"The deputy communications minister, Teo Nie Ching, told the parliament’s lower house that concert organisers must have 'a kill switch that will cut off electricity during any performance if there is any unwanted incident. We hope that with stricter guidelines, foreign artists can adhere to the local culture." - The Guardian
"In a 'novel' ruling on 'one of the oldest forms of human expression,' the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a decision last year that dismissed choreographer Kyle Hanagami’s lawsuit, which claimed that Epic Games stole his dance moves and used them as 'emotes' in Fortnite." - Billboard
"Re-entry is always harder than takeoff. … What’s weird is the adrenaline let-down. … That fact remains, though, it’s not really over. Not as long as SAG-AFTRA and Fran, Mother of Labor Dragons, are still at the table. God, I wish I could be in that dimly lit room." - The Hollywood Reporter
The flagship of African-American legacy media, hard-hit by the forces hammering print media over the past two decades, went bankrupt in 2019. Black investors came to the rescue, and Ebony is active on paper and online — but the wall between advertising and editorial has become unsettlingly porous. - Columbia Journalism Review
"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida said Friday that they were dropping their plans to build a museum, even as the city of Orlando is moving ahead with constructing the memorial." - AP
"'Treasured Ornament: 10 Centuries of Islamic Art' was announced by the museum in early October — days before Hamas attacked Israel — and was slated to open Saturday, Nov. 4. The touring exhibit featured 'fine glassware, ceramics, metalwork, painting, weaponry, weaving and more from countries across the Middle East.'" - WESA (Pittsburgh)
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century." - MSN (The Washington Post)
To narrow one’s approach to knowledge to any one field, any one area of specialisation, is to reduce one’s view of the world to the regulations of competing discourses, trivialising knowledge as something reducible to a methodology. - Aeon
The stunning drawings were rediscovered in 1975. That’s when Paolo Dal Poggetto, then director of the Museum of the Medici Chapels, tasked restorer Sabino Giovannoni with trying to clean part of the walls of a narrow chamber beneath the church’s mausoleum, which had been designed by Michelangelo in 1520. - Artnet
Part of the material includes texts from the network’s CEO Casey Bloys imploring lower-level staffers to create fake accounts on Twitter to respond to critics talking about their shows and on websites discussing HBO. - New York Magazine
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. - The New Yorker
“It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a matter of a decrease in demand—it’s also a reaction to increased costs. From September 2019 through September 2023, inflation is up 20 percent.” - Chicago Reader
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play certain Hollywood games … (and) played other games too enthusiastically. … (The industry) had branded her as volatile, difficult, even crazy." - The New York Times
The late Maria Tallchief — considered the country's first prima ballerina and one of the most notable Native American figures of the 20th century — was selected as one of two dozen people to be included in the U.S. Mint's American Women Quarters Program. - Axios
"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they can drop by from Monday to Friday between 9.15am and 5pm (and) partake in workshops for music, radio, drawing, painting or stained glass window-making." - The Guardian
