The new museum, called the Centre d’Art Rodin, will open in September in the building constructed as the French pavilion for Expo 2010. The project was first announced in 2019 for Shenzhen but was moved to be part of the larger city's art scene. - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
"Ohio History Connection and Moundbuilders Country Club have agreed to terms over the Octagon Earthworks in Licking County. The site is part of Ohio's Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023." - Cincinnati Public Radio
"Two months after the University of the Arts in Philadelphia closed, the school’s dance program will be revived at Bennington College in Vermont, which will absorb the dance school, three staff members and nearly 50 students, the college announced on Thursday." - The New York Times
A team of scientists found that “the Dutch Master incorporated 'pararealgar and semi-amorphous pararealgar' — yellow and reddish-orange arsenic sulfide mineral variants that he mixed with lead-tin yellow and vermillion to achieve the glinting, reflective hue.” - Hyperallergic
“These are sandwiches that announced themselves, generating queues and crowds and noise, from hollers in the streets to streams of hyper-colourful Instagram photos. This is a potted history, not of London’s greatest sandwiches over the last two-and-a-half centuries, but of the most iconic ones.” - Vittles
The California student was at an estate sale. “I looked closely at the back and I saw it said Chagall and I was like, ‘Marc Chagall, are you serious?’” - Artnet
“I’ve had mixed feelings about the effectiveness of NBC’s strategy — do I care about what John Mulaney has been watching (and wagering on) in Paris? No. … These athletes have star power on their own, and this is their moment to shine.” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Surprised "venues received letters saying that going forward the city would require a paid license for every event that 'falls into the category of an Amusement.” … These events ‘include but are not limited to lectures, exhibitions, theatre, sports, comedy, music and other shows that charge a fee.’” - Investigative Post
“Two of the founders of the new camp — architects and friends Mike Laverdure and Sam Olbekson — estimate that there are only about 30 Indigenous architects total in the U.S.” - and they’d like to change that number. - MPR
The King’s Foundation School of Traditional Arts is training and certifying craftspeople in disciplines that might otherwise be dying out, such as Pakistani kashikari ceramics, Persian miniature painting, Moroccan zellige mosaic tilework and Egyptian Mamluk woodcarving. - The Guardian
Nüshu developed among women in the south of Hunan who were barred from education. By the end of the 20th century the script had almost died out, but now younger women who see it as a form of resistance to patriarchal power are learning nüshu, even in Beijing and beyond. - AP
The situation in Australia is grim. "What this all shows is not only the precarity of the journalistic profession, but also the low value publications, newsrooms, media corporations and perhaps even the general public, place on quality journalism.” - ArtsHub
American downtowns may have mattered before 2020, but the enormous growth of remote work (with the resulting rise in office vacancy rates) and the consistent preferences of home buyers show that suburbs and exurbs are where the action is — especially since much development there is along New Urbanism lines. - The New Atlantis
“The anxieties of the art maker – the writer – come through in anxieties about painting, or photography, or sculpture, or dance. But the best art novels transcend this self-consciousness.” - The Guardian (UK)
