The basic income for the arts (BIA) initial pilot ran from 2022 to 2025 and helped 2,000 artists. The results of an independent study found that it had a noticeable positive impact on the lives of those who received it. - The Conversation
Alpha School’s website suggests a futuristic learning model: AI tools make it so that students only need to spend two hours a day on traditional subjects such as history and math. The Guardian
After India (down 45%), the arrivals figures from the US International Trade Administration (ITA), highlighted considerable declines from other major source countries, with China and South Korea seeing respective drops of 12% and 11%. The data does not include students arriving from Canada and Mexico. - Pie
The specific shuttering of the brand’s music platforms does call into question the position of the music video in today’s industry, and whether the form still provides a viable outlet for expression and promotion. - The Guardian
The cultural community is now reeling and searching for answers. Many institutions have shown resilience, and sprouts of resistance are emerging. But the community at large has been slow, or unwilling, to muster an effective counteroffensive. The next few months, many say, will be critical.- The New York Times
When app stores determine that a user is under 18, “the law prohibits them from downloading virtually all apps and software programs and from making any in-app purchases unless their parent consents and is given control over the minor’s account,” the CCIA said. - Ars Technica
“I am hoping that people will take away from the whole range of exhibitions that we’re doing that democracy was achieved as a result of a struggle and that it was hard fought and hard won.” And she added, “that it is something that needs to be safeguarded.” - The New York Times
Avoiding “wokeness,” as the conservative right defines it, may prove difficult. Ballet has long been shaped by refugees, people of color, and the queer community. - Washington City Paper
After a somewhat quiet few years of foreign theatre programming in New York, we are suddenly enjoying a superbloom, largely thanks to several adventurous international festivals, working in synchrony this fall. - The New Yorker
Their faces concealed, they rode a monte-meubles, a truck-mounted electric ladder that is a common sight on the streets of Paris, where it is used to ferry bulky furniture through the windows of apartments. - The New York Times
Or, the UK version of the Met Gala: "Eight hundred invited guests each paid £2,000 to party alongside some of the world’s most sensational artefacts and a roll call of bigwigs from the worlds of fashion, art and culture.” The new model of arts funding? - The Guardian (UK)
"Only the museum will require a paid ticket. Nearly a dozen other spaces — meeting rooms, classrooms, parks, an N.B.A.-size basketball court, even a branch of the Chicago Public Library — will be reserved for visitors or the activities of the foundation.” - The New York Times
“‘To build a building like this, it required public investment, it required private investment, and it required a lot of belief through those dark days of the pandemic,’ said TimeLine’s charismatic artistic director, PJ Powers, during a recent tour of the still shell-like structure.” - WBEZ (Chicago)
Will Netflix ever win Best Picture? It’s been trying - hard - for 10 years. This year? Hm. Not necessarily Best Picture, but “I’d be betting it all on KPop Demon Hunters to win Oscars for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.” - Vulture (MSN)
In Los Angeles’s Historic Filipinotown, the “revision follows more than a year of conversations that included Filipino-led groups, local nonprofits and the muralist, Eliseo Art Silva.” - LAist
