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A Battle Between Under-40s And Over-40s At Publishing Houses

“The distinction really is between social media natives who don’t really treasure free speech because they’ve had a lifetime’s worth and think it’s overrated, and people of an older generation who didn’t have access to the means of cultural production and needed the patronage of newspapers and publishing houses to get their voices heard.” - The Observer

How To Tell If You’re Part Of A Cult

It is language that can best clue us in as to whether an organization we have joined is a cult or is at least engaging in cultlike behavior to extract resources out of its members. - The New Republic

Artworks Leaving UK As Museums Deal With Cash Shortage

UK museums can hardly try to buy multi-million-pound works of art when they are making large numbers of staff redundant as a result of Covid-19. - The Art Newspaper

James Cuno Steps Down As Head Of Getty

In 2011, Cuno was appointed to lead the Getty Trust, which manages four Los Angeles–based organizations: the Getty Museum, the Getty Conservation Institute, the Getty Research Institute, and the Getty Foundation, the organization’s main philanthropic arm. - ARTnews

How People Come To Deny Science

People live in information filter bubbles created by powerful algorithms. When those in your social circle share misinformation, you are more likely to believe it and share it. Misinformation multiplies and science denial grows. - The Conversation

What To Do With All Those Empty NYC Storefronts? Put Art In Them

Last June Barbara Anderson founded Art on the Ave, which creates free exhibits in New York City neighborhoods by using empty storefronts as gallery space. - Christian Science Monitor

Inside The Workshop Where Some Of The World’s Best Pointe Shoes Are Made

A visit to Freed of London, where 24 skilled craftspeople make ballet shoes, many custom-fitted for dancers at the likes of Britain's Royal Ballet and ABT, where they go through about 3,600 pairs a year. - Business Insider

The Internet Is Rotting. What To Do?

Links work seamlessly until they don’t. And as tangible counterparts to online work fade, these gaps represent actual holes in humanity’s knowledge. - The Atlantic

Donald Barthelme, Maybe The Least Likely New Yorker Writer Ever

"By most standards, many of his stories aren't stories at all. They don't have plots, or even realistic, believable characters. … In the manner of visual artists like Duchamp and Rauschenberg, they incorporated all sorts of found materials: snippets from ad copy, old travel guides, textbooks, and instruction manuals, even other writers." - Literary Hub

David Frum: Why Are States Turning Against Academic Testing?

Across the U.S., blue-state educational authorities have turned hostile to academic testing in almost all of its forms. - The Atlantic

The Shed Wants You To Play Pokémon Go On The High Line, But With Art And Not Cartoons

The two New York institutions have collaborated on The Looking Glass, an exhibition in which all the artworks are in augmented reality, and you point your smartphone at a QR code in order to see them. - The New York Times

David Geffen Gives $150 Million To Make Yale Drama School Tuition Free

The school said that, starting in August, it would eliminate tuition for all returning and future students in its masters, doctoral and certificate programs. Tuition at the school had been $32,800 per year. - The New York Times

Children’s Author Patricia Reilly Giff, Who Wrote The Kids Of The Polk Street School Series, Dead At 86

"Over nearly half a century, more than 100 books for young readers. She delighted younger ones with the adventures, misadventures and high jinks of the Kids of the Polk Street School, one of several popular series she penned. Writing for older readers, Mrs. Giff animated historical events in volumes such as Lily's Crossing." - MSN (Washington Post)

How Artists Are Using Tech/How Tech Is Art

The NEA research examines the creative infrastructure supporting tech-focused artistic practices and provides insight into the existing challenges and opportunities faced by artists and organizations working at the intersection of arts and technology. - NEA

Why The Minister Who Slashed Britain’s Funding Of Museums Is Now Chairman Of Its Biggest One

George Osbourne, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in David Cameron's Conservative government from 2010 to 2016, instituted savage cuts to the budgets of arts institutions. Why did the board of the British Museum unanimously choose him as chairman? For the same reason that American arts organizations put rich and powerful people on their boards. - The Guardian

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