The initiative is a socially engaged art project that pays people who wouldn’t otherwise visit art museums to visit one as guest critics of the art and the institution, flipping the script between the institution and its public, the educator and the educated, the paying and the paid. – Hyperallergic
Author: Douglas McLennan
Canada Imposes $4.5 Million Fine On TicketMaster For Misleading Consumers
The bureau found Ticketmaster’s advertised prices did not reflect the true cost to the consumer as the online ticket service added mandatory fees later in the purchasing process that often added more than 20 per cent to the cost and in some cases over 65 per cent. – CBC
Designing For How People Experience Buildings Rather Than How Buildings Look
That idea of beginning with human experience rather than beauty, has applications beyond the deaf and blind communities. It’s a design philosophy that can be applied to tackling problems of sustainability as climate change worsens, and of an aging population, and of increasing urbanization. – The Atlantic
Why Have Scholars Retreated From The Public Stage?
The best of what the university has to offer lies less in its specific power to advance knowledge or solve problems in any of its many fields than in its more general, more crucial ability to be a model and a support for generous thinking as a way of being in and with the world.” We have turned inward exactly when we needed to turn outward. – The Baffler
Theatre On The Go: Made For Your Car
This is a theatre column, after all. But I really picked up three actors who directed me around streets previously unknown to me in downtown Markham and its environs, and who each made me believe in ten short minutes that their situations were really happening. – Toronto Star
UK Education Secretary Pushes Back: “We’re Not Cutting Arts Education”
Damien Hinds pushed back on references to the Fabian Society’s Primary Colours report, which was published earlier this year and concluded there had been a “dramatic” decline in arts education. – The Stage
Why Lists Of “Best” Or “Most Livable” Cities Are A Dumb Exercise
By using data as a driver, such rankings present themselves as dispassionate and impartial, as if they are simply removing the lid on a machine to reveal objectively how the engine beneath is functioning. They nonetheless represent a worldview taken from a highly specific angle, one that is full of scarcely acknowledged assumptions about who the imaginary citizen they address is. – CityLab
What SFMoMA Is Buying From Its $50M Rothko Sale To Diversify Its Collection
Among the works in this group of acquisitions, which will go on view at the museum in August, are Thomas’s portrait of a transgender woman named Qusuquzah, Qusuquzah, une très belle négresse 1 (2011), Bowling’s monumental painting Elder Sun Benjamin (2018), and Belmore’s large-scale ceramic sculpture Tarpaulin No. 1 (2018). – ARTnews
Age-Appropriate Books (For Any Age)
Avid readers could build autobiographies around their favorite books and come to the realization that what they have read is almost as meaningful as when they read it. So here’s a list of books matched to every age. – Washington Post
YouTube Stars’ New Big Thing? Excessive Over-The-Top Consumerism
After over 200 studies, we know that the more people endorse materialism, the worse their wellbeing. They’re less empathic, less prosocial, more competitive. They’re less likely to support environmental sustainability. They’re more likely to endorse prejudicial and discriminatory beliefs.” And you know, that sounds like what’s wrong with YouTube. –Wired