In the survey, creatives of all stripes, success and income levels say that — faced with rising housing prices, inflation and a weakened local art infrastructure — making a living as an artist in King County is now a Sisyphean endeavor that leaves them stressed out, exhausted and, in some cases, contemplating leaving the region. - Seattle Times
Stanley Kubrick died shortly after turning his cut in to Warner Bros. — which has left plenty of room for others to make their own assessments of the film's meaning and its quality. Some of those interpretations can be weirder than the movie itself. - BBC
It seems like such a basic thing: paying working artists a living wage. But it’s not something that most arts organizations, particularly smaller ones, find easy to do. - Seattle Times
The Metro Arts Commission had rescinded the funds in 2023 on advice from the city's attorneys that, because commissioners had discussed race in awarding the grants, and consequent to a Supreme Court ruling against affirmative action, those awards might be unconstitutional. - The Tennessean (Nashville) (MSN)
Some popular locations are struggling with the crush of visitors. Tens of thousands of Spanish residents have taken to the streets in Málaga and the Canary Islands to protest mass tourism and rising housing costs, as more units convert into short-term rentals. - The Wall Street Journal
Last Sunday, as dancers carried heavy sheets of metal and glass in Joan Jonas’s Mirror Piece I & II, audience members from Los Angeles's performance community held signs saying "Fair Pay 4 Dancers" and "Getty We C U Paying Performers Poorly" (meaning about half what MOMA paid for the same piece). - Hyperallergic
The staff cuts, coming a week after the conglomerate eliminated around 100 jobs at CNN, involve multiple departments, including production, business affairs, finance, and Max (formerly HBO Max). The media giant's stock price is down 70% from when Discovery acquired Warner Bros. in 2022. - Deadline
The American Federation of Musicians and Employers Pension Fund, set up for AFM's roughly 50,000 members in New York but underfunded for decades, was projected to become insolvent by 2034. The Federal funding, arranged by Sen. Schumer (D-NY), is part of President Biden's American Rescue Plan, passed in 2021. - The Hollywood Reporter
The French President's proposal to replace six 19th-century stained glass windows with contemporary works has been rejected by France’s National Heritage and Architecture Commission. Those six windows were created by architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc during his extensive renovation of the then-deteriorating medieval cathedral. - Artnet
"Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter said there isn’t a theme when selecting the honorees, but one often emerges organically. This year, that accidental theme is 'a reflection of American culture through its music and how music is used to create American culture.'" - The Washington Post (MSN)
"The initiative, (20 unrestricted grants of $50,000 each to disabled creative artists,) administered by United States Artists, named its inaugural class of fellows in 2020. … The second class was announced in 2022, and this is the last cohort in the program." - The New York Times
Kachka was one of the 115 staffers (roughly 20% of the newsroom) at the Los Angeles Times who were made redundant in January. Before going to California in 2020, he was the books editor at New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for 14 years. - Publishers Weekly
On Wednesday, HBO, as well as its accompanying streaming service Max, earned 91 Emmy nominations, down from its massive haul last year (127), and trailing both Netflix (107) and FX (93) this year. - The New York Times
Taxonomy, the science of naming and classifying organisms, is the foundation for conserving disappearing plants and animals. Yet the field — often viewed as an archaic, dusty tradition that harks back to intrepid 19th-century botanists describing the plants of newly colonized lands — is dying. - The New York Times
The $4.2 billion facility in Queens will showcase the largest number of works of any New York airport by major figures from the United States. - The New York Times
