The 81,800 professional artists who reside in Ontario account for 40% of the 202,900 artists in Canada. As a percentage of the overall labour force, artists represent 1.0% in both Ontario and Canada. A finer analysis shows that 1 in every 96 Ontario workers and every 102 Canadian workers is an artist. - Hill Strategies
"For thousands of New York high schoolers without access to comprehensive arts education, the New York State Summer School of the Arts isn't just a summer camp — it fosters a lifelong passion for the arts. Now, the state-funded equitable arts intensive (may disappear) in favor of a new scholarship program." - Hyperallergic
Since taking office, President da Silva "has reinstated the nation's ministry of culture, which had been extinguished under Bolsonaro, and reversed decrees that had reduced funding for projects eligible for the Rouanet Law, a tax incentive for private and corporate donors to fund cultural programming." - The Art Newspaper
Regular journalism plumped up with NGO filler and paid for with foundation dough too easily becomes either risibly partisan or a kind of kitsch churned out without regard for anything someone might want to read. - The Point
"Partly because it’s a relatively new area of giving, it’s hard to get a reliable count of how much philanthropy funds journalism. A report by Boston Consulting Group estimated $150 million per year is given to nonprofit news outlets. The same report said that industry needs up to $1.75 billion." - AP
"The event has always had its spiritual side: 10 guiding principles, a nondenominational temple and recurring burning rituals. And in recent years, religious groups have been carving out their own space on 'the playa' offering judgement-free, radically inclusive rituals that seem to grow more popular each year." - Religion News Service
Getting here required not just artistic pluck but political backing, a half-billion-dollar construction budget, and the creation of a new institution with the interdisciplinary ambitions, if not the scale, of a Lincoln Center. - New York Magazine
"Starting this year, the center of gravity in my classroom is not teaching writing as an “essential skill” that all students need to master; it’s teaching reading. Last year, I predicted that ChatGPT would mark the end of high-school English. Instead, we might already be witnessing its rebirth." - The Atlantic
Given the economics of falling enrollments, bloated administrations, ballooning deficits, and cultural illiteracy, it suggests something far more insidious, namely that Brandeis, of all places, considers an arts education at the highest level expendable. Taking into account the legacy of the university’s music department, that’s a chilling conclusion at which to arrive. - ArtsFuse
“We very much came with an agenda, which was we were going to tell a different kind of story about Lincoln Center, to fundamentally shift the institution in terms of who leads it, who represents it, who’s on our staff, who’s on our stages, who’s in our audiences.” - The New York Times
"Artscape, which manages over a dozen buildings in the city that include both homes for artists to own or rent and studio spaces for them to work, sent an email to artists in its spaces Monday sharing the news that attempts to resolve increasing financial challenges were not successful." - CBC
"'If you were being invaded, all what you'd care about is your monuments, your trees, your history, your culture,' said Mamdouh Sakr, an architect and urbanist. 'And now, it's all being destroyed, without any reason, without any explanation, without any need.'" - The New York Times
The real struggle might not be between AI and artists, or even governments, but with large copyright holders. What happens when Disney gets tired of ChatGPT fan-fictioning its Star Wars universe? - The Walrus
"One of the most insulting reasons that they’ve given is that the other countries that these items belong to ... they are likely to be stolen. But you’ve got people in this country putting them on eBay." - The Guardian (UK)
