This is DDP's first-ever report examining the value of ballet companies' endowments and the book values of buildings the companies own. - Dance Data Project
"A number of companies that cater to smaller audiences with niche or experimental productions are struggling to find or keep their spaces in the city. And now the Source Theatre, an intimate 120-seat stage … that has served audiences for nearly 50 years, is up for sale." - The Washington Post (MSN)
Regular weeding — librarians' term for removing from collections books that are out-of-date, damaged, or too seldom checked out to be worth shelf space — is standard practice. Some officials have started using the process to remove books about race or LGBTQ issues, and courts will soon weigh in. - The New York Times
"An esteemed Viennese-American author and translator, (her) gift for words helped her family escape from the Nazis and … later drew upon her experiences as a Jewish refugee and immigrant for such fiction as Other People’s Houses and Her First American." - AP
The organization itself has filed a case against two former board members who led a schism of the group into rival factions. Those two are suing the orchestra's executive director and acting board chair, demanding monetary damages and the court's formal decision as to which board faction is legitimate. - San Antonio Report
Not to say there isn’t trouble brewing, particularly with its unions, but the opera’s numbers, and budget, have been on an upward trajectory for a while. - The New York Times
Why? After Hurricane Helene, “communications continue to be heavily impacted throughout the southeast region of the US. Charts published by the FCC in recent days show that while the situation has been improved, there remain significant outages in some areas.” - The Verge
What gets defined as “art” often reflects a very specific perspective in our culture. Expanding our definitions of art and participation to include nontraditional and emerging forms ensures that a broader spectrum of creative expression is valued and supported. - NEA
Ahead of the 21st edition of the fair, which has now expanded to four cities around the world and brings week-long celebrations as well as sales, there has been a sense of doom and gloom about the state of the capital’s art market over the last 12 months. - The Guardian
“Privacy is valuable not because it empowers us to exercise control over our information, but because it protects against the creation of such information in the first place.” - The New Yorker
Those stories that Americans tell about themselves in the name of the “imagined community,” manifest through public rituals like fireworks shows, public school curricula, the discourse of politicians, and the touchstones reinforced by constant references in the press and pop culture: the Alamo, Custer’s Last Stand, the showdown at the O.K. Corral. - LA Review of Books
Part of living well is thinking well. Our souls have an intellectual, as well as a practical, part; we cannot live fully flourishing lives unless we flourish intellectually. Are there, then, specifically intellectual virtues – excellences of intellectual character, whose exercise makes us good thinkers? - Aeon
The US Copyright Office ruled that content created using AI tools, including Midjourney, can't be copyrighted. However, Allen argues that "the Office ignore the essential element of human creativity required to create a work using the Midjourney program." -ARTnews
Though Kahle’s ideals have never wavered, his creations were subsumed by a Silicon Valley behemoth feeding off all things antithetical to his vision of an open internet: advertising models, insane capital markets, and the ultimate “poison” (as he calls it), monopoly power. - Rolling Stone
When he was first named as the next music director back in 2018, the Met asserted that he would conduct a minimum of five operas per season. What are we to make of this seemingly diminished conducting commitment? - Parterre Box
