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DANCE
IDEAS
- Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” – AP
- Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” – ARTnews
- The Acute Differences Between Practice And Performance
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. – The Strad
- Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20 Years Ago
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. – WBEZ
- How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). – New York Magazine
ISSUES
- Confirmed: This Country House Is Definitely A Gaudí
“Xalet del Catllaràs, an early 1900s building tucked away in the mountain forests of Catalonia, Spain, has now been officially recognized as (Antoni Gaudí’s) design.” – Artnet
- Has The UK’s Era Of Free Museum Entry Come To An End?
As funding pressures deepen across the sector, and running costs increase, a policy once treated as untouchable is now under renewed scrutiny. – The Guardian
- A Video Game That Lets Players “Repatriate” Art From Western Museums
A new South African video game lets players take back African artefacts held in western museums in a series of heists, amid a growing campaign to repatriate treasures looted by colonial armies. – The Guardian
- What Is The Pritzker Prize Going To Do About Tom Pritzker’s Ties To Jeffrey Epstein?
Looks like nothing except defend the jury’s independence — and say that “the announcement of the next laureate, which typically occurs in the first week of March, would be delayed slightly.” – The New York Times
- Britain’s National Gallery Deficits Shouldn’t Be Taken Out On The Country’s Public
Or so says The Guardian: “Culture is not a luxury. It is vital to the country’s wellbeing, tourism and international standing.” – The Guardian (UK)
MEDIA
- Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” – ARTnews
- Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20 Years Ago
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. – WBEZ
- How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). – New York Magazine
- Is Australia’s Funding For The Arts Being Dismantled?
‘Unfortunately the funding precarity is having very real impacts on employment of artists and arts workers. The stress and uncertainty are impacting the health and wellbeing of people in the sector.’ – Artshub
- Ai WeiWei: The Threat Of Censorship In An AI-Dominated World
As we enter the AI era, human collective thought patterns, ideological structures, and the very essence of individual existence and dignity are undeniably under threat. – ARTnews
MUSIC
- One Of The World’s Major Collections Of Banned Russian Literature Is In Manhattan
“The Tamizdat Project is the brainchild of Yakov Klots, a soft-spoken, unassuming literary scholar who teaches at Hunter College. He chose the name from a Russian word meaning ‘published abroad,’ which, along with samizdat (‘to self-publish’), was one of the two main methods of evading Soviet book censorship.” – The New York Times
- Does Counting The Books You Read Kill The Pleasure?
As reading is increasingly tracked and performed online, there is a growing sense that a solitary pleasure is being reshaped by the logic of metrics and visibility. – The Guardian
- What Happens When Writing Becomes Easy?
The advent of the chatbot raised an unsettling question: What if writing didn’t have to be hard? What if that noble ordeal was no more necessary than going to a well to fetch your water when you could just turn on a tap? – The Atlantic
- Why Is Nearly Everyone Reading Fantasy These Days?
“The strictly disenchanted world, where nothing exists but physical processes describable without metaphor, and even consciousness is just a material problem waiting to be solved, can be a desiccated place. It keeps heart and mind on inadequate rations.” – The Guardian (UK)
- Toni Morrison, And The Power Of Ambiguity
“Fiction has no obligation to dispel ambiguity. It can make use of it—even intensify it—in order to evoke and transform experience. In Beloved, Morrison does take possession of the master’s tools, but she bends them, breaks them, and then uses them to reshape the house.” – LitHub
PEOPLE
- Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” – AP
- Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” – ARTnews
- The Acute Differences Between Practice And Performance
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. – The Strad
- Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20 Years Ago
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. – WBEZ
- How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). – New York Magazine
PEOPLE
- Edward Hoagland, Prize-Winning Nature And Travel Writer, Has Died At 93
“With influences ranging from John Muir to Michel de Montaigne, Hoagland … overcame badly impaired eyesight to explore the world and … published dozens of books and magazine pieces and took in the most remote settings and extreme climates.” – AP
- Trump Administration Sued For Altering History In National Parks
The suit accuses the Trump administration of “a sustained campaign to erase history and undermine science,” so that the parks no longer do what is required by the law that established them.” – ARTnews
- The Acute Differences Between Practice And Performance
The problem is rarely a lack of musical ability. Practice alone doesn’t prepare us for the psychological demands of performance. Practice and performance are distinct, and even highly skilled musicians can remain mentally unprepared for the stage. – The Strad
- Illinois Governor’s Proposed Arts Budget Is Flat. Funding Is Less Than It Was 20 Years Ago
Arts Alliance Illinois, the statewide arts advocacy organization, is calling on the General Assembly to increase the arts budget by 20%, which it says would restore state funding levels to where they were 20 years ago. Since then, fiscal support for the arts has dipped on the state level. – WBEZ
- How Male-Male Romance By And For Women Went From Underground Niche To Industry
Or, how self-published Kirk/Spock erotica in the late 1960s led to Heated Rivalry (with Japanese comics and Thai soap operas along the way). – New York Magazine
THEATRE
VISUAL
- Are We Moving Back To An Oral-Based Culture From One That Was Text-Based?
The age of orality was an age of social storytelling and flexible cultural memory. The age of literacy made possible a set of abstract systems of thought—calculus, physics, advanced biology, quantum mechanics—that form the basis of all modern technology. – The Atlantic
- How The Washington Post Missed The Plot On What Readers Want
I don’t believe in this inevitability. As a reader of many distinctive publications, I want to be led by them. What makes them special is where they choose to take me, and how much I trust them to do that. – The Atlantic
- Mexisistentialism Is A New Definition Of An Age-Old Strain Of Mexican Philosophy
Mexistentialism “teaches us that our crises, even if they are framed by the catastrophic, are that only in appearance. … Our crises will not destroy us because these crises are inscribed in history, and it is history that frames who we are.” – Aeon
- Ireland’s Basic Income For The Arts Is Now Permanent, But What Does It Mean For The Artists?
In Ireland, despite how often the government uses Irish arts to market the country to tourists, “more than 56 per cent of artists and arts workers experience enforced deprivation (that’s three times the rate in the general population).” – Irish Times (Archive Today)
- Our Inability To Focus On Books Isn’t A Failing
It’s a design flaw, and it can be fixed. “We have been here before. Not just once, but repeatedly, in a pattern so consistent it reveals something essential about how cultural elites respond to changes in how knowledge moves through society.” – Aeon
