“Ballet doesn’t have to be ‘boy meets girl, girl goes crazy, girl dies, becomes a fairy, boy chases her through the woods’. Audiences want to be taken somewhere a bit deeper.” - The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)
The skinny budget also eliminates funding for the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences, AmeriCorps, National Endowment for the Arts, and National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump has already made deep cuts at those agencies and put most—if not all—of their employees on leave. - InsideHigherEd
This repurposed power station was set to become the UK’s cultural powerhouse. Hulking on a once unloved stretch of the South Bank, its 99-metre tower signalled a message of regeneration and possibility to the rest of the world. And the world responded. They had prepared for 2 million visitors in its first year – 5 million came. - The Guardian
“The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature… was established (to provide) translations of literary works written in Chinese from the Zhou dynasty (circa 1046–256 BCE) to the end of the last empire, the Qing, in 1911, … (in) translations that are scholarly (without detracting) from the pleasure of reading.” - Los Angeles Review of Books
The general admission tickets for the world-famous event in Somerset were released at 09:00 BST on Sunday, and the festival announced on X they were gone by 9:20 BST. - BBC
The exact plan that Coming Home Oscar winner Voight, whose daughter is Angelina Jolie, has prepared for Trump is unclear, but sources with knowledge of his conversations with Hollywood insiders tell us they expect a federal tax incentive to be the main component. - Deadline
“Joe Chialo, from the conservative CDU party, had initially sought to defend the cost-saving measures but became a lightning rod for anger over the cuts. However, he said Friday that extra measures now being planned went too far and could ‘lead to the imminent closure of nationally known cultural institutions’.” - AFP (Yahoo!)
Research has drawn on principles of fluid dynamics to improve traffic predictions, sped up simulations of turbulence to enhance our understanding of hurricanes and devised tools that helped predict the spread of Covid-19. - Quanta
Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science fiction is of the left, while fantasy is of the right. - Dissent
“A comedic actress with a high-beam smile who often played sidekicks both wisecracking and wise, (she) scowled her way to pop-culture fame on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In playing a matron who wields her purse like a cudgel.” - The Washington Post (MSN)
We wanted to make clear that in many respects, trans and queer have always been with us. You can’t talk about same-sex desire without interrogating what sex you are talking about. - The Gay & Lesbian Review
The most memorable offerings didn’t care a whit about product-testing strategies. What marketing genius, for instance, could have predicted that “Maybe Happy Ending,” a jazz-infused rom-com about robots and mortality that originated in South Korea. - Los Angeles Times
“The auction of the Piprahwa gems will take place in Hong Kong next week. Sotheby’s listing describes them as being ‘of unparalleled religious, archaeological and historical importance’ and many Buddhists considered them to be corporeal remains, which had been desecrated by a British colonial landowner.” - The Guardian
