Critics argue that the new museum, which would be spread across two sites – one in Guernica and one in Urdaibai – will ruin the 22,068-hectare biosphere reserve by bringing at least 140,000 visitors a year into the protected natural space. - The Guardian
"Last month, fluid dynamics researchers from China and France published a research article in the Physics of Fluids journal indicating that van Gogh’s signature swirls throughout the night sky composition reveal that the artist was innately attuned to hidden atmospheric turbulence." - Hyperallergic
Over the past 10 years, as American politics and culture have grown more contentious, Shakespeare has become increasingly politicized. - The New York Times
This wedge of South Seattle thrums with the rumble of trucks and planes, brims with warehouses and lacks green space and clean air but has long been adored by artists for its ample and relatively affordable maker space. - Seattle Times
Our findings revealed that, when people make judgments about wisdom, they are essentially linking wisdom to two key dimensions that we call reflective orientation and socio-emotional awareness. - Psyche
"Linear ratings for kids television have cratered over the last decade and changed the programming landscape completely. … The carefully curated programming blocks of the past have been upended by streaming, … (which) has disrupted decades of knowhow around developing and programming TV shows for children, upending the entire playing field." - TheWrap (MSN)
AI-created artworks are disrupting the accepted norms of the art world. As philosopher Alice Helliwell from Northeastern University London argues, if we can consider radical and divergent pieces like Duchamp's urinal and Tracey Emin's bed as art proper, how can something created by a generative algorithm be dismissed? - BBC
“Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from showing the film.” - Hyperallergic
For years, the Connelly Theater has been performing in two auditoriums at a Catholic school in Manhattan’s East Village. In recent months, the Archdiocese of New York has started scrutinizing scripts and denying permission to stage in the building anything deemed contrary to Catholic teaching. - The New York Times
With the new Labour government having announced a "proper review" of funding body Arts Council England, Mark Pemberton suggests overhauling the structure of government arts funding, splitting the current system — highly centralised in the London-based Arts Council — into three parts. - Classical Music (UK)
The venue, of which the orchestra will have partial ownership, is the old Scottish Rite of Freemasonry hall downtown, which has, per music director Jeffrey Kahane, excellent acoustics. The building also has years of deferred maintenance; $5 million to $10 million will be necessary just to make it safe. - San Antonio Report
Due to concerns over the company's firing and replacement of its entire roster of dancers earlier this year, the city council's Quality of Life, Arts and Culture Committee decided not to allocate $248,000 to DBDT for the current season. - The Dallas Morning News (MSN)
"Filmmakers Steven Spielberg, Spike Lee and Ken Burns and singers Missy Elliott and Queen Latifah were among 20 recipients of National Medals of Arts, while the 19 recipients of National Humanities Medals included playwright-screenwriter Aaron Sorkin and historian Jon Meacham." - AP
"Brian Cleary stumbled upon the 134-year-old ghostly tale while browsing the archives of the National Library of Ireland. Gibbet Hill was originally published in a Dublin newspaper in 1890." - BBC
