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Is Cultural Tourism Growing Up?

While in the past, we may have been cynical that cultural tourism was just a watered-down ‘sell-y’ option parcelled up by cruises or tour group operators, this tainted perception seems to have matured into a specialist industry that calls on arts professionals to lead the experiences. - ArtsHub

Study: How Arts Agencies Helped Local Arts Communities Through The Pandemic

External and Internal advocacy work solidified support for the sector and gave funding agencies “seats at the table” within local government funding deliberations that were not available prior to the pandemic and that LAAs will work to retain.   - SMU Arts

The Case Against The Idea That Computers Will Ever Be Able To Think

It is one thing to appreciate the ways we make and remake ourselves through the cultural transformation of our worlds via tool use and technology, and another to mystify dumb matter put to work by us. - Aeon

There’s A Whole New Wave Of Contemporary Dance In Museums And Galleries

It's nothing new for visual art institutions to host new and experimental dance works, but there's been a real uptick in recent years. Why? Opinions differ (not least because the boundaries between choreography and performance art are sometimes blurry). - Art Basel

Warsaw’s New Museum Of Modern Art Tries To Transcend Poland’s Communist Legacy

The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric lines rises to upper floors, where large windows flood the gallery rooms with light. - AP

Critic Gary Indiana, 74

Although he was widely known as an art critic for the Village Voice during the mid-1980s, and even though he has continued to write literature and art criticism in the decades since, Indiana had by the beginning of the 21st century faded into relative obscurity, with many of his books going out of print. - ARTnews

Grandparents Organizing To Fight Book Bans

“I want to make sure my grandchildren grow up in a world where they can read and form opinions based on knowledge, not on a narrow truth.” - The Cut (MSN)

Artists And Performers In Republic Of Georgia Wonder If They’ll Have To Leave The Country

"Two new laws — cracking down on organizations that receive international funding and what the government calls L.G.B.T. propaganda — and the violent response by security forces to protests this year have many artists and others working in cultural organizations reconsidering their livelihoods, or even their futures in the country." - The New York Times

Stepping Inside A Painting (And Into History)

The Night Revels blasts through that flimsy structure of history to show us a work of detailed authentication that is nearly 1200 years old. This painting may be the first documentary in history: We know who these people are; we know their names, their professions and their relation to each other. - Brooks Riley

Is This The Reason Some Of The Books We Buy Now Are Of Terrible Quality?

Many consumers likely don’t know the difference between a print-on-demand book and a traditionally produced paperback, at least not at first. But once you do notice, you can’t unsee it. - LitHub

How America’s Poet Laureate Collaborated With NASA On Its Mission To Jupiter

It isn’t the first poem to slip the surly bonds of Earth and it won’t be the last. But its origin story is a reminder of the link between art and science, and the way inspiration flows in both directions. - The New York Times

Ten Years After An Aborted Shutdown, San Diego Opera Announces Ambitious Five-Year Expansion Plan

"How ambitious? It will require raising an additional $10.5 million over the next five years to fund the expansion of live performances; the re-establishment of the resident artist program; the commissioning of new operas; the reimagining of its audience engagement programs, and more." - The San Diego Union-Tribune (MSN)

That Banana-Duct-Taped-To-The-Wall Artwork Seems To Have Been A Very Good Investment

One of three "editions" of the piece, titled Comedian, by prankster conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan (he of the gold toilet titled America) sold five years ago for $120,000. The Sotheby's estimate for the work's upcoming resale is about ten times that. - CNN

A Brain Abscess Left Alison Stewart Unable To Speak. Here’s How She Worked Her Way Back To The Radio Mic.

She had spent decades as a TV and public radio journalist and host, and, this past February, she suddenly found herself unable to utter anything but gibberish. Here's how her neurosurgeon identified and remedied the problem and how she and the therapists recovered her ability to speak. - The New York Times

Pig Iron’s MFA Program In Devised Theater, Left Orphaned By Collapse Of UArts, Finds New Home

"The Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training will become part of Rowan University in New Jersey, almost four months after it was cast adrift following the sudden closure of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia." - WHYY (Philadelphia)

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