Some of this week’s AJ highlights: Ireland’s basic income for artists quietly proves a net gain for both creators and the economy yet remains capped at pilot scale, reports Novara Media. In the US, museums reopening after the shutdown tally billions in losses while long-planned exhibitions sit closed and a new survey shows grants and programs stripped away, (NPR, Washington Post (MSN), and The Guardian).
The Brooklyn Public Library is lending contemporary art like books and indie bookstores are doubling as food banks, say Artnet and The New York Times. And China’s crackdown on danmei gay romance (AP) and the debut of an AI actress sold as a creative breakthrough suggest very different ways of policing imagination Variety.
The rest of this week’s stories below.
