Today’s AJ highlights: The Sundance Festival’s move to Boulder, is a transition that coincides with a fortuitous uptick in post-pandemic interest from younger moviegoers. A chance to explore reinvention. In the dense urban landscape of San Francisco, a novel approach to affordable housing is taking root; older artists are donating property to community land trusts to ensure creative legacies aren’t erased by displacement.
Ireland has made its Basic Income for the Arts program permanent, providing a weekly stipend to 2,000 artists after a pilot scheme proved to be a net economic gain through increased productivity and reduced welfare reliance. This formal investment in human creativity stands in sharp contrast to the findings of a new study by the Harvard Business Review, which suggests that rather than reducing labor, generative AI actually intensifies it, leading employees to work at a faster pace and extend their hours.
The highly anticipated opening of the LACMA Geffen Galleries will happen on April 19. Ian Derrer is moving from leading the Dallas Opera to the Canadian Opera Company.
We also mark the passing of Philippe Gaulier, the influential clown guru whose students—ranging from Sacha Baron Cohen to Emma Thompson—defined a generation of screen and stage performance .
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