“in order to rebuild but also to redress the situation, it will be necessary to invest $6.9bn in the cultural sector in Ukraine over the next ten years”, a Unesco statement says. - The Art Newspaper
Not only can science fiction help us imagine a future shaped by new technologies, but it can also help us learn lessons about potential threats. - The Conversation
Why is Matt Taibbi leaving? "Twitter seems to be in a drag-out fight with Substack, blocking users from liking, replying to, or retweeting many tweets with Substack URLs and ... limiting how you can interact with tweets from Substack’s Twitter account itself." - The Verge
"The MIMA contemporary art museum in Molenbeek had planned to host a sparring session between around 20 amateur boxers from the Ixelles branch of the Brussels police and two local boxing clubs in an on-site boxing ring. But the museum canceled at the last minute, citing 'tensions on social media.'" - Politico
"Since its controversial inception in 2015, the Place of Memory, Tolerance and Social Inclusion has received about 60,000 visitors a year. But Lima's ultra-conservative mayor has now presided over the museum's closure, (reflecting) a growing denial of the mass killings carried out by the armed forces in the conflict." - The Guardian
E-books that had been published and sold in one form were retroactively (and irrevocably) altered, highlighting what consumer rights experts say is a convention of digital publishing that customers may never notice or realize they signed up for. Buying an e-book doesn’t necessarily mean it’s yours. - The New York Times
"There is no question that, because of their size, Dallas's big seven arts groups depend more heavily on attendance than others in the region. Here, we take a look at the big seven and how they're coping." - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
It's not just books, movies, SNL sketches and New Yorker cartoons about to the investigation and resulting scandal. There are at least five bands named after the Panama Papers, as well as one prize-winning race horse and rolling papers from two different companies. - International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
"The arts minister, Tony Burke, and the finance minister, Katy Gallagher, will make the $535m pre-budget announcement on Wednesday, throwing a financial lifeline to beleaguered institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, the National Library of Australia and the National Museum of Australia." - The Guardian
There’s no strict definition for what constitutes a rave, but in the past the word connoted an underground gathering, usually at some kind of repurposed space, such as a warehouse, a skate park, or a farmyard. Raves were often illegal in the sense that they violated licensing rules. - The New Yorker
There’s this long history of certain people seeing urban life through the lens of decline. If you look at contemporary usages of this idea of “urban doom,” it’s actually very similar to the way a lot of people in the ’70s and ’80s were talking about cities. - Curbed
"After all of the effort to get the barriers up, the future challenge will be finding ways to keep them down. Venice is already using MOSE more than expected. … Its incessant deployment, experts warn, could render Venice's lagoon a fetid swamp choked by noxious algae." - The New York Times
The creative industries remain fundamentally white spaces. The latest 2020/21 report found that the diverse workforce in its national portfolio of organisations was 14%. This is compared to the English working-age population, which is 17% Black, Asian and ethnically diverse. - The Conversation
China, with its legions of concertgoers and skepticism of Western ideals, has emerged as an attractive market for Russian artists aligned with Mr. Putin. - The New York Times
"The choice to vandalize Van Gogh’s Sunflowers suggests that beauty does have a role to play in the fight to save the planet. In the act of protest, the painted sunflowers become a stand-in for life on earth, not a distraction from it." - Los Angeles Review Of Books
