were definitely differences, the interests of the two groups often aligned quite closely. - Artnet
Stocks of unpainted, snow-white china became a tantalising canvas for avant-garde artists keen to express their utopian ideologies and rouse enthusiasm for the new socialist era, giving this delicate, bourgeois material an unexpected, almost contradictory, second life. - BBC
