It’s been a quarter of a century since it all happened, but Bob Palmer has never been allowed to forget the amazing efforts that made Glasgow’s Year of Culture in 1990 such a success. “It seems to be referred to continuously, not least because there have been some 200 reports
Today the Mayor is announcing £9 million in investment in high streets across greater London, with a large share set to benefit creative workspaces and cultural activity. The funds will create more than 90,000 square feet of affordable studios in areas as diverse as Lewisham, Wood Green, Kensington, Newham, Walthamstow
Major cities in the UK are falling behind their international counterparts in terms of their use of smart technologies, according to a new study from the University of Sheffield. The research has found that smart cities in the UK, such as London, are not as advanced as the leading smart cities
In a major study to be undertaken this summer, the de Blasio administration will review the diversity of the boards, staffs and audiences of New York City cultural organizations, such as museums, orchestras and dance troupes. READ MORE…
In a historic victory of global importance, the US Government just passed rock solid rules to ensure the Internet stays open and free for generations to come. But even though we’ve won this crucial fight, we must stay vigilant. Big telecom corporations like Verizon and Comcast are already working with conservatives in
Exploring the connection between culture and broader goals of human development, this research focuses on cultural and creative industries in what is commonly referred to as ‘developing countries’. Christiaan De Beukelaer offers a thorough exploration of how the concepts of cultural and creative industries are constructed and implemented across African countries
Data artist Eric Fischer creates gorgeous maps of human movement across cities by plotting the social media trails of the world’s denizens. Among other projects for Mapbox, where he currently works, Fischer recently released “Locals & Tourists,” a searchable world map that visualizes the tweets of city residents versus out-of-owners.
Amsterdam is currently tackling a problem most cities can only dream of having: It has way too many bikes. So massively popular is cycling in the Netherlands’ largest city that the city center has run out of places to put them all. Amsterdam’s daily two-wheeled commuter flood fills downtown with
In this striking short film from City Walk, footage of a busy New York street filmed by the Thomas Edison Company in 1901 makes for a stark juxtaposition to the same stretch of road today. Can you spot the difference …READ MORE
Titus Kaphar doesn’t quite turn absences into presences, but rather into something in between. His artwork conjures a space somewhere between here and gone, past and present, traditional and contemporary. Somewhere between a cold crime scene investigator and a surgeon on the fritz, Kaphar turns history, specifically art history, into
The Valletta 2018 Foundation has launched a Call for Papers and Posters from academics and practitioners worldwide addressing Cultural Mapping. These are to be presented at a conference titled ‘Cultural Mapping: Debating Spaces and Places’ to be held in Valletta on the 22nd and 23rd October 2015. The range of
On 30 January 2015 the International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) launched its sixth call for funding requests and its new On-line Application Platform. Since 2010, the IFCD is providing around USD 5.3 million in funding for 78 projects in 48 developing countries, covering a wide range of areas.The deadline
Fast-forward two years, and Neciunas and his colleagues have created PlaceILive.com—a start-up trying to leverage open data from cities and information from social media to create a holistic, accessible tool that measures the “livability” of any apartment or house in a city. The team recognizes that foraging for relevant information in the
How a decades-old tenant battle in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood is still shaping the city today.The Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, D.C., gets pretty crowded on weekends. If you walk down 18th Street at night, you have to dodge hordes of drunken 20-somethings between their second and third bar
Special exhibition “Faces of Impressionism: Portraits of the Musee D’Orsay” is in its final week at the Kimbell Art Museum. Exploring French portraiture and sculpture from the late 1850s until the first years of the 20th century, the 74 portraits from the d’Orsay reflect the origins and flowering of one
From income inequality and unemployment to poverty, education and healthcare, communities around the world are facing critical challenges that require creative ideas and solutions. Any of these challenges could use an artist’s mind, a creative question or a critical thinker to help us find our way to a more healthy
