Arts Commons sees the new project as a means of engaging a larger set of Calgarians and providing space for everyday gatherings and informal performances, CEO Alex Sarian said in an interview. - The Globe and Mail (Canada)
The researchers at SMU Data Arts have updated their numbers, incorporating information about ticket sales, prices, COVID case rates, vaccination rates, etc.; they have new projections based on two scenarios. The key factor: higher vaccination rates aren't making the same difference in attendance they had earlier. - SMU Data Arts
The name was so popular that over 30 Valentines, not to mention “a few Valentinas,” ultimately achieved sainthood. However, no matter which Valentine you look at, their traditions and texts have nothing to do with love or courtship. - LitHub
Between the 1912 Stockholm Olympics and the 1948 London Olympics, artistic competition was a vibrant part of the summer Olympic games. There were five categories in which individuals could compete, with architecture, literature, painting, and sculpture joining music. - Classical WCRB
Hollywood is not pleased; China let in no Marvel movies at all last year. "There's routinely Chinese comedies, Chinese dramas, Chinese science-fiction epics topping the box office." - CBC
Petroglyphs and pictrographs aren't "rock art" - they're heritage objects. "Vandalism and theft is a physical attack on heritage objects. Another is appropriation of imagery that does not belong on t-shirts, mugs or any other tourist trap merchandise." But what do they mean? - Oregon ArtsWatch
"The Biden administration revoked order, reversing Trump’s rule that the Art in Architecture program’s commissions must depict prominent American historical figures, events, and 'ideals upon which our nation was founded.'" The GSA seems relieved. - Hyperallergic
Native land acknowledgements may sound to some like newfangled expressions of liberal guilt, but they have their origin in the centuries-old welcoming practices of many Native American cultures, as an offering of thanks and an honoring of relationships. - Oregon Arts Watch
The lack of CPI (which rose by 3.5% in the 12 months to December 2021 according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data) coupled with no increase in funding since 2017, means that multiple organisations have effectively had their core funding cut in real terms over the next four years. - ArtsHub
With a festival this month and next, Carnegie Hall is taking a crack at defining, or at least surveying, the genre (if that's even the right word). Here are five Black scholars invited by Carnegie Hall to answer the question "What is Afrofuturism?" - Playbill
We are in a cultural moment in which teaching about racism and the world it has made is both essential and controversial. Critics rallying under the banner of “anti-CRT” describe this teaching as divisive and disturbing. But we can’t teach the history of the United States without teaching about slavery. - Slate
"Edward Halealoha Ayau … and representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, a state agency for native Hawaiians, are receiving the artifacts in four German cities — Berlin, Bremen, Göttingen and Jena — and Vienna." -The New York Times
"(There's) a growing number of historians who worry that Poland's ruling far-right government is trying to cover up the darker side of the country's past, including Polish complicity during the Holocaust, effectively silencing historians who veer from Poland's official narrative." - PRI's The World
Gina Duncan, who previously served as BAM’s first vice president of film and strategic programming, has been selected as the organization’s new president, the institution announced. She will take over a multifaceted performing arts behemoth with a $50 million operating budget. - The New York Times
Karen Brooks Hopkins came to BAM in 1979, became its president 20 years later, and retired in 2015, having more than doubled the artistic budget, added a venue, built a $100 million endowment, and presented some of the most important work of the late 20th century. - The New York Times
