"Dallas Theater Center officials have hit the brakes on a proposed $308 million plan to revamp the Kalita Humphreys Theater and the surrounding 10-acre park after pushback over the price tag and size. … Neglect and lack of investment have led to the theater falling into disrepair." - MSN (The Dallas Morning News)
"From supporting educational efforts to assisting professional theaters to funding performance spaces, Walt Disney World has been an engine driving the growth of the Central Florida arts scene. The contributions not only come in dollars but also through costumes, equipment and other necessities — even the carpet." - Orlando Sentinel
For the past few years, social-media platforms have used creator funds to lure content creators from their rivals with the promise of money to be made on top of the usual sponsorship dollars. But they seem more and more like empty PR stunts. - Variety
"According to a summary of the (Governor's) executive budget released by the state Senate, the proposed fiscal year 2024 (arts) budget is $42.8 million, a 54.8 percent decrease 'primarily due to the expiration of pandemic relief for arts and cultural organizations.' Cultural capital projects funds were cut entirely." - Albany Times-Union
Artists are fighting back, using a range of tactics from legal action to IT hacks, in order to protect their creative output and secure their employment in the face of this new phenomenon. - EuroNews
And, just like Vine, TikTok created space for people "opening a small business or people who are no longer facing homelessness, people who are able to retire, creators who are now allowed to pursue their creative pursuits." - Los Angeles Times
Victoria Alonso's lawyer says that Alonso, "a gay Latina who had the courage to criticize Disney, was silenced." Disney, on the other hand, said it was because Alonso promoted an Oscar-nominated documentary on rival Amazon Prime. - Los Angeles Times
At Ben and Jerry's one night in Melbourne, Florida, it was the opening of the Banned Book Nook. Then there are the little free banned book libraries, the bookstores fundraising in order to give books away for free, and more pro-book activism. - NPR
The dialogue is abysmal, but experiments point "to a future where programs like ChatGPT don’t actually write movies, but generate plot ideas that could help human screenwriters out of trouble." - The Guardian (UK)
These critics of objectivity among journalism professionals, encouraged and enabled by many in the academic world, are convinced that journalism has failed on multiple fronts and that objectivity is at the root of the problem. - Washington Post
The companies will work together on this—they’ll codevelop new generative A.I. models, and Firefly is partially hosted on Picasso—and have accordingly come up with a joint approach to the thorny issue of copyright. - Yahoo!
Six months into a pilot program that pays 2,000 working artists €325 per week/€16,000 ($18,200) per year, the results look good: as one recipient said, "If I didn't have this, I wouldn't be doing art today." Most participants, however, are reluctant to discuss the program publicly. - The New York Times
Effective March 16, the Copyright Office’s statement of policy indicates that copyright applicants are permitted to submit AI-assisted works (across literature and visual arts) for protection under copyright law, and that the works will be evaluated for evidence of “human authorship.” - Hyperallergic
The process is difficult even for organizations with strong financial and administrative support. For smaller companies with less funding, it is daunting. - Broad Street Review
Watching these wounds being inflicted is painful. People who work in culture and the arts in this country are exhausted. The 30% cut to Arts Council England in 2010, when the now chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, was culture secretary, has done huge and long-term damage. - The Guardian
