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Cleveland State University Just Closed A Decades-Old College Radio Station For No Apparent Reason

“A student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the running it, the managing of it. And it’s all gone now.” - Cleveland Plain Dealer

Czech Writers, Including Ivan Klima, Created An Anti-Authoritarian Manifesto In 1977

In the U.S. (and other countries dealing with regimes antithetical to art), cultural workers could sure learn something from Charter 77. - LitHub

Why Is San Francisco About To Destroy This 96-Year-Old Artist’s Defining Work?

“Destroying the Vaillancourt Fountain, its supporters say, would be erasing history and modern architecture, and counter to the city’s reputation for being weird.” But wow, has the city neglected it for years. (The city says it just sort of aged out. Yup.) - The New York Times

Smithsonian Museums, National Zoo Close Amid Federal Shutdown

The Smithsonian museums “had been able to keep their doors open for the first 11 days of the shutdown by relying on prior-year funds, but those coffers have since run dry.” - NPR

Hollywood Vs. OpenAI Heats Up Hard With Release Of New Software

“At the core of the dispute is who controls the copyrighted images and likenesses of actors and licensed characters — and how much they should be compensated for their use in AI models.” - Los Angeles Times (Yahoo)

Zora Neale Hurston’s Play, Forgotten For Decades, Sees The Light Of Day At Yale

“Building these moments for the stage entailed leaps of imagination and acts of faith among the collaborators. ‘I’d say to the team, ‘Trust Zora.’ It’s in the play, it’s in the script, we just have to be able to see it.’” - The New York Times

Pepperdine Suddenly Closes Art Show After Censorship Of Some Work Leads Other Artists To Withdraw

One artist wrote that the private university's censorship of other artists’ work, mostly about immigrants, “is a loss for the students and for the art community, and it signals that the gallery, under current conditions, can no longer function as a place for art.” - Hyperallergic

New Studies Suggests That People With ADHD May Be More Creative

Researchers found “that those with ADHD may experience more frequent episodes of mind-wandering, and that that, in turn, could lead to greater creative thinking abilities.” - Fast Company

Indiana’s Annual Three Day Blowout Honoring James Dean

“Dean was symbolic of the burgeoning country’s place in the world: rough-hewn and handsome, young and hungry, pure potential. That his potential was never realized transformed him from movie star to legend.” - Washington Post (MSN)

Take MTV, Subtract The M, And Then Most Of The TV As Well

In Britain, after December 31st, MTV will be no more - for the most part. “The flagship channel, MTV HD, will remain on air, showing reality series including Naked Dating UK and Geordie Shore.” - BBC

What It’s Like Opening A Feminist Play On Broadway Amid, Er, Gestures Around

Playwright Bess Wohl: “I wanted to make a play that I wished existed: a good, interesting, complicated play. How many plays are there really about this time and this movement? Not that many, when you consider what a big deal it was.” - American Theatre

Rick Caruso’s Malls Are An Oddly Cold Version Of Urban Life

As the developer mulls a gubernatorial run, Carolina Miranda has some thoughts. “These places are rigidly controlled simulacra. … Collectively, these cloyingly tantalizing spaces offer an insightful read on his vision for real cities and the political points he likes to make about them.” - New York Review of Architecture

Diane Keaton Has Died At 79

Keaton was the star of Annie Hall, for which she won an Oscar, and many other Woody Allen movies; she was also an Oscar nominee for Reds, Marvin’s Room, and Something’s Gotta Give. And then there were her iconic roles in the Godfather movies. - The Hollywood Reporter

Bernini’s Designs For The Louvre Were Too Much Even For Louis XIV

Yes, the favorite sculptor and architect of 17th-century Rome was the first designer whom the Sun King commissioned to make over the traditional Paris home of France’s monarchs. Yet construction was stopped and Bernini returned to Rome just a few days after the foundation stone was laid. Here’s why. - Artnet

Are We Having The Wrong Debates About The AI Actress?

The question isn’t whether the future will be synthetic; it already is. Our challenge now is to ensure that it is also meaningfully human. - The Conversation

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