Category: issues

Many estimate that upwards of 200 000 people participated in the demonstration, one of the largest streets protests in Canada over the past decade.

“Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota today criticised the decision by Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt not to reappoint current Arts Council England (Ace) chairman Dame Liz Forgan when her term ends in January.”

The plans for Dubai’s new cultural district include not only the opera house and modern art gallery, but two “art hotels”, leisure attractions, design studios and apartments.

“The previous ‘points-based immigration system’ effectively classed visiting non-EU artists as migrants and forced them into long, and sometimes unsuccessful, visa application processes. It drew widespread criticism from the art world and London’s municipal government, but despite the change, it seems there is still some progress to be made on the issue.”

“Criticism today is not about delivering truths from on high, but about striking a spark that lights a debate. The way I think about my work, and about art, is infinitely more plural and ambiguous than it was in 2006.”

“During the construction of the Philippines’ first real science museum, curator Maria Isabel García insisted that workers decorate their crane to look like a Tyrannosaurus rex. The country’s largest newspaper ran a front-page picture. The caption: “Dinosaurs at Work!'”

The Red Army. Red China. “Red-diaper babies”. The “Red Menace”. The Red Detachment of Women. The national flags of the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China. How did this one color become so associated with Communism? Slate‘s Explainer explains.

“We are becoming numb to infographics. Not long ago, I saw infographics in my newsfeed as an informational ‘treat’ because I knew the author had used the medium only because it most effectively displayed the information. But now that people have realized the traffic-generating powers of these things, every dumb report with an ounce of usable info is puffed into these massive images.”

“Even if the language is dead, the classical world isn’t. New discoveries are being made all the time. Oxford’s papyrology department has 200,000 untranslated Greek papyri in its archives – so many that, last year, they asked the public to help translate them. Recently the department has unearthed new ancient curses, love potion recipes, and fragments of Plato, Herodotus and the Gospels.”

“Arts organisations are using executive search because the work is specialised; and finding an artistic director (or a multi-skilled chief executive) is not something they do every day. And the work can be done confidentially at one remove, away from the gossip that swirls around such appointments.”