Sources also say that both sides were eager to avoid another protracted, distracting and brutally expensive legal battle, to put it mildly: The fight over the previous, 2018-22 rate period went on for more than three years and cost many millions of dollars in legal and other fees. - Variety
"He is an artist for whom Americanness truly matters, as much as the tradition of Western classical music — both heritages treated not with nostalgia, but with awareness and affection." Joshua Barone profiles Adams ahead of the world premiere of his Antony and Cleopatra in San Francisco. - The New York Times
I can think of no recent novel or film that provoked passionate debate. Public arguments people do have about art — about appropriation and offense, usually — have grown stale and repetitive, almost rote. - The New York Times
"Onstage and off, Schumer is uncommonly open. Money, I.V.F., adolescent shoplifting, alcohol-induced blackouts, attending the Met Gala high on mushrooms, pooping her pants: all the things that most people keep desperately private, Schumer airs with no evident discomfort." - The New Yorker
Jesse Green: "Efforts to improve diversity onstage and backstage have too often come without the support necessary to help new hires succeed. Culturally specific theaters may face an existential crisis if their function gets co-opted by change. And ... traditional audiences, feeling disoriented, sometimes resist." - The New York Times
Does its very immensity undermine its utility as a source of information? How often is it burying valuable data under lots of junk? Say you search for some famous or semifamous person. Are you getting an accurate picture of that person’s life or a false, manipulated one? - The New York Times
And don't forget the influence of K-Pop. "By blending music with comedy, pop music and other relatable content, Gen Zs who are not born into musical tradition or classical cultural capital are invited to enjoy without fear of not 'getting it.'" - The Line of Best Fit
Literature’s history is a history of mistakes, errors, misapprehensions, simple typos. It’s the shadow narrative of expression—how we fail because of sloppiness, or ignorance, or simple tiredness. Blessed are the copyeditors, for theirs is a war of eternal attrition. - The Millions
"The magic of the brand (is) that over time it has been able to sell the idea of A24 as synonymous with originality, idiosyncrasy, and prestige. ... People may love Atonement and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, but ... no one's rocking a Focus Features hoodie." - New York Magazine
People with encyclopedic minds are often paralyzed by the sheer quantity of what they know. Taruskin could step back from the crowd of facts and marshal them into mobile lines of thought. - The New Yorker
Battered by rolling lockdowns, key figures in the sector have said COVID-19 disruptions exposed job insecurity, poor remuneration, and a thinning of government grants that made a career in arts, entertainment and culture untenable for all but a lucky few. - Sydney Morning Herald
The San Antonio Philharmonic will perform ten classical programs and three pops programs from September to next May at the city's First Baptist Church (rather than the Tobin Center, built for the SA Symphony) as well as 36 youth concerts in city schools. - San Antonio Report
We have become too used to thinking of intelligence as the private skill of individuals, vying against one another in a neoliberal world of relentless competition. What is needed, especially in an age of irredentist warmongering and climate disaster, is a greater emphasis on our ability to reason together, our “collective intelligence”. - The Guardian
“The democratic battles fought worldwide in the name of human rights urge museums to take an active stance towards a fair advancement of civil society. Believing that the cultural sector can remain neutral in the face of exclusion and discrimination would endanger museums’ own relevance.” - The Art Newspaper
A Pew Research Center poll from 2015 found that, regardless of the parameters, only 40 percent of millennials say they identify with their generation’s label (compared with 58 percent of Gen Xers and 79 percent of baby boomers). Does a generational cohort really exist if only a minority feel they belong to it? - LA Review of Books
“There are people outside of here who can do it now, but I tell you they all came here to learn how. If this place didn’t exist, perhaps the experts would have said: no it’s not possible to reproduce the roof of Notre Dame. We it is. - The Guardian
Says one sculptor, the descendant of a king of Dahomey, "The artistic awakening of our population was switched off from the end of the 19th century to 2022. ... We are now waking up." - The New York Times
Michael Heizer's megasculpture in the Nevada desert is called City and is a mile long, half a mile wide, and the artist's masterpiece. "It had become the art-world version of ancient Atlantis, a chimera. Art-world Atlantis will shortly be accepting reservations." - The New York Times
"Long before talking movies became the norm, women ran wild in movies. And I mean, really wild. They riotously schemed, fought and defied convention, racing and laughing their way to liberation." Then? They got left out of film history books. - The New York Times
It was only a matter of time before the milestone was reached, as streaming usage has continued to climb while traditional TV declines amid the steady drip-drip-drip of cord-cutting losses. - Variety
