On Friday, October 20, "across New York City, Amsterdam, Santiago, Berlin, London, and beyond, dozens of art galleries, museums, and individuals their spaces and studios to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza." - Hyperallergic
Of the 79 plays being performed in 2024, 68 (87%) were written after 2000, 60 (76%) were written after 2014 and 23 (29%) will have their world premiere in 2024. Only three were written prior to the 20th century. - ArtsHub
First, there’s the fear that an uncaring new ownership might end up sending one of the world’s most vital music libraries down the digital flush hole. Then there’s the concurrent fear that the community surrounding this special ecosystem will erode and go poof. - Washington Post
Jennifer Richeson analyzed questionnaires completed by 400 One Small Step participants before and after their conversations. Her analysis showed that both liberals and conservatives felt more empathetic towards their partners following their conversations. - Current
The culture wars that take place over controversial moral questions are, in part, battles over which ethically loaded concepts should win out within a society. - Aeon
"There’s less philanthropic money around and need to work a lot harder to engage new donors and this will require a more balanced approach to ethics. There is no such thing as “pure” private funding. If you dig deep enough, anyone who’s made a lot of money is likely to have some skeletons." - Apollo
Swift is that rare artist who’s been rolling along, picking up new fans and keeping the old, during her long career. Just as Taylor has reinvented herself, giving some lyrics little tweaks in her re-recordings, different iterations of me, and everyone, have had our own evolutions. - Washington Post
“I hope that it becomes the equivalent of An Inconvenient Truth to the conversation about climate change,” says Dan Pallotta, main subject of the documentary Uncharitable, "so that it begins to become civically incorrect to judge charities on superficial, knee jerk reactive measures.” - AP
Yes, our encyclopedic museums need to do a better job of painting the full picture of art history, women and artists of color included. But there is something special about a space fully dedicated to women. - Artnet
“My reasons are simple: The person who will be governor in January has already asked LSU to fire me,” tweeted journalism professor Robert Mann. “And I have no confidence the leadership of this university would protect the Manship School against a governor’s efforts to punish me and other faculty members.” - Slate
Right now, a few authors joining together to sue the likes of Mark Zuckerberg and Meta is a bit of a David-vs.-Goliath situation. Book publishers need to join this fight. Magazine publishers need to join this fight. - Washington Post
"Everywhere I go in Belfast people tell me there’s no lack of talent here, just opportunity, infrastructure and funding. There’s been no executive committee in the Northern Ireland government since February 2022. … Still, artists talk about the Arts Council of Northern Ireland like friends, rather than bogeymen." - The Guardian
