Communities with greater access to arts organizations have: 33% more volunteers supporting nonprofit organizations, 7% more active voters who are registered and eligible for voting, 3% lower levels of income inequality... - SMUData
“I’m not sure why he chose to react to my email with such hostility, but I think it’s important for people to read this exchange and to note that the Kennedy Center does not currently have good leadership,” she wrote. - Washingtonian
The great historian had published some fiction while a student at Princeton, but nothing since then. While doing research in Caro’s archives, however, journalist Chris Heath discovered the drafts of a mid-career novel Caro had worked on but never finished. Naturally, Heath talked with Caro about it. - Smithsonian Magazine
Trump's order asks to avoid “ideological indoctrination or divisive narratives that distort” and “rewrite” America’s history and “inappropriately disparage” heroes, and to foster “unity” by emphasizing America’s “unparalleled legacy of advancing liberty, individual rights, and human happiness,” rather than cultivating division by portraying the nation as “inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed.” - CityJournal
The world of the all-controlling label is changing, and Atlantic Records—historically among the top three labels—has struggled to launch hot new global superstars. Atlantic’s market share in new music more than halved last year from 2019. Its parent Warner’s share price was down around 40 percent from its 2021 peak. - The Wall Street Journal
Signs of financial catastrophe are on the horizon. Gelb has twice dug into the Met’s anemic endowment, withdrawing up to $70 million out of a total of $340 million to meet operating costs, while slashing the number of performances. - City Journal
“Kozloff in the 1960s and ’70s brought fresh perspectives to such established forms as Futurism and Cubism, arguing that artists were influenced by such external forces as social currents and politics. His 1973 essay ‘American Painting During the Cold War’ rewrote the narrative around Abstract Expressionism and is still considered required reading.” - Artforum
“According to the indictment, (Leslie) Roberts, the owner of Miami Fine Art Gallery in Coconut Grove, fraudulently represented art as original pieces created by renowned artist Andy Warhol. … (Carlos Miguel) Rodriguez Melendez falsely claimed to work for a New York-based auction company to fraudulently authenticate the artwork.” - AP
“On Saturday evening, the Phil (is) finally playing ... the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. For Dudamel, 44, who arrived in L.A. 17 years ago to lead the Phil, playing Coachella was ‘a dream, ever since I started here.’” - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"The players — the associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey, and the principal oboist, Liang Wang — … filed amended complaints against the orchestra on Thursday that assert they were wrongfully dismissed and that an inquiry by the ensemble had been biased against them.” - The New York Times
“After abruptly terminating critical grants to libraries, museums, and archives across the country last week, the National Endowment for the Humanities intends to redirect some of its funds to construct President Donald Trump’s bizarre ‘National Garden of American Heroes.’” - Hyperallergic
“More than 140 Chicago artists and cultural leaders are calling on Mayor Brandon Johnson to address ‘dysfunction’ within the city’s Cultural Affairs department (under commissioner Clinée Hedspeth), arguing that staffing turmoil is leading to delays in grant payments and other key functions.” - Chicago Sun-Times
“After an international search, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has selected its next director and CEO from within its own ranks. Pierre Terjanian, who is presently the museum's chief of curatorial affairs and conservation, will assume the new role in July.” - WBUR (Boston)
“More than 40 years after the start of the epidemic, the full numerical scope of the toll AIDS took on the world of theater in New York remains difficult to assess. It’s not just inaccurate death notices that are the enemy of historical precision; it’s the passage of decades.” - New York Magazine (MSN)
