"In a world overshadowed by immensely complex crises that demand cooperation across the human species, we are finding it necessary, as if we were toddlers, to identify fruits and colors..." We are standing... at the junction of many burned and sundered bridges; I received a vision of how truly fucked we are. - Guernica
In the 2020s, our collective understanding of the unfinished, sublimated, institutionalized nature of the British colonial past has undoubtedly reached a tipping point. And yet with a grim inevitability, at this transformative and hopeful moment for our universities and museums, and for the arts and culture sectors more generally, backlash is underway. - Hyperallergic
Quantitatively and qualitatively, critical production is flourishing, despite – and in some cases because of – the dire economic state in and around the Anglo-American critical field, where criticism is being practiced and received as an artform in its own right. - Vinduet
In December, 31 of the museum’s 176 employees sent an open letter to Thomas Dermine, who, as Belgium’s Secretary of State, oversees federal museums. The letter detailed a number of allegations of inappropriate behavior. - ARTnews
"A longtime librarian at Roxbury High School in Morris County (New Jersey) has sued a group of residents she says defamed her by falsely claiming her library has pornographic books and she is a child predator." - NJ.com
We all recognise how important self-care is and that books help you feel part of a bigger world. Which is why we choose to read diversely and share good reads with each other. - Psyche
Choreographer Liv Lorent settled in Newcastle 30 years ago; Esther Huss moved to a nearby former mining village more recently. Both see real advantages to being out of the London bubble, and not just the affordable housing: these no-nonsense Geordies are surprisingly open to both watching and performing. - The Guardian
"It's a delicate experiment in what happens when we really try and tune in to local audiences rather than just deliver the same product around the country, which is what we normally do." - BBC
Valeria Ratnikova started at TV Rain at age 20; by 23, she was a network star. When Putin's government shut TV Rain down after the Ukraine invasion, she followed colleagues to a new station-in-exile in Latvia — until missteps and misunderstandings led that government to revoke Rain's license. - Columbia Journalism Review
Once venues for younger children that provided rainy-day entertainment through exhibits and a scattering of hands-on activities, they’re expanding their scope by offering a breadth of learning and support for a broader age group. - The New York Times
The former Cincinnati mayor, who once said that he didn't mind being called the "grandfather of trash TV," hosted a "tabloid talk show known for outrageous arguments, thrown chairs and physical confrontations between sparring couples and homewreckers." - CNN
In the pre-#MeToo era, when we had yet to shift from feminism’s third wave into its fourth, it was easy—even forgivable—to miss what Tindall left hidden in plain sight. - Van
"Poetry slam is one of the few examples we have of a 'language game'. ... t is a place to play with words, and that is the entire point of the gathering: to think aloud under pressure and work out arguments in ensemble." - The Nation
Several companies in the Bay Area have been finding real advantages in these models: without a single, well-paid executive, the remaining staffers can be paid better; limited tenures for programming and casting directors keep companies from falling back on the same playwrights and actors; and so on. - San Francisco Chronicle
A decree has declared the traditional king of the region where the artworks were made, the Oba of Benin, their official owner. Now the museums and governments who'd been negotiating with Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments don't know whom they should be dealing with. - The Art Newspaper
