Today’s highlights track how cultural power concentrates, mutates, and resists pressure across institutions, markets, and technologies. A luxury “experiential” cinema in New York recasts moviegoing as a high-end, privatized service, just as households are already paying more to stack streaming subscriptions and YouTube creators fuel a boom in political ads.
In the visual arts, record auction prices for Gustav Klimt sit uneasily alongside warnings that smaller galleries are “in massive trouble”, and a Philadelphia museum both fires and replaces leaders amid misconduct claims. Meanwhile, artists and educators push back: nationwide protests against authoritarianism, arguments that pre‑AI education was already broken, and questions over whether your “new favorite” musician is software or singer all point to systems straining at the edges.
These stories and more in today’s ArtsJournal.
