(Illustration by Diana Ejaita) At Intelligent Mischief, our purpose is to boost invention and imagination, realign action logic, and experiment with new forms of culture and civil society to create atmospheres of change. We do this work because we are waging an imagination battle, as our founder, Terry Marshall, explained in Emergent Strategy, adrienne maree
A recent aerial photo shows The Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts as it nears completion. Photo courtesy of the Patricia Reser Center for the Creative Arts. Oregon State University is known for engineering, agriculture, research, and as one of the two remaining members of the crumbling Pac-12 athletic conference. It’s not usually
What’s at stake? Many artists in Fresno struggle to make a living. Measure P arts funding could help, but some worry the funding won’t make it into the hands of those who need it most. Adrianna Sorondo never wanted to leave Fresno. The 35-year-old artist says her hometown, where she grew up admiring the sculptures
Art has always been an asset but until recently, art funds were not particularly popular. “Despite the potential for strong returns and low correlation to the stock market, global art funds have been struggling to attract investor interest,” Barron’s wrote in 2019, pointing out that the assets in these funds slid from $2.1 billion in
Hampton Court Palace will be the venue for next week’s Global Investment Summit, Minister for Investment Lord Dominic Johnson confirms today. Jointly hosted by the Prime Minister and the Department for Business and Trade, the summit will take place on Monday 27 November and focus on ‘Great British Ideas – Past, Present and Future’. This
Watford Borough Council’s transformational plans for the Town Hall area and Watford Colosseum, supported by Watford’s MP, Dean Russell, received a significant boost today… This is following the announcement that it has been awarded £16m in funding from the government’s Levelling Up Fund. The council’s bid will help breathe new life into the heart of
Portrait of Allison Glenn. Photo by Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoXx Project. So much of the art world orbits around questions of value, not only in terms of appraisals and price tags, but also: What is worthy of your time in These Times, as well as your energy, your attention, and yes, your hard-earned cash? What
Whitechapel Gallery in east London and London South Bank University (LSBU) are winding down their renowned joint Masters (MA) programme in Curating Art and Public Programmes. The Whitechapel Gallery says in a statement that following internal discussions, informed by an analysis of the first two years of the programme, the partner institutions have decided that this
If someone were to suggest living in downtown Hagerstown to you, what kinds of housing would spring to mind? Whatever that impression might be, the reality of what’s available for living space downtown is rapidly changing, as the same investment surge in commercial development is affecting residential redevelopment, too. Since 2013, more than $25 million
HONG KONG, Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — NetDragon Websoft Holdings Limited (“NetDragon” or “the Company”, Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), a global leader in building internet communities, has completed a strategic investment of US$20 million as the lead investor in the latest equity fundraising round of Rokid Corporation Ltd (“Rokid”), and in parallel with the investment,