"A Danish artist was given tens of thousands of dollars by a museum to reproduce an old sculpture. Instead, he pocketed the money and called it a new conceptual artwork." Jens Haaning has titled the new piece "Take the Money and Run." - Artnet
"This historic progression", said culture minister Roselyne Bachelot, "will bring to +15% the lasting increase in the means which have been allocated to culture since 2017, excluding public broadcasting and civil pension charges." - Euronews
"As we emerge from the shadows of the past two years, this class of 25 Fellows helps us reimagine what's possible," said MacArthur Fellows managing director Cecilia Conrad in a statement. " - NPR
“A remote-first company can access the best talent in the world. An office-first company can only access those who live within a certain radius of their building.” - The New Yorker
Angus Fletcher claims that fairy tales, free indirect discourse, autobiography, and such are “technology,” and that their primary purpose is medicinal, so that neuroscience should supplant traditional criticism. - Los Angeles Review of Books
If freedom-minded people are to rid ourselves of “the habits of paranoia, despair, and policing” that Maggie Nelson believes to be menacing the left — from the MeToo movement to climate nihilism — we must learn to sit with ambiguity, risk, and indeterminacy. - New York Magazine
Facebook is not merely a website, or a platform, or a publisher, or a social network, or an online directory, or a corporation, or a utility. It is all of these things. But Facebook is also, effectively, a hostile foreign power. - The Atlantic
Frozen heritage is melting from mountain ice in every hemisphere. As it does so, small groups of archaeologists are scrambling to cobble together the funding and staffing needed to identify, recover, and study these objects before they are gone. - Atlas Obscura
"(Two recent almunae) gathered 13 written testimonials from students and faculty members about what they see as the harmful culture at the U's ballet program. They detailed their experiences being forced to work through injuries, being body-shamed, verbally abused and facing microaggressions." - KUER (Salt Lake City)
In their free time, some of the porters wrote on the large walls of the tezon grande, a room over 105 yards long that was used for cleaning out the goods. - Atlas Obscura
Ear Hustle is produced by the folks at San Quentin Radio, working with San Francisco public radio station KALW. Here, co-host and co-producer Rahsaan "New York" Thomas, still "inside," writes about how colleagues now on parole have transitioned to paid work on the podcast. - Current
It is an understatement to say that the dispute over Dirk Obbink and the papyrus has shaken a scholarly world where ancient texts are entrusted to a set of experts whose erudition and experience have singled them out as special. - The New York Times
"It is meant to indict us also, the governed, as a people who have jettisoned the humane values that that same society impressed on my upbringing. Yes, I would give much to bludgeon Nigeria into accepting that Black Lives do Matter!" - Los Angeles Times
"The Taliban are being pressured on many issues like women's rights and journalists' safety, but there are no discussions about the rights and safety of artists. We can't raise our voice here, we are in hiding." - The Art Newspaper
