“Guédelon has quarriers, stone cutters, masons, joiners, blacksmiths, tilers, painters, carpenters, ropemakers, wheelwrights, carters and basketmakers – 60-odd artisans in all – building cob and rubblework walls, firing tiles, blending dyes and pigments, braiding rope and forging and beating nails, hinges and decorative ironwork.” - The Guardian (UK)
“I look for anything that is mindlessly fun or otherwise engrossing enough to help me forget that I am hurtling through the air in a bus with wings. I probably will not watch anything worthy of the Criterion Collection.” - The Atlantic
"Cheap and easy, at least five hundred lesbian-themed paperbacks sold millions of copies nationwide between 1935 and 1965. That’s a lot of lesbians.” - LitHub
In 2001, thanks to foot-and-mouth disease, “the Rothbury Highland pipe band embarked on a tour of the Coquet Valley in Northumberland.” And they haven’t ever stopped. - The Guardian (UK)
Doyle was “a multimedia artist who made poetic and beguiling pieces — exquisite animated work that explored ideas about civilization and evolution.” - The New York Times
The film premiered in June on Netflix to little fanfar. But “given the way that Demon Hunters has broken out, the streamer would be remiss not to give it a major push.” - Vulture (MSN)
Bluesky: “We think this law creates challenges that go beyond its child safety goals, and creates significant barriers that limit free speech and disproportionately harm smaller platforms.” - Wired
Mostly, they’re knuckling under. One might, if one were a student of history, think of this as totalitarian. “The chilling effect on museum programming at the heart of artistic experimentation and the historic role of art to occasionally provoke strong reactions in viewers.” - The New York Times
“I’m obviously in no position to do anything other than say how sorry I am. But there is a small part of me that thinks: what about all the good deals? … The ambition is to get back to doing what I was doing. I was a great art dealer.” - The Guardian
The redevelopment and restoration of older theatres such as the Citizens has become important as their social value and anchoring presence in towns and cities has been recognised. - The Conversation
“Everyone can have a bad day at the office. But for most of us, it doesn’t take place in front of millions of viewers,” argues Lyndsey Winship, who points out that objecting to Rachael Gunn being a white academic amounts to gatekeeping who’s allowed to do what kind of dance. - The Guardian
It is noteworthy that as strikingly photographic, familiar, dramatic — what have you — the painting is, one source of its pleasure has nothing to do with the content of the image but its shape, a shape that forces the viewer to find the rhymes. - MITPress
The competition drew more than 1,700 applications from around the world to try living in Eisenhüttenstadt, a Soviet-style planned city on the Polish border, near Berlin, which was built around a steel plant in the aftermath of the second world war. - The Guardian
