Or rather not ending, but continuation, as a U.S. company buys and intends to expand the company that hired actors and built elaborate sets for "immersive screenings" of everything from Star Wars to Stranger Things. - The Guardian (UK)
Lina Gónzalez-Granados was 5 "when she joined a 'tuna' — a musical group traditionally made up of college students who ... stand in a semi-circle wielding Spanish guitars of various sizes and shapes and singing ballads." That was her first lesson in the physical nature of music. - Los Angeles Times
For those visiting for Frieze, London offers the rewards of sculpture - even if the death of the queen scuppered a planned Sculpture Week. - The New York Times
His terrible treatment of his actors, including Amy Adams, on sets has been an open secret for quite some time. Yet he's faced no consequences, including for touching his niece's breasts - he claimed she was acting "very provocative and seductive." - Washington Post
"For some high-level players, even getting the advice of a machine for a move or two at a critical moment is all you’d need to win. Cheaters have been caught sneaking off to the bathroom to check moves on contraband smartphones." - Los Angeles Times
The issue of "Pretendians" is real in Canada (and the U.S.). Who decides? And why are so many academics, writers, and artists claiming First Nations heritage they don't actually have? - CBC
"Ariki Tepano, with the indigenous Ma'u Henua community that manages the park, said the fire had done 'irreparable' damage to the site. 'The moai are totally charred,'" he said. - NPR
"Poor on the outside and rich on the inside, and led by pioneers like Lynda Myles, Murray Grigor and many others, the Edinburgh film festival was feminist, unbridled, Nonconformist Scottish and passionately international. ... It changed film culture." - The Guardian (UK)
The range isn't the same, either for visuals or his music. "To this day, I still get letters from people going, 'There's 20 seconds of music missing in The Dark Knight,' and I'm going, 'No there is not any music missing. You're listening to it on your phone.'" - BBC
Philip Kennicott: "Authenticating work empowers scholars, and now scientists, and seems to be part of the gatekeeping apparatus that makes museums feel like zones of exclusion, or patriarchy." That's not why we love art. - Washington Post
Dabney was 16 when she joined Dance Theater of Harlem. She gained fame in the title role of the company’s 1982 production of Stravinsky’s Firebird. In that role, she contributed thawing cultural relations between the USSR and US, and later inspired Misty Copeland. - The New York Times
In one's own words: "We have no archivist, no rights & reproduction specialist, no collections database manager; we have only one paper conservator, one preparator, and one press officer. Each remaining staff person is covering the work of two or three people." - Hyperallergic
A nonbinary playwright takes a crack at it. "There will be many holes in this amorphous theatrical survey, and I hope other non-binary creators will fill them. ... However, the impossibility of completion is no excuse to shy away from the urgency of starting." - American Theatre
