Working pro bono with engineering studio Arup, the Norman Foster Foundation and Kharkiv Group of Architects, Foster + Partners founder Foster has developed a masterplan for the rejuvenation of the city following heavy bombardment during Russia's invasion of Ukraine. - Dezeen
"(Creative New Zealand) has, over the last several months, found itself (in) multiple controversial decisions, including declining funding applications for ... the Shakespeare Globe Centre of New Zealand and Arts on Tour, among others, which resulted in a call for an inquiry into how the agency operates." - Stuff (New Zealand)
According to Google’s Year in Search, an annual retrospective of trending searches compiled by the tech company, dark academia was among ten trending interior styles from 2022, a representative confirmed. - Architectural Digest
"Members of the Van Wezel Foundation have been working with Sarasota officials on plans for a new performance space, arguing that the 54-year-old Van Wezel Hall is outdated and beyond repair. But the grandchildren of Lewis Van Wezel, who primarily funded the iconic purple hall, want it to be saved." - Axios
"Since the invasion in February, The New York Times's Visual Investigations team has been tracking evidence of cultural destruction across Ukraine. ... These documented cases represent only a partial picture of the devastation, with much of what is still unaccounted for believed lost." - The New York Times
The deal promises to substantially increase pay for some 36,000 unionized workers, including teaching assistants, researchers and tutors, many of whom are graduate students. - The New York Times
That Mr. Iger was unhappy with Mr. Chapek is well established. Less well known is the depth of his antipathy and the lengths he went to deflate Mr. Chapek behind the scenes. - The Wall Street Journal
This is fine: "The platform said the move would affect content from numerous social media websites, including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post." - The Guardian (UK)
"As bad as I thought the situation was, it’s worse—and it’s likely to worsen as high school students acquire more transferrable credits in early-college/dual-degree programs." - Inside Higher Ed
The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop telling the world what it now knows for certain: Putin is dangerous, even deadly. - Washington Post
She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too powerful, so you had to keep that down." - Los Angeles Times
Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and oppressors,' she wrote." - The New York Times
Under a new Executive Order PCAH has been established to engage the nation’s artists, humanities scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners on ways to promote excellence in the arts, the humanities, and museum and library services and demonstrate their relevance to the country’s health, economy, equity, and civic life. - NEA
"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these Ukrainian activists are not going to let it slide." - Haaretz (Israel)
