Art and Culture

The future of the citizen petition Stay Free Alberta is in question after an Alberta judge ruled it cannot go ahead, although the province plans to appeal the decision. In late March, the Alberta Prosperity Project announced the…
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Why do we keep thinking ecosystems have functions they could fail to perform? – Aeon Source link
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“One New York staffer said that, in contrast to other billionaires who have purchased media properties in recent years, James Murdoch has ‘actually been in the media business for a long time. It’s not like he’s just coming in new to it…
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For US museums that have reduced or eliminated entry fees, the expectation has often been that doing so will lead to an increase in visitors who will spend money on different things at the institution, such as merchandise, food,…
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Yevgeny Mravinsky I find myself still gorging on live recorded performances by the greatest orchestra I ever encountered – Yevgeny Mravinsky’s Leningrad Philharmonic. Last night, it was Bartok’s Music for Strings, Percussion, and…
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Reaching more than 20 feet in height, the hall was built over the course of nine months by a team of more than 100 volunteers who relied on the tools and techniques of their Neolithic ancestors. – Artnet Source link
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Ashley Ferro-Murray of the Doris Duke Foundation: I’m interested in … funding resilient models for the future as well as legacy models that … value the labor of the artist. One way the Doris Duke Foundation is doing this is by…
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Enrollment at Portland State University has declined by more than 20 percent since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its president is now pushing to lay off faculty and eliminate two departments, despite objections and no-confidence…
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Good Morning, Sonny Rollins is gone at 95 — one of the last giants of the bebop era, the colossus who kept reinventing his own sound long after he’d earned the right to coast (AP). Reinvention is the day’s other…
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Stephen Colbert attended The Hollywood Reporter's The Most Powerful People in New York Media celebration in New…
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