“It is recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society. It also places a value on the time spent developing a creative practice and producing art,” reads a press release for the initiative. - Hyperallergic
Feelings are real—people do have them, I have observed—and they can certainly be plausible explanations for all kinds of behavior. But they are not excuses or justifications. - The Atlantic
They made a record volume of productions here between March 2020 and April 2021 worth $5.27 billion. Canada’s homegrown film and TV industry also remained afloat, with some government underpinning, though it saw a dip in production of 12 per cent. - Toronto Star
The Paper Partition System (PPS) is quickly and easily constructed using cardboard tubes as structure and textiles as partitions. One unit takes approximately five minutes to build with the help of three people. - Dezeen
These artifacts are 10 times older than the pyramids of Egypt. Dating back tens of thousands of years, this cluster of one million images on the Burrup Peninsula is like an artistic encyclopedia, depicting human and environmental evolution. - National Geographic
That fireplace is at The Frick Collection in midtown Manhattan, and on each side of it are Hans Holbein's famous portraits of Henry VIII's two ministers. Penelope Rowlands retraces the paintings' journey into Henry Clay Frick's mansion. - The American Scholar
At first blush, it might seem obvious. But history is full of failed, unfinished or underperforming scratch-built city projects, in California and elsewhere, and more are in the pipeline. - Bloomberg
"Every writer on nature comes to their own accommodation with the hard facts of wild life. We needn't all look at them too closely, or for too long – but, if we don't look at them at all, I'm not sure what our writing is for." - Aeon
In all, the 31 productions reporting grosses took in a combined $28,329,869 for the week ending April 10, down a small 2% from the previous week. Attendance was 225,256, a tiny 1% drop. Average ticket price for all shows was $125.77. - Deadline
In which Emily St. James argues that the culture's arguments about spoilers (to avoid nor not to avoid) are basically another tool with which entertainment conglomerates keep people hooked on their ever-expanding mass of product. - Vox
Several well-controlled studies showing that academic training in preschool or in kindergarten, while improving test scores in the short term, causes long-term harm. - Psychology Today
"Just because a policy isn't written down, doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ... By examining a party's record, we can assess the values that underlie their actions, and start to get a sense of their unwritten arts and cultural policies. So where do the parties stand?" - ArtsHub (Australia)
Police in other cities have been recorded playing copyrighted music in an effort to prevent videos of them from hitting YouTube and other social media sites, which can remove content containing unauthorized materials. - Washington Post
"(It's) like watching The West Wing knowing that America really elected Martin Sheen — and that he became the most rousing wartime leader in the nation's living memory. This isn't merely life imitating art; it is art that seems to have created the conditions under which life imitated it." - The Atlantic
"Obscenity might seem a trivial side note in such a horrific conflict, but understanding it is a way of understanding language, and language has played a big part both in Moscow's professed motivations for this invasion and in Kyiv's defiant response." - The Guardian
