The luxurious Ladies Lounge at the Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart had sought to highlight historic misogyny by banning male visitors from entering. It was forced to shut in May when one affected patron sued the gallery for gender discrimination and won. - BBC
Gladwell has insisted that change happens neatly, and he’s sticking to it. Epidemics, he writes in the new book, are “not wild and out of control.” They have a single source... He’s also sticking to a career-long dismissal and devaluation of digital communication and its possible effects. - The Atlantic
To protest the prison sentences given today to the original climate-protesting art vandals, three of their comrades went to the National Gallery in London and assaulted the very same painting with almost the same liquid. (This time they used Heinz vegetable soup instead of tomato.) - Artnet
A cursory glance at auction results over the last two years is enough to realize they have been middling at best, but JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy—which sold its fine art indices to Sotheby’s in 2016—quantified the decline. - ARTnews
DirecTV, founded in 1994 by Hughes Electronics, is owned by AT&T Inc. and TPG Inc., and has about 11 million customers. Dish, started in 1980 by billionaire Charlie Ergen, is part of his EchoStar Corp. and has about 8 million subscribers. - Los Angeles Times
The Trust’s newsrooms earn revenue from traditional sources: advertising and reader revenue, with events, commercial printing jobs, and branded content in the mix as well. Membership programs — and the small-dollar donations that hopefully come with them — “take time to build." - NiemanLab
At Creative Portland’s biennial Arts and Culture Summit, the conversation kept returning to the financial needs of a sector that still hasn't fully recovered from the COVID lockdowns. Panels touched on finding rehearsal and studio space, handling rising costs, and getting a full-time lobbyist at the state capitol. - Portland (Maine) Press Herald
Research from Oracle indicates that 90% of consumers are more likely to recall a product or brand associated with a humorous treatment, and 72% would choose a brand that uses humor over their competition. - Fast Company
Ophélie Gaillard's 1737 Francesco Goffriller cello and antique bows were taken at knifepoint in 2018; the thief later returned them, smashing a car window nearby and leaving them inside. This week, a thief broke into her home — while she was there — and made off with the cello and bows. - The Strad
Lily Janiak writes that she was reminded — very gladly — of just how many things go right to pull off a farce like this one so successfully. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The series, titled The Takeover, covers the overhaul of the Houston Independent School District by state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles. The lead reporter's long-term partner is a Houston ISD teacher, and HPM management decided just before release that this was too big a conflict of interest. - Texas Monthly
Considered by many the greatest British actress of her formidable generation, she won widespread admiration for such stage and screen performances as The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and Hedda Gabler and became genuinely beloved for her work in the Harry Potter films and Downton Abbey. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Merely Players Presents was founded in Doraville, a DeKalb County suburb whose population is 45% Hispanic, in 2018. This year, for the first time, the company did dual productions of a play, Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics, in English and Spanish, reaching an audience that local theaters rarely connect with. - ArtsATL
