“Whereas (most Light and Space) artists focused in their work on perception and transcendence, Eversley” — a former aerospace engineer — “was more interested in portraying scientific subjects: black holes, dead star matter, and parabolas, whose arc-like forms generated a career-long inquiry for him, in particular.” - ARTnews
The new study from the think tank Remuseum, based at Crystal Bridges Museum in Arkansas, is titled “Access, Scale, and Market Share” and presents new findings in its analysis of American art museums and proposals about how they can maximize resources and practices to widen their reach to the public. - Artnet
Navalny’s Patriot, released eight months after his death in a Russian prison, took the autobiography prize. Matar’s My Friends beat Percival Everett’s James for fiction; Carson’s collection Wrong Norma won for poetry; Adam Higginbotham’s Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space won for nonfiction. - AP
Esa-Pekka Salonen didn’t resign as the orchestra’s music director; he simply said that he wouldn’t renew his contract, which runs through the 2025 season. Nonetheless, he's gone. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
“Last Friday, (he) signed an executive order calling for the dismantling of seven federal agencies. Chief among them was the Institute of Museum and Library Services, which provides critical funding to museums, libraries, and archives. Now, less than a week later, Trump appointed a new head of the agency, Keith E. Sonderling.” - ARTnews
“The National Trust has frozen all but essential recruitment and is pausing some projects as it faces a £10 million jump in labour costs this year as a result of higher employment costs stemming from last autumn’s budget.” - The Guardian
Graham Parker told the board of his decision “to spend more time with his family” in January and stepped down at the end of February, but public announcement of his departure was delayed, orchestra officials said, “out of respect for Graham.” - Louisville Public Media
These particular artifacts mostly demonstrate that the people running the empire day-to-day were (pick one or both) thorough, detail-oriented administrators or obsessive bureaucrats. - The Observer (UK)
"There’s also been a noticeable uptick in conversations among shoppers about the general plight of federal workers and the precarity of government employment these days.” - Publishers Weekly
Maurizio Cattelan’s satirical piece America, a fully functioning 18-karat gold toilet, was ripped from the plumbing and stolen from an exhibition in England in 2019. With security video and interviews with staffers at the venue, Blenheim Palace, the BBC has a report on how the theft happened. - BBC
In domains where I have strong opinions, I spend a lot of time confidently arguing for those opinions and criticising views I think are mistaken. I spend much less time contemplating the possibility I’m deeply mistaken. Even when people tell me I’m wrong—a common occurrence. - Conspicuous Cognition
It’s become an issue in the opera world, leading to directors and designers wrestling intensely with the question of how to both preserve the opera without engaging in its more troublesome stereotyping. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed, opens new tab with the U.S. Copyright Office that an image created by Stephen Thaler's AI system "DABUS" was not entitled to copyright protection, and that only works with human authors can be copyrighted. - Reuters
“Founded in 1989 by ABBA's Stig Anderson, the Polar Music Prize is an annual award, usually given to one contemporary and one classical musician. Each laureate receives 1 million Swedish krona (roughly €91,000 or $98,000).” This is only the second time it has gone to three recipients. - Euronews
