Mariko Silver, currently head of the Henry Luce Foundation, formerly president of Bennington College, and for several years an Obama administration official, will take up her new post in September. - AP
For instance, the Alliance of Black Orchestral Percussionists “provides students with equipment like mallets and cymbals, allowing proteges to master more quickly the dizzying array of instruments for which an orchestral percussionist is responsible.” - San Francisco Classical Voice
Ziff Davis will be “the third corporate parent for the pioneering tech news and reviews site in four years” - with its value dropping at each sale. - Variety
A British art center, “initially due to be located at the gallery’s current campus in Vernon Square in central London, will later be moved a couple of miles south next to the Thames in purpose-designed premises at Somerset House.” - ARTnews
The CEO “said the company must reduce payroll by 20% or layoffs will commence later this month, adding that employees have until Aug. 16 to take the buyout packages, which max out at 12 weeks of pay.” That includes about 100 journalists, some who recently won Pulitzers. - Creative Loafing
Even though revenues have grown by 2% since last year, operating profit declined by 3% — this just a year after Disney committed $60 billion to expanding its theme parks. Executives blamed higher operating costs and an unexpected drop in consumer demand. - Business Insider
“In his memoirs, he described himself in his 60s as ‘past hopes, past illusions, past high thoughts and lofty conceptions.’ His extraordinary but unusual music was unloved and unplayed.” - The New York Times
"Luigi Brugnaro, who has maintained his innocence since the wide-ranging scandal involving public tenders and land sales broke in July, addressed the city council during a special meeting Friday, as hundreds of people gathered outside city hall calling for his resignation." - AFP (Barron's)
In this long-time coming collaboration, seven choreographers worked in pandemic-created “isolation to create choreography to tracks from Williams’s albums MartyrLoserKing and Encrypted & Vulnerable, … exploring themes of exploitation, mystical anarchy, and the intersection of technology and race.” - San Francisco Classical Voice
He says he stockpiled plays during the COVID lockdowns; he's had readings of two in the past two years, has another getting a full staging next year, and yet another sketched out for 2026. "I guess the full total is getting near to 100." - The Guardian
Good luck keeping A Court of Thorns and Roses out of the hands of teenagers, but also, this is horrifying - and includes Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, for instance, along with Judy Blume, Rupi Kaur, and (are we surprised?) other women authors. - Salt Lake Tribune
Assembly theory, as ASU professor Sara Walker and her colleagues call it, "looks at everything in the universe in terms of how it was assembled from smaller parts. Life, the scientists argue, emerges when the universe hits on a way to make exceptionally intricate things." - The New York Times
“I basically grew up watching this theatre, in many different inner iterations, creating work along the way, especially the new plays, which is what kept me here. It was too good of an opportunity to leave. To meet with living playwrights? Come on! It was the best.” - American Theatre
