Staff Sues To Stop Reconstruction Of St. Petersburg’s Mikhailovsky Palace Museum

“Staff of the State Russian Museum are taking legal action to protest against the imminent $17m reconstruction of its main building, the Mikhailovsky Palace in St. Petersburg.They argue that the project has not been properly vetted and threatens both the 19th-century structure … and one of the world’s most important collections of Russian art.” — The Art Newspaper

How ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ Helped Spark The Birth Of Modern Islamic Fundamentalism (Seriously)

It was a fateful night circa 1949 in Greeley, Colorado, when Sayyid Qutb — then an Egyptian exchange student, but who went on to become a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood — was scandalized by seeing men and women dance together, with their arms around each other, to this song (he thought it was a little rapey, too), in (worst of all) a church hall. And he drew certain conclusions about America. — Quartz

The Tension Between Voice And Form

By way of continued labor, poets attempt to craft language that can carry their ideas beyond the passing moment, reframing their experiments as steps toward the ultimate realization of their aesthetic visions. The poet’s will toward synthesis of voice and form is about having something vital to say and knowing time is always running out. – The Atlantic