This isn't new; it's been going on for nearly a century, but Top Gun really highlights the results. "Each service – army, navy, air force, marines, coast guard – has its own entertainment liaison office in Los Angeles, in addition to the Pentagon’s own office." - The Guardian (UK)
The British Art Show is being staged at four venues across the city. But 26 artists have pulled out in protest after accusations of censorship at a controversial 2021 exhibition at one of the galleries, the Whitworth. They are also unhappy about reports its director was being "forced out". - BBC
The sandwich, priced at $1.95, was made with fresh bread from a local Italian bakery, aged cheddar cheese and a substantial smear of butter to make it perfectly crispy — exactly how Kinnear liked it. - Washington Post
The initiative announced on Thursday will build on those efforts, pairing each of the six composers with five ensembles. The program, which will cost at least $360,000, will be financed by the Toulmin foundation. - The New York Times
In other words, the sentence was meant to scare off or inhibit potential fraudsters with the threat of substantial incarceration time. With it, Judge Stein seemed to view the art market as rife with fraud. - ARTnews
With his account, NYT Pitchbot imagines the Times formula for stories as a kind of wheezing algorithm, a bot churning out contrarian headlines and half-baked hot takes. - Columbia Journalism Review
Studying the imagination is the most exciting and accurate way to heal the terminal divide between the sciences and the humanities. But, more importantly, Imagination Studies, or imaginology, also promises to reunite the body and the mind, reintegrate emotion and reason. - Aeon
An as-yet-unidentified man and woman walked into Taglialatella Galleries in Manhattan, headed to a Basquiat screen print, searched it on their phone, took it off the wall and tried to walk right back out. A gallery assistant stopped them, though they did manage to steal a two-thirds-empty bottle of whiskey. - Hyperallergic
In each case, the text at the bottom of the image was the prompt fed into the program, and the picture above, the output. Just to stress: that’s all it takes. You type what you want to see and the program generates it. - The Verge
"I argue that there's something in our human DNA that seeks the Happily Ever After (HEA). ... According to researchers, these fairytale endings can be traced as far back as the Bronze Age, long before literature had even the language to describe itself." - Literary Hub
“The company is more racially diverse today than it was in 2020, when about 30% of the company was BIPOC. Racial identity should only be identified by the individual, but the company is currently about 45% individuals of color with five dancers identifying as Black or Brown." - Seattle Times
Samuel Mariño, a 29-year-old Venezuelan whose voice never dropped, specializes in Baroque castrato roles, but he sees no reason not to sing female parts. (He already does Cherubino, written for a woman.) Oh, and he's definitely not trans, but he sees no reason not to wear skirts, either. - The New York Times
The emphasis: that material cultural and live performance follow the virtual. It’s an odd hierarchy to be asserting to an arts gathering emerging from a pandemic where everything went virtual – only to reveal how much the physical and the actual matter. - The Globe & Mail (Canada)
"I don't think we should be afraid of tackling complex stories and not feeling like the audience has to understand every second; one of the beauties of dance is that we get to escape into this poetic abstraction, even within a story ballet." - The Guardian
