"Total costs of completed and announced projects in 2022 hit an estimated overall value of $15.1 billion. … Museums and galleries continue to dominate investments. However, for the first time, slightly more multifunction arts venues began construction than performing arts centres (84 multifunction vs. 81 performance)." - Artnet
“The city has gotten a major bargain from the work that Regional Arts and Culture Council has done on its behalf. The team at RACC … are experts with a lot of years behind them. I think they’re going to be hard-pressed to find people with that same skill set.” - Oregon Public Broadcasting
The draft resolution, to be put before UNESCO's World Heritage Committee next month, states that there has been no "significant level of progress in addressing the persistent and complex issues related in particular to mass tourism, development projects and climate change." - CNN
"After two years wiped out by Covid restrictions and a third that only saw a tentative recovery, … two million more international visitors are forecast to arrive in London in 2023, compared with last year, which is projected to produce an extra £674 million in revenue." - London Evening Standard
The West Kowloon Cultural District was meant to be funded by income from adjacent office buildings — but, since COVID, the office market is weak, WKCD is hemorrhaging cash, and the government, which set up a US$3 billion endowment in 2008, appears unlikely to help. - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
The expansive project, titled “Inside a Genius Mind,” is a collaboration with 28 institutions around the world. It features 3,000 drawings, including 1,300 pages of the Old Master’s famed codices, such as the 12-volume Codex Atlanticus. - Artnet
They don't exactly have a history of making great decisions: "Hollywood has a history of treating evolving consumer habits first as a threat to theatrical dollars and then as a tool to be co-opted in the pursuit of earning ever-greater profits." - The Atlantic
But Congress might come through for the AM waves. "One in three Americans tune in to the band every month, according to Nielsen data. Plus, it still functions as a platform for free speech and information vital to the public." - Los Angeles Times
"More than 40 productions have been granted waivers to continue shooting during the mass work stoppage. But whether actors are crossing a picket line by participating in those productions has become a point of contention in the industry." - Los Angeles Times
Let's be clear: "How hard will these AI companies work at ‘voluntarily’ building these difficult systems? What we need is real regulation with well-defined, transparent goals that are backed up with plans for testing, enforcement, and if necessary, penalties." - Hyperallergic
"If you can announce the highest-viewed this and the highest profits in that, then you can track our residuals. So we need to come to the table but we need to come to the table in good faith that there will be transparency." - CBC
OK, this sounds nightmarish: "AI doesn’t need Hollywood. It just needs itself. And AI will be able to offer audiences what Hollywood can’t: movies uniquely tailored to a single individual’s tastes." - Fast Company
When it comes to AI-generated images, the question “but is it art?” has always escaped me – didn’t we sort that out at least 50, if not 100, years ago, from Dada to Conceptual, Arte Povera to art as social practice and back? - ArtsHub
"In the post-pandemic era, Philadelphia’s cultural districts often look like the good old days: streets and sidewalks crosshatched with arts patrons animating the city's parking garages, restaurants, theaters, and bars. On other nights: crickets." - MSN (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Ironically, the education of more and more people in the United States has led to an expansion of potential audiences for quality, and progressive, history. It has also generated a series of unresolved questions about overt and implicit politics, style, and the identity of the historian as a writer and a public person. - Boston Review
