Widely shared social media posts have called for a MUBI boycott. The response: "The beliefs of individual investors do not reflect the views of MUBI.” Surely that will calm the waters. - Variety
Historian Charles Pappas argues that, from the first World Expositions in Paris and Chicago in the 19th century through the groundbreaking 1939 World’s Fair in New York and Expo 70 in Osaka and even the bankrupt 1984 gathering in New Orleans, these events can provide major long-term benefits to host cities. - Bloomberg CityLab
This report surfaces urgent questions about how to support long-term sustainability in the arts—particularly for the organizations that operate closest to community needs. With reserves dwindling and costs rising, the need for equitable, strategic investment has never been clearer. - SMU Cultural Data
Organizations including Los Angeles Opera, Museum of Contemporary Art, the Broad museum and the Japanese American National Museum are grappling with the snowballing effects of the civic unrest compounded by an uncertain future as thousands of National Guard troops and Marines roll into town under President Trump’s orders. - Los Angeles Times
“The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization which hosts and develops Wikipedia, has paused an experiment that showed users AI-generated summaries at the top of articles after an overwhelmingly negative reaction from the Wikipedia editors community.” - 404 Media
“Approximately 100 employees were dismissed in a broad ‘reduction in force’ on Tuesday, June 10. … Fewer than 60 staff members remain at the agency, which oversees an annual $207 million budget to support public history, libraries, museums and education programs across the country.” - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
The latest crisis in literary studies feels different: more spiteful and less fertile, more terminally gloomy, a scene of death throes rather than birth pangs. - N+1
The May 27 document, which reverses a legal opinion issued in 1938, could be laying the groundwork for Trump to abolish or dramatically shrink national monuments, which confer federal protections to millions of acres of federal land, much of it in the American West. - Washington Post
“Founder of culture and city guide Broadsheet Nick Shelton (explains) why the title is expanding from Australia and New Zealand into London. It currently has 85 staff based across Australia and begins its conquest of the London cultural media scene with a team of five later this year.” - Press Gazette (UK)
While the Board of Regents (which includes the U.S. Vice President and the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice) didn’t directly address Trump’s attempt to fire National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet, the Board’s statement clearly affirmed that hiring/firing power belongs to Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch. - The Washington Post (MSN)
Trump may not have the formal capacity to shape the leadership of any of the Smithsonian’s museums, but if others treat him as if he does, then, well, what’s the difference? - The New York Times
Across the country, arts leaders say the Kennedy Center’s transformation—complete with a CEO firing, board overhaul and unprecedented political involvement in its programming—has become a cautionary tale for organizations large and small. - The Wall Street Journal
“Missing sound recordings include the satirical song ‘Carlo’ by Dafydd Iwan which was written for the investiture of Charles as Prince of Wales in 1969.” - BBC
“Late Thursday, the two attorneys sent a strongly worded letter to Paramount’s chairworman and controlling shareholder Shari Redstone and other board members arguing that a Trump settlement would cause ‘catastrophic’ harm to the embattled media company.” - Los Angeles Times (AOL)
