A historic neighborhood in the center of the city of Jodhpur is famous for the old homes and buildings clad in blue plaster. In recent years, though, the blue has been fading as the price of indigo has soared, making it too expensive for many to touch up their homes. - BBC
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double the budgets of local arts service organizations, index all cultural grants to inflation, and increase investment in creative industries, festivals and special events. - CBC
Our language is also infused with our sensory memories and experiences, and this allows it to be a source of pleasure and even transcendence, in addition to being a tool for exchanging information. - Nautilus
 A 2022 report from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) found that the median income of full-time authors had fallen by more than 60% since 2006, to £7,000 a year. - The Guardian
The project will create roughly 20,000 square feet of green space with 160 new trees, adapting the cathedral's underground parking garage into a visitor center, a new riverfront promenade, and a viewing platform overlooking the Seine and the Ile Saint-Louis. - AP
The deal shows how ingrained the Gardner is within the area—and seems to suggest that the museum views nearby commercial development nearby as a real threat. - ARTnews
“When streaming starts, people have a choice they can make, and they make it. So what does cable do? They raised the prices. They produced less programming at a time when the building was on fire." - The Wrap
A big idea known as predictive processing says that your experience of the world is a simulated model constructed by your brain... In our brain’s pursuit to plan, survive, and achieve our goals, it has learned how to guess what the world is actually like based on incoming sensory data. - Vox
Donald Byrd, Michelle Dorrance, Miguel Gutierrez, Rosie Herrera, and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa discuss how receiving six-figure prizes such as the Doris Duke Artist Award and the MacArthur "genius" fellowship changes (and doesn't change) their lives and work. - Dance Magazine
They’ve discovered that the brain uses contextual clues to decipher meaning, implying that understanding words and sentences is a dynamic, interpretive process. - Harvard Magazine
He explains that patent offices, when assessing an invention's patentability, have been inadvertently examining the cognitive abilities of the inventor rather than the invention itself. He suggests this introduces dangerous subjectivity into the process, in terms of varying indirect interpretations of an inventor's intellectual capacity, rather than on the technical merits of the invention. - Phys
