"For 1,350 global publishers included in Chartbeat’s data, 27% of page views coming from external, search and social in January 2018 came from Facebook (2 billion page views). In April 2023, this was down to 11% (1.5 billion)." - Press Gazette (UK)
"The Metropolitan Museum of Art ... announced a major new effort ... toward returning items it finds to have problematic histories. The core feature of the new plan is to hire a provenance research team that is as robust as any in place at an American museum." - The New York Times
"What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn't cutting it." - The Hollywood Reporter
"His appointment on a five-year contract (beginning in 2024) was announced Tuesday. The 52-year-old (conductor and composer) had not led the orchestra or been to Kansas City until arriving for rehearsals two days ahead of concerts from March 3-5." - AP
Connie Butler, currently chief curator at the Hammer, is to assume her new position at the museum in Long Island City, Queens, on Sept. 26. - The New York Times
In the industry, some are dubbing this year’s labor action “the Netflix strike. Netflix in a lot of ways has upended the business model, and broken it in fundamental ways.” - Los Angeles Times
The trilith was discovered at the Zufar site and dates back 2,000 years. Triliths are made up of three flat standing stones 50 to 80 centimeters tall that together create a pyramid and are typically found in clusters, as was the case in Zufar. - Artnet
For a long time, people believed that colours were objective, physical properties of objects or of the light that bounced off them. But this theory isn’t really true. - The Guardian
As creators work to develop more detailed frameworks for deepfake and AI disclosure, disciplines and modes like accessibility theory, interactive storytelling, TikTok, footnoting practices, and museum image description guidelines all have useful tools to offer. - Wired
One of the major projects Ben Hartley will take on as executive director is the first national tour of “American Railroad." The multimodal project will explore the interconnected stories of Black, Chinese, Indigenous, Irish and other immigrant contributions to the U.S. transcontinental railroad. - WBUR
Roslyn Sulcas: "As with the funeral rites for Queen Elizabeth II in September, the choreography of ritual surrounding the coronation was extraordinarily powerful. Almost no gesture was spontaneous; … the intent and meaning of each moment was as deliberate as an intricate dance." - The New York Times
Dancers and choreographers often become unintentional collectors, accumulating valuable records of an art form with few tangible traces. And once artists are gone, families are left to be caretakers of dance history. - The New York Times
Absolutely, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is expanding the stories being told there to include Blacks, Native Americans, and even LGBTQ people. CEO Cliff Fleet rejects conservative criticism, saying that the Foundation is presenting "fact-based history. … Everything is going to be what actually happened." - The New York Times
“This is hands down the best time to be in Hawaii, and to be able to see that the Hawaiian people are thriving: in hula, in our culture, in our language, in our different traditional practices." - The New York Times
"Citing a cost of between $80,000 and $100,000, Premier Chris Minns, whose Labor Party defeated the conservative Coalition government in a state election in March, argued the financial burden on taxpayers would have been significant and said the sails were being lit too often." - The Guardian
