Two Kiev-based publications, Solomiya and Telegraf, and a dissident magazine from inside Russia, BL8D (pronounced "blood"), are using visual art, fashion photography, interviews and essays to engage young people in Ukraine and Europe with the conflict and, hopefully, contribute to aid organizations. - The Guardian
""In one image, she takes a selfie at Piazza San Marco in Venice, while elsewhere on her travels she eats a pizza on Lake Como and rides a bike past Rome's Colosseum. … The concept has been met mostly with derision by social media commentators, art critics, and even government officials." - Artnet
"It's an inherently dramatic device — because a letter is both a vessel for self-expression and a catalyst for a response. Suspense swirls around what that response might be, and often whether one will arrive at all." - The New York Times
"The staff of Paper Magazine, the pop culture publisher made famous by the 2014 'Break the Internet' photo shoot with Kim Kardashian, was laid off Wednesday. … The publisher itself is not shuttering, but is instead seeking to cut costs as it looks toward alternative options to remain in operation." - Adweek
"(Richard Sharp) quit Friday after a report found he failed to disclose a potential conflict of interest over his role in arranging ... a line of credit (for former Prime Minister Boris Johnson) weeks before he was appointed to the BBC post on the government's recommendation." - AP
"Karin Hindsbo, who oversaw the consolidation of four Norwegian art institutions into the National Museum in Oslo, will take up her new post in September. She will succeed Frances Morris, the first female director of Tate Modern." - The Guardian
"Protesters smeared black and red paint on the case and pedestal of Edgar Degas's Little Dancer Aged Fourteen sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in D.C. on Thursday to bring attention to the climate crisis and demand that President Biden declare a climate emergency." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Nothing that we know of stops the right side of the brain from connecting with the right side of the body. That wiring scheme would seem much simpler and less prone to errors. - Quanta
"In a world overshadowed by immensely complex crises that demand cooperation across the human species, we are finding it necessary, as if we were toddlers, to identify fruits and colors..." We are standing... at the junction of many burned and sundered bridges; I received a vision of how truly fucked we are. - Guernica
In the 2020s, our collective understanding of the unfinished, sublimated, institutionalized nature of the British colonial past has undoubtedly reached a tipping point. And yet with a grim inevitability, at this transformative and hopeful moment for our universities and museums, and for the arts and culture sectors more generally, backlash is underway. - Hyperallergic
Quantitatively and qualitatively, critical production is flourishing, despite – and in some cases because of – the dire economic state in and around the Anglo-American critical field, where criticism is being practiced and received as an artform in its own right. - Vinduet
In December, 31 of the museum’s 176 employees sent an open letter to Thomas Dermine, who, as Belgium’s Secretary of State, oversees federal museums. The letter detailed a number of allegations of inappropriate behavior. - ARTnews
"A longtime librarian at Roxbury High School in Morris County (New Jersey) has sued a group of residents she says defamed her by falsely claiming her library has pornographic books and she is a child predator." - NJ.com
We all recognise how important self-care is and that books help you feel part of a bigger world. Which is why we choose to read diversely and share good reads with each other. - Psyche
Choreographer Liv Lorent settled in Newcastle 30 years ago; Esther Huss moved to a nearby former mining village more recently. Both see real advantages to being out of the London bubble, and not just the affordable housing: these no-nonsense Geordies are surprisingly open to both watching and performing. - The Guardian
