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“The age of voodoo is over. The era of talking about something as a ‘dark art’ is done. In a world with big computers and big data, there are no dark arts.”

“Putting contemporary design at the center of humanitarian crises, the Norsk Form approach is a notable change from the way the discipline has been viewed in recent decades.”

“On odd-numbered years, Jane Lueders has been the friendly voice of Washington, D.C.-area directory assistance, Washington subway customer service and Pentagon weapons-training videos. In election years, she is the well-modulated and ubiquitous expression of Democratic anger, hurt, frustration, vulnerability, righteousness and quaking betrayal.”

The grand old man of American classical music, and the last living link with Charles Ives, Carter “fused European and American modernist traditions in seminal but formidable works, and … lived to hear ovations for music that was once thought to be anything but listener-friendly.” He never retired, and in fact published a dozen works since his 100th birthday.

A Saturday night concert was canceled, but both sides may be ready to return to the bargaining table.

“The coiled concrete-and-steel house built by Frank Lloyd Wright here, which had been under threat of demolition since its sale in June to a pair of luxury home developers, may have found its savior in an anonymous buyer who has agreed to pay the asking price of $2.379 million, all of it in cash.”

“According to a report released Thursday, the Getty’s $12-million investment in Pacific Standard Time, the sprawling collaboration among Southern California museums, has generated almost 10 times that amount in spending by tourists and local residents.”

“Arts Council England is cutting 21% of its workforce – more than 100 posts – under its latest organisational restructure. Chief executive Alan Davey has warned that the changes will mean that the arts council will ‘do less and we’ll do it differently’ but has insisted that the organisation will still be effective.”

Theaster Gates says he’s trying to invent “the Main Street I want to hang out on,” but he is also pushing art beyond the sphere of social commentary into the arena of nitty-gritty do-gooding.”