The move follows a widely publicized protest PAIN Sackler held together with the French group Aides Paris outside the Louvre. On July 1, the activists gathered outside the museum’s central pyramid to demand the removal of the Sackler name from 12 rooms in the Sackler Wing of Oriental Antiquities, previously named the Cour Carrée Wing of Antiquities. – Hyperallergic
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Recent Listening In Brief
Bob Sheppard, The Fine Line (Challenge)
The veteran saxophonist/flutist’s career as a collaborator and L.A. film and TV musicians may account for his not having achieved greater fan recognition. This album could change that. – Doug Ramsey
Report: Notre Dame Was Much Closer To Collapsing Than Has Been Reported
Some of what went wrong that night has been reported in the French news media, including Le Monde and Le Canard Enchaîné. Now, The New York Times has conducted scores of interviews and reviewed hundreds of documents to reconstruct the missteps and how Notre-Dame was saved in the first four critical hours. – The New York Times
Drawing a Line
“We work at StageSource, which represents both the individual theatre artists and the theatrical organizations of New England. Part of our mission is to provide resources to empower our community to realize its greatest potential — and for us, that potential is impossible to reach without a definitively safe and inclusive environment. … [To that end, we created] the Line Drawn Initiative to address sexual harassment in the New England theatre sector. Through that initiative, we released a survey to uncover the scope and specifics of the problem. Unsurprisingly, the results were bleak.” – HowlRound