It homogenizes, and it silos. It’s the commons, but with gatekeepers. There’s never been anything like it! But it’s really just an extension of Enlightenment rationalism. - Yale Review
What is often the most engaged touch point with patrons is often also one of the most forgotten (and underinvested) areas in arts organizations. - Situation Interactive
"Gov. Jared Polis’s proposed budget" — likely to be adjusted by legislators — "includes a one-time $16 million tax credit for creative workforce housing, an additional $2.5 million for (state arts agency) CCI’s annual budget and a $540,000 cash fund for Colorado Creative Districts, which are supported by CCI." - The Colorado Sun
"There are complexities to bringing $1 billion into classrooms — and restoring programs that have often been the ones to go when money is short. First, there’s hiring amid an extreme teacher shortage. Then, there’s the odd timing of the funding starting halfway through the school year." - The Mercury News (San Jose)
"For us consumers, they are making us more passive just by feeding us so much stuff, by constantly recommending things that we are unlikely to click away from, that we're going to tolerate not find too surprising or challenging." - NPR
Of course, there have been examples of such cultural globalisation going back as far as recorded civilisation. But the 21st-century generic cafes were remarkable in the specificity of their matching details, as well as the sense that each had emerged organically from its location. - The Guardian
The majority of the country has now signed up to a standardized and rigid curriculum that treats overworked teachers as untrustworthy slackers who need to be disciplined by measuring their output through standard lessons and evaluations. - Medium
The decision raises questions about the financial health and sustainability of small to medium arts organisations, the assessment models for federal funding and the long-term effect on the ecology of Queensland arts. - ArtsHub
It’s not all doom and gloom. Many of our larger arts festivals are achieving record turnouts and box office highs, as ArtsHub discovered while surveying recent sales figures of a few prominent players. - ArtsHub
"Leaders of major cultural institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall, sent a letter to Mayor Eric Adams urging him to reconsider millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts to their organizations, (arguing that he) should be investing in cultural institutions to spur tourism and create jobs." - Gothamist
Humanities professors, for their part, have already begun enlisting Swift as a silent partner. The organizer for the first international academic “Swiftposium,” to be held in February with the backing of seven Australian and New Zealand universities, began as a “half-serious tweet.” - LA Review of Books
"'Everyone knows I like fighting. Don’t be afraid of me,' Rachida Dati announced upon her arrival to the ministry. … She is known for her sleek style and forthright, no-nonsense approach, having returned to work just five days after her first child and, reportedly, declared that maternity leave is for 'wimps.'" - Artnet
If a magic bullet was truly effective in solving this problem, there would be no need for many different proposed solutions. But today, that is precisely what we have: many explanations for what has caused the problem and many prescriptions for bringing audiences to live events. - Nightingale Sonata
The most recent debacle at Harvard, in which large swaths of academia seem to have conveniently forgotten what the term plagiarism means so they don’t have to admit that Claudine Gay engaged in it, is only the latest example of the lying that is endemic on campus. - The Atlantic
Conor Friedersdorf on the fired University of Wisconsin-LaCross president: "First Amendment law can tell us only so much. How should Gow’s superiors have responded to this exhibitionist sexagenarian’s pornography? They should simply ignore it." - The Atlantic
