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
David Patrick Stearns looks at "a monumental new collection of artifacts by Jewish artists and musicians" titled Our Will to Live: The Terezín Music Critiques of Viktor Ullmann, Illustrations by Terezín Artists. - The Philadelphia Inquirer
Prescot is believed to have been the site of the only purpose-built Elizabethan theatre outside London, built in 1593. No plans of the original have survived, so the new venue is a replica of the Cockpit-in-Court, designed for Charles I by architect Inigo Jones at Whitehall Palace in 1629. - BBC
"What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo's intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the sensory, spiritual, and political affinities and ambitions behind Italian Futurism's radical new music." - The Public Domain Review
For all intents and purposes, Rita and Jerry Alter were a totally normal couple living in the New Mexico suburbs—except for one thing. They had a stolen Willem de Kooning painting worth $160 million hanging behind their bedroom door. - Smithsonian
"Several weeks in, it's clear many overestimated the Russian army's will and capability to fight and the Ukrainian army's will to resist an opponent superior in number, equipment and positioning." Two professors attribute this to the Russian and Ukrainian mindsets, as manifested in the countries' fairy tales. - The Conversation
The sceptical way of life, on Sextus’ presentation, follows a certain rhythm. You feel puzzlement about something. You search for knowledge about it. You arrive at two equally weighty considerations about what is happening. You let go trying to find an answer. - Aeon
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the Colombian-Belgian choreographer of Doña Perón for Ballet Hispánico, talks about such challenges as making the central character compelling when she has done many objectionable things and completely avoiding Andrew Lloyd Webber's show. - Pointe Magazine
With these actions, Europe is cementing its leadership as the most assertive regulator of tech companies such as Apple, Google, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft. - The New York Times
Nancy Allen: "I write legal thrillers. Most of the books I've written center around a woman whose life or safety is in jeopardy, generally inspired by actual crimes committed in the Ozarks, where I live. And the reason I write these stories is simple. Women are in peril here." - CrimeReads
