Governments keep discovering that cultural institutions make useful targets. A U.S. court ordered Voice of America to be revived after its shutdown, but VOA’s own bureau chief warns that recovering the “trauma” the newsroom went through is the harder problem (AP). The Czech culture minister — from the right-wing Motorists party — fired the director of Prague’s National Gallery, a move widely seen as politically motivated (ARTnews). And Chile’s new conservative president has cut the culture ministry budget while declining to issue any cultural policy at all (The Art Newspaper).
The AI sector has its own policy gap. Eighty-four percent of galleries say they’re using AI tools daily; only 8 percent have a formal policy governing how (ARTnews). Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica are now suing OpenAI for training on their content and reproducing it in outputs (Press Gazette). Meanwhile The Atlantic argues that the fundamental problem with AI writing is structural: it’s engineered to have the right answer, not to take creative risks (The Atlantic).
In Buenos Aires, Parkinson’s patients are coming to Ramos MejÃa Hospital once a week to dance tango — using the form’s patterns of balance and coordination as physical therapy (The New York Times).
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