"When we think about the virtual plane of existence where the impossible is possible, it's likely that many of us are going to want to use that to enrich our connection to the stories and characters we love most." - MSN (Los Angeles Times)
The voluntary recognition of the union from the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures comes less than two months after employees organized. Now for a first contract - which took LA's Museum of Contemporary Art a mere two years. - Hyperallergic
Former leader Yo-Yo Ma "saw the classical footing he brought to Silkroad as 'a starting point,' and classical music itself as 'a form of literacy.' In Giddens, who studied opera at Oberlin Conservatory, he sees a similar capability: the ability to employ difference as a binding agent." - Washington Post
Eisenberg was "a leading New York antiquities dealer who in the murky world of tomb raiders and smugglers held himself up as a guardian against the illegal importation and sale of ancient art." - The New York Times
The group founder: "I don't hear about romance novels taking place in Alberta — with Black people. There are Black people in Alberta, Edmonton and Calgary. I don't hear about Black romance taking place in Nova Scotia. There are Black people there, too, and in Ontario." - CBC
And yes, theatre folks on social media absolutely lost it. "All of this getting out so soon made what could have been a difficult-but-privately-handled situation into a messy, public shitshow." - Slate
YouTube isn't protecting its smaller artists (or any artists) from false claims. Says one producer, "A lot of the legal practices are going towards stifling artists, which is interesting when the main idea of is to be protecting them." - NPR
Wu wrote that during the backlash to a tweet, "I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to AsAms, and they’d be better off without me. ... Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER." - Variety
"Rainer Eudeikis, currently the principal cellist with the Atlanta Symphony, ... will succeed the late Michael Grebanier, who led the cello section from 1977 until his death in 2019." - San Francisco Chronicle
The BMA final vote was 89 to 29 in favor of joining the union, and the vote happened as workers at other Baltimore area cultural organizations - "the Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Baltimore County Public Library and The Walters Art Museum have all begun organizing." - Baltimore Sun
Leena Manimekalai shared the poster, of the Hindu goddess Kali smoking a cigarette and holding a Pride flag, on Twitter. "Any artist would expect a discussion, a discourse post her work being exhibited. But I never thought I would be attacked by this type of organized violence." - CBC
Only Maggie Gyllenhaal has worked well with her in the past few years, in Lost Daughter. Dare we even address the travesty of the new Persuasion? - Washington Post
The main scandal is about antisemitic art. "So many people worked for so much time on this, ... and by not addressing the accusations of antisemitism — both warranted and unwarranted — in a decisive and transparent manner, Documenta has let this debate eclipse everything else." - The New York Times
How useful is sanctuary theatre anymore? "The confessional genre of sanctuary theater places a labor demand—for a coherent, affectively productive story—on an already distressed migrant. This gig becomes only the latest in an endless string of temporary, contingent jobs." - Public Books
