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07/26/2026 06:21 PM
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Where will the future come from?
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 For the second consecutive summer, Jacob’s Pillow invited choreographers, presenters, producers, academics, and funders to its inspiring home in the Berkshires to exchange ideas and inspirations around dance and emerging technologies. Future Figures, an evolving program of Jacob’s Pillow, is a convening of field leaders as well as a public symposium where work is shared, […]
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07/26/2026 05:36 PM
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Every Masterpiece Is Really A Blueprint
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Good Morning, August Wilson wrote one of his best plays by staring at a Romare Bearden collage until it told him what happened next (New York Times). Not influence in the sentimental sense, but a transfer of structure across forms, he felt. Lucy Caldwell reports that after Ulysses, even her text messages fizz differently (The […]
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07/26/2026 04:00 PM
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The Group Memorializing George Floyd Protest Murals Is In Financial Straits
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 “Amid the pain and protest following George Floyd’s murder by police in 2020, artists known and unknown picked up brushes and spray cans. They created hundreds of murals on 4×8-foot plywood sheets covering windows and doors.” – MPR
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07/26/2026 03:30 PM
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Who Knew Loki Would Turn Out To Be A Classicist?
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 “It was very clear from the word go that his heart was in classics, and it became clear fairly quickly to me that he really loved Greek tragedy, and that is a nice bridge to his acting career.” – The New York Times
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07/26/2026 03:00 PM
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How A Romare Bearden Collage Inspired One Of August Wilson’s Best Plays
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 Wilson “discovered Bearden in 1977, when The Prevalence of Ritual, a 1964 series of Bearden’s collages collected in a volume, captured his attention.” – The New York Times
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07/26/2026 02:30 PM
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It’s Been A Year Since Trump Defunded Public Media
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 How is public media surviving? Rural stations are – perhaps ironically – hardest hit by the federal defunding. – NPR
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07/26/2026 02:30 PM
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How A Classic Miyazaki Film Can Help In Troubled Times
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 “Optimism has gone from seeming like a novelty—a trait my less medicated friends had managed to cultivate under circumstances and genetics unfamiliar to me and my ilk—to something more sinister. Optimism feels like ignorance.” – Reactor
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07/26/2026 02:00 PM
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The Philadelphia Museum Of Art Is Running Record Deficits
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 “The museum is covering the deficits by drawing on a pool of money that includes cash and reserves — sometimes referred to as quasi-endowment — whose use was not restricted by donors for any specific purpose.” – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
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07/26/2026 01:30 PM
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Good Luck Getting Tickets To The Odyssey In 70mm IMAX
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 The FOMO is real. “Complicating things further for The Odyssey is that it’s available in so many premium formats—six, altogether—that the film’s official website includes a guide to their various strengths and aspect ratios.” – Wired
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07/26/2026 01:00 PM
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Is This The End Of Nonprofit Theatre?
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 Oskar Eustis thinks so, but not a bad thing: “We’re faced with the need to prove to the people in our individual communities that we matter enough to them that they should support us. … Now, that’s not a very bad demand to put on an art form.” – Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)
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07/26/2026 12:30 PM
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Tenth Anniversary Of La La Land Brings Changes To The Poster
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 This is all about Ryan Gosling’s wrist. – CBC
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07/26/2026 12:00 PM
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When You Ask The People To Redesign Your Money, Sometimes The Ideas Are Great
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 And sometimes? They’re meme-inspired, as the European Central Bank found out last week. – Fast Company
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07/26/2026 11:30 AM
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What’s Really Going On With The Paramount-Warner Bros Deal
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 “The firm had been aiming to close the deal by September but agreed to table its takeover — perhaps until next spring — to allow a fiercer than expected challenge from California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic state attorneys general to advance to trial.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
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07/26/2026 11:00 AM
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Meta Glasses Are Now Banned At Comic-Cons In The UK After Secret Filming Issues
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 “A number of guests had told the company they would be reluctant to appear at Comic-Con shows again after cases of recordings taking place without their knowledge. The ban is applicable to Meta glasses and any other ‘wearable recording devices.’” – BBC
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07/26/2026 10:30 AM
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How Social Media Has Changed Book Cover Design
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 “Covers today are expected not only to attract readers in bookstores, but to circulate fluidly through Instagram posts, TikToks, Substack photos, and carefully curated apartment interiors. Books are now asked to function simultaneously as texts and as lifestyle objects.” – LitHub
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07/26/2026 10:00 AM
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The Joys Of Reading Ulysses
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 Reading Joyce “was, and continues to be, one of the most glorious reading experiences of my life. Even your text messages fizz after you’ve been reading Joyce.” – The Guardian (UK)
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07/26/2026 09:30 AM
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How IMAX Has Won The Movies
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 “Everything about Imax is annoying. The prices are outrageous. Screenings often fill up as soon as they go on sale. … Yet the hysteria exists for a reason and it isn’t just screen size.” – Vulture
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07/26/2026 09:00 AM
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Warner Bros Sues Amazon For Poaching Employees
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 “In the complaint, Warner says that ‘Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-established Hollywood mainstays,’ and that it engaged in a ‘lawless employee shopping spree.’” – The Verge
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07/26/2026 08:30 AM
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The Most Haunting Music Of The ‘Odyssey’
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 “The aulos appears throughout Greek art, depicted in military and domestic scenes alike. To modern eyes it looks like two recorders that come together at a player’s mouth, blown at the same time.” – The New York Times
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07/26/2026 08:00 AM
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The Irish Government Promised Money And Priority To Renovating A Theatre, But It’s Mired In Red Tape
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 Abbey Theatre “is one of the State’s most important cultural institutions. It was founded by William Butler Yeats and Augusta Gregory in 1904; the 1966 structure has been described by the government as a ‘deficient’ building for audiences and performers.” – Irish Times
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07/26/2026 07:30 AM
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Barbara Rubin Was The Teenage Filmmaker Who Stitched Manhattan’s Underground Together
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 “She filmed the scenes she helped create. Her best known and only surviving film, shot intermittently between 1963 and 1965, began with an unprintable working title before she borrowed its name from a line in the poet Arthur Rimbaud’s ‘A Season in Hell’: Christmas on Earth.” – The New York Times
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07/26/2026 07:00 AM
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The Accomplishments Of Ancient Greece Are Not Just The History Of White People
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 “There is nothing wrong with taking pride in one’s ancestors. … Honoring and celebrating the past achievements of those ancestors, however, is different from taking credit for them.” – The Atlantic
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07/25/2026 12:08 PM
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Rachel Thompson talks about the ways to build curricular ties between students and arts institutions
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 Rachel Thompson, Program Manager at the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy at Vanderbilt, talks about building curricular ties between students and the arts and art institutions.
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