"Arts organizations across Miami-Dade County have been left to their own devices ... to deal with the cuts in funding, and in many cases, that means making cuts of their own. … Arts groups in the county are nevertheless discussing ways to collaborate and make their resources go further together." - The Miami Times
"For the new report, (the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council) analyzed more than 11,000 grants made to about 500 local organizations from 2018 to 2023. The more than $500 million in total funding came from nearly 200 organizations." - WESA (Pittsburgh)
“The Spellow Library and Community Hub library, a 'one stop shop for one of the most deprived', was set alight with flames visible inside the building within minutes. As firefighters arrived rioters attempted to stop them tackling the blaze, throwing a missile at the fire engine.” - Manchester Evening News (Yahoo)
The DOJ says that TikTok “knowingly allowed children under 13 to create accounts in the regular TikTok experience and collected extensive personal information from those children without first providing parental notice or obtaining verifiable parental consent.” - Wired
One former employee says that keeping the info secret, and celebrating Munro, was “a gap in understanding.” The manager says that “she did not know about Alice's response to the situation, or the ensuing criminal case, and would have made different decisions about upholding the Munro legacy.” - CBC
Portland, Oregon, voters recently voted for a new city council structure. That council will have to figure out what to do with the home of Broadway tours and Portland Opera - the historic, downtown, seismically terrifying Keller. Then there’s the end of the arts tax … and so much more. - Oregon ArtsWatch
“Books that are getting published today are not just for Native kids. They're important to Native kids because they affirm our existence as Native people in the present day. But they're also for non-Native kids, because those kids are being shaped by the information in the book.” - NPR
Mark Swed recaps the earlier festival and explains something difficult to remember now: just how large the project was and how profound an effect it has had, even 40 years later. Might anything similar happen four years from now? - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
Surprised "venues received letters saying that going forward the city would require a paid license for every event that 'falls into the category of an Amusement.” … These events ‘include but are not limited to lectures, exhibitions, theatre, sports, comedy, music and other shows that charge a fee.’” - Investigative Post
The situation in Australia is grim. "What this all shows is not only the precarity of the journalistic profession, but also the low value publications, newsrooms, media corporations and perhaps even the general public, place on quality journalism.” - ArtsHub
In late April, SMU Data Arts released its 2024 "National Trends for Arts and Cultural Organizations," analyzing figures from 233 institutions of varying sizes. This update has incorporated data from an additional 501 organizations. - SMU DataArts
"Arts and cultural leaders were alarmed about Summerhall’s future, and the future of Scotland’s independent arts scene, after it emerged in May that the building’s owners had put the sprawling site on the market. … (But) its owners have confirmed they have offered the arts centre a new three-year lease." - The Guardian
The policy discourse framing culture as an industrial sector, which became a trend in the 1980s, has not proven effective - for the economy, society, or culture itself. - Culture Policy Room
Musicians, actors and writers who oppose the war are being hounded into exile or driven underground — while artists remaining in Russia are compelled by the government to echo a new nationalist zeal in their work. - Washington Post
The four unions representing over 14,000 "cast members" at Disney's southern California resort properties ratified a three-year agreement which includes an immediate 20% increase in pay and a minimum starting wage of $24 an hour as well as, for the first time, longevity pay. - Deadline
