Can our arts and museum sectors help reduce doctors’ appointments and combat the loneliness epidemic? A new piece from our co-founder Gail Lord and Avenue Road Arts School founder Lola Rasminsky says yes – and shows how linking health care to cultural activities has significant potential to make our society happier and healthier.

“The county arts and culture plan is the first comprehensive cultural plan for the county developed in partnership with Lord Cultural Resources. It establishes strategic priorities for supporting artists and the arts economy while defining the county government’s role in advancing arts and culture throughout the region.”

“Hundreds of millions of dollars and four years later, the National Urban League has opened a new 17-story mixed-use building in Harlem that is part housing, part retail, and part community center.”

“The building aims to project the power and voice of Black artists in the art world today, in no small part due to the Studio Museum’s sustained efforts over the decades to support, exhibit, collect and amplify long-marginalised works.”

“The strategy, available online on the GCAC website, includes guidelines, tools and recommendations for creating art in public spaces.”

“The national art charity is seeking applications from any UK museum, gallery, historic house, library or archive, whatever their scale, for ‘outstanding and inspiring projects’ between autumn 2024 and winter 2025.”

“A leading neurologist is working with the Amsterdam museum to see if making or encountering art can help ease symptoms of the degenerative disease.”

“Two-thirds of affected institutions have not been able to find alternative sources of funding, says a survey by the American Alliance of Museums.”

“As U.S. institutions reimagine their programming, some are adopting a new approach: recruiting young people to organize their shows.”

“The choice of a relatively unknown artist based in Mexico City ends a chaotic, much-delayed selection process led by the State Department.”

“For Native American Heritage Month, we delve into art by 25 Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian artists. While not an exhaustive list, these artists represent a broad spectrum of artistic innovation spanning multiple generations and mediums, from foundational pottery to contemporary Ravenstail weaving.”

“Two weeks after dismissing its director and chief executive, Sasha Suda, the museum has named her replacement: Daniel H. Weiss.”

“Even with arts funding at risk, some organizations are rejecting federal money because of censorship concerns.”

“The Brooklyn collective A.I.R. loans out the devices under the tenet that ‘illness need not be the price of living in community or participating in the arts.’”

No matter the formula, selecting one word to define a year is serious business. It’s about the sharp lines of language and usage, how society adopts and spreads new terminology, and, increasingly, the dramatic ways that social media influence the way we write, talk, and interact.”

“From building codes to mobility restrictions and new diplomatic roles within city governments, climate policy is increasingly being shaped at the local level through a widening range of legislative and institutional tools.” 

“A plaza with a feminist design vision bridges over an urban expressway, connecting Montreal’s city hall to its downtown.”

“Leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic and Google described subjective, self-aware experiences when settings tied to deception and roleplay were turned down.”

“What was once the home of a Christian Scientist church is now the holy grail of Internet history — the Internet Archive, a non-profit library run by a group of software engineers and librarians, who for nearly 30 years have been saving the web one page at a time.”

“’The Tenth King of Hell’ (1798), an ink painting on silk scroll, will go home to the Sinheungsa Temple in Sokcho, South Korea.”

“Pope Leo 'desires that this gift represent a concrete sign of dialogue, respect and fraternity,' Vatican says.”