Partners who are at first judged to be powerful or strong become controlling or overbearing after a breakup. People who are nice become pushovers. Successful people become workaholics. - BBC
Under the Law and Justice Party, officials fired many museum directors, replacing them with conservatives whose exhibitions promoted traditional social and artistic values. The current ruling coalition is working on reversing the politicization, and the director of Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art says she’s aiming straight for the center. - The New York Times
Mind you, we didn’t say newspapers. “Two upmarket London news start-ups are finding a growing (albeit small so far) market for paid online news about the UK capital. Meanwhile a third, more ambitious, title – London Daily Digital – has launched with 18 staff based on Fleet Street.” - Press Gazette (UK)
“Television Workshop, one of the country’s most successful acting programmes, can be found in a small, unassuming room down a street of former industrial buildings in Nottingham. … Auditions are rigorous and places are allocated based purely on talent.” And the school is now facing a financial crisis. - The Guardian
“On Feb. 25, 1925, Art Gillham, a musician known as 'the Whispering Pianist' for his gentle croon, entered Columbia Phonograph Company’s studio to test out a newly installed electrical system. Its totem was positioned in front of him, level with his mouth: a microphone.” - The New York Times
“In Toronto, they tend to go unnoticed, but talk to audiences in Glace Bay, Rimouski, Regina or Kitimat and, from their perspectives, Ballet Jörgen is effectively Canada’s national dance troupe. (Without it), audiences in smaller centres and remote communities would never have the chance to see fully realized, professional productions.” - Toronto Star
Aaron De Groft was axed by the museum’s board after the major Basquiat show he championed was found to be full of forgeries. The museum sued De Groft for malfeasance; he countersued for wrongful dismissal and defamation. De Groft died last month, and the parties have now ended their litigation. - Orlando Sentinel
Lisa Jeanine Findley pled guilty to mail fraud, in exchange for having an identity theft charge dropped, for a scam which cooked up a fake debt supposedly incurred by Lisa Marie Presley and attempted to foreclose on and seize Graceland to satisfy that debt. - NBC News
Pappano, 65, is a rarity in classical music: a maestro who never went to a music school. Born in England to Italian immigrant parents, then transplanted to Connecticut at 13, he learned through experience (and came away with an accent that remains charmingly jumbled to this day). - The New York Times
Hidden from the Assad regime’s secret police, Mohamad and Ahmad Malas performed over 200 plays in their apartment — until they were arrested during the Arab Spring demonstrations and fled Syria. The brothers never imagined they could return home because they never imagined that Assad would fall. And then he did. - The Guardian
"They want to do things in a time frame that suits them, rather than hope that they will find an agent, and that the agent finds a publisher, and at some point, in the future, that book is published. New writers are saying: ‘I can do something relatively quickly and learn how to be an entrepreneurial, self-starting author.’” -...
If the old Academy had a terror of making odd choices, the new Academy seems to be looking for ways to be odd. Its membership seems to have become in love with the unexpected gesture of heralding the unheralded because they value the symbolism, not because the work is worthy. - San Francisco Chronicle
Are we past the point where social media almost entirely drives arts marketing? While it’s unlikely social media platforms will all collapse in 2025, their ubiquity will almost certainly dissolve significantly in the years to come. - ArtsHub
There’s an entire new immersive exhibition dedicated to the composer, another show at the Theatermuseum, the city’s 30+ dance schools, and the venue that the composer’s great-grand-nephew considers most authentic: the House of Strauss, a museum situated inside a restored casino (which in Vienna means a small dance hall). - The Observer (UK)
The problem is that the definition of “free speech” has strayed far from its origins in the rights of ordinary folk to speak without interference from higher powers like governments. It has become a vacuous term, a plea to be able to act without any constraints, a dumb binary that either you’ve got or you haven’t. - The Guardian
