“His wavy blond hair and boyish grin made him the most desired of leading men, but he worked hard to transcend his looks — whether through his political advocacy, his willingness to take on unglamorous roles or his dedication to providing a platform for low-budget movies.” - AP
"Dictionary content is expensive. … The cost of lexicographers—people are expensive, and the output is low. It is very difficult to justify that just for the sake of completism. You will never have enough staff to keep up. People are too productive in the creation of language.” - The Atlantic
“The company claims that the AI Overviews that often appear at the top of search results leave users with little reason to click through to the source, hurting traffic and illegally benefitting from the work of its reporters.” - The Verge
A nonprofit, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation, received a tip that the art was on the auction block in Ohio, and went into action. - The New York Times
“In the last decade, after academics at the University of Southampton in England digitized the sheet music collection of Austen and her family, more and more people are turning to the music for new perspectives on her life and work.” - The New York Times
“Paris, the centre of French gastronomy, has never been in more need of a great restaurant critic. Today, the Parisian food media scene has become a never-ending circle of new restaurants hyped for a couple of weeks before the next ones come in.” - Vittles
The confirmation is tucked into a profile of the wildly popular composer, who has been in poor health and is reportedly developing dementia. - The New York Times
A music scholar explains how the artistic formula — famously described by the composer’s wife, Nora, as “1+1=1” — gets translated into the notes in a score. - The Conversation
The victim of the latest staff defenestration (a frequent phenomenon since Trump took over the arts center in February) was Kevin Struthers, whose title was senior director, music programming. A Kennedy Center spokesperson confirmed Struthers’s termination but gave no reason. - The Washington Post (MSN)
“Britain’s National Gallery announced Tuesday that it will use a whopping £375 million ($510 million) in donations to open a new wing that, for the first time, will include modern art, … to be constructed on land beside its Trafalgar Square site that is currently occupied by a hotel and offices.” - AP
“Government websites are stripping away references to trans people, history, and art. Book bans are targeting trans authors in conservative states, eradicating their work from curricula and library circulation.” And then there’s the NEA. - The New Yorker
At the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, Hungary, "about 20,000 books and many valuable manuscripts have been missing since the end of World War II.” But some books have, with great effort and care, made their way back. - The New York Times
Honestly: “Every jury decision is a copout. All juries are horse-trading and compromising and collectively accepting second-choice movies that no one objects to from film-makers whose prestige they all endorse.” - The Guardian (UK)
"Portrait of a Lady belonged to Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish-Dutch art dealer who fled Amsterdam in mid-May 1940 to escape the Nazis, but died after falling through an open hatch into the hold of the SS Bodegraven, the ship carrying him to the UK.” - The Guardian (UK)
Roy: “‘What have we done to democracy? What happens when it’s been used up and emptied of meaning, and every institution has been turned against you? But … you have the most incredible people fighting back too.”- Irish Times (Archive Today)
Truly, says another indie bookstore in town, what were they thinking?! And on the venerable store's Instagram sort-of apology, the comments are, hm, not super favorable. - KATU (Portland)
Each of the brief snippets “will end with the words ‘If you hear something, free something,’ which is also the title of this ambitious public art project by the conceptual artist Chloë Bass.” - The New York Times
“Amazon-backed (firm) Showrunnner announced a new AI model designed to generate long, complex narratives — ultimately building toward feature-film-length, live-action films — for its platform. … Over the next two years, it’ll be utilized to re-create Welles’ follow-up to Citizen Kane, a chunk of which was lost after studio executives burned the footage.” - The Hollywood Reporter
“(Two White House) officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the discussions have been preliminary and exploratory, and it was unclear exactly how the federal government would take control of the site in Lower Manhattan. … The museum’s leadership rebuffed the idea.” - The New York Times
“The Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that Salonen would be its first creative director, starting in fall 2026. Simultaneously, the Philharmonie de Paris announced that he would hold its inaugural creativity and innovation chair starting in 2027, while taking on the role of principal conductor of the Orchestre de Paris.” - The New York Times
