The Met Museum’s first-ever Native American curator, Patricia Marroquin Norby, has resigned — a hire once celebrated as a watershed (ARTnews). Institutions rewriting their own stories is today’s quiet theme. A sharp piece argues that arts organizations are still governed by inherited structures that assume a centrality that no longer exists (ArtsHub). Australia is testing a new hybrid model leveraging donor capital against government funds (AAP). And Netflix just bought Ben Affleck’s AI firm, which promises to cut below-the-line production costs by 10–20% (Deadline).
Sculptor Melvin Edwards, who made chains and steel into some of the most politically charged art of the past half-century, has died at 88 (ARTnews). George Clooney, meanwhile, took home an estimated $9 million for 13 weeks on Broadway (Broadway Journal).
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