PBS Network programming disappeared from the Pensacola-Fort Walton Beach area airwaves on July 1, when the licensee for local outlet WSRE, Pensacola State College, closed the station following loss of federal and state funding. As of November 1, new nonprofit Emerald Coast PBS will go live on WPAN channel 53. – NorthEscambia.com (Escambia County, Florida)

Mitte, who had cerebral palsy, portrayed the son and namesake of protagonist Walter White on the award-winning series. – Deadline

“(It’s) the kind of thing that you do when you’re younger and you’re figuring out how exactly it is that you’re going to work,” the composer said of In All Your Ways. “It’s invigorating to be 89 and say, ‘Well, this is new!’” – The New York Times

A lot of things went right in this investigation, starting with the fact that police arrived only four minutes after the museum’s alarm went off — and they found that the thieves had dropped two of the stolen paintings in their haste to escape. – AP

“Since COVID, the orchestra feels that it has fallen behind some of the other Canadian orchestras and they’re not happy about it,” said a union official. “There are other odds and ends, like work schedules, but primarily it is money.” – Ottawa Citizen

The Marché des Enfants Rouges, a covered food market in the Marais neighborhood which dates back to 1615, was “totally destroyed” in a blaze which broke out at about 3 am Monday. – The Guardian

In 1962 André Malraux, France’s culture minister, looked up from a ballet at the Palais Garnier, found the ceiling dull, and commissioned Marc Chagall to replace it. Chagall painted 24 canvases for free and they were hung over Jules-Eugène Lenepveu’s original, which has been a listed monument since 1923 and unseen for 60 years. Lenepveu’s descendant Arnaud Carayon has hired a lawyer and proposes alternating the two ceilings a decade apiece once the house reopens after its 2027-32 renovation (The Guardian).

In Amsterdam, the Van Gogh Museum settled with the Dutch government after mediation, clearing a renovation that begins in 2028 and keeps the museum partly open (The New York Times).

The Boston Center for the Arts gives two theatre companies at a time three years of rehearsal space, mentorship and marketing; nearly 20 applied last round, and CHUANG, an Asian-American company founded in 2018, has renewed for a second term (The Boston Globe).

Andrew Potter, 43, with his voice at its peak, is leaving opera because singers pay their own housing for six weeks of rehearsal and he couldn’t find $12,000 to bring his family along (NPR).

Netflix’s Asia-Pacific production director Sung Q Lee told the Busan film festival that the company has used AI in 300 titles. Director Kang Yun-sung, whose AI-assisted Run to the West earned about $100,000, estimates AI will cut the cost of his next film, The Gulf of Aden, by 40 percent (The Hollywood Reporter).

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The practice of using our eyes to create and absorb systems of language instead is so difficult and so weird, in fact, that, as best as we can tell, and as Marriott reminds us, it’s been invented no more than four times in our 300,000 years as a species. – The New Republic

With $80 billion in debt and a sprawl­ing media empire to combine, David Ellison will have his hands full with the now court-approved combination of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, known as Skydance. But so-called “expert” opinion has him failing before he even starts. – New York Post

A survey of older adults with at least $100,000 showed that only 28 percent were comfortable watching their savings taper off to cover living expenses, ostensibly exactly what the money was saved for in the first place. This is a problem—not just for retirees but for the country.  – The Atlantic

At an institution with a fiscal operating budget of about $30.4 million, she is seeking to place educational initiatives on equal footing with exhibitions, pursuing collaborations across the city, and positioning the Hammer as the anchor of a Westside arts district. – Los Angeles Times

Sung Q Lee, Netflix’s senior director of production for Asia-Pacific, said the technology was being deployed across the filmmaking process, but stressed the importance of preserving human creativity. – The Hollywood Reporter

The museum, one of Europe’s most popular art institutions, had long campaigned for additional government funding for what it said were essential renovations to help preserve its more than 200 paintings and nearly 500 drawings by Vincent van Gogh. – The New York Times

A novel’s first line is saddled with an extraordinary responsibility: to not only establish a story’s start but also to impart with indelible effect the writer’s voice.  – The Atlantic

“Art logistics is the vital, invisible backbone of the global art market.” – The New York Times

More to the point, why are some of them so dire? There’s no comparison between God Save the King and La Marseillaise; one’s a dirge, the other makes me want to march to the barricades. – The Guardian

A relative of the 19th century artist whose work is under Chagall’s says oui: Jules-Eugène Lenepveu “was specifically chosen to decorate the opera ceiling by Charles Garnier, who designed everything in the opera house right down to the last door knob.” – The Guardian (UK)

Pinto Colvig, who got his first job as a clown when he was 12 and visiting the Lewis & Clark Centennial Expo in Portland, also voiced Grumpy and Sleepy, and a whole host of other characters. – OPB

“‘Wild scene,’ the writer George Saunders said, a little wide-eyed, after witnessing a portion of the Metropolitan Opera’s Lincoln in the Bardo unfold.” – The New York Times

“One crime bookshops have been getting away with for years is their blatant role in incentivising the creation of ‘TBR’ (to-be-read) piles.” – Irish Times

“There is something profoundly human about sitting quietly in a great building, hearing young and old voices combine in astonishingly beautiful music.” – The Guardian (UK)

“In an era when corporate publishers dominate a rapidly consolidating industry, New Directions has remained independent and continued its long tradition of seeking out and nurturing some of the world’s most seminal authors.” – The New York Times

“In early scene in the new book involves a group of neo-Nazis at a house party. When she was writing it, few people believed the US would witness a resurgence of neo-nazism.” – The Guardian (UK)