Art News from Around the World

Visual Arts Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:01 German University Study Center Named Best New Building In Europe The architects describe the building as acting like a microchip on a circuit board, a central meeting point connected to all parts of the university campus. There is no front or back, but nine equal entrances all around the 1,000 square metre (10,760 sq ft) building, making it feel like an open hub. – The […]Source: Visual Arts Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:00 The Louvre Is Considering Moving Mona Lisa To Its Own Underground Room “A recent survey showed tourists did not enjoy the experience (of seeing the famous portrait), with comments ranging from ‘never been so disappointed’ to ‘torture.'” Says the museum’s director, “Moving the Mona Lisa to a separate room could put an end to public disappointment.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN)Source: Words Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:01 Why Reading Was Intended To Be Done Out Loud Until approximately the tenth century, when the practice of silent reading expanded thanks to the invention of punctuation, reading was synonymous with reading aloud. Silent reading was terribly strange, and, frankly, missed the point of sharing words to entertain, educate, and bond. – The AtlanticSource: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:31 Is AI Ruining Facebook? The Meta AI experience has so far been a spam-filled one. Nowhere is that clearer than on Instagram where the search function, once a place to look up a friend’s account, now exists seemingly to usher users into conversation with a chatbot. – Fast CompanySource: Music Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:01 Report On Misogyny In The UK Music Industry Is Rejected The report was widely heralded as a turning point. Finally, the boys’ club of the music industry was laid bare. But on Friday, April 19, the government issued its response to the report’s recommendations – a wholesale rejection. – The ConversationSource: Words Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:32 No One Is Going To Buy Your Book The DOJ’s lawyer collected data on 58,000 titles published in a year and discovered that 90 percent of them sold fewer than 2,000 copies and 50 percent sold less than a dozen copies. – The ElysianSource: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:05 “The Movie Critic” Was Supposed To Be Quentin Tarantino’s Final Film. Why Did It Fall Apart? He reportedly had major stars attached and very enthusiastic studio (Sony) behind the project. Yet he dropped it all last week; he’ll still make a 10th film, but it won’t be this one. He’s not saying why, but some observers have ideas. – The Hollywood ReporterSource: Music Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:32 Exit Interview: Chicago Lyric Opera’s Anthony Freud I think the simplistic stereotype of my European colleagues assuming that American general directors are kicked around mercilessly by unconscionable wealthy donors is as wrong as the American perspective of European general directors dreaming about art and waiting for the next public funding check to drop through the letterbox. – VanSource: Dance Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:06 Has Tamara Rojo Pulled Off A Miracle At San Francisco Ballet? A new ballet so popular it got an extra seven performances at the end of the season. Big — and younger — crowds. Conga lines in the lobby at after-parties. In her first four months of programming, Rojo has transformed the vibe at War Memorial Opera House. – The San Francisco StandardSource: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:28 FCC Fines Non-Profit WBAI For Broadcasting Commercials FCC Media Bureau Chief Holly Saurer says they negotiated a consent decree with Pacifica in which the broadcaster acknowledges that it has violated the underwriting laws and sponsorship ID rules. – Inside RadioSource: Blogs Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:12 Over the Stage of Kansas A Lifetime of Charles Plymell’s Inspired Poetry The overwhelming number of comics, little magazines, books, posters, and all sorts of poetry and radical literature that Charles Plymell has printed during the last half-century is too many to count. All that time he was writing inspired poetry and prose of his own and having it published by a flock of small presses. Now in old age — he turns 89 today — Plymell is getting significantly renewed attention for his poetry with the release of "Over the Stage of Kansas: New & Selected Poems 1966-2023." To celebrate the book, he will give a reading on May 18 in Hudson, New York. It's bound to be a grand occasion.Source: Issues Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:07 With DeSantis’s Feuds Fading, Government At Disney World Is Blessedly Boring Again “What made this (latest) meeting different from most during the past year or so was that it came a month after Disney and DeSantis’s board appointees reached a deal to end their state court lawsuits over DeSantis’s takeover of the district.” – APSource: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:23 Is TikTok Going Away Soon? Short Answer: No! Should the court-y things not go in ByteDance’s favor, then? They could always push the next Congress, and the next president, to repeal the law. Or they could simply abide by the legislation and sell this popular asset for scads and scads of cash. – Yahoo!Source: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 16:04 Journalists At Italy’s National Broadcaster Plan A Strike Over Political Interference “Journalists at Italian state broadcaster RAI will strike next month in protest against the ‘suffocating control’ over their work by Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing government. The reporters’ trade union … criticised political attempts ‘to turn RAI into a mouthpiece for the government’ among … grievances behind the 24-hour strike scheduled for May 6.” – ReutersSource: Ideas Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:31 A Moral Obligation To Disrupt On Behalf Of The Planet? As a citizen waking up to this terrible truth, as the situation becomes more and more desperate, does the obligation to take desperate measures – in terms of the tactics we’re prepared to undertake, not just the policies we’re looking to bring about – increase? – AeonSource: People Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:03 After 20-Odd Years, Shelley Duvall Has Returned To Acting. Here’s Where She’s Been All This Time. She returned to her home state, Texas, and settled in a rural town not far from Austin. Yes, there have been struggles with mental illness and mobility (from a longstanding foot injury), but, at 74, she’s happy to be acting again, and her director praises her work. – The New York TimesSource: Music Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:35 Jazz Is Pulled From Phoenix Public Radio Station KJZZ A statement from station management said, “After years of observing audience data, it is clear that listeners are not staying for music programming. The KJZZ news and information programming has greater loyalty.” (A separate jazz service remains available online and on high-definition radio.) – Arizona Republic (Phoenix)Source: Theatre Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:02 A Bad Omen: At Le Moulin Rouge In Paris, The Blades Fell Off The Red Windmill “The blades fell onto the street below in the early hours of the morning. The cause of the collapse is not clear. Police say there were no injuries. The first three letters of the Moulin Rouge sign also fell off.” – BBCSource: Words Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:36 The Onion Has Been Sold To A Very Apt Buyer “Chicago-based firm Global Tetrahedron — which shares a name with a mock corporation that served as a long-running gag on the satirical news site and was featured in its staffers’ 1999 book Our Dumb Century — has purchased The Onion (from) G/O Media.” – HuffPostSource: Media Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:01 Godard Finished This Film The Day Before He Died. It’s Premiering Next Month At Cannes. “Scénarios is an 18-minute short that the film-maker finished in 2022 the day before he died via an assisted suicide procedure in Switzerland. Godard also made an accompanying 34-minute introduction which is a combination of ‘still and moving images, halfway between reading and seeing’ that will be screened alongside it.” – The GuardianSource: