"During a rehearsal at the Odesa National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Odesa, it's easy to forget that Ukraine is a country at war. Despite attacks on the busy port city and cultural hub, the opera house remains open." - The World
"The latest installment of Actors' Equity Association's annual hiring and wage report – covering the year 2021 and titled 'Progress During an Atypical Year' – finds that the theater industry made small but steady progress in diversity and equity in union jobs for stage managers and actors." - Deadline
"Arts leaders are unsure what the new normal might be after attendance numbers took a hit from the pandemic. Much hinges on the answer, especially now that federal emergency COVID-19 funding for arts groups has ended and ticket income is becoming more critical." - The Philadelphia Inquirer
"After more than two decades of planning, fundraising, and construction, the International African American Museum in Charleston finally has an opening date: June 27, 2023 — just after Juneteenth. The announcement comes after myriad delays to the project, which was first proposed by Charleston mayor Joe Riley back in 2000." - Artnet
Encyclopedias have always been a hard sell. Moving a hefty set of books at a big ticket price—toward its last days Britannica sold for $1,500—it could scarcely have been otherwise. - The Wall Street Journal
“Digital dualism” is finally on life support, replaced by a dawning recognition that the distinction between offline and online has collapsed. Instead, we face pervasive surveillance enabled by the growth of cameras, sensors, connected devices, and data collection in our communities. - The Atlantic
Love it all or hate it all or fall somewhere in between (Koons! has played all these years to decidedly mixed reviews), he has maintained extraordinary relevance over the decades. - GQ
Sometimes, the euphoria that accompanies epiphany gives way to disorientation, and self-transcendence can turn into self-deception. It took me years of wrong turns to realise that not all the transformations from awakening experiences point in the right direction. - Psyche
We are talking so much about the technology of A.I. that we are largely ignoring the business models that will power it. That’s been helped along by the fact that the splashy A.I. demos aren’t serving any particular business model. But these systems are expensive and shareholders get antsy. - The New York Times
During the past decade, the study of English and history at the collegiate level has fallen by a full third. Humanities enrollment in the United States has declined over all by seventeen per cent, Townsend found. What’s going on? - The New Yorker
The Flemish half, that is. The Story of Flanders features lavish, unsparing reconstructions of historical scenes interspersed with commentary from scholars. It was funded by the Flemish regional government, led by a separatist party, and Flemings are having a hearty argument over whether the series is propaganda. - The Observer (UK)
The fundamental bet of Vice and its internet-born brethren, that new forms of distribution and content production enabled by the internet would transform media economics in a way that they were uniquely poised to capture, simply didn’t materialize. - The Wrap
Preparing for the Dalí exhibition currently at the Art Institute of Chicago, Caitlin Haskell and Jennifer Cohen were stumped by Visions of Eternity, a seven-feet-tall canvas so unlike anything else the artist was making circa 1936 that they weren't sure it was a real Dalí. What they found was entirely unexpected. - CNN
We set out to find out whether there was a common dosage for music and how long one needed to listen for a therapeutic effect. We discovered a recommended daily allowance of music for various mood states, how this affected people and what types of music were commonly used to achieve this. - British Academy of Sound Therapy
The item, found in the tomb of a young woman uncovered during construction on the highway between Moscow and Kazan, shows a deisis, a traditional depiction of Christ in Majesty flanked by the Virgin Mary and John the Baptist. - Heritage Daily
