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Biden Goes After “Junk” Ticketing Fees

Some examples of these "unfair hidden fees" given by Biden were bounced check charges, bank overdraft fees, credit card late fees, resort charges at hotels, processing fees for concert tickets and "those huge termination charges to stop you from switching cable and internet plans to a better deal." - CNET

Shadow Puppetry: A Disappearing Art?

"The craft of shadow puppetry had historically been passed down, master-apprentice style, through the generations. With varied technologies and media dominating contemporary performance, practitioners of puppetry and scholars say this ancient form of theatre is under threat of extinction." - Hyperallergic

Gilbert and George Face Social Media Ridicule Over Museum Complaints

"These two white British men are getting themselves their own museum because lack folks and women have taken over the white man's art institutions." The South African artist Athi-Patra Ruga commented on the post: "The taste of #whitemantears". - The Art Newspaper

After Almost 20 Years, Baghdad Has Modern Artworks On View

"In a refurbished hall that used to be the cafeteria (at the Ministry of Culture), 76 precious paintings and sculptures from Iraq's foremost artists are on display for the first time since the National Museum of Modern Art was pillaged in the aftermath of the 2003 Iraq invasion." - The Guardian

How Sundance De-platformed A Documentary. Does It Say Anything About Our Current Culture?

In January, Sundance Film Festival screened it, and some employees of the Sundance Institute, which operates alongside the festival, soon resigned in protest. Even before viewing it, they had criticized the film for a multitude of sins. - The Atlantic

Britain’s NHS Tries Another Experiment Prescribing Arts And Sports As Mental Health Treatment

"NHS mental health trusts will use the activities to help 600 young people on their waiting lists for care as part of a study into whether 'social prescribing' helps improve mental wellbeing. ... If participation proves successful, the NHS may seek to make such activities available across England." - The Guardian

Tip Of The Iceberg: Spotify’s Latest Tool For Defining Your Music Taste

Icebergify collects data from your top 50 artists in your short-term, medium-term, and long-term listening trends, according to Icebergify. So the artists on your chart might be musicians you haven't listened to in a few months, or maybe are bands you've only just started listening to now. - Mashable

A New Archive At Google Arts & Culture Helps The Shattered Yazidi Community Recover

"The result of a year-long series of workshops in northern Iraq, the Yazidi Cultural Archives aim not simply to document the traditions of the small ethnic minority. Crucially, they address the mental-health crisis now gripping the Yazidi community." - The Art Newspaper

Bored By Music? TV? Movies? It’s Not Because There’s Nothing Good. You Need A Strategy

Today’s boredom is not hungry, a response to deprivation; it is a loss of cultural appetite, in response to the surfeit of claims on your attention and time.” - The New Yorker

This Eminent Russian Pianist Had To Defect To The US, Just Like In Soviet Days

Franklin Foer recounts how Mikhail Voskresensky, an 87-year-old éminence grise whose last political act was in 1963, realized he couldn't stay in a Russia that was deliberately destroying Ukraine — and how he overcame sanctions to get himself, his wife and toddler son from Moscow to the Bronx. - MSN (The Atlantic)

George Orwell’s Works Are Being Serialized On Substack

"The Orwell Foundation is set to launch Orwell Daily ... with the writer's memoir Down and Out in Paris and London. ... Subscribers to the newsletter will receive around 1,000 to 1,500 words of the book each day. The extracts are led by the original chapters." - The Guardian

Twitter’s Most Active Users Are Abandoning The Platform, Say Company’s Internal Documents

"These 'heavy tweeters' account for less than 10% of monthly overall users but generate 90% of all tweets and half of global revenue. Heavy tweeters have been in 'absolute decline' since the pandemic began, a Twitter researcher wrote." - Reuters

Why Has Public Radio Been Able To Boost Local Journalism?

"We attribute the growth of public media local journalism to three fundamental related features of the public media system: organizational sophistication and maturity, the federated structure of public media, and the resulting financial strength of the system as a whole." - Current

Pierre Soulages, Abstract Expressionist And Master Of The Color Black, Is Dead At 102

"In France, Soulages has obtained legendary status for his sleek abstractions, which enact elegant plays between light and dark simply by juxtaposing uneven black strokes. He ... was once described by François Hollande, the former Prime Minister of France, as the 'greatest living painter.'" - ARTnews

After Two Years’ Closure, Improv Institution iO Theater Chicago Is Back In Business

"iO shut down in June 2020, having been closed during the pandemic, with longtime owner Charna Halpern facing charges of racism on social media. Halpern put the building up for sale and (said) the biggest factor was upcoming property taxes bills she would have struggled to pay." - MSN (Chicago Tribune)

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