"Activists targeted an asset manager that invests much less in fossil fuels than most of its peers. They succeeded in reducing funding for literary festivals, not fossil fuels or arms companies. The whole arts sector is already struggling. ... If Baillie Gifford isn’t clean enough to fill the gap, who exactly is?" - Financial Times
Remi Wörtmeyer, an Australian-born choreographer and visual artist and a former principal of the Dutch National Ballet, succeeds Edwaard Liang, now artistic director of Washington Ballet. - The Columbus Dispatch
"By opening itself more forthrightly to a wider audience, the library is doing something that Henry Clay Folger could probably never have imagined would be necessary: assert the importance of Shakespeare to public life, from scholars to laymen, passersby and politicians." - The Washington Post (MSN)
"(The school), which shut down suddenly earlier this month, does not appear to have enough money to pay its employees the minimum it owes them under federal law. The news came out of the first negotiating session that (administrators and attorneys) held with the school’s staff unions." - The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
"Matthew Teitelbaum, … who stewarded the institution through a tumultuous era of social upheaval and change, announced his retirement Thursday evening at a meeting of the museum’s board of directors. Teitelbaum, 68, became director in August 2015. He will leave his post ... in August 2025." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
"Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally intends to privatise public television and radio if it wins an absolute majority in the French parliament in snap elections. … Jordan Bardella, the party president, said selling off the public radio and television services would save more than €3bn, which could fund other policies." - The Guardian
We flaunt long workweeks and disdain anyone working less than full-time. But we’re likewise seduced by get-rich-quick schemes and “labor-saving” gimmicks. The rich may work long hours, but much of their income is passive, the fruit of asset appreciation and other people’s labor. - Commonweal
Paradigms and normal science? Sure. But the truly radical idea here is that outsiders—in this case, historians—can offer better insight into the inner workings of a profession than the practitioners themselves. - The New Republic
Across six decades, starting in the early 1960s, he appeared in nearly 200 films and television shows — some years he was in as many as half a dozen movies. - The New York Times
In the third year of this epochal war — which has destroyed some 210,000 buildings, according to a recent New York Times investigation — Russian forces continue to target civilian habitations in contravention of international law. When the city is a battleground, architecture becomes an act of defense and defiance. - The New York Times
Overall, we can think of a crisis as an emergency situation requiring a bold decision to go in one direction rather than another. So what wisdom does history offer for helping us to understand what it takes for governments to act boldly – and effectively – in response to a crisis? - Aeon
Like many nonprofit arts organizations, BAM has struggled financially since the pandemic, and its annual operating budget dropped. It has also been buffeted by leadership churn in recent years after decades of stability in its senior leadership ranks. - The New York Times
"'Dame Tracey' has a ring about it. It's really cool. I don't think there's ever been one before." She might not have become Dame Tracey if she hadn’t been alerted to a letter marked 'urgent' sitting unopened at her former studio. … I get the feeling she hasn’t stopped smiling since." - BBC
Cord Cutting is growing faster than ever but many cord cutters are moving away from live TV service. In the first quarter of 2024 alone, over 1.2 million people canceled Comcast, Spectrum, and DISH. Now YouTube TV has reportedly lost 150,000 subscribers in the 1st quarter. - CordCutters News
"Lahiri’s urge to escape English has many origins, but in part stems from her rebellion against contemporary publishing’s subsidiary plan for nonwhite authors, which incentivizes them to write about the persecution and difference they experience." Her new collection of Italian stories indicates that she may remain stuck in that paradigm. - Public Books
