As the war nears its third year, a cohort of Italian curators, artists, and art historians, including Luca Tomìo and Alessandro Romanini, have bucked the trend of that isolation to participate or curate exhibitions there. - ARTnews
"(Celebrations) will include exhibitions and events throughout the Smithsonian's museums (and zoo), an expansion of the institution’s annual Folklife Festival, temporary public reopenings of the Arts and Industries Building (which has mostly been closed since 2004) and Smithsonian Castle, as well as digital and satellite programming." - The Art Newspaper
Why is Blair Kamin doing this? "I’m a realist, and I realize that, given who the Tribune is owned by now and given the realities of the business model of journalism having collapsed, either somebody was going to do something, or nothing would get done." - Medill Local News Initiative
“The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted,” reads the statement. Thousands of creative professionals from the worlds of literature, music, film, theatre and television have given their backing to the statement. - The Guardian
"Nearly a month before Danielle SeeWalker was slated to paint a mural in Vail, town staff told her that a social media post featuring a different painting she created — one comparing the violence in Gaza to the genocide of Native Americans — was 'too polarizing.'" She and the ACLU are suing on First Amendment grounds. - Rocky Mountain...
In contrast, ordinary Portland cement must be baked in a kiln at around 2,600 degrees Fahrenheit. “It’s a huge saving” in energy, she said, leading to “a 70 percent reduction in carbon footprint.” - The New York Times
This wedge of South Seattle thrums with the rumble of trucks and planes, brims with warehouses and lacks green space and clean air but has long been adored by artists for its ample and relatively affordable maker space. - Seattle Times
“Hours before a scheduled screening of a documentary about the 1948 depopulation of the Palestinian city of Lyd, Israeli police blocked a Jaffa theater from showing the film.” - Hyperallergic
With the new Labour government having announced a "proper review" of funding body Arts Council England, Mark Pemberton suggests overhauling the structure of government arts funding, splitting the current system — highly centralised in the London-based Arts Council — into three parts. - Classical Music (UK)
The world’s first ever “Hay Rake Ballet” was a high point of what may be the last iteration of Farm/Art DTour, a 50-mile circuit of temporary art installations that has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors to the farmlands of Sauk County since 2011. - Hyperallergic
“Fame, like football, takes a toll. The effects can be particularly destabilizing when the star in question is still just a kid. And all too often, the people who should be looking out for these valuable, vulnerable quantities are, instead, cashing in.” - The New York Times
The director: “Fear is its own form of censorship, it’s not deliberate, but it works out that way and the only people benefiting from that decision are the far right.” - Variety
Mayor Olivia Chow's plan would increase the budget of the city's arts funding agency by $2 million annually over the next five years, double the budgets of local arts service organizations, index all cultural grants to inflation, and increase investment in creative industries, festivals and special events. - CBC
A report from the nonprofit Arts for LA says that, while many schools in California are taking full advantage of the funding offered, other schools are not — simply because they don't have the necessary infrastructure or can't find qualified teachers. - MyNewsLA.com
