Stories

“The famous London museum saw 6,479,952 visitors through its doors in 2024, an 11% increase on 2023 numbers.” - BBC

Things don’t look great for the country’s oldest performing arts venue. - The New York Times

“Beauty is best achieved by making the most of existing buildings – even those thought unremarkable – and getting the best young architects to design the transformation.” - The Guardian (UK)

“They eventually opted to axe costly exterior scenes in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light, meaning almost everything in the Tudor drama, screened by the BBC, became ‘conversations in rooms’ instead.” - BBC

“There are deep and profound things to say about where it fits in the history of art and situationism. But is also this stupid idea where they evade security to bring in a couch to play PlayStation. I love how it has that element of humor and ridiculousness.” - Salon

"I’ve felt a little bit like Indiana Jones running through a temple where tons of things are being thrown at you and you’re just trying to save the one beautiful thing because you’re like, “This belongs in a museum.’” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)

Writing about your life? “To farm it out to a machine that trawls the internet and cobbles together a fake version of you is not just academic dishonesty, it’s a broader degradation of our memories and our humanity.” - The New York Times

And the illustrator is pretty sure he knows why: “The characters in the new books have ‘darker skin instead of blonde fairy-tale princesses.’” - BBC

Hiroshi Yoshimura died in 2003, but a series of streaming releases has brought his music to a huge new global audience. - The New York Times

“Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway say their findings suggest that there are enclaves of women scribes that have not yet been identified.” - Hyperallergic

India, in particular, has a growing art scene - and the art fair shows that. - The New York Times

“It was labelled ‘Beatles 60s demos’ and had been sitting around Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known record shops, unplayed. ‘I thought it was just a reel-to-reel tape that somebody had put bootleg things on.’” - CBC

“How did this bankable story become Disney’s poisoned apple? Snow White has seemed cursed from the start, in part by Disney business logic.” - The Guardian (UK)

That’s what one formerly incarcerated woman says. “This company came into jail and turned, not just my life around, but hundreds of other people’s. … They really, really, did save me.” - BBC

L.A. artists have talked about their losses, but “we still have no clear picture of how many artworks by which artists, owned by which collectors, were lost. And it’s entirely possible that the public, and even museums, will not know for many years to come — if ever.” - Washington Post (MSN)