"The school board in Sherman voted unanimously Monday to reinstate the original show and cast after a meeting in which dozens criticized them and spoke in support the 17-year-old transgender boy who’d lost his role in the production because of a new policy." - AP
"In the 1880s, almost a century after Burns died, Edinburgh forger Alexander 'Antique' Smith produced hundreds of fake manuscripts, selling them to booksellers, pawnshops and collectors. … Many of his counterfeits remain in circulation (and) can fetch tens of thousands of pounds at auction today." - BBC
Jennifer Miller Hammel, who created the channel, called Arcade: “We tried to eliminate that roadblock of, Well, is this going to be too scary for a classical audience? But then also, is there a way that we can introduce some classical music to a gaming audience?" - The New York Times
The honor is conceived and presented by the Vaclav Havel Center in New York City, which advances the late playwright and Czech president's legacy in human rights and freedom of expression. Alaa Abdel-Fattah, the imprisoned Egyptian activist, was given the Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk. - AP
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
