Here are today’s AJ highlights.
Today’s stories share a mood of reckoning. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is being sued by its former director over her firing. In Washington, D.C., the National Opera contemplates leaving the Kennedy Center amid broken donor confidence. Hyperallergic exposes art schools as debt traps for a generation promised creative careers that rarely materialize, while LitHub warns that when we devalue art, we devalue the future. The critique echoes Harper’s, where writers argue that public distrust of media rose not from failure but from greater accuracy—a paradox of transparentcy values. ARTnews offers a counterpoint: creativity isn’t dying; monoculture is, and that’s liberation.
All of today’s stories below.
