The real struggle might not be between AI and artists, or even governments, but with large copyright holders. What happens when Disney gets tired of ChatGPT fan-fictioning its Star Wars universe? - The Walrus
"One of the most insulting reasons that they’ve given is that the other countries that these items belong to ... they are likely to be stolen. But you’ve got people in this country putting them on eBay." - The Guardian (UK)
Time to end the citizenship requirement? Said one writer, "I think you could almost make the inverse argument — that to really understand America, you have to understand what it means to be on the other side of that citizenship line." - Washington Post
Despite these advances from some funders, area arts leaders have to deal year in and year out with the lack of government arts funding — and comparisons to other stated’ allocations is a bitter pill for many to swallow. - ArtsATL
After several years of protests, repression, and COVID lockdowns dimmed the city's international reputation and kept its performers at home, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Ballet, Sinfonietta, and Chinese Orchestra are again traveling abroad to, in the government's words, "tell a positive Hong Kong story." - South China Morning Post (Hong Kong)
Many large organizations, such as the Met Museum, have owned condos or houses that they provide to their CEOs rent- and tax-free, as both recruitment perk and venue for entertaining donors. Recently, with attention on the low pay of junior employees, some institutions are ending the practice. - The New York Times
In the UK, there are three potentially large funding pots for the arts: government, local authority and private. Anyone who has lived through the past 13 years in Britain will be able to tell you that two of those sources have drastically shrunk. - The Guardian
For a broad range of Sifnians the island is rapidly approaching a state of crisis, as unregulated development and overtourism have kick-started a grim cycle of widespread water scarcity, unmanageable quantities of garbage and sewage, loss of agricultural land, and soil erosion. - The New Republic
As schools reopen for fall, educators and district leaders are wrestling with complex questions posed by the A.I. tools: What should writing assignments look like in an era when students can simply employ chatbots to generate prose for them? - The New York Times
When specific reference to drag in the bill, known as SB 12, attracted national criticism, it was redrafted to cover "sexually-oriented performance" — defined vaguely enough that, for instance, the Dallas Theater Center doesn't know if it could be prosecuted for its upcoming staging of The Rocky Horror Show. - KERA (Dallas)
Northern Ireland's state arts funding body is reportedly reconsidering its support of the Metropolitan Arts Centre in the province's capital. MAC — which includes two theatres, three art galleries, a dance studio, and workshops — has had 2.5 million visitors since opening in 2012. - BBC
The European tendency to mistake Europe for the world – what might be called “the Eurocentric fallacy” – has obscured our understanding of the EU and its role in the world. It has led to an idealisation of European integration as a kind of cosmopolitan project: what I call the myth of cosmopolitan Europe. - The Guardian
