Chinese scholars and activists developed new means of analysing and ordering the written language to equip it for, among other things, literacy campaigns, library classification systems, typewriting and computing. - Literary Review
"Pursuing a more 'panoramic approach' to the painter’s oeuvre, the Madrid institution has placed Las Majas in a new gallery alongside two little-seen sketches of Saint Bernardino of Siena preaching to an Aragonese king, as well as a reclining Venus by Titan." - ARTnews
As we move toward a new, post-pandemic era, the tensions in the labor market of the 14th century may have something to teach us about turmoil to come. - The New York Times
"More than fifty years of writing about Naipaul! Yet only in the last few years, the dust having settled"— Naipaul died in 2018, and, writes Theroux, was a far less difficult person in his final years — " I have seen how complex our relationship was." - London Review of Books
"Let's say (Robin Williams is) singing the words 'reality, what a concept' — in that case … a royalty would have been generated and (Pandora) would be paying the license. But because he said the words 'reality, what a concept' … they didn't deal with it." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
Open Arts was initially founded as a residency program at Facebook. Artists were commissioned to create work along with employees on site at the company’s headquarters, giving Facebook workers insight into the artistic process. - Artnet
"With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to become the continent's lingua franca." - BBC
IPR began managing broadcast operations at the stations in 2007 and now the Board of Regents of the universities will decide on a proposal that would have the group take ownership of the stations. - Inside Radio
This staging, on the Mark Taper Forum's thrust stage, is the first time since playwright Jeremy O. Harris first workshopped the play at Yale. Here's a look at how the designer, director and staff adjusted to the new layout. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"In a general way, I think men dancing has become a much more acceptable sort of profession. That change has had a lot to do with television and Strictly (Come Dancing). … There's been a massive shift, I think, in the public's perception of what dancing is." - The Sunday Post (Glasgow)
"The collection of 239 objects, encompassing Pueblo and Navajo pottery, textiles, and jewelry, is not well known, despite the fact that Barnes installed the textiles largely on the second floor of his (original) Merion gallery, where they eventually kept watch over the Matisse mural, The Dance." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
"Standard levels of funding of arts and culture in Australia continue to lag behind major world economies and have failed to keep up with inflation or population growth, an analysis of spending shows." - The Sydney Morning Herald
The newspaper is removing words from the game's master list of possible word choices (mostly dirty words and obscure ones). Consequently, one day this week, people playing on the old Wordle page and on the Times page got different solutions to the puzzle. Social media was all abuzz. - Cnet
