Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, executive director and chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, knows this week is crucial for the future of entertainment. - The New York Times
"Dubious holidays are a phenomenon of the social media era, and many of them are designed to promote products. This may be the case with National Daughters Day." (Which spawned National Sons Day and National Nonbinary Kids Day.) - Slate
Cool, but why the heck? "Guédelon is an example of experimental archaeology — which is a way to research how people did things in the past by trying to imitate them. It's about 'building to discover.'" - NPR
It was 1955, and he and a buddy were soaked to the skin when a couple sheltered, dried, and fed them. He later sent them a ceramic depiction of their black and white cat. - BBC
Native artists and others were protesting a "colonizer" statue in New Mexico when a 23-year-old wearing a MAGA hat shot and injured artist and climate activist Jacob Johns, Hopi and Akimel O’odham. - Hyperallergic
Perez's "minimalist but wildly experimental work, marked by spare, precise movements, helped ignite a budding Los Angeles dance scene after he moved west from New York." - Los Angeles Times
After earning her doctorate in music composition, she wrote "more than a hundred compositions in a seven-decade career, including seven operas, many orchestral works and a large body of chamber music." - The New York Times
"Creative Scotland will use National Lottery funding reserves to plug the gap, but said the moment was a 'tipping point' for an already fragile sector." - BBC
