"California College of the Arts is facing a $20 million deficit due to a dramatic drop in student enrollment, even as it prepares to open a $123 million expansion to finalize a consolidation of its Oakland and San Francisco campuses." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
"An estimated 49% of people who went to Black Rock City ... in 2023 identified as female, marginally higher than the 48% of attendees who identified as male. That reflects a stark change from 2013, when 40% of Burners identified as female and 58% identified as male." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)
Protest messages were read out after performances, including at the Traverse, Lyceum, George Square, Summerhall and Church Hill theatres, to loud applause from audiences, as thousands of artists and performers signed an open letter calling for the cuts to be reversed. - The Guardian
The ministry of culture of Buenos Aires dismissed Jorge Tetelman as director of the Teatro Colón, and the following day hired in his place Julio Bocca, a Buenos Aires native who was a world-famous dancer in the 1980s and '90s and director of Uruguay's national ballet from 2010 to 2017. - OperaWire
The destruction of so much of their culture has not just pushed Ukrainians farther away from the Russian-dominated cultural space they shared for decades under Soviet rule. It has also awakened a hunger for their own culture, described by one daily newspaper as a “Ukrainian cultural boom”. - BBC
Sarasota’s New College, the once liberal arts school subjected to a “hostile takeover” by well-rewarded, ultra-conservative DeSantis allies, was exposed by the city’s Herald-Tribune for dumping thousands of library books, including a clear-out of its gender and diversity center. - The Guardian
When its movies don’t do well, Apple’s psychology suffers. “Apple’s brand is quality, cutting-edge, sleek, refined, forward-looking, and so now you’re tarnishing that brand with what seems like an old-fashioned, not-relevant, not-part-of-the-zeitgeist slate.” - The New York Times
“'I prefer a thousand crying Arab mothers to one Jewish mother because these are my people,’ Kalimian wrote in Hebrew in response to a commenter in the once-public Facebook post, referring to Arabs as ‘the sons of death,’ an expression for people who deserve to die.” - Hyperallergic
Chappell Roan is the latest to call out her so-called fans. She recently posted, “It's weird how people think that you know a person just 'cause you see them online or you listen to the art they make. ... I'm allowed to say no to creepy behaviour.” - CBC
Last year, freak rains left the place a wreck, the year before that saw a severe heatwave, and the two Burns prior were cancelled due to COVID. Many now say the gathering's too big, ticket prices are much too high, and superrich attendees have ruined the cash-free "gift economy" ethos. - BBC
Many of Scotland’s best known arts organisations, including the Edinburgh fringe and national jazz orchestra, are in uproar over plans for deep cuts in culture funding. - The Guardian
"Since (CEO Mena Mark) Hanna took over, nearly all of the nonprofit’s established artistic and business leaders have been replaced. And in recent months the board has seen an exodus, especially since chairwoman Alicia Mullen Gregory was ousted from her leadership position in July." - The Post and Courier (Charleston)
The opera and ballet mecca has seen two big price increases this year alone; admission now costs well over double what it did in 2023. Many angry patrons blame new general director Valery Gergiev, with some noting that prices at St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater, which Gergiev has run for decades, remain reasonable. - Gramilano
“In an exhibit that was supposed to be about coming together to confront hate, hate has won. And, our community feels more alone as a result.” - Seattle Times
