"Subhash Kapoor, ... described by authorities as one of the world's most prolific antiquities smugglers, ... faced charges for the burglary and illegal export of idols belonging to the Varadharaja Perumal temple, a Hindu place of worship located outside the southern Indian city of Kanchipuram." - ARTnews
"The English National Opera is to lose its £12.6m core annual funding from Arts Council England in a major shake-up that leaves its future uncertain. Instead, the prestigious company will get £17m over three years to 'develop a new business model', with a suggestion it moves from London to Manchester." - BBC
Barbara Delo started with the company in September 2021, shortly after having a baby, and was dismissed this past July. She claims that she was discriminated against for being a nursing mother and reprimanded for bringing her infant to work and on tours. - The New York Times
Culture minister Claudia Roth: "We are particularly concerned with the preservation of cultural offerings, from cinemas to theaters and concerts, but also to institutions such as museums, which do not have the means to deal with the crisis in their budgets." - Artnet
Songwriter Andy Stone sued the popstar in June, claiming he co-wrote a song with the same name five years earlier. He told the court he would dismiss the case - but legally he could refile it. - BBC
Mark Zuckerberg is obsessed with a virtual world no one wants, the company’s stock is down 70 percent from its peak, and it has lost $800 billion of its market capitalization. - Vice
The items – a bowl, a teacup and a plate – were broken in three separate incidents during the past 18 months but the damage came to light only last week under questioning from a Taiwan legislator. The artefacts date back to the 15th and 17th centuries. - The Guardian
In the coming year, 77% of collectors say they plan to attend more overseas fairs, exhibitions and events—good for trade but not the environment. - The Art Newspaper
An Artificial Intelligence (DALL-E) was tasked with imagining from their official synopses and titles what these movies, with their mix-and-match tropes and grab bag of Yuletide signifiers — movies that will one day be pitched, greenlighted and written by AI, if they aren’t already — might look like. - Los Angeles Times
It’s tempting to see Garfield as a footnote. But he was far better than his contemporaries at solving the puzzle of how to take the new acting techniques coming out of the New York theatre during the thirties and forties and adapt them for the screen. - The New Yorker
"What makes the usto ply their craft when their own culture moves beyond them? Some find work by updating old techniques for new patrons. Others create because that alone is what gives their life purpose." - T — The New York Times Style Magazine
All these multiverses might add up to nothing good. If all potential endings come to pass, what are the consequences of anything? What matters? Joe Russo, the co-director of “Endgame,” has warned that multiverse movies amount to “a money printer” that studios will never turn off. - The New Yorker
"Young people with no personal memories of a time when the Irish language was championed as a form of resistance by republican IRA inmates on hunger strike ... are the driving force behind a cultural revival that has breathed new life into a language long in decline." - The New European
We suggest that fiction and reality interact through some sort of trade exchange with all its dark sides and complexities. Some transactions occur in the light of day, while others happen under the table – we unconsciously import beliefs, desires and biases into fiction. - Psyche
"(He) created a world of oddballs sharing life's chaos with a pointy-eared bull terrier that once barked a flower to death, and sometimes with a herd of cats that shredded couches and window shades between sweet naps." - The New York Times
