"In the early months of the pandemic, unemployment in the arts and culture sector spiked to nearly 30% while the national rate hit about 15%. As new data becomes available, we explore demographic trends and study the effect of COVID-19 relief funds." - SMU Data Arts
Mayor Eric Adams's appointee to head the Department of Cultural Affairs is Laurie Cumbo, founder of Brooklyn's Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts and former City Council majority leader. The opposition to her, which includes Lin-Manuel Miranda, actually has nothing to do with the arts. - Artnet
The report's authors say that Orbán and his party, FIDESZ, have achieved this through a combination of consolidated state power and pressure on artists that has resulted in self-censorship. - NPR
Created last year in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution Cultural Rescue Initiative — a world leader in this field — the lab is compiling imagery of Ukraine’s cultural sites to help track attacks on them. - Washington Post
The cinematographer was shot and killed as she filmed the movie Rust. Her widower "Matt Hutchins said in a tweet that his late wife's family remains in Kyiv as attacks on the country's capital continue in areas that had been designated as safe passages." - NPR
Amazon is trying to figure out how to take on Disney and WarnerMedia, probably with Rocky and James Bond spinoffs. The result, says one entertainment finance professor, means "We like the brands we know, but it's going to be harder for new ideas to shine through." - NPR
It's a beautiful fragment, but "Prof Christos Tsirogiannis has a photograph of the same fresco fragment from the archive of Robert Hecht who died in 2012, having faced accusations that he trafficked in illicit artefacts." - The Observer (UK)
William Hurt's former partner Donna Kaz adds her voice to the discussion about surviving abuse from a famous partner. "You have to understand something about surviving violence. It is always with you. It is something you will never get over." - Variety
The swift departures of these women in leadership positions have generally been swept under the proverbial rug, where these women quietly navigate the complexities of their short tenures. - Artnet
Administrators and staffers are "'taken aback' by the apparent cognitive dissonance between directives ... to increase diversity and improve access both in their programming and infrastructure, and the blowback received from members of the government when they complied. The apparent catch-22 has created a culture of fear." - Artnet
"The emergency reception program will finance Ukrainian artists and cultural professionals and their families for a period of three months (with) residencies within the network of public establishments of the (culture) ministry." "Dissident" Russian artists are also eligible. - ARTnews
“The US art world is notorious for being vague about salaries. A job might pay $40,000; it might pay $80,000. Right now, you can’t necessarily tell, so you have to negotiate. But, after this law, they are going to have to be open with you from the start.” - The Art Newspaper
While reductions in sales and revenues in 2020 were universally catastrophic, the pace of recovery between and within nations in 2021 was very varied, both geographically and by venue type. - TRG
"There have been persistent theories that wealthier children may be given an advantage in their school careers by being pressed into visits to art galleries and exhibitions. According to a new academic study, however, outings often regarded as 'middle class' had no correlation with improved GCSE results." - The Observer (UK)
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, shocking much of the world, Russians working in creative spheres have found themselves squeezed from within and without. - The New York Times
