It started as a joke, of course. The first really angry protest on the issue happened on a hot summer day in Barcelona, and demonstrators brought water guns along to cool off. Then things got a little (ahem) heated, tourists were shot at with H₂O, and an icon was born. - AP
In Barcelona, Palma de Majorca, Lisbon, Venice, Genoa, and other cities, crowds marched through the streets, brandishing signs and water pistols, angrily demonstrating against the enormous hordes of tourists placing massive stress on local infrastructure, environment, public space, and most of all housing markets. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Awards were overridden in subject areas spanning architecture, biology, engineering, agriculture, animal sciences, medical sciences, music and history, it says, accusing the administration of "injecting politics and ideological mandates into the Fulbright program." - NPR
“Many of the buildings on the original list were not ‘underutilized’ at all. They were simply being used for government work that the president didn’t like or by government officials whom the president wanted to punish.” - The New York Times
Walliams is also a children’s author. “The show's production company and the BBC both described the gestures as ‘completely unacceptable’ and said the segment would not be broadcast.” - BBC
“In a city of over 800 museums, fewer than a dozen have publicly voiced their support for the undoc+ community, with the majority of institutions exclusively speaking out in solidarity with ‘immigrants’ and ‘migrants.’” - Hyperallergic
“The only thing that can stop AI companies doing what they’re doing is the law. ... If these lawsuits are successful, that is what will hopefully stop AI companies from exploiting people’s life’s work.” - Time
Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of MUBI.” Surely that will calm the waters. - Variety
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair in New York and Expo 70 in Osaka and even the bankrupt 1984 gathering in New Orleans, these events can provide major long-term benefits to host cities. - Bloomberg CityLab
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With reserves dwindling and costs rising, the need for equitable, strategic investment has never been clearer. - SMU Cultural Data
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects of the civic unrest compounded by an uncertain future as thousands of National Guard troops and Marines roll into town under President Trump’s orders. - Los Angeles Times
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.” - 404 Media
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the agency, which oversees an annual $207 million budget to support public history, libraries, museums and education programs across the country.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. - N+1
