Today, as costs of living soar and working-class artists still wrestle with the remnants of the pandemic, the creative culture that has been our calling card is facing a crisis. - The Tennessean
Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts from paper mills—secretive businesses that allow researchers to pad their publication records by paying for fake papers or undeserved authorship. “Paper mills have made a fortune by basically attacking a system that has had no idea how to cope with this stuff." - Science
They're a big business, attracting Barcelonans and tourists alike, but, thanks to rising sea levels and heavier storms, the city's beaches are eroding fast. In recent years they've been replenished with dredged sand, but Catalonia's government (to city officials' dismay) says that effort is futile and should end. - The Guardian
"While an estimated 15,000 new arts teachers are needed statewide, (fewer) than 5,000 are currently credentialed in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media arts. ... Schools will also have to find time for arts classes in a day packed with academics and locate facilities (for) the courses." - Capitol Weekly (Sacramento)
Absolutely, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is expanding the stories being told there to include Blacks, Native Americans, and even LGBTQ people. CEO Cliff Fleet rejects conservative criticism, saying that the Foundation is presenting "fact-based history. … Everything is going to be what actually happened." - The New York Times
“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in hula, in our culture, in our language, in our different traditional practices." - The New York Times
"Citing a cost of between $80,000 and $100,000, Premier Chris Minns, whose Labor Party defeated the conservative Coalition government in a state election in March, argued the financial burden on taxpayers would have been significant and said the sails were being lit too often." - The Guardian
Raymond Chandler, in 1945, "described Hollywood as a cauldron of 'egos,' 'credit stealing' and 'self-promotion' where scribes were ruthlessly neglected, marginalized and stripped of respect; toiling at the mercy of producers, some of whom, he wrote, had 'the artistic integrity of slot machines.'" - Los Angeles Times
Dreyfuss: "No one should be telling me as an artist that I have to give in to the latest, most current idea of what morality is. What are we risking? Are we really risking hurting people’s feelings? You can’t legislate that. You have to let life be life." - The Guardian (UK)
"What is consistently missing in the national conversation about book banning: the voices of those children and teenagers who see their experiences in print and finally realize they aren’t alone." - The New York Times
"When someone says we ought to separate the art from the artist, they’re saying: 'Remove the stain.' Let the work be unstained. But that’s not how stains work. We watch the glass fall to the floor; we don’t get to decide whether the wine will spread." - The Guardian (UK)
The Bradford Literature Festival used AI to generate its marketing images this year. Illustrator "Chris Mould was due to hold a masterclass at the event, but now says: 'How can I stand under their roof and tell people they can go to art school?'"- BBC
"A swimmable Seine would be a major turnaround for a busy urban waterway once notorious for its filth, allowing Paris to stage (Olympic) aquatic competition events in one of the world's most famous, photogenic metropolitan riverscapes." Authorities say they can pull it off, though Parisians remain skeptical. - Bloomberg CityLab
