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The NFL Is Making A Move Beyond Televised Games Into Football Documentaries

The league has already made single- and multi-episode docs about famous football players and coaches with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Roku, and intends to work with Hulu and Apple as well. There are already 50 projects in the pipeline. - The New York Times

Former CEO Countersues Orlando Museum Of Art Over Basquiat Exhibition Fiasco

Aaron De Groft argues that the museum's board and outside attorneys greenlit the show, which turned out to be full of forgeries, even after the FBI began investigating it. He maintains that the museum's suit against him, after having fired him, is a PR stunt to save face. - AP

Despite Near-Record Ticket Revenue, Chicago Symphony Has A Seven-Figure Deficit

"The CSO swung to a $1.4 million operating deficit from (a surplus) of $1.7 million last year. Driving the red ink was a 15% rise in operating expenses to $77 million (and) the drying up of pandemic relief funds." This despite second-highest-ever ticket income of $22.1 million. - Crain's Chicago Business

Disturbing Trend: Movies That Get Completed But Not Released

Films, it seems, are no longer being seen as works of art – or even as pieces of entertainment. They are being seen as items on a balance sheet, minor details in a global corporate strategy, and small components in a portfolio of intellectual property. - BBC

Statistical Analysis: What The Largest Dance Companies In America Look Like

In the Largest 50 contemporary and modern companies, there are 30 female artistic directors (56%) and 24 male artistic directors (44%). Whereas, the Largest 50 ballet companies, include 13 female (24.5%) and 38 (74.5%) male artistic directors. - Dance Data Project

Can America’s Endangered Post-Modernist Buildings Be Saved?

Significant Postmodern buildings like the Abrams House in Pittsburgh and the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego have already been demolished. Other beloved/reviled examples now await their fate. - Bloomberg

Sarah Bernstein Wins Canada’s $100K Giller Prize

In a statement, the jury said: "The modernist experiment continues to burn incandescently in Sarah Bernstein's slim novel, Study for Obedience. Bernstein asks the indelible question: what does a culture of subjugation, erasure and dismissal of women produce? - CBC

Study: Stereotypes Might Not Influence Us As Much As We Thought

It suggests that the influence that stereotypes can have on spontaneous impressions may not be as strong as previously thought, at least not when people are evaluating unambiguous behaviour. - Psyche

Humanities In Crisis? Not Really What You Think

More real for the humanities than any “crisis” within is that they, along with the universities that house them, are repeatedly subject to and undermined by attacks from the outside. Universities generally, and the humanities more particularly, have long been a political football. - Prospect

Can You Tremble And Convulse Your Way Into Insanity? And Then Back To Sanity?

That is the question that video and performance artist Liz Magic Laser and her mother, choreographer and dancer Wendy Osserman, explore in their exhibition "Convulsive States." - The New York Times

Knight Foundation Chooses A New President

In her new role, Wadsworth, 50, will oversee a $2.6 billion foundation that gives millions of dollars in grants each year to arts, journalism and community organizations. - Poynter

Social Scientists Tried To Figure Out Which Words The Brits Find Most Funny And Why

Psychologists Chris Westbury and Geoff Hollis "wanted to see how a word’s phonology (sound), spelling, and meaning influenced whether people found it amusing, as well as the effectiveness of incongruity theory — the idea that the more something subverts expectations, the funnier it gets." - Mental Floss

The Hollywood Actors Contract: What’s In It

Criticism is already bubbling up from a variety of quarters that the guild negotiating committee didn’t push hard enough with the CEO Gang of Four and the AMPTP on AI protections and success-based bonuses for streaming shows and movies. - Deadline

The Best Design For Public Housing Projects Was Developed In Vienna A Century Ago

The success of the Austrian capital's well-known Gemeindebauten is due not only to government funding and conscientious management. The popularity of the enormous apartment complexes is due, in large part, to their design. - Bloomberg CityLab

The Vegas Sphere Is Astonishing. But Is It Just A Novelty?

These attractions tend to lean heavily on novelty, and their shelf life can be very short — the 2021 flurry of immersive Van Gogh shows already seems to have petered out. - Axios

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