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Ontario’s Conservative Government Eliminates One-Time Arts Grants

"The Ford government says it will maintain its $60-million in base funding for the Ontario Arts Council in next week’s budget but will not renew about $5-million in one-time grants for the culture sector." - The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Vermeer Detective: His Captivating Theory About The Artist’s Daughter

Of course, I sometimes still had to weather the churning roil of his stream of consciousness. I won’t try to replicate his frenetic, perseverating mode of expression here. But when Binstock grows focused, and whenever he writes, he sets out his arguments with precision. - The Atlantic

How Do Choreographers Come Up With Names For Their Works?

"It's a precarious task that needs to carefully shape the audience's experience but not smother it. A title should be just enough of a frame to hold its contents, while remaining permeable so the viewer can ascribe their own meaning." Three dancemakers discuss how they go about it. - Dance Australia

Fascinating: What Scientists Are Learning About Cognition In Animals

More and more scientists are realizing that animals, like people, are individuals: They have distinct tendencies, habits, and life experiences that may affect how they perform in an experiment. That means, some researchers argue, that much published research on animal behavior may be biased. - The Atlantic

Ai Weiwei Recreates Monet’s Water Lilies With Hundreds Of Thousands Of Legos

The exiled Chinese artist's Water Lilies #1 is 50 feet long and incorporates 650,000 Lego bricks in 22 colors. The first public display of the work will be in Ai's exhibition at the Design Gallery in London next month. - ARTnews

Ukraine’s Publishing Industry Struggles On Through Invasion And War

"The number of titles published in Ukraine was cut almost in half last year, dropping from 17,000 in 2021 to just under 9,000. … The war has been especially difficult on the printing sector, which is centered in Kharkiv and had a significant amount of infrastructure destroyed." - Publishers Weekly

How Aaron Sorkin Is Remaking The Script Of “Camelot” Into Something Today’s Audiences Can Stomach

The songs "How to Handle a Woman" and "What Do the Simple Folk Do?" haven't aged well, and the book of the Lerner & Loewe musical, always a weakness, is even worse today. So the producers asked Sorkin to do what he did with To Kill a Mockingbird. - The New York Times

NPR And WHYY Will Make 40 Years Of “Fresh Air” Archives Available To Paid Podcast Subscribers

"Subscribers to Fresh Air+ will also get more recent exclusives, such as unaired excerpts from recent interviews and behind-the-scenes content that pulls back the curtain on how the Peabody Institutional Award-winning interview show is made." - Inside Radio

Perhaps For The First Times, A Prominent Podcast Company Is Sold To Its Employees

Jesse Thorn, host/producer of the public radio show Bullseye and founder/owner of Maximum Fun, which produces several other podcasts, worried about the fate of his staff if he sold the company to a larger enterprise. So he turned it into a co-op. - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)

Yet Another Director Of A Major Moscow Museum Is Ousted

Just a month after the director of the Tretyakov Gallery was forced to resign after being pressured to make the exhibits "in line with spiritual and moral values," Marina Loshak is stepping down (voluntarily, she says) as director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. - MSN (The Washington Post)

Virginia Zeani, Soprano And Teacher Revered By Colleagues, Is Dead At 97

"The conductor Richard Bonynge ranked her among the top four sopranos of the 20th century. And according to Ms. Zeani, Maria Callas's husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, confided to her that she was 'one of the very few sopranos that my wife is frightened of.'" - The New York Times

Artists Protest Proposal To Triple Fees For Artist Visas To The US

O-1 visas for “individuals with extraordinary ability or achievement” would increase from $460 to $1,655. P-2 visas would jump from $460 to $1,615. The USCIS proposed the changes in January, arguing that the new rates would reflect an increase in costs at the agency. - MixMag

Bollywood Music Removed From Spotify

Spotify says it's not been able to reach an agreement with the owners of the tracks after the old one expired. Soundtracks with millions of plays were among the deleted hits. - BBC

Using Tech To Probe The Grammar Of Dance

The Functional Grammar of Dance (FGD) explains how body parts create meaning by interacting with the space and the people surrounding dancers in a performance. We used it to annotate and interpret data collected from live dance rehearsals. - The Conversation

How Theatre Is Doing In A Post-Pandemic (Yeah, We Know) World

The more pressing question, now that theatres are back in some kind of business, is: How is business? Are audiences coming back at anything like pre-pandemic levels? And are theatres able to make ends meet? The evidence is mixed, and seems to vary by region. - American Theatre

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