– Deep Literacy, Shallow Pay
Here are this week’s AJ highlights.
Cairo opened its long-awaited Grand Egyptian Museum, a $1 billion monument to restoration and reinvention (The Guardian). In San Francisco, a museum abandoned permanence, choosing a roaming exhibition model that prizes context over concrete (San Francisco Chronicle via MSN). The Wexner Center director resigned amid fiscal and workplace turmoil (ARTnews). A New York Times survey found more than half of museum workers considering quitting, citing burnout and low wages. Fast Company reported that SCAD’s new Applied AI major has split opinion in art education. The Atlantic and The Baffler examined the erosion of reading itself in a culture defined by speed and screens.
Editor’s Note: The week’s theme—impermanence as strategy, exhaustion as cost.
More of this week’s stories are below.
