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DANCE
IDEAS
- Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
“The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120 members by more than 12 percent by the second year.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
- Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
“The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following the resignation of Hartwig Fischer over the thefts at the London-based institution.” – The Independent (UK)
- Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, and How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. – The Guardian
- Mulling Salonen’s Resignation — Take Two
- US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to other projects. – The Art Newspaper
ISSUES
- Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
“The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120 members by more than 12 percent by the second year.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
- Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
“The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following the resignation of Hartwig Fischer over the thefts at the London-based institution.” – The Independent (UK)
- US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to other projects. – The Art Newspaper
- How Two Amsterdam Museums Managed Hyper-Demand For Blockbuster Shows
“I thought we would sell out and would probably have about half a million visitors. In the end we had 650,000, but we could have easily sold two million tickets. That’s something I didn’t expect.” – The Art Newspaper
- Smithsonian Misused Federal COVID Relief Funding, Finds Internal Audit
“The Smithsonian’s internal Office of the Inspector General last month released a report saying that the institution misused a portion of the $7.5 million it received in COVID relief funds from the 2020 CARES Act.” – ARTnews
MEDIA
- Can This Record Producer’s Book Really Turn You Into An Artist?
The Creative Act is three books in one, really: a how-to for aspiring or faltering artists, an opening-up of Rubin’s own bag of tricks as a producer/cosmic facilitator, and an account of the spirituality that defines his method. – The Atlantic
- Arts Funding In Hawaii Is Saved By State Senate Committee
The state’s percent-for-art law, the oldest in the US (1967), requires 1% of the construction or renovation costs of state buildings to go to Hawaii’s arts agency. A bill from the state House would have removed renovations from that requirement, reducing the agency’s income by two-thirds. – Hawai’i Public Radio
- The UK Arts Sector Has Been Damaged By Tory Budget Cuts. Time To Rebuild
The Tories have been weaponising the arts for their own purposes in the culture wars – an incredibly cynical and damaging thing to do, needlessly pulling arts organisations into enervating, debilitating rows as they fend off accusations of “wokery”. – The Guardian
- Germany’s Much-Vaunted Culture Has Turned Rotten
Many Berliners are growing estranged from the cultural institutions our taxes fund. Hard as it is for someone like me to admit, economic hardships and the dwindling number of unclaimed spaces have forced many of us to be far more conservative than preceding generations. – Hyperallergic
- What Australian Arts Managers Are Noticing In Their Best Workers
They “are noticing in their best workers right now is the ability to recognise where opportunities and/ or learnings can be found in otherwise challenging situations, and use those perspectives to fuel new ideas for the whole team to consider.” – ArtsHub
MUSIC
- Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, and How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. – The Guardian
- Michael Ondaatje On His First Poetry Collection In 25 Years
“The real question I had “was could I write poems anymore? … I didn’t want to miss out on a certain pensiveness, and a certain relationship with language, that only poetry can demand.” – Literary Hub
- AI Translators And The End Of Language Instruction
Total enrollment in language courses other than English at American colleges decreased 29.3 percent from 2009 to 2021, according to the latest data from the Modern Language Association, better known as the MLA. In Australia, only 8.6 percent of high-school seniors were studying a foreign language in 2021—a historic low. – The Atlantic (MSN)
- Examining Shakespeare’s Words
To praise Shakespeare is also to praise his audience. Not just the one that filled the Globe during his lifetime, but the subsequent generations, too, that have cherished and preserved him, that have commented on him and imitated him. – New Criterion
- The Trolls Unleashed By Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Nowadays when we speak of Gutenberg’s invention of movable type, we mostly refer to its more reputable side. But similar to the proliferation of rumors and falsehoods on social media platforms, the printing press also facilitated the circulation of rumors and fake news in sensationalist pamphlets and broadsides. – Public Books
PEOPLE
- Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
“The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120 members by more than 12 percent by the second year.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
- Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
“The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following the resignation of Hartwig Fischer over the thefts at the London-based institution.” – The Independent (UK)
- Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, and How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. – The Guardian
- Mulling Salonen’s Resignation — Take Two
- US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to other projects. – The Art Newspaper
PEOPLE
- Strike At Mass MoCA Is Over As Union Ratifies Contract
“The agreement, which (ended a three-week strike and) will be in effect for two years, will increase average pay for bargaining unit’s roughly 120 members by more than 12 percent by the second year.” – The Boston Globe (MSN)
- Hoping To Move Beyond Thefts Scandal, British Museum Appoints New Director
“The outgoing National Portrait Gallery director (Nicholas Cullinan) replaces former Victoria and Albert Museum head Sir Mark Jones, who was made interim director following the resignation of Hartwig Fischer over the thefts at the London-based institution.” – The Independent (UK)
- Shortlist Revealed For First-Ever Women’s Prize For Nonfiction
The finalists are Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia, Thunderclap by Laura Cummings, All That She Carried by Tiya Miles, A Flat Place by Noreen Masud, and How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair. – The Guardian
- Mulling Salonen’s Resignation — Take Two
- US Museums Cut Staff, Blaming Falling Visitor Numbers
As visitor numbers begin to stabilise, it remains unclear whether museums will reinstate those eliminated positions, an issue that has become more urgent as funds are increasingly allocated to other projects. – The Art Newspaper
THEATRE
VISUAL
- How Your “Digital Twin” Will Change The World
- Physical Activity Is Good For Fitness. It’s Even Better For Creativity
Often, when we hear about the benefits of physical activity, researchers are really referring to the benefits of fitness – the product of regular and repeated physical activity. But what’s interesting about creativity is that it appears to be enhanced through the very act of moving the body. – The Guardian
- Spotify, Perhaps Inevitably, Has Added Video Classes
The video part seems inevitable, anyway. The classes part? It’s for UK users only, and are “video-based lessons from BBC Maestro, Skillshare, Thinkific, and PlayVirtuoso.” That’s because Spotify’s data say that people enjoy education and self-help-based podcasts. – The Verge
- Large Language Models Actually Haven’t Improved That Much
It’s all in the measurement, and the tricks therein. – Wired
- We’re Culturally So Into An Apocalypse, But Why?
“This is not the religious end of time, or eschaton, that has fascinated humanity for thousands of years, but the end of the world as a pervasive mood – a vibe.” – The Guardian (UK)