Female acts make up seven of the eight nominees in the top three categories — with SZA leading the pack with nine overall nominations while Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus and boygenius earned six nods a piece. - The Hollywood Reporter
Sadiq Fitrat Nashenas, one of the last living stars of a golden era for Afghan music, fled the Taliban in 1991, settled in London and performed for audiences throughout the diaspora for 12 years. Last month, he sang in public for the first time in two decades. - The New York Times
“This was not a financial decision for either one of us. I mean we’re two both very strong organizations financially. This is purely about being stronger together and better serving the Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts community.” -InsideRadio
Cinematographer Yaroslav Pilunskiy uses his skills to give the best possible sense of depth and scale to, say, trenches hidden in forests. Film editor Ivan Bannikov compares surveilling the enemy to planning the edit of a film scene: "It’s the same here, you are looking for the right angle." - The Guardian
"Janet Sobel experimented. She would squirt paint directly out of a tube, drip it with an eyedropper, even pull wet paint across the canvas using suction from a vacuum cleaner. … Sobel's first drip painting was called Milky Way and finished in 1945 — two years before Pollock 'invented' drip painting." - Literary Hub
"Over the past four decades, Andrew Wylie has reshaped publishing in profound and, some say, insalubrious ways. He has been a champion of highbrow books and unabashed commerce, making great writers famous and famous writers rich. In the process, he has helped to define the global literary canon." - The Guardian
"'If you want to see a diverse and vibrant cultural community come to fruition, you have to build it," said Guy Ben-Aharon, founder of The Jar, which gathers small, disparate groups of people invited by "conveners" to evenings centered on particular artists from different disciplines. - MSN (The Washington Post)
The actor was not found personally liable, but his Canal Productions was found liable for former staffer Graham Chase Robinson's "emotional distress and reputational harm." Jurors rejected Canal's $6 million countersuit against Robinson alleging embezzlement and financial malfeasance. - BBC
"Street fights erupted between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators outside Los Angeles’ Museum of Tolerance after a private screening of video showing the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas militants." - AP
"He joined NPR in 1980 and filed more than 3,000 stories. … During more than three decades as a reporter and an editor, his work spanned the world and made him an eyewitness to some of the most momentous events in modern history." - NPR
“You have to be a small business first, not just somebody asking for business,” he said. “You have to be your own PR person. You got to be your own manager. You have to learn how to edit, too.” - Gothamist
For many, spending months trying to really understand why they have lost investment and feeling they are no closer to an answer has made them less confident in the way English arts funding is assessed and distributed. - The Stage
The agreement guarantees a 23 percent wage boost over the life of the contract, raising the minimum wage and promising annual raises. The cost of health care benefits will also drop, while expanding its coverage to part-time staff averaging 20 hours per week. - ARTnews
"The growing tendency of artists to pronounce on everything from microaggressions to macropolitics shows that we need a fundamentally different understanding of the role played by artists and their institutions." - Compact Magazine
