The ACLU and plaintiff organisations are challenging the NEA’s implementation of Trump’s order directing that “federal funds shall not be used to promote gender ideology”. - The Guardian
The Polish parliament is set to vote on a reform that allowing dancers to draw their state pension 20 years earlier than most workers because of ‘constant injuries’ - The Times
The Four Sibyls were completed in 1933 at a fancy women’s club in Los Angeles — but too many of those fancy women found Albro’s work overly bright, and after two years of debate, the club covered the frescoes over. They remained hidden for 90 years ... until now. - Los Angeles Times (MSN)
"The wealthiest universities, in particular, must pledge to use all available endowment funds as a backstop for any federal funding cuts to research, educational programs or student financial aid at their schools, barring any donor restrictions." - The New York Times
Infinite announced today a definitive agreement to buy Napster for $207 million. The Norwalk, Connecticut-based company plans to turn Napster into a “social music platform that prioritizes active fan engagement over passive listening, allowing artists to connect with, own, and monetize the relationship with their fans." - Ars Technica
Imagining what it would be like to be a first-time art collector at the twice-annual Metropolitan Pavilion event, I told myself I’d mentally purchase artworks that would amount to my $3,372.30 retirement savings. - Hyperallergic
As a musician, he was a founding member of the Lenox and Vermeer String Quartets and the Orpheus Trio. Over the years he directed and curated chamber programming at BAM, the Spoleto Festivals, the New World Symphony, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. - The Strad
Our work in Social Impact was to widen our cultural radius and to imagine that inspiration itself was a constitutional right afforded to ALL of this nation's people." - NPR
Built in 1904, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House needs to renovate an emergency exit to become an accessible main entrance for Canadians after the U.S. government announced it is limiting access to that entrance, which is located steps into Derby Line, Vt. - CBC
“As high schoolers staged a walkout Monday, parents filed suit against St. Francis Area Schools alleging the district unlawfully banned dozens of books based on the ideas they contained and the ratings of an anonymous website that recently went dark.” - The Minnesota Star Tribune
Dance Data Project finds and crunches the numbers for female representation in programmed works and among artistic directors at 69 dance festivals beyond the United States and Canada. While the numbers for women and men aren’t perfectly equal, they’re not too far off. - Dance Data Project
“The vast majority of dance teaching positions (outside of public schools) don’t require a certification. And most dancers don’t have lots of disposable income to spend on continuing education. But many educators want the extra credibility that a certification credit gives them.” - Dance Magazine
“RFE/RL has, for decades, operated as one of the organizations that Congress has statutorily designated to carry out this policy. The leadership of USAGM cannot, with one sentence of reasoning offering virtually no explanation, force RFE/RL to shut down — even if the President has told them to do so,” the judge wrote. - CNN
PBS is practicing answers with lawyers. NPR executives are preparing to monitor the fallout. Members of Congress are promoting the star witnesses ... as if they were combatants in a prizefight. They’re all getting ready for a hearing on Wednesday ... organized by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.” - The New York Times
