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Balanchine Fave Patricia Wilde Dies At 95

Patricia Wilde performed more than 40 roles with City Ballet, and Balanchine, who created many roles for her, "often liked to throw her into a part with little rehearsal." - The New York Times

This Virus Truly Hates Fun

Any place where people can gather - including the retro pinball arcades that were making a comeback - is fair game for COVID. - CBC

Edinburgh Fringe Fest Is Missing A Few Things

No spontaneous performances, no flyers being handed out, not as many shows: Organizers hope the in-person Festival is also missing the Delta variant. - BBC

Following Emergency Surgery, Michael Tilson Thomas Withdraws From Fall Appearances

The canceled appearances include a long-planned, and personally planned, concert to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy Center. - Washington Post

In Streaming, Writers Are Left Behind

The new SAG-AFTRA president is determined to help screenwriters reap the benefits of their labor. - Los Angeles Times

We’re Entering A New Frontier For Dance

It feels like dancemaking is entering a new era. By setting dancers loose in the open air, outdoor filmmaking paradoxically brings them even closer to us in stunning, intimate ways, using the unique strategies of the camera. - Washington Post

How Might We Redesign Higher Education?

Another way to ask this question is to start with how our universities are designed today and ask which elements support or conflict with the research on learning. - Inside Higher Ed

Goodbye Minimalism? More Is Now More

No Pythonesque general is demanding we choose between plain and patterned plates. But it does feel like the finger-wagging minimalism that informed the housewares and home design market for over a decade is losing relevance while its opposite is gaining currency. The Walrus

How Essay Collections Became A Hot Genre

When the century began, essays were considered box office poison; editors would sometimes disguise collections of the stuff by packaging them as theme-driven memoirs. All that has changed. Paris Review

Move Over Miami Beach, Stand Aside Hamptons — The Art World Moved To Aspen

There is a general sense that Aspen has become a center of the art world during this hot vax summer. - New York Magazine

Is It Possible You Have Too Many Unread Books?

Unread books now exist in three states for me: Actual books, piled horizontally on a five-foot-wide bookcase; books listed in a tab on my reading spreadsheet, some sorted by category or interest; and the many books I’ve tagged “to-read” in my library app. - Tor

The Death Of The Author? Er, In Which Sense?

Kristen Roupenian ("Cat Person") considers two superfans, Annie Wilkes in Misery and Harry in With a Friend Like Harry, who completely lose the distinction between the stories they love and the men who wrote them — and she draws a comparison with the abortion-rights debate. - The New Yorker

“Hyperpop” And Defying Categorization

If mainstream pop is designed to make people feel as if they’re on common ground with all of humanity, this music made listeners feel like they were in on a very specific joke. - The New Yorker

Members Of Pussy Riot Flee Russia And “Constant Arrests”

"Citing a campaign of sustained harassment by the Russian government, … Alexander Sofeyev, Anna Kuzminykh, and Veronika Nikulshina announced via Twitter that they left in order 'to take a break from constant arrests for a second.'" - Artforum

El Sistema Has A Labor Problem

"Too often, those who fund our programs are, in effect, asking our team members to do more with less. There is a combined scarcity/charity mindset that permeates the entirety of our programs, forcing teachers and staff to make difficult choices about their livelihoods and quality of life." - Ensemble News

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