There’s evidence it did. In some respects. But the answer is a bit more complicated. – BBC
Author: Douglas McLennan
Yemen’s Ancient Cultural Treasures Are Being Damaged In Its Civil War
As a result of Yemen’s complex civil war – now in its fifth year – many of the country’s wonders have been damaged or are under threat. While the destruction pales in comparison to the human cost of the conflict, the country’s rich cultural heritage has also been ravaged. – The Guardian
Arts Council England’s New Strategy For Culture Seems To Be More About Itself Than The Arts
Robert Hewison: “ACE’s response to its lacklustre level of achievement has been to invent three “outcomes” so inoffensive that no one would disagree with them: “creative people” – more emphasis will be put on helping individual artists – “cultural communities” – encouraging local collaboration – and “a creative and cultural country”. Are we striving for an uncreative and philistine country? Surely not.” – Arts Professional
Of The Moment: How To Capture Improvisation
The drummer and composer Tyshawn Sorey has a lovely phrase to describe the practice of improvisation: “the adornment of time.” – New York Review of Books
The Louvre Is Moving Around Its Collections And Rehanging Art
The Pyramid entrance was revamped in 2014-16, and a total rehang of the collections is under way, including rewriting labels for the 38,000 works exhibited in the galleries. – The Art Newspaper
Mind Meld: The Risks (And Rewards) Of Linking Our Brains With Computers
Neural lace and other AI-based enhancements are supposed to allow data from your brain to travel wirelessly to one’s digital devices or to the cloud, where massive computing power is available. – Nautilus
The Fraught Art Of Page-Turning
The page turner disturbs our illusion of musical command, threatening to shatter the audience’s suspension of artistic disbelief, where we disaggregate the magic of the sounds we experience from their more mundane physical and material realities: works that exist in published scores with broken spines and tweaked pages. – Van
Ontario Slashes Arts Budget, Leaving Publishers Unable To Pay Writers, Illustrators
Provincial cuts to the Ontario Arts Council will leave small magazines struggling to pay writers and illustrators, silencing important minority and marginalized voices, and putting the magazines’ survival in jeopardy, New Democrat MPP Jill Andrew says. – Toronto Star
Why Public Libraries Across America Are Eliminating Book Fines
The decision to remove fines is a growing nationwide movement. Already, dozens of U.S. libraries have fully or partially eliminated overdue fines (usually for teens and children), according to a “fine-free” map from the Urban Libraries Council (ULC). – CityLab
The Scary Apocalyptic Literature Of The Nationalist Far Right
Lone wolves, domestic terrorists, white supremacists, and militiamen on the far-right fringes who have long trafficked in an expansive body of published manifestos and propagandist fiction. Theirs is a kind of sick pop culture, constantly updated and running parallel to the mainstream, that fully accounts for apocalyptic race wars and nationalist-driven coups d’etat. Those steeped in this body of literature are primed to expect the moment where their rhetorical “shit” hits the real-life “fan.” – The New Republic