At the very least, the museum’s rosy first-year financial picture makes it something of a rarity among nonprofit cultural institutions, many of which are still reeling from the pandemic. - The New York Times
Sydney festival has suspended all funding agreements with foreign governments and their cultural agencies, after a mass boycott by artists and audiences earlier this year. - The Guardian
This shrinking of American “funny pages” comes more than a century after the rise of the print comics section. “Comic strips were created — by editors and publishers —for a very good business reason: to attract and hold readership in order to beat out the competition.” - Washington Post
Chinese creators use translation apps, dubbing software, and VPNs to help viewers speed-watch movies and TV dramas in English, Spanish, and Bahasa Indonesia. Despite the translation errors and robotic narrations, each clip garners anywhere between a few thousand to millions of views. - Rest of the World
Australia's state capitals had some strict lockdowns, with Melbourne the world's most severe. Performing arts groups are still reporting attendance remaining stubbornly below 2019 levels. (Except in Western Australia, which locked out the rest of the country instead of locking down. Tickets in Perth are selling like gangbusters.) - The Guardian
In time, instrumentalists, chamber groups, dance companies, orchestras, theatre troupes, opera companies—even comedians, magicians, and other offbeat entertainers (literally tens of thousands of performers)—would owe part of their livelihoods to Community Concerts. - Nightingale Sonata
"This will adapt the book industry to the digital era by restoring an equilibrium between large e-commerce platforms, which offer virtually free delivery for books," said a government statement "The €3 delivery fee is not dissuasive for book buyers and the €35 threshold will favour grouped orders." - Euronews
In the last year, he has gone from a relative unknown to a bona fide art phenomenon. His surrealist-style paintings were acquired by deep-pocketed collectors like Tommy Mottola and Jessica Goldman Srebnick during Art Basel Miami Beach. - The New York Times
When the lockdowns started, Lillian DiPiazza was a principal at what was then Pennsylvania Ballet. She spent the next two years going back and forth between there and the Paris Opera Ballet, where she's just gotten a permanent contract — at the lowest rank but likely to climb quickly. - Pointe Magazine
Will a new generation of warehouse robots that can grasp goods almost as well as human hands make work better or easier for the people doing these jobs? Or will the technological evolution eliminate the need for these workers and their jobs? - Vox
The Antwerp-based collective FC Bergman bringsto BAM a work titled 300 el x 50 el x 30 el (the dimensions of Noah's Ark as described in scripture), "an ambitious hybrid of theater, installation and live video, with an elaborate set that recreated a rural settlement onstage." - The New York Times
“That was the problem. Using music, rather than having it be its own experience … What kind of music am I going to use to set a mood for the day? What am I going to use to enjoy my walk? I started not really liking what that meant.” - The Guardian
In a request for more funding to pursue the case, the district attorney for Santa Fe County stated that "we will be potentially charging between one and four people with criminal charges ... includ(ing) some variation of our homicide statute." - CBS News
"It's still unclear exactly what markets in the region will be affected, but it's likely to include Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Kuwait — all of which are notorious for censoring movies over even the slightest hint of LGBTQ themes or content." - Variety
Thompson, co-founder of the North Adams, Mass. museum, who stepped down as director in 2020 after 32 years, was charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation for a 2018 collision with a motorcyclist who died at the scene and was found to have been drunk. - New England Public Media
