Yes: "The dribbling of classic works into the public domain every year on Jan. 1 may be gratifying, but it also serves to underscore the stupidity and cupidity of our convoluted copyright system." - Los Angeles Times
"Building a habit can take a lot of time and energy, so it’s important to make sure you pick behaviors you actually want to do and enjoy doing." - Wired
It irks Kevin Kavanagh that the role played by private art galleries is not valued by the Arts Council, from which they get no assistance, though both private theatre groups and private publishers do. “I am doing something they are meant to be doing – promoting art in Ireland." - Irish Times
"For almost a year now, it’s been clear that the HarperCollins People Team and the lawyers from our parent company, News Corp, hope that our bargaining committee can be scolded into thinking we are asking for too much—that we can be discouraged into bargaining against ourselves." - N+1
The two-hour special averaged about 5.1 million total viewers, which was up 18% compared to last year’s audience of about 4.3M. It was the No. 1 show of the night in terms of total viewership. - Deadline
These museums, hundreds of them, reflect the idiosyncrasies and specialized interests of their founders while offering a window into the ethnic, cultural and historical diversity that has come to define Southern California. - The New York Times
Nostalgic TV programmes often want us to remember the ’70s as the decade that “taste forgot”. They offer up montages of space hoppers, avocado-coloured bathroom suites, lava lamps, garish wallpaper and flared corduroy trousers. - The Conversation
Brent Reidy will be responsible for four public research centers — the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building; the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; and the Yoseloff Business Center — which collectively have 47 million items. - The New York Times
"Merging two cultural streams — the progressive and the conservative — that many see as mutually exclusive, Prumsodun Ok presents a new outlook on Khmer culture" with his company, Natyarasa, which now consists of ten professional dancers. - VOD (Cambodia)
"Unlike the schlockier disaster porn that precedes it, the technical disaster movie depicts a real or realistic catastrophe that is in principle avoidable. Their carnage and destruction are never existential horrors or acts of God; they are the consequences of human complacency, stupidity or resignation." - The Point
Mail mattered then, as it had from the beginnings of the republic through the 1970s, more or less, when the falling price of long-distance phone calls and the fax machine devastated written correspondence. - New Criterion
Critics hated it, audiences flocked to it, and some social media commenters and media columnists argues that it was immoral even to have written and made the show. Did they have a point, or did they miss the point? - BBC
