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• ‘It’s our Olympic opening ceremony’: Dynamo, David Hockney and more unite for Bradford city of culture

  09-01-2025 11:00
  
  This year sees the city celebrate its rich, diverse creativity. Magician Dynamo, AKA Steven Frayne, and director Kirsty Housley discuss collaborating to shine a light on the arts of their home city – and offer hints on what to expectSlathered in mud, the magician formerly known as Dynamo emerged from a five-tonne mound of earth. It was 2022 and Steven Frayne had just buried himself alive, a magic trick that even Houdini never successfully performed. In the coffin-sized pit he dragged himse
  
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• Curtains, wellies, nuclear subs and a tsar’s palace: how William Morris mania swept the world

  07-04-2025 09:00
  
  His unmistakable floral patterns – awash with willow, blackthorn and pimpernel – are now on everything from walking sticks to the seats submariners sit on. We go behind the scenes of a dazzling new showHe has papered our walls and carpeted our floors, enlivened our curtains, coats and cups, and even infiltrated Britain’s nuclear submarine fleet. Almost 130 years after his death, the Victorian arts and crafts designer William Morris has blanketed the world with his unmistakable
  
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• National Gallery sleepover prize draw offers chance to dream among paintings

  07-04-2025 06:00
  
  London gallery’s competition marks 200th anniversary and opening of Sainsbury Wing after two-year overhaulAs far as sleepovers go, it’s a one of a kind: an overnight stay in a luxury bed in the middle of the National Gallery’s exhibition rooms, dreaming under the world’s greatest paintings.Perhaps you’ll be inspired by the venerated artworks to pick up a paintbrush, or you’ll have a surreal experience like Ben Stiller in Night at the Museum, whose character &n
  
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• Even Gamers Are Furious About New Tariffs

  06-04-2025 21:30 via 404media.co
  
  The Nintendo Switch 2 has been delayed. Why not move production to the US? “Nintendo would need to spend billions to open a factory in the US. … It’d probably take 4-5 years to complete this. Not to mention the time and cost to rebuild supply chain infrastructure.” – 404 Media
  
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• Pierce Brosnan Is So Much More Than Bond

  06-04-2025 21:00 via nytimes.com
  
  But he’s OK if you’re stuck on that era of his long, and continuing, career. Meanwhile, he’s also a painter, which is why The Thomas Crown Affair is, in his words, his favorite of his movies. – The New York Times
  
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• Director’s Ex-Assistant Says He Assaulted Her And Then Backed Out Of Settlement Deal

  06-04-2025 20:30 via seattletimes.com
  Writer and director Paul Schrader “has been accused in a lawsuit of sexually assaulting his former personal assistant, firing her when she wouldn’t acquiesce to advances and reneging on a settlement that was meant to keep the allegations confidential.” – Seattle Times (AP)
  
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• Why Is An Oregon Employment Lawyer Composing And Producing Neo-Romantic Music?

  06-04-2025 20:00 via orartswatch.org
  
  Andrew Lewinter: “What things do I want to incorporate from that music into my own music, to make something that’s both intellectually satisfying and emotionally satisfying? … That’s the goal with every piece: to make it fun to listen to, enjoyable, and to not take myself too seriously.” – Oregon ArtsWatch
  
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• How Betty Boop Made It To Broadway

  06-04-2025 19:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “Betty, who arrived just a decade after American women won the right to vote, was always working, and she often had jobs that were adventurous.” – The New York Times
  
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• As An Irish Literary Festival Turns Forty, There’s An ‘Explosion’ Of Irish Lit Worldwide

  06-04-2025 19:00 via irishtimes.com
  
  “Cúirt is the time when all of us grassroots people get to celebrate literature and writing in our own city. … Writers are very generous with what they share: they don’t hedge or hold anything back.” – Irish Times
  
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• What’s Wrong With The Algos?

  06-04-2025 18:30 via msn.com
  “I couldn’t figure out why any computer program would suggest that a person attending an Australian journalist’s lecture about a distant Hungarian relative selling off rare Bible fragments would be interested in attending the Northern Rockland Lacrosse Comedy Night Dinner.” – Wall Street Journal (MSN)
  
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• Twenty-One States Sue The Feds For Trying To Dismantle Agency Funding Libraries And Museums

  06-04-2025 18:00 via nytimes.com
  
  “The suit argues that the steep cuts [to the Institute of Museum and Library Services] and at two other small agencies violate both the Constitution and other federal laws related to spending, usurping Congress’s power to decide how federal funds are spent.” – The New York Times
  
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• Ireland Gets The Most Beautiful Sewage Treatment Plant In The World

  06-04-2025 17:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Perhaps that’s not a long list, but still – its design is inspired by the Sydney Opera House, and the plant “stands like a pair of minty green pagodas on the edge of the Irish Sea.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• How Does Reductress So Deeply, Accurately, And Concisely Satirize Readers?

  06-04-2025 17:00 via lithub.com
  
  “You can only make jokes about an enemies to lovers romance novel about two rival realtors who are also randomly immortal werewolves just trying to live a normal life in the mortal world if you’ve actually read said novel.” – LitHub
  
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• An Unlikely Arts Oasis Arises In LA, Built Partly With LACMA’s Rubble

  06-04-2025 16:30 via artsjournal.com
  Conceptual artist David Horwitz has created the 7th Avenue Garden in an empty lot, turning it into “a small but verdant oasis that hosts exhibitions, poetry readings and performances.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• It’s A Myth That Bilingual Kids Are Slower In Both Languages At First

  06-04-2025 16:00 via npr.org
  
  The problem is in the evaluators, not the kids: “‘Code-mixing, or using two languages in the same sentence, is often interpreted as confusion. It’s actually a ‘normal part of bilingual development,’ and even a sign of ‘bilingual children’s ingenuity,’ according to the researchers.” – NPR
  
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• Internet ‘Views’ Are Lies

  06-04-2025 15:30 via theverge.com
  
  That’s right, we’ve built a whole architecture – and funded people’s lives, or defunded their jobs entirely – based on nothing but lies. – The Verge
  
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• Tracy Chapman, Ready To Rerelease Her Debut Album On Vinyl, May Someday Tour Again

  06-04-2025 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  She’s always in the studio, she says – and in addition, “I play [music] and I sing, probably annoying people around me,’ she added. When I suggested that people around her were probably more than happy to hear her voice, she smiled. ‘I hope so.’” – The New York Times
  
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• The Japanese American National Museum In Los Angeles Takes A Stand Against DOGE

  06-04-2025 14:30 via msn.com
  The board chairman knows a thing or two about governmental overreach. “‘Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,’ Fujioka said.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• What To Do If You Wake Up With A Banksy On Your House

  06-04-2025 14:00 via bbc.com
  
  “You’ll have to make a series of clever decisions to come out of it unscathed.” – BBC
  
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• Kevin Young, Head Of The Smithsonian’s National Museum Of African American History And Culture, Leaves His Post

  06-04-2025 13:30 via nytimes.com
  
  “His departure comes as President Trump has targeted the Smithsonian Institution, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, in an executive order,” though the museum’s official statement was that he wanted to focus more on his writing. – The New York Times
  
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• It Takes More Than AI Slop To Create A Real Studio Ghibli Production

  06-04-2025 13:00 via gabrielburrow.com
  
  “The Ghiblification of OpenAI’s image generation launch was likely a calculated move to ensure that people viewed the new feature in a good light.” – Gabriel Burrow
  
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• Artist of ‘truly the worst’ Trump portrait says her career is threatened

  06-04-2025 11:54
  
  British-born painter Sarah A Boardman disputes US president’s claim that she ‘purposefully distorted’ his imageThe British artist called “truly the worst” by the US president, Donald Trump, after he derided a portrait she created of him, has said the criticism called her “integrity into question” and is threatening her career.Sarah A Boardman painted Trump’s official portrait for the Colorado state capitol building in Denver, where it hung for six
  
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• Ed Atkins review – a portrait of the artist in turmoil

  06-04-2025 10:00
  
  Tate Britain, London
  From digital avatars in limbo or distress to a poignant reliving of his father’s last days, the artist seeks to ‘reimagine life’s chaos’ in this major retrospective of his prolific career to dateA mesmerising film by the British artist Ed Atkins (b.1982) shows a pianist performing – with excruciating difficulty – what seem to be arbitrary chords in some mysterious sequence. Straining and sighing, pausing and deliberating, he appears to be
  
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• The big picture: Clark Winter on the road in Beijing

  06-04-2025 08:00
  
  The American photographer​ captured life​ behind the wheel ​across the US and elsewhere over three decades, using a vehicle’s angles to frame the world outsideIt’s 3.35pm in Beijing and everything is happening. The wide street, bathed in slanted afternoon sun, is filled with traffic. We are in the back seat of a taxi, paused at the mercy of the traffic controller atop his tiered stand, like a figurine on a wedding cake. The edges of the road are clogged with cyclist
  
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• R. I. P. : The National Endowment for the Humanities (1965-2005)

  05-04-2025 23:24 via artsjournal.com
  Since 2010 I have administered Music Unwound, a national consortium of orchestras and educational institutions funded by the National Endowment
  
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• Assistant Director of Digital and Lifelong Learning

  05-04-2025 18:00 via artsjournal.com
  Description:Juilliard Extension is seeking an Assistant Director of Digital and Lifelong Learning to support the operations of the Lifelong Learning Program and coordinate the production of digital education content. The Lifelong Learning Program brings the performing arts to older adults, ensuring that excellence in education reaches students wherever they are, with the belief that development is not limited by age.Reporting to the Dean of the Extension Division, this role is responsible for ma
  
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• Robert Taylor shares methods to inspire through diverse repertoire

  05-04-2025 16:59 via artsjournal.com
  Robert Taylor, Director of Bands and Professor of Conducting at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, shares his approach to diverse repertoire and inspiring individual voices in group ensembles.
  
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• On my radar: Nell Zink’s cultural highlights

  05-04-2025 16:00
  
  The Germany-based American novelist on being cheered up by a gulag memoir, the best Wagner around and how to encourage a nightingale into your gardenNell Zink was born in California in 1964 and grew up in rural Virginia. Before becoming a published novelist in her 50s, she worked a variety of odd jobs including bricklayer, technical writer and secretary, also running a postpunk zine. In 2014, with the help of Jonathan Franzen, she published her debut novel The Wallcreeper, followed closely by Mi
  
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• ‘Peering into the eyes of the past’: reconstruction reveals face of woman who lived before Trojan war

  05-04-2025 12:35
  
  Digital technology reveals ‘incredibly modern’ royal who lived 3,500 years ago in kingdom associated with Helen of TroyShe lived around 3,500 years ago – but facial reconstruction technology has brought a woman from late bronze age Mycenae back to life.The woman was in her mid-30s when she was buried in a royal cemetery between the 16th and 17th centuries BC. The site was uncovered in the 1950s on the Greek mainland at Mycenae, the legendary seat of Homer’s King Agamemnon
  
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• ‘The cabbage seemed isolated and alien’: Ieva Gaile’s best phone picture

  05-04-2025 11:00
  
  A lone vegetable stranded in a world of plastic transformed a trip to the supermarket into a photo opportunityIeva Gaile didn’t expect to take a photo on her trip to the supermarket. The lawyer, who lives in Vilnius, Lithuania, was working from home on the day and had popped next door for some lunch. When she spotted the errant cabbage placed atop a towering stack of water-bottle pallets, her reaction was instant.“Since I began photography I’ve developed a habit of always
  
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