Among the honorees are the founder-director of what's now the National Museum of Mexican Art, the Chicago Symphony's composer-in-residence, the 24-year-old jazz pianist who thrilled Herbie Hancock, and the stage managers of the Joffrey Ballet. - Chicago Tribune (MSN)
These franchises are spelling their own downfalls. This year has been a prime of example of what happens when a pop-culture movement takes hold of an industry and then overreaches. We’re witnessing Ragnarok. - The New York Times
They also discovered evidence that the inhabitants developed into a complex society between 5,000 and 6,500 years ago with residential homes, as well as buildings for handicrafts, waste removal, and food processing. - ARTnews
“Defendants’ unlawful use of The Times’s work to create artificial intelligence products that compete with it threatens The Times’s ability to provide that service.” - Deadline
Writers not only don’t work alone: they can’t. The key proxy for a vibrant book culture is the little packs they form when things are going well. A literary work of art begins long before the fateful confrontation with the blank page, in the whole life we’ve lived to know what to put upon it. - The Point
Approximately 2,600 feet above the ancient Pueblo cliff settlements, the archaeologists discovered a sprawling collection of “huge rock panels” stretching about 2.5 miles around a large plateau. - Miami Herald
"With its unique brain–body connection, dance is at the very center of neuroaesthetics, the science of how the arts affect our brains, and therefore our bodies. Early findings of this still-emerging field are confirming what dancers and dance lovers have long known implicitly." - Dance Magazine
"Not every adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has been frank about Celie's sexual orientation. And (the) new movie musical version of the story … has reignited a decades-long debate over whether Hollywood and Broadway can ever do its most transformative romance justice." - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo!)
When “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” debuted on CBS in the fall of 1967 it was an immediate hit, to the surprise of many who had assumed the network’s expectations were so low it positioned their show opposite the top-rated “Bonanza.” - AP
In countryside near Vancouver, on the studio backlots where many of the holiday romances are filmed, a Christmas-skeptical journalist went to the cable channel's first Hallmark Fan Experience, where visitors got to wander sets and enjoy hot cocoa with some of the network's acting stalwarts. - Salon
One of the reasons why “Maestro” comes across as pretty good, or maybe even a little better than that, is because it is not really about music. - Los Angeles Times
"In a world that grows increasingly dark, the ability to slip free of its grim logic and into a realm of uncharted delight, even for a little while, becomes less a luxury and more a necessity. … (It's not "just" escapism) when escape is more than just hiding." - The Boston Globe (MSN)
It’s not only that dance has been everywhere recently; it’s that dance is cool. Our lives are full of words — and words and words. Dance can say what words often can’t. It can be watched, it can be felt through the watching, and it can be a physical part of anyone’s life. - The New York Times
