“There is a massive shift there in terms of interests, what millennials consider relevant and find exciting. It will impact more than just what we put onstage. It will impact the entire economy of the performing arts. And how does that generation feel about philanthropy? - San Francisco Classical Voice
"The board overseeing Disney's special taxing district" – the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District board of supervisors – "voted on Monday to sue the company days after the entertainment giant filed its own lawsuit against the board." - CNN
Artists know best what they need to advance their art and to thrive — hire artists as grantmakers and advisors. Support organizations that are founded and led by creatives. - Hyperallergic
"Many people who first heard of an EGOT assume it originated on the hit NBC sitcom 30 Rock. ... It turns out the term dates back to 1984, when only three people had achieved EGOT-hood: the composer Richard Rodgers and the actresses Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno." - The New York Times
Earlier this year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that a “new” art installation in Concourse A legitimized the flat earth conspiracy theory. Videos attempting to assign conspiratorial meaning to the tiled global map, set beneath arching train tracks and titanium poles, have racked up more than 1.5 million views. - The New York Times
The cartoon depicted Richard Sharp, "who is Jewish, with exaggerated features and carrying a puppet of Rishi Sunak. One Jewish group said it 'falls squarely into an antisemitic tradition.'" - BBC
The issue with the moment was the artist's "representation of a White soldier going off to fight on the Confederate side of the Civil War kissing his infant child held up by a Black woman, fashioned as a loyal and matronly 'mammy' figure, crying at his departure." - Hyperallergic
It looks like "Disney’s retaliation claim is a strong one because corporations have substantial rights to express their views under the 1st Amendment, just as individuals do, and DeSantis seems to have targeted the company for doing just that." - Los Angeles Times
"The probe was set up after reports in the Sunday Times revealed Sharp, a close associate of Mr Johnson, had played some role in the PM's personal finances at the same time as he was seeking to secure the senior BBC job." - BBC
"'There is nothing wrong with the human body in and of itself,' Carrasquilla said while visiting David on Friday, according to a statement from the museum. She likened the setting to a church, remarking on the 'purity' and 'humanness' of the sculpture." - Washington Post
Indigo’s data breach is a nightmare for those affected, many of whom now live in fear their information will be made public at some point or used for an identity theft. Book publishers and distributors were also left scrambling to mitigate the consequences. - The Walrus
Enter trust-based philanthropy—a type of support defined by mutuality, transparency, and unrestricted funding. This is a model that has gained popularity across the philanthropic sector, but it has yet to take hold in the arts. - Artnet
""In one image, she takes a selfie at Piazza San Marco in Venice, while elsewhere on her travels she eats a pizza on Lake Como and rides a bike past Rome's Colosseum. … The concept has been met mostly with derision by social media commentators, art critics, and even government officials." - Artnet
In the 2020s, our collective understanding of the unfinished, sublimated, institutionalized nature of the British colonial past has undoubtedly reached a tipping point. And yet with a grim inevitability, at this transformative and hopeful moment for our universities and museums, and for the arts and culture sectors more generally, backlash is underway. - Hyperallergic
Quantitatively and qualitatively, critical production is flourishing, despite – and in some cases because of – the dire economic state in and around the Anglo-American critical field, where criticism is being practiced and received as an artform in its own right. - Vinduet
