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DANCE
IDEAS
- £1 Billion Film/TV Production Complex Approved For Brownfield Site In London
“A £1 billion regeneration project to transform an industrial site in North London into ‘landmark’ film and television studio site has been given the green light” — by a one-vote margin — “from Camden Council.” – The Standard (London)
- Louvre Is “Running On Fumes,” Its Director Tells French Senate
Christophe Leribault: “To put it bluntly: despite its imposing majesty and the daily dedication of its staff, the Louvre is running on fumes. Its facilities and infrastructure are reaching the end of their lifespan.” – ARTnews
- Longtime ABT Principal Cory Stearns, Not Entirely By Choice, Retires From Performing
The 40-year-old wasn’t happy when artistic director Susan Jaffe told him to make room for someone younger, but he’s philosophical: “I’ve been with ABT my entire life, and I feel very grateful. … The idea of continuing to dance for the sake of dancing, that’s not what I (want) right now.” – The New York Times
- Houston’s Menil Collection To Reopen Long-Closed Fresco Building And Fill It With Site-Specific Commission
The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by Teresita Fernández — which will remain in place for roughly five years each. – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
- U.S. House Committee Advances Measure To Axe Department Of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program
“The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee … advanced a proposal that could defund the Department’s Assistance for Arts Education program, … which was established in 2015 to fund primary and secondary arts education with an emphasis on ‘disadvantaged students’ and children with disabilities.” – Hyperallergic
ISSUES
- Louvre Is “Running On Fumes,” Its Director Tells French Senate
Christophe Leribault: “To put it bluntly: despite its imposing majesty and the daily dedication of its staff, the Louvre is running on fumes. Its facilities and infrastructure are reaching the end of their lifespan.” – ARTnews
- Houston’s Menil Collection To Reopen Long-Closed Fresco Building And Fill It With Site-Specific Commission
The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by Teresita Fernández — which will remain in place for roughly five years each. – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
- The Hague’s Mauritshuis Museum May Keep Its Rembrandts, Rules Judge
Abraham Bredius, museum director from 1889 to 1909, bequeathed the Mauritshuis 25 of his own Old Master paintings — by Rembrandt, Jan Steen, and others — on condition that the works be displayed and not lent out. Because the museum doesn’t display all of them all the time, Bredius’s heirs sued — and lost. – ArtDependence
- The Art Commissioned By The Obama Presidential Library
For the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago, Barack and Michelle Obama commissioned original works by 30 artists from diverse backgrounds, a bold move never seen at such scale at a presidential library. – The Guardian
- 11th-Century Cathedral In Kyiv Set On Fire By Russian Missiles
“A massive Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv has badly damaged the Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, a UNESCO world heritage site and one of Ukraine’s most significant religious and cultural sites.” – The Guardian
MEDIA
- U.S. House Committee Advances Measure To Axe Department Of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program
“The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee … advanced a proposal that could defund the Department’s Assistance for Arts Education program, … which was established in 2015 to fund primary and secondary arts education with an emphasis on ‘disadvantaged students’ and children with disabilities.” – Hyperallergic
- Highmark Mann Center Opens On A Roll
The Highmark Mann opened five decades ago as the Robin Hood Dell West, the local summer retreat for the Philadelphia Orchestra, and it has evolved into a bona fide arts center that feels both sylvan and city. – Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN)
- Preservationists Sue To Block Trump’s “National Garden Of American Heroes”
“Congress has made clear that the National Mall is … not a personal sandbox for each President to renovate however he likes,” argues the lawsuit. “To that end, Congress has decreed that no new ‘commemorative work’ shall be located within ‘the great cross-axis of the Mall’.” – USA Today
- Federal Court Orders Kennedy Center To Make A Plan For Staying Open And Offering Programming
“Judge Christopher R. Cooper of Federal District Court in Washington asked for a status report from the Kennedy Center that would include plans for ‘public access and ongoing programming, activities and operations’ should the center stay open past July 4, which the president proposed as a closing date.” – The New York Times
- A Professor Despairs Of What AI Reveals About Students
There will always be idealistic, ink-stained people who want to devote their lives to scholarly pursuits—their role to inspire young people to love ideas as they do. But this transfer, more than anything else in the academy, has been increasingly blocked by A.I. in the classroom. – The New Yorker
MUSIC
- Publishers Sue Website For Pirating
Fresh off of last month’s victory against pirate web site Anna’s Archive, 13 publishers across all segments of the industry have allied to sue yet another pirate site, WeLib, for copyright infringement. – Publishers Weekly
- New Owners Roxane Gay And Debbie Millman Relaunch Online Lit Magazine The Rumpus
“We’ll still be covering, with the same rigor and integrity, fiction, essays, poetry, book reviews, author interviews, and so forth,” said Millman. “But we’re also going to include more design criticism, art criticism, and overall cultural coverage. The soul of the writing … will be very similar; topically, it will be different.” – Publishers Weekly
- Have New Books Gotten More Expensive? Yes, But …
Hardcovers which for years cost around $20 are now routinely marked at $30 or more. However, both publishing executives and booksellers maintain that the price of new books has not kept up with post-2020 inflation in the economy as a whole (including their own supply chains). – USA Today
- “Graphic Journalist” Joe Sacco Says Penguin Random House India Censored His Book On Sectarian Riots
The Indian subsidiary of the publishing giant has withdrawn Sacco’s The Once and Future Riot, an account of the 2013 street battles between Hindus and Muslims in Muzaffarnagar. Sacco says the publisher sent him a list of edits that amounted to “finding excuses” not to release the book. – The Wire (India)
- Are Most Children’s Books “Crud”?
“There are so many bad kids’ books,” Mac Barnett writes, “and kids’ books are bad in so many different ways.” He states that “a big reason for our low opinion of children’s books is simply that lots of children’s books are bad.” – The New Yorker
PEOPLE
- £1 Billion Film/TV Production Complex Approved For Brownfield Site In London
“A £1 billion regeneration project to transform an industrial site in North London into ‘landmark’ film and television studio site has been given the green light” — by a one-vote margin — “from Camden Council.” – The Standard (London)
- Louvre Is “Running On Fumes,” Its Director Tells French Senate
Christophe Leribault: “To put it bluntly: despite its imposing majesty and the daily dedication of its staff, the Louvre is running on fumes. Its facilities and infrastructure are reaching the end of their lifespan.” – ARTnews
- Longtime ABT Principal Cory Stearns, Not Entirely By Choice, Retires From Performing
The 40-year-old wasn’t happy when artistic director Susan Jaffe told him to make room for someone younger, but he’s philosophical: “I’ve been with ABT my entire life, and I feel very grateful. … The idea of continuing to dance for the sake of dancing, that’s not what I (want) right now.” – The New York Times
- Houston’s Menil Collection To Reopen Long-Closed Fresco Building And Fill It With Site-Specific Commission
The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by Teresita Fernández — which will remain in place for roughly five years each. – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
- U.S. House Committee Advances Measure To Axe Department Of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program
“The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee … advanced a proposal that could defund the Department’s Assistance for Arts Education program, … which was established in 2015 to fund primary and secondary arts education with an emphasis on ‘disadvantaged students’ and children with disabilities.” – Hyperallergic
PEOPLE
- £1 Billion Film/TV Production Complex Approved For Brownfield Site In London
“A £1 billion regeneration project to transform an industrial site in North London into ‘landmark’ film and television studio site has been given the green light” — by a one-vote margin — “from Camden Council.” – The Standard (London)
- Louvre Is “Running On Fumes,” Its Director Tells French Senate
Christophe Leribault: “To put it bluntly: despite its imposing majesty and the daily dedication of its staff, the Louvre is running on fumes. Its facilities and infrastructure are reaching the end of their lifespan.” – ARTnews
- Longtime ABT Principal Cory Stearns, Not Entirely By Choice, Retires From Performing
The 40-year-old wasn’t happy when artistic director Susan Jaffe told him to make room for someone younger, but he’s philosophical: “I’ve been with ABT my entire life, and I feel very grateful. … The idea of continuing to dance for the sake of dancing, that’s not what I (want) right now.” – The New York Times
- Houston’s Menil Collection To Reopen Long-Closed Fresco Building And Fill It With Site-Specific Commission
The annex, opened in 1997 to house two Byzantine frescoes and closed since those works were returned to Cyprus in 2017, will reopen late next year to house long-term, site-specific, immersive installations — the first will be by Teresita Fernández — which will remain in place for roughly five years each. – Houston Chronicle (MSN)
- U.S. House Committee Advances Measure To Axe Department Of Education’s Only Arts Grant Program
“The Republican-chaired House Appropriations Committee … advanced a proposal that could defund the Department’s Assistance for Arts Education program, … which was established in 2015 to fund primary and secondary arts education with an emphasis on ‘disadvantaged students’ and children with disabilities.” – Hyperallergic
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Why Older People Are Happier, And What We Can Learn From Them
- “Teaser” Events Have Become A Powerful Way For Pop Stars To Introduce Their Projects
From a marketing perspective, this approach blends internet culture and storytelling to create a memorable experience for fans. These teaser releases are particularly effective at generating fan theories, sparking speculation, creating memes and helping create stories with fans. – The Conversation
- Mathematics And The Tools Of Reasoning That Ai Is Tackling
Understanding is a lively topic for philosophers, but not for the tech industry. In their race to the ultimate prize of AGI, Silicon Valley’s main players instead see the mechanization of reasoning as the main hurdle. For them, mathematics is the supreme AI challenge because it is the purest form of reasoning. – Boston Review
- Jurgen Habermas And The Public Sphere
Habermas’s death might mark the end of a mode of main-stage philosophizing that, in the German-speaking world, reaches back, by way of Adorno, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Marx, Schopenhauer, and Hegel, to Kant himself. – The New Yorker
- The Aesthetic That Fits Our Times: Tragicomic
This cockroach of forms—adaptive, resilient, unkillable—was named by the Roman dramatist Plautus in the second century BC, enjoyed its heyday in 17th-century Renaissance theater, and was revived in the 20th century to describe a slurry of existential despair and absurd farce. – ARTnews
