"Leaders of a private foundation working to build a museum and memorial to honor the victims of (murder) at a gay nightclub in Florida said Friday that they were dropping their plans to build a museum, even as the city of Orlando is moving ahead with constructing the memorial." - AP
“It appears that arts organizations are trying to manage programming in a way that fits within their revenue constraints. And that’s not just a matter of a decrease in demand—it’s also a reaction to increased costs. From September 2019 through September 2023, inflation is up 20 percent.” - Chicago Reader
"The 230 'passengers' (Philibert prefers this term to 'patients') are from Paris’s first four arrondissements. Having been referred by their doctor or therapist, they can drop by from Monday to Friday between 9.15am and 5pm (and) partake in workshops for music, radio, drawing, painting or stained glass window-making." - The Guardian
"Once I had been advised by the general counsel that she was participating in the CEO succession process – which is a conflict of interest – I had a fiduciary duty as chair to advise her that her participation on the CEO succession process was a conflict of interest," Adam Waterous said. - CTV Calgary
"Using copies of copyright-protected material to train AI models doesn’t qualify as the kind of copying that violates copyright law. A statutory licensing scheme to govern machine learning would create an “intractable economic problem” and incentivize technology companies to take their billions of dollars of investment capital to “more innovation friendly” jurisdictions. - Bloomberg
Conservatives used to be intelligent patrons of the arts. In the 1930s, you had the most sophisticated cultural operation of any political organisation in a democratic country. - The Critic
The list of such fundamental divisions is long, and it is synonymous with multicultural liberalism. For this, many democracies maintain two-party parliamentary systems. Goading one side to drop its claims in favour of the other, as the arts who univocally espouse left politics do, is anti-democratic. - The Critic
Okay, he's not building it, or even funding it, entirely by himself, but the foundation run by the actor-playwright and his father is the lead backer of the The People's Theatre: Centro Cultural Inmigrante on West 206th St., expected to open in 2025. - Time Out New York
It all stems from a conflict between the now-former CEO, Janice Price, and now-former board chair Adam Waterous over her involvement in the choice of her successor — and in questions about how Waterous handled that conflict. - CBC
Karet's parents, Holocaust survivors, taught him "that when there are big incidents, there are big narratives. And those big narratives would say: You have a role. You are now a victim. You are now a hero. And they said, 'Don’t believe those roles.'" - The New York Times
And many Artforum employees "have signed a letter demanding that Velasco be reinstated, saying his termination 'not only carries chilling implications for Artforum’s editorial independence but disaffirms the very mission of the magazine.'" - The New York Times
Adjusting values on a per capita basis as well as accounting for differences in costs of living enable this analysis to level the playing field as much as possible. - SMU Cultural Data
The Province of Alberta has sacked the board and appointed an administrator to oversee and assess. The institution has suffered for years with poor leadership. - Rocky Mountain Outlook
"Mention it, and you tend to get a puzzled look and two questions: Doesn’t Roosevelt already have a presidential library? (No.) And why the heck is this one being built in North Dakota? That second question is one just about everyone in Medora is ready to answer." - The New York Times
