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    • New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University

      “A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months after New York PBS outlet WNET declined to renew its contract to run the New Jersey outlet. – New Jersey Globe

    • Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations

      “Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a business while ensuring they retain creative control over their work, which can include everything from songs, paintings and poems, to less obvious output, like creative coursework.” – The Colorado Sun

    • Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes
      https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063

      “Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” – AP

    • Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56

      She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in Paris, she went on to direct other films, animated and live-action, and publish graphic works, and remained a lifelong advocate for the rights of Iranians, particularly women. – Deadline

    • Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?
      The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.

    ISSUES

    • Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes
      https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063

      “Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” – AP

    • Will The Smithsonian’s Smallest Museum Survive?

      Anacostia, since renamed the Anacostia Community Museum, was the first federally funded museum focused on Black history, as well as the first federally funded community museum; it is still the only Smithsonian to archive and document daily life in the nation’s capital. – The Atlantic

    • Here’s What Trump’s Washington Arch Would Look Like

      Much of the public debate around the arch has centered on how it would affect other nearby memorials, particularly the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. – Washington Post

    • Crystal Bridges Completes Major Expansion

      This component of a long-running plan for the site adds two galleries and 114,00 square feet (10,590 square metres) of space for a recent major gift and the subsequent reinterpretation of its collection. The museum’s footprint has expanded by half since its opening in 2011. – Dezeen

    • Painter Of Dallas Whale Mural Painted Over For World Cup Promo Sues FIFA

      The 17,000-square-foot mural, one of artist Robert Wyland’s popular “Whaling Wall” series, had been on view in downtown Dallas since 1999. Wyland is suing international soccer’s governing body and the building’s owners for $25 million under the federal Visual Artist Rights Act, saying the mural was covered without his knowledge or consent. – AP

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    • New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University

      “A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months after New York PBS outlet WNET declined to renew its contract to run the New Jersey outlet. – New Jersey Globe

    • Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations

      “Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a business while ensuring they retain creative control over their work, which can include everything from songs, paintings and poems, to less obvious output, like creative coursework.” – The Colorado Sun

    • Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes
      https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063

      “Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” – AP

    • Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56

      She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in Paris, she went on to direct other films, animated and live-action, and publish graphic works, and remained a lifelong advocate for the rights of Iranians, particularly women. – Deadline

    • Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?
      The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.

    PEOPLE

    • New Jersey PBS Finally Finds Its New Operator: Montclair State University

      “A consortium led by Montclair State University has won a competitive process to take over New Jersey’s public television station.” The move comes months after New York PBS outlet WNET declined to renew its contract to run the New Jersey outlet. – New Jersey Globe

    • Colorado Passes Landmark Law: Artists Can Now Protect Their Rights By Becoming Corporations

      “Senate Bill 133 creates Colorado Artist Companies, or A Corps, a new subset of limited liability corporations that guides artists through the complexities of setting up a business while ensuring they retain creative control over their work, which can include everything from songs, paintings and poems, to less obvious output, like creative coursework.” – The Colorado Sun

    • Artists Say They’ll Sue Venice Biennale If They’re Included In Public-Vote Prizes
      https://apnews.com/article/venice-biennale-protest-russia-israel-golden-lion-0d1c92d173c530e63b146f1c3dd27063

      “Dozens of artists participating in this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show are threatening legal action if their names are not removed from the ballot allowing visitors to vote for the best national pavilion and overall participants in the absence of a jury” — they all resigned — “to award the prestigious Golden Lions.” – AP

    • Marjane Satrapi, Creator Of “Persepolis,” Is Dead At 56

      She achieved international fame for the graphic memoir of her girlhood in Khomeini’s Iran, and then for co-directing the animated film adaptation. Based in Paris, she went on to direct other films, animated and live-action, and publish graphic works, and remained a lifelong advocate for the rights of Iranians, particularly women. – Deadline

    • Is Trump’s Wreckage of the Kennedy Center an Opportunity for Something Better?
      The Kennedy Center is a treasure. Not just for what it has been, but because of what it represents. But the practicalities of providing a roof for a bunch of artistic enterprises that essentially have nothing much to do with one another — or worse, having to squabble dysfunctionally among themselves for resources — are an argument for the need for something better.

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