Stories

When the institution’s leaders announced this spring that undergraduate tuition for the 2021-22 academic year would rise to $51,230 from $49,260, many students worried about having to pay more and started calling for a tuition freeze. - InsideHigherEd

Does culture really behave like space? If not, how are cultural relationships distorted when we convert them into spatial ones? - Cultural Analytics

“It can take a long time to work out what your voice is, particularly in ballet. After 100 Nutcrackers, 100 Cinderellas, to get to a point where you can make decisions yourself is incredibly empowering.” -Sydney Morning Herald

A lack of clarity about why certain books are suddenly off limits has complicated decisions about which titles to stock. - The New York Times

One NFT has been minted for each of the three holograms. The creators will receive a majority percentage of the auction sale, along with a percentage of any secondary sales. - dot LA

One thing that people can draw from a lot of movies now about democracy is it's not easy. It's not a sure thing. - NPR

For most artists, the shift has been devastating. Ask almost any you know, especially if they’re under age 40. But to understand why the arts economy sucks for artists now, you have to understand how we got here. - Oregon Arts Watch

Earlier battles over curriculum provided the template for today’s anti-Critical Race Theory, anti–1619 Project political campaigns. - Slate

It is not globalization that has brought us to the brink of the abyss, but the peculiar strain of globalization that emerged in the 1990s—a system in which international financial markets would discipline the bad habits of democratic governments, not the other way around. - The Atlantic

Documenta is also a barometer for changes in the world around it, as a major new exhibition in Berlin demonstrates. - The New York Times

Theater is perhaps the closest term to describe the experience, but even that is poorly suited; “Liminality” evades any one category or definition, though what else could we expect from a show that’s all about the in-between spaces in perceptions and realities? - The New York Times

They have realized how useful art has become as a tool for money launderers, and are considering boosting oversight of the market and making it more transparent. - The New York Times

The movie audience is a singular and enigmatic organism. It can’t really be compared to the audience for live events such as theater, music and opera. - Washington Post

Intelligence can be found, in part, in our brains, but perhaps even more importantly in our hearts and skin, in the architecture of the physical spaces we surround ourselves with and in the friendships we keep. - Washington Post

Shelving exemplifies “two tensions, one which sets a premium on letting things be, on a good-natured anarchy, the other that exalts the virtues of the tabula rasa, the cold efficiency of the great arranging, one always ends by trying to set one’s books in order.” - Washington Post