Art and Culture

Pro-Palestine activists staged a protest at the Venice Biennale on Wednesday, April 17, calling for the complete closure of Israel’s pavilion, which remains locked after artist Ruth Patir, who…
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My first library job was in the Kankakee, Illinois public library. Back then, I thought I was going to go to law school—I just needed a job.Then, I saw how the library engaged the community with youth and adult classes. I saw a bunch of…
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In this episode, we learn how leaders of a global network of arts and cultural districts regard their influence on community health and well-being. A transcript is available on the NEA website. Source link
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Our possessions – the things we view as “mine” – play an important role in our lives. Beyond their functionality, they can serve as poignant reminders of cherished memories. They can symbolise not only who we are, but also who we…
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“What’s the world for you if you can’tmake it up the way you want it?”–Toni Morrison, Jazz* The attempts I made to get out of my own head were sundry and full of nonsense. I visited a petting zoo for adults. I tried learning to…
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Digitizing the real world involves the tedium of real-world processes. Three-dimensional models are created using lidar and photogrammetry, a technique in which hundreds or thousands of photographs of a single object are stitched…
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Aye Write, the Glasgow literary festival that was cancelled last month after its funding application was turned down by Creative Scotland has announced that it will present a slimmed programme after an “unexpected, but very welcome”…
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Government regulation can help and hinder the creative sector, just as much as it does agriculture and housing. – The Big Idea Source link
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“The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark,” James Salter wrote in his 1975 novel, “Light Years.” An encounter with a single “slender” line of writing, as he put it, can send a reader spinning off on a new…
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When opera singer Kenneth Kellogg speaks, you listen. You can’t help it. It’s startlingly similar to what happens when he stands on opera stages — all 6 feet, 5 inches of him — and bellows in his sonorous bass-baritone; you are…
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