Congressional Republicans have introduced a bill that would take book banning national, giving sweeping powers to purge school and public library collections (LitHub). What’s been a patchwork of local battles would become federal policy.
In Berlin, the Berlinale’s director Tricia Tuttle may lose her job over her handling of political speech by artists at the festival — the latest institution to discover that “artistic freedom” has an invisible asterisk (Hyperallergic).
DePaul University is closing its art museum this summer, citing enrollment drops and rising costs — another campus cultural space that didn’t survive the budget meeting (WBEZ). France’s culture minister Rachida Dati has resigned to run for mayor of Paris; her replacement is Catherine Pégard, formerly president of Versailles — because in France, the game of musical chairs at major cultural institutions just keeps spinning (Deadline).
And a dystopian short story imagining an AI-wrecked economy in 2028 apparently spooked Wall Street so badly it wiped out $200 billion in market value this week (LitHub). Literature: still powerful enough to move markets, if not Congress.
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