“We like silence for what it doesn’t do—it doesn’t wake, annoy, or kill us—but what does it do? When Florence Nightingale attacked noise as a “cruel absence of care,” she also insisted on the converse: Quiet is a part of care, as essential for patients as medication or sanitation. It’s a strange notion, but one that researchers have begun to bear out as true.”
Tag: 07.07.16
What Makes A Great Museum? (We Asked The Insiders)
“In the public imagination, museums have been transformed from cultural destinations into leisure ones, and there has been a global rise in visitor numbers.”
Do Cuba’s Abandoned Arts Schools Hold The Key To Its Future?
“It is difficult to separate the history of the Cuban Revolution from the fate of the National Art Schools as they themselves were building revolutionary desire. During their abandonment, over the course of decades, nature returned. This time it was not the scenic nature of the old golf course, but the greed of vines, lianas trees, animals, and flooding.”
Artists Reimagine A Better Version Of LA’s Iconic (But Worn-Out) Freeways
“The first step is to start seeing our infrastructural networks not merely as single-use conduits of one kind or another — to carry cars, storm water or consumer goods — but as platforms for a new kind of urbanism, holding housing or making room for innovative ideas about energy or water.”
Creative Industries Contribute Almost £10 Million *An Hour* To UK Economy
“New government figures have revealed just how important our filmmakers, musicians, artists and other creatives are to our economy, contributing £84 billion a year. The number of jobs in creative industries has risen nearly 20 per cent since 2011 to 1.9 million.”
Disappeared Hong Kong Bookseller, Now Back Home, Says He’s Being Followed And May Flee To Taiwan
Lam Wing-Kee, one of five booksellers who vanished from Hong Kong last year and turned up in the People’s Republic confessing to “mistakes” on TV, says mainland agents are tailing him “without restraint” and has requested protection from Hong Kong police.
Six UK Museums Have Installed Fake Paintings To See If Visitors Can Spot Them
“The secret ‘heist’ has been orchestrated by Sky Arts as part of a month-long national art competition for the new television series Fake! The Great Masterpiece Challenge, where the public are invited to have a go at spotting the counterfeit paintings displayed at six different galleries in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Liverpool, London and Manchester.”
The New Face(s) Of Second City
“We’re pretty much cradle to grave these days.”
Will The Arizona Theatre Company Pair Up With A University In Order To Survive?
“I do not see a clear future for the theater, considering the fundraising difficulties, without something like this.”
The Bizarrely Wonderful Universe Of Subversive Garfield Hacks
“That same tabby whose suction-cupped paws once graced the windows of family station wagons across the nation has also spawned a very odd subculture — one that draws from the worlds of avant-garde art, complex mathematics, and deliberate stupidity.”