"A big one that we've seen in recent months and years is reorganisation at the BBC, particularly in the newsroom. A lot of that is driven by the need to reduce costs, and therefore a lot of people have simply taken voluntary redundancy (VR) and left by choice." - BBC
Jair Bolsonaro abolished the culture ministry, slashed arts funding, and demonized the entire sector — which largely returns his hatred and fears he'll stage a coup. Lula, who supports the arts, leads in the polls. One good sign: Brazil's Congress just overrode Bolsonaro's veto of a new arts funding scheme. - The Art Newspaper
Arts presenters "know that some audience members will be deterred by mask requirements at a time when they have vanished from so many other settings, while others will be reluctant to attend indoor performances if masks are not required. Whatever they decide to do, they risk alienating some ticket buyers." - The New York Times
This summer an activist loudly objected to a no-guns rule at Atlanta's Music Midtown festival (in Georgia, no event on public property may ban firearms) and drove organizers to cancel the entire thing. He then tried the same tactic with the Savannah Jazz Festival — which, actually, has no such rule. - SaportaReport (Atlanta)
The competition was intense. In the first pair of performances, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra eked out a slight advantage over the Philadelphia Orchestra in terms of ticket sales and the octane of its playing — but hold on to your opera glasses. In a grand upset, the Cleveland Orchestra arrived. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"A joint statement issued on behalf of ... the Gulf Cooperation Council made the request, saying the unspecified programs 'contradict Islamic and societal values and principles.'" This evidently refers to depictions of LGBTQ people: Saudi TV aired a "behavioral consultant" calling Netflix an "official sponsor of homosexuality." - AP
The question of what we can know of that which lies beyond the limits of our imagination is partially about the biological function of intelligence, and partially about our greatest cognitive prostheses, particularly human language and mathematics. - Aeon
Sadler's Wells in London has announced the biennial Rose International Dance Prize, with a £40,000 main award for a full-length piece and £15,000 for a shorter work by a young choreographer. As with the Turner, the finalists for the Rose Prize will be presented to the public together. - Arts Industry (UK)
The torrential monsoon that has swamped the country has damaged the 4,500-year-old ruins, which were once the largest city in the Indus Valley civilization. There have been no floods at the site yet, but some walls have cracked, and a few have collapsed, due to the downpours. - AP
"The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will discontinue its daily print edition and go to a weekend print edition, but it will continue its digital news operation seven days a week, according to interviews with a half dozen people close to the newspaper." - SaportaReport (Atlanta)
"In June and July, Pennsylvania and Washington quietly became the first two states in the nation to explicitly list non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as digital assets subject to sales and use taxes." - Hyperallergic
The Dutch maestro is also music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic; he leaves both positions in 2024, as he starts on a five-year contract term as music director of the Seoul Philharmonic. He succeeds Osmo Vänskä, who's leaving the turbulent orchestra after only three years. - The New York Times
"Michelle Donelan, a former WWE marketing manager who was Boris Johnson's Education Secretary for just 48 hours, is to replace Nadine Dorries as Culture Secretary in UK Prime Minister Liz Truss's first cabinet." - Deadline
"Alan Garner (at 87) has become the oldest author to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and is the only British writer on this year's list. He is joined ... by one Irish writer, two Americans, a Zimbabwean and a writer from Sri Lanka." - The Guardian
It's an emerging art form — inclusive dance — in which dancers may be in wheelchairs, or on crutches, or have no obvious challenges at all, and professionals often mix with amateurs. - The World
