Ja'Malik, the company's new AD: "A lot of people think is a very elitist art form. It’s only for a certain demographic, a certain sociological background, economic background. ... I just want to help demystify that."- Madison 365
"So many artists have lived hard lives and had awful deaths that for years we seemed to expect this of them — that addiction and an early grave were a kind of tax levied on artists, most especially writers." - The New York Times
"This past year, there are deaf characters and deaf representation all over the place. A list that includes: Hawkeye, Eternals, A Quiet Place Part II, CODA, and Only Murders in the Building. Deaf creatives are out in full force." - The Smart Set
A report by Dutch historians refuted The Betrayal of Anne Frank. "The book had claimed to identify the informant who alerted Nazi police to the Frank family’s hiding place, but the report’s authors said the conclusions were based on 'faulty assumptions' and 'careless use of sources.'" - The New York Times
"When I ask [legendary Odesa journalist Yevgeny Golubovsky how I can help, he replies, 'Ah, I need nothing, and when I ask again what I can do, he sends a quick message back: 'Putins come and go. We are putting together a literary magazine. Send us poems.'" - The Paris Review
Cumbo "takes the helm of the Cultural Affairs department at a delicate moment — with the arts sector still struggling to emerge from the pandemic and her predecessor at the department warning that the agency is in trouble." What kind of a leader will she be? - The New York Times
Let's talk about the film's use of music. "Though music is not intrinsically antithetical to deafness—deaf musicians are not unusual ... — CODA largely treats music as an exclusionary club for hearing people." - The Atlantic
Cash-poor museums to generate money by selling nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Last year, NFTs, usually pegged to the high-flying but volatile Ethereum cryptocurrency, took the market for art and collectibles by storm, with sales estimated in the tens of billions. - The New York Times
The Dormio enables a limited shaping of the images that appear during sleep’s first stage. Yet this is enough to give bite to the question, to render it slightly less abstract. Why would I want to shape my dreams? What kinds of things can you do with dreams? - Harper's
The regeneration of cultural destinations and tourism is a key objective, but more so, the pandemic has prompted a critical rethink on pressing concerns including placemaking, accessibility and how people are engaging with cultural infrastructure. - ArtsHub
“Because we have seen so much growth over the last few years, the No. 10 show is getting more downloads than the No. 10 show did a few years ago – it’s not really an apples-to-apples thing to say the new shows are not hits.” - Inside Radio
Randall Kline was the driving force behind the opening of the $64 million SFJazz Center at Franklin and Fell streets, which opened its doors in 2013 as one of the only major venues in the country devoted to jazz programming. - San Francisco Chronicle
Renee Fleming’s comment that, as a singer, she doesn’t travel as much as instrumental soloists came just a few minutes after mentioning that she had seen Yannick Nézet-Séguin open the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season and Carnegie Hall’s season—commuting to Paris for concerts in between. - Van
