Arts news

• How The Internet Has Changed How We Write (And Read)

  07-09-2023 23:55 via lithub.com
  
  Over the course of the last generation, the Internet has changed our common reading experience; now, as a teacher of creative nonfiction at the Bennington Writing Seminars, I’m seeing first-hand how this new world of reading has transformed the instinctual writing voices of my students. – LitHub
  
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• When American Government Encouraged Artists To Critique

  07-09-2023 23:29 via latimes.com
  
  Clear-eyed, truthful portrayals of American history and contemporary affairs have long been disfavored as beneficiaries of public funding — though the movement to strip them out of classrooms, textbooks and school libraries has seldom been as ferocious as it is currently. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Insurer cancels cover for Australian artists working more than five metres off the ground

  07-09-2023 04:26
  
  Artists say the insurance carve-out by QBE will effectively prevent them doing public art and mural projects, or installing in galleriesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThere are fears Australian artists may be left unable to work on large-scale and public art projects, as insurance giant QBE prepares to make another round of carve-outs to a policy held by thousands of artists.QBE will no longer cover artists working at heights of more than five metres, an
  
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