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2024 August


Scottish culture crisis deepens as major arts award pulled

Scottish culture crisis deepens as major arts award pulled

“Like everyone working in Scotland’s culture and creative sector, we understand the extreme pressures on public finances," he said, "but want to see longer-term budget certainty from the Scottish government, including the additional £100m announced in October 2023, details of which have yet to emerge."


‘The greatest theft in history’: a new exhibition in Amsterdam offers an unprecedented account of Nazi looting

‘The greatest theft in history’: a new exhibition in Amsterdam offers an unprecedented account of Nazi looting

The two-part show reveals like never before how theft was used as a means of erasing Jewish identity, writes Ambassador (ret) Stuart E. Eizenstat, the chair of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, and the curator Julie-Marthe Cohen


In Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, artist Autumn Breon’s neon-pink vending machine proffers free self-care

In Chicago for the Democratic National Convention, artist Autumn Breon’s neon-pink vending machine proffers free self-care

At 7:30 in the morning on Wednesday (21 August), in a parking lot just a couple miles west of the 2024 Democratic National Convention’s (DNC) main venue in Chicago, the Los Angeles-based artist Autumn Breon was restocking her hot pink Care Machine (2023) with tampons and little packages of lubricant.


Can Kamala Harris’s Campaign Solve the Latino Turnout Problem?

Can Kamala Harris’s Campaign Solve the Latino Turnout Problem?

Especially in Texas, with its large Mexican American population, they faced pressure from political-machine bosses to support particular candidates, threats from their employers that they would lose their jobs if they joined supposedly insurgent political parties, and primaries in which only non-Latino white voters were allowed to participate, which were outlawed only in the nineteen-forties.


Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa

Podcast | A brush with… Arthur Jafa

Arthur Jafa's work in film, sculpture and installation explores Black being with an unflinching eye for systemic and historic inequity and violence and an exuberant harnessing of disparate manifestations of Black—and particularly African American—culture.


Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery

Appeal to save Brighton Pavilion dome after ‘devastating’ damage discovery

The Brighton pavilion has been a conservation nightmare ever since the early 19th century, when the architect John Nash completed the transformation of a relatively modest classical mansion into a fantasy Oriental palace for the wildly extravagant Prince Regent, the future George IV.


The National Gallery’s birthday wish: social media fame for its Creative Collaborators

The National Gallery’s birthday wish: social media fame for its Creative Collaborators

We were excited about the chance to foster cross-cultural dialogue and deepen the understanding of art through the unique lens of African mythology, while appreciating the stories from paintings within the National Gallery that have inspired us—and continue to do so.


How Agnès Varda Became an Icon of Cinema

How Agnès Varda Became an Icon of Cinema

While working for him both there and in Avignon, she came up with a strikingly original idea for making promotional stills for productions: in an effort to capture the essence of the dramas, Varda, in lieu of shooting rehearsals, decided to “restage the scene so it played to the camera.” In the process, Rickey writes, she “developed and refined an array of skills.