Tag: 01.23.19

Arts Council England’s Guide For Arts Orgs To A No-Deal Brexit

The new document warns that arts organisations must “evaluate the impact of goods or items being delayed at borders and consider ways to minimise reliance on these routes.” Any organization that received EU financial support should “consider its reliance on commercial or philanthropic income through visitor numbers, donations or corporate hire.” — The Art Newspaper

Poet Charles Bernstein Wins $165K Bollingen Prize

“Established in 1948 and awarded every two years, the Bollingen Prize is administered by … Yale University’s Beinecke Library and brings a cash award of $165,000. The prize recognizes either the best poetry book of the previous two years or a poet’s lifetime achievement.” With Bernstein, a professor at Penn, it’s “something of both.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

How To Fight Fake News?

Alan Rusbridger: “My experience is that readers are surprised when journalists can say, “Can you help me? Here’s my article. Is it right? Could it be improved? What’s missing here? What should I write about next?” These are such collaborative and open questions. Rare are the examples where journalists behave like that. But [when they do], readers fall over themselves to get involved, and that leads to trust. I think it leads to better reporting.” – Vox

Gay Magic-Realist Novel Banned By The Nazis Appears In English For First Time

“At the Edge of Night, by Friedo Lampe, was first published in 1933. … The [Nazi] regime objected to the novel’s inclusion of homoerotic content, and its depiction of an interracial liaison between a black man and a German woman. The book was placed on their list of ‘damaging and undesirable writings’.” Yet it was praised by no less than Hermann Hesse in 1933, and it has gained admirers since the uncensored version was published in Germany in 1999. — The Guardian