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• The US’s Biggest Export Is Education. Is Trump Wrecking It?

  18-04-2025 17:15 via wapo.st
  In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.– Washington Post
  
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• Archibald prize 2025: Julie Fragar wins for portrait of artist Justene Williams

  09-05-2025 04:24
  Decision announced at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, where all finalists will be exhibited to the public from SaturdayArchibald prize 2025 finalists: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Chen, Jackie O and others – in picturesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailJulie Fragar has won the 2025 Archibald prize for her portrait of her fellow artist Justene Williams.Announced as the winner of the $100,000 prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on Friday, Flagship Mother Multiverse (Justene) was
  
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• ‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film

  08-05-2025 13:09
  The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to herIn the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased
  
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• The best of the Contemporary African Art Fair 2025 – in pictures

  08-05-2025 11:28
  The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair returns this weekend to London, New York City and Marrakech. It remains the first and only fair dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora and this year sees a total of 30 galleries and more than 70 artists. The show runs 8 to 11 May Continue reading...
  
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• National Gallery rehang review – ‘A momentous retelling of the story of art’

  07-05-2025 19:25
  
  National Gallery, London
  It is one of the world’s greatest museums and this revamp starts with a thrilling embrace from Leonardo, unfolding to Titian, Van Eyck, Monet and more – all bolstered by cool new architecture and lighting. What a wonderland!There are so many twists, turns and fascinating detours in the National Gallery’s rehang you have to pick up some kind of thread. In my case, perhaps distracted by the thought of the National’s new restaurant, Locatelli, it&rsq
  
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• Australia’s best small museums: celebrating apples, bottles, country music, dinosaurs …

  07-05-2025 17:00
  
  Photographer Simone Rosenbauer’s Small Museum project documents rural, community-run museums and reveals a rich, nuanced portrait of AustraliaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIn the small country town of Tingha in northern New South Wales sits a supermarket seemingly frozen in time: the Wing Hing Long and Company Store. Its shelves are lined with old products – canned food from the 90s, shoes from bygone eras, boxes of soap with retro graphics and bottles of spray-on starch
  
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• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Only Skyscraper is Sold, Ending Legal Struggle

  07-05-2025 15:32 via news.artnet.com
  “On April 28, a bankruptcy court ruled that the (Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma) will be sold for $1.4 million to McFarlin Building LLC. The 19-story property was to sell on May 6 in a bankruptcy auction, but despite its bankruptcy trustee approaching hundreds of potential buyers, no additional bids were submitted.” – Artnet
  
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• Soprano Patricia Racette Is Next Artistic Director Of Opera Theatre Of St. Louis

  07-05-2025 15:05 via stlpr.org
  
  Racette has a long history with the company: she first performed there in 1993 and has returned numerous times since; she made her debut as a stage director there in 2018 with La Traviata, and has directed the company’s young artist programs since 2019. – St. Louis Public Radio
  
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• Percival Everett’s “James” Was Not Initially One Of The Pulitzer Fiction Finalists

  07-05-2025 14:33 via nytimes.com
  Here’s what happens when the Pulitzer board either (a) considers none of the three finalists submitted by the jury in a category a worthy winner or, as in this case, (b) can’t find consensus on a single choice among the submitted finalists. – The New York Times
  
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• Houston Ballet Selects A Baryshnikov Protégée As Its New Executive Director

  07-05-2025 14:06 via houston.culturemap.com
  
  Sonja Kostich studied at Baryshnikov’s School of Classical Ballet and was 17 when he invited her to join ABT. She went on to dance with his White Oak Dance Project as well as San Francisco and Zurich Ballets. As an administrator, she has led Kaatsbaan Cultural Park and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. – CultureMap Houston
  
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• ‘You might find it scary’: artist Huma Bhabha squares up to Giacometti with wellies, skulls and teeth

  07-05-2025 06:01
  The Pakistan-born sculptor was nervous to show her irreverent work – made using plastic bags, pincers and chairs – beside the Swiss existential hero’s but tells us ‘they’re enjoying each other’s company’Two tonnes of Huma Bhabha’s works greet you before you even reach the entrance of her new exhibition at the Barbican in London. They are four powerful ancient-looking giants, with rough-hewn surfaces, gouged and blackened (the effect achieved by fir
  
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• Meet This Tumultuous Moment with Strength and Courage. 3 Arts Conferences Devoted to Solutions and Skills for a New Era!

  06-05-2025 22:06 via artsjournal.com
  Meet This Tumultuous Moment with Strength and Courage. 3 Arts Conferences Devoted to Solutions and Skills for a New Era!Join us in Toronto, June 24-25; San Francisco, July 22-23; or New York City, August 5-6. Sign up by May 23 to get 3-for-1 registration.Each additional registrant is just $99 after that.Come together with friends and allies for two jam-packed days of networking, success-planning and essential skill-building for this new era. Discover which new models are surging and which ones
  
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• Trying Out A New Finale For “Don Giovanni” — Mozart’s Requiem

  06-05-2025 21:01 via nytimes.com
  At Berlin’s Komische Oper, stage director Kirill Serebrennikov has replaced the opera’s moralizing final sextet with an epilogue: a solo dancer represents the dead lothario’s soul as it struggles against, and then accepts, its fate — this as the soloists and chorus perform last rites using Mozart’s final work. – The New York Times
  
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• How JMW Turner Became The Painter We Know

  06-05-2025 20:57 via newstatesman.com
   A fellow painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, thought that “Turner’s pictures always look as if painted by a man who was born without hands” who had “contrived to tie a brush to the hook at the end of his wooden stump.” – New Statesman
  
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• Is The Future of Theatre Immersive?

  06-05-2025 20:49 via msn.com
   “I think it’s an empowering situation when participants are able to not just immersive themselves in a world but actually affect that world and, in today’s current situation, just having a little bit of power to make a significant change to a person, a character or a story is extremely enriching.” – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• Trump Versus The Arts World

  06-05-2025 20:15 via newrepublic.com
  Trump has depicted the Kennedy Center as a crumbling building that he will return to its former glory. Never mind that he has offered few ideas for doing so and has spoken about his plans with his trademark blend of grandiloquence and vagueness. – The New Republic
  
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• Dara Birnbaum, Video Artist Who Subverted Media Messages, Is Dead At 78

  06-05-2025 20:06 via artnews.com
  “Hosts of video artists … owe a debt to Birnbaum, who found clever ways of upending the one-way stream of information that pours forth in the media, and in particular on television. During the late ’70s and ’80s, she began harvesting images from pirated tapes of TV programs, then reediting their images.” – ARTnews
  
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• France And EU Establish Enormous New Fund To Attract American Researchers

  06-05-2025 19:31 via politico.eu
  “The role of science in today’s world is questioned. The investment in fundamental, free and open research is questioned. What a gigantic miscalculation,” von der Leyen said. “Science has no passport, no gender, no ethnicity or political party.” – Politico
  
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• Beloved Indie Florida Bookstore At Center Of Censorship Fight

  06-05-2025 19:04 via nbcnews.com
  Management began reviewing all store materials after receiving a complaint from a customer against profanity on a greeting card. What began as a purge of purportedly profane materials, including greeting cards, stickers and book titles with swear words, quickly escalated into the quiet removal of more than 60 books from the store. – NBCNews
  
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• Robbie Williams: Radical Honesty review – ‘Tone deaf, self-important, incredibly bad art’

  06-05-2025 19:01
  Moco, London
  The former Take That singer’s show features line drawings filled with therapy speak, greeting-card banter and meaningless affirmations. Can this really be presented as art?For a while there, Robbie Williams was pretty damn insistent that he would just rock all night, DJ. But artistic geniuses cannot live on rock alone, and the former boyband superstar has been looking for other ways to satisfy his pangs of creative hunger. And judging by the awkward, anxious paintings and scul
  
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• Denmark’s museum objects at risk from ‘extreme’ new mould, say conservators

  06-05-2025 18:59
  The ‘epidemic for Golden Age paintings’ may already be a global problem, with the fungi a possible health hazardA new type of “extreme” mould is sweeping through Denmark’s museums, threatening some of the nation’s most important paintings and cultural objects, conservators have warned.Described as an “epidemic for Golden Age paintings”, the highly resistant mould covers objects in a white coating and has been detected in 12 of the country’s m
  
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• Juilliard Dance Division Names A New Director

  06-05-2025 18:44 via nytimes.com
  “Melissa Toogood, a Bessie Award-winning dancer who was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in its final years, succeeds Alicia Graf Mack, who is to become the artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Toogood, who is Australian and lives in Sydney, will begin on July 1.” – The New York Times
  
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• Why Do So Many Artists Come From Broken Homes?

  06-05-2025 18:31 via psypost.org
  Paradoxical though it may seem, studies have found that many creative people had difficult childhoods. Indeed, many well-known artists owe their genius to tough childhood events, from which they escaped by creating mental worlds where they were free to develop their talents. – PsyPost
  
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• That Was Fast: US Copyright Office Has Granted Copyright To 1000 AI-Enhanced Works

  06-05-2025 18:15 via pcmag.com
  “In the copyrightability analysis, distinguishing between using AI as a tool to assist in the creation of works and using AI to stand in for human creativity is important. The difference is whether AI is enhancing human expression or is the source of the expressive choices.” – PC Magazine
  
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• What Will Be On Display In The New LACMA? Four Curators Reveal Their Plans

  06-05-2025 18:02 via nytimes.com
  “The discussion offered a glimpse into the animated debate that the museum’s 45 curators have been engaged in over the last five years, reimagining how the institution should present art in its curvaceous, Peter Zumthor-designed building crossing Wilshire Boulevard.” – The New York Times
  
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• Is This The Worst Decade For Popular Culture?

  06-05-2025 17:44 via theatlantic.com
  According to a recent YouGov poll, Americans rate the 2020s as the worst decade in a century for music, movies, fashion, TV, and sports. A 2023 story in The New York Times Magazine declared that we’re in the “least innovative, least transformative, least pioneering century for culture since the invention of the printing press.” – The Atlantic
  
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• What The National Parks Contribute

  06-05-2025 17:31 via nps.gov
  The National Park Service report, 2023 National Park Visitor Spending Effects, finds that 325.5 million visitors spent $26.4 billion in communities near national parks. This spending supported 415,400 jobs, provided $19.4 billion in labor income, and $55.6 billion in economic output to the U.S. economy. – NPS
  
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• Is The Late Night Talk Show Dead? Or Can It Be Reinvented?

  06-05-2025 17:15 via nytimes.com
  Can the traditional talk show format — with an opening monologue, celebrity guests, live musical performances, a sidekick — survive in the streaming era? Or is the future of talk shows something quite different, and much more like … podcasts? – The New York Times
  
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• Second City Actors In Chicago Threaten Strike

  06-05-2025 17:05 via wbez.org
  “Performers and stage managers at Chicago’s venerable comedy venue The Second City are threatening to strike if they are unable to reach an agreement with management over wage increases. … Negotiations between Actors Equity and leadership at The Second City have been ongoing since February; … the current contract expired April 13.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• California Governor Proposes $7.5 Billion In Federal Tax Incentives For Film Industry

  06-05-2025 16:33 via variety.com
  “Just a day after Donald Trump revealed his plan to impose 100% tariffs on ‘any and all’ films produced in ‘foreign lands,’ California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday he wants to collaborate with the president to create a $7.5 billion federal tax incentive to help the (Hollywood) film industry. – Variety
  
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