The new Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) is due to open in 2026, near Delhi’s Indira Gandhi international airport. It will be “India’s national modern and contemporary art museum, for all intents and purposes.” - The Art Newspaper
The designs were made through a laborious process of smacking stones against the granite rock that exposed an underlayer of white. This color, in addition to their size, made them highly visible from both the mainland and passing ships. - Artnet
“There’s a class issue that we don’t always talk about in writing and publishing, where you need to be able to afford this life. The average annual income authors earn from their writing is around $10,000. - The Walrus
Let’s get to the other side. After analyzing forty years’ worth of sitcom scripts and studio-audience laughter and applause levels, A.I. has unlocked the secret to comedy: fan-favorite characters entering the scene, over and over again. - The New Yorker
He first visited Istanbul in 1961, where, after a long writer's block, he was finally able to finish Another Country. He spent most of that decade living off and on in Turkey, where he wrote most of The Fire Next Time and No Name in the Street. - The Yale Review
“We have seemingly been hardwired with a number of cognitive biases that impede our ability to take appropriate action to address seemingly distant, gradual and complex challenges such as climate change.” - The Guardian
"With syncopated piano rhythms and social commentary (he) helped revive the ragtime age on educational television programs, in concert halls and in nightclubs for nearly a half-century." - The New York Times
You imagine the American city in the 1940s and ’50s and you think so many challenges being confronted—substandard housing, deindustrialization, racial strife, pollution—all this stuff is going on, and yet city leaders are obsessed with parking? But in fact they are. - Wired
"The first mass job cuts at the ABC since 2020 will heavily impact the corporation’s arts coverage and, some argue, may put the corporation in breach of its own Charter, which requires it to 'encourage and promote the musical, dramatic and other performing arts in Australia'." - Limelight (Australia)
The ability to see something you hadn’t expected is what separates printed products from the internet. It’s why those who love magazines do so fiercely. And it’s why I’m conflicted by Midjourney Magazine. I want to like it. But it’s soulless. - Wired
"A sculpture that was stolen from the North Dakota Museum of Art seven months ago was found next to a dumpster at the nearby Southgate Casino, Bar and Grill. Luckily for the two people who spotted the work, the museum had offered $1,000 for its safe return." - Artnet
We fail all the time, in things large and small, yet our biggest failure may be that, as a rule, we don’t understand failure. And since we are not equipped to think about it, we can’t grasp its broader significance in our lives. - Psyche
They're saying that the Titanic itself never sank and there was insurance fraud, or that J.P. Morgan or the Rothschilds or the Jesuits ordered it sunk. "It becomes kind of deflating to see a lot of this junk coming out," says one historian of the ship. - The New York Times
"One of the most eagerly anticipated new cultural venues in Europe, … the £210 million flagship building in Manchester, previously called Factory International, will now be called Aviva Studios after the insurance giant Aviva acquired naming rights for, it is understood, £35 million." - The Guardian
After 16 years as a star of Houston Ballet and four at the Australian Ballet, followed by 13 years as a successful stockbroker, Li became in 2012 artistic director of Brisbane's Queensland Ballet, where he has doubled the number of dancers and quintupled the budget. - Australian Financial Review
