"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)
Time to end the citizenship requirement? Said one writer, "I think you could almost make the inverse argument — that to really understand America, you have to understand what it means to be on the other side of that citizenship line." - Washington Post
Despite these advances from some funders, area arts leaders have to deal year in and year out with the lack of government arts funding — and comparisons to other stated’ allocations is a bitter pill for many to swallow. - ArtsATL
After several years of protests, repression, and COVID lockdowns dimmed the city's international reputation and kept its performers at home, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ballet, Sinfonietta, and Chinese Orchestra are again traveling abroad to, in the government's words, "tell a positive Hong Kong story." - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Many large organizations, such as the Met Museum, have owned condos or houses that they provide to their CEOs rent- and tax-free, as both recruitment perk and venue for entertaining donors. Recently, with attention on the low pay of junior employees, some institutions are ending the practice. - The New York Times
In the UK, there are three potentially large funding pots for the arts: government, local authority and private. Anyone who has lived through the past 13 years in Britain will be able to tell you that two of those sources have drastically shrunk. - The Guardian
