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Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of The 2023 Strikes

“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any effects of the massive expansion of the California film and TV tax credit, which became law on July 1, have yet to show up in the production data.” - Variety

A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth

This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art have exhibitions curated by students ranging from high-schoolers to grade-schoolers. Professional staff assisted, but they put the kids through their paces. - The New York Times

Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended

The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day walkout that was the first strike in the VSO’s 107-year history. - CBC

Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala

They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they “wanted (their) absence to be felt.” They maintain that management’s offers in contract negotiations “fall far short” of other U.S. companies offer, despite NYCB’s greater “financial stability.” - The Cut (MSN)

Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company

The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I had something to offer and give the Tampa Bay area a company they deserve,” she says. “And I had some experience working as a ballet mistress.” - 83 Degrees (Tampa)

A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain

Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However, newly rediscovered documents indicate that the city has not been the party responsible for the fountain’s upkeep. - Artnet

José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance

Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The original story is about … a felon who becomes a tyrannical leader. I didn’t feel the imagination had to go far to draw a contemporary parallel.” - The New York Times

Cultural Boycotts Are Ripping UK Arts Organizations Apart

This fraught debate has pitted artists who are broadly in agreement against each other. “There’s so much energy being spent ripping ourselves to shreds that arguably could be repurposed and deployed to Nigel Farage or Keir Starmer." - The Guardian

Taylor Swift Sets Another All-Time Record

Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl was released Oct. 3. In its first week, pure album sales totaled 3,479,500 copies. She's also become the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. - CBC

Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling

“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” - CBC

To Be An Artist In Canada Is To Be Prisoner Of Subsidy

Even if an artist can afford to turn up their nose at it, the entire structure that allows them to show, see, and otherwise participate in the arts is so enmeshed with government money that rejecting it individually is as meaningless as refusing to eat Madagascar vanilla to help with your carbon footprint. - The Walrus

James Wood On László Krasznahorkai 

For many ordinary readers, the idea of entering a fictional world constantly teetering on the edge of a revelation that is always imminent but concealed, in which words pace ceaselessly around reference, and whose favored tool is the long, unstopped sentence, one that takes, say, four hundred pages to... - The New Yorker

At 93, Is Gerhard Richter Our Greatest Living Artist?

That much will certainly be made clear in a massive Richter retrospective opening this month at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Comprising some 250 objects, it is the largest survey of his work to date, exceeding MoMA’s landmark Richter show in 2002. - ARTnews

How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées

In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine

Gertrude Stein’s Language Experiments Were Considered Difficult. But Let’s Reconsider

“Devotees of her cult professed to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compared her effusions to the rantings of the insane.” - BookForum

American Education Is In A Desperate State. It Is Failing Its Students

We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not seen in 25 years or more. - The Atlantic

AI Has Been Trained With What’s Online. Not All Knowledge Is Online

These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising alternative ways of knowing, especially those encoded in oral traditions, embodied practice and the languages considered ‘low-resource’ in the computing world. - Aeon

Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96

“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a prolific force behind the transformation of movies in the 1960s and ‘70s from popular entertainment to an art form regarded with the seriousness of literature or painting.” - AP

Broadway Musicians Authorize Strike

The musicians' most recent contract expired August 31, 2025. Since then, the union has been trying to achieve a new contract that includes increased wages, increased healthcare contributions, and employment and income security. - Playbill

Was L’Affaire Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson For The Importance Of Late Night TV?

Amid all the headlines about falling ratings, production cutbacks and monetary losses, it's easy to forget that late-night TV programs have historically occupied a singular space in pop culture that viewers couldn't easily find anywhere else. - NPR

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AI Has Been Trained With What’s Online. Not All Knowledge Is Online

These systems may appear neutral, but they are far from it. The most popular models privilege dominant epistemologies (typically Western and institutional) while marginalising alternative ways of knowing, especially those encoded in oral traditions, embodied practice and the languages considered ‘low-resource’ in the computing world. - Aeon

How To Understand What We Used To Call The Idiot Savant

In the past (autism became a diagnostic category only in 1943), the ‘idiot savant’ was a paradox, who confounded categorisation because there was no unified way of comprehending how such exceptional musical and numerical skills might co-exist alongside their polar opposite: profound disability. - Aeon

Will AI Create A Permanent Underclass?

The idea of a permanent underclass has recently been embraced in part as an online joke and in part out of a sincere fear about how A.I. automation will upend the labor market and create a new norm of inequality. - The New Yorker

Every Portlandian Pays An Arts Tax, And Now There Are Tools To See Where It’s Going

The thing is, “music classes require ukuleles, recorders, and sheet music for every student. Visual arts classes require painting supplies –– easels, paper, paint brushes, paint. Dance classes require mirrors and bars.” How’s the $35 arts tax doing? - Oregon ArtsWatch

Actually, English Majors Are Thriving

At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Eliza, The Best Of Wives, Was A Better Citizen After Hamilton Died

Eliza was worth a lot more than her quick summing up in two minutes at the end of a 165-minute musical. "Eliza’s widowed years a kind of breakout,” actually, and the U.S. (and Washington, D.C.) would have looked quite different without her.  - The Atlantic

Cultural Boycotts Are Ripping UK Arts Organizations Apart

This fraught debate has pitted artists who are broadly in agreement against each other. “There’s so much energy being spent ripping ourselves to shreds that arguably could be repurposed and deployed to Nigel Farage or Keir Starmer." - The Guardian

Across B.C., Arts Organizations Large And Small Are Struggling

“As rising costs hit British Columbians in all areas of life, advocates say arts organizations across the province are struggling to keep up.” - CBC

To Be An Artist In Canada Is To Be Prisoner Of Subsidy

Even if an artist can afford to turn up their nose at it, the entire structure that allows them to show, see, and otherwise participate in the arts is so enmeshed with government money that rejecting it individually is as meaningless as refusing to eat Madagascar vanilla to help with your carbon footprint. -...

How Small Arts Organizations Do Fundraisers Without Fancy Gala Soirées

In Houston, smaller groups who can’t afford the big upfront costs of galas get quite inventive with their benefit events. - Houstonia Magazine

American Education Is In A Desperate State. It Is Failing Its Students

We are now seeing what the lost decade in American education has wrought. By some measures, American students have regressed to a level not seen in 25 years or more. - The Atlantic

Chicago Arts Leaders Ask The Mayor For An Arts Leader With The ‘Gumption’ To Stand Up To The Federal Government

“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and to making Chicago the kind of beautiful, vibrant place that we’re all fighting for.” - Chicago Sun-Times

Vancouver Symphony Musicians’ Strike Has Ended

The musicians’ union and management reached agreement (pending a ratification vote) on a new contract on October 5, bringing to an end a ten-day walkout that was the first strike in the VSO’s 107-year history. - CBC

Taylor Swift Sets Another All-Time Record

Swift broke the record set by Adele's 25, which sold 3.378 million copies in its first week in 2015. The Life of a Showgirl was released Oct. 3. In its first week, pure album sales totaled 3,479,500 copies. She's also become the solo artist with the most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200. - CBC

Public Radio Cuts Could Have A Disastrous Effect On Classical Music In America

Roughly 96% of the classical music on terrestrial radio in the U.S. is broadcast on public radio stations — and those stations often have crucial symbiotic relationships with the classical music scenes in their listening areas. Michael Andor Brodeur considers what’s at stake. - The Washington Post (MSN)

How AI Could Change The Way We Listen To Music

As AI becomes more embedded in music creation, the challenge is balancing its legitimate creative use with the ethical and economic pressures it introduces. Disclosure is essential not just for accountability, but to give listeners transparent and user-friendly choices in the artists they support. - The Conversation

Scientist Used Sensors To Discover How Pianists’ Touch Changes Timbre

A team led by Dr. Shinichi Furuya at the NeuroPiano Institute and Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. has provided the first scientific evidence showing how pianists’ touch on the keys can actually change a piano’s timbre—the tonal character of its sound. - SciTech Daily

The Cincinnati Symphony Gets Its New Music Director

Cristian Macelaru: "The work is a lot more complex and challenging here , but it’s also much more rewarding. … I’ve always had such strong beliefs about what I would do if I were a music director of an American orchestra.” - The New York Times

A Few U.S. Museums Are Letting Actual Young People Curate Their Shows For Youth

This fall alone, the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the UC Irvine Orange County Museum of Art have exhibitions curated by students ranging from high-schoolers to grade-schoolers. Professional staff assisted, but they put the kids through their paces. - The New York Times

A Plot Twist In The Saga Of San Francisco’s Vaillancourt Fountain

Excessive deterioration due to deferred maintenance is the reason city officials have given for their (controversial) decision to demolish the (controversial) Brutalist artwork. However, newly rediscovered documents indicate that the city has not been the party responsible for the fountain’s upkeep. - Artnet

The Museum Specially Built For The Benin Bronzes Has Nothing But Clay Replicas. Why Aren’t The Restituted Sculptures There?

“About 150 original bronzes have been returned to Nigeria over the last five years. … Their public display inside the $25m state-of-the-art museum in the city of Benin … was to be the crowning moment of an almost century-long effort to reclaim Africa’s stolen art.” An uplifting story — the reality is messier. -...

Easter Islanders Always Said Their Moai Statues Walked To Their Places. New Research Says It’s Probably True.

That’s not to say, mind you, that the moai walked by themselves. A new paper published by two archaeologists lays out, through observation and experiment, how the Rapa Nui people likely rigged up the moai and walked them from the quarry to their platforms. - Artnet

Online Sales Are Changing The Market For Native American Art

An estimated one-third of Navajo Nation members make and sell art for a living, and in Zuni Pueblo, as many as 85 percent of households include a working artist. Yet for more than a century, Native artists have been subject to a marketplace that undervalues their work and rips off their designs. - Mother...

Smithsonian Museums Have Now Shut Down

The Smithsonian manages 21 museums around Washington, DC, and in New York, as well as the National Zoo and 14 research facilities. It had previously said it could rely on remaining funds from past fiscal years to remain open, originally for “at least” five days past the 1 October shutdown. - The Art Newspaper

James Wood On László Krasznahorkai 

For many ordinary readers, the idea of entering a fictional world constantly teetering on the edge of a revelation that is always imminent but concealed, in which words pace ceaselessly around reference, and whose favored tool is the long, unstopped sentence, one that takes, say, four hundred pages to... - The New Yorker

Gertrude Stein’s Language Experiments Were Considered Difficult. But Let’s Reconsider

“Devotees of her cult professed to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compared her effusions to the rantings of the insane.” - BookForum

I Survived The Bombing Of Ukraine’s Largest Book Festival

Fiona Benson, an editor of Exeter University’s Ukrainian Wartime Poetry Project, was invited to BookForum in Lviv by Arthur Dron’, a poet and war hero. On the second day, a siren sounded, everyone went down into a bomb shelter, and Russian missiles struck. - The Guardian

Unpublished Jack Kerouac Story Discovered In Mafia Boss’s Papers

“The two-page typewritten manuscript signed by Kerouac in green ink is titled ‘The Holy, Beat, and Crazy Next Thing’ and is dated 15 April 1957, five months before … On the Road was published. It was discovered last year during the disposal of items owned by (mafia don) Paul Castellano." - The Guardian

Zadie Smith Ponders The Point Of Essay-Writing

My entire future rested on a few essays written in the school hall under a three-hour time constraint? Really? In the nineties, this was what we called “the meritocracy.” - The New Yorker

Libraries Scramble To Replace Industry’s Biggest Book Distributor

Given the complicated nature of library wholesaling and its existing position in the market, Ingram is well positioned to pick up a sizable chunk of B&T’s business.  - Publishers Weekly

Film And TV Production Work In L.A. Has Fallen Below Even The Level Of The 2023 Strikes

“The decline ... was led by a sharp drop in reality TV production, which recorded its second-worst quarter in the last 15 years. Any effects of the massive expansion of the California film and TV tax credit, which became law on July 1, have yet to show up in the production data.” - Variety

Was L’Affaire Jimmy Kimmel A Lesson For The Importance Of Late Night TV?

Amid all the headlines about falling ratings, production cutbacks and monetary losses, it's easy to forget that late-night TV programs have historically occupied a singular space in pop culture that viewers couldn't easily find anywhere else. - NPR

Marc Maron Talks About The End Of His Podcast, One Of The Most Influential In The Medium’s History

“There’s a part of me that feels a responsibility to these listeners. I get all kinds of emails, stuff that I would never have expected, from people who I helped to get sober, who I helped pull off the ledge of depression. ... They live in my head.” - The New York Times

My Letter To AI Tilly On The Meaning Of Being An Actress

Tilly, you never had to be 14, so I’ll tell you what Google can’t. It feels like your soul gets a broken glass enema. You go from curious about this marvelous world to drowning in un-marvelous you. Who am I? How should I be? Am I alone? Your human brain answers “no one,” “invisible”...

Warner Bros Discovery Rejects Paramount’s First Offer, But The Talks Are Far From Over

Chat, is this less than ideal? “The merger would lead to the elimination of one of the original Hollywood film studios, and could see the consolidation of CNN with Paramount-owned CBS News.” - Los Angeles Times

Gamergate’s Ghosts Keep Haunting Gaming, But The Script Is So Boring

"This issue of right-wing men attacking minority creatives and characters in video games has been going on for well over a decade at this point, and is unlikely to fade away any time soon.” Could gaming execs make a damn plan? - Slate

Inside New York City Ballet Dancers’ Last-Minute Boycott Of The Fall Fashion Gala

They decided only an hour beforehand to dance the performance but not show up at the red carpet or gala dinner — because they “wanted (their) absence to be felt.” They maintain that management’s offers in contract negotiations “fall far short” of other U.S. companies offer, despite NYCB’s greater “financial stability.” - The Cut...

Tampa Bay Gets A New (And For Now, Only) Professional Ballet Company

The closure of Tampa Bay classical companies during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred co-founder Heather Ossola’s desire to fill the void. “I really felt like I had something to offer and give the Tampa Bay area a company they deserve,” she says. “And I had some experience working as a ballet mistress.” - 83 Degrees...

José Limón Turned O’Neill’s “Emperor Jones” Into Dance

Limón adapted the 1920 play for his company in 1956, and the company’s current artistic director decided it was time for a revival: “The original story is about … a felon who becomes a tyrannical leader. I didn’t feel the imagination had to go far to draw a contemporary parallel.” - The New York...

At Last Minute, New York City Ballet Dancers Boycott Fall Gala Dinner

They did the evening’s performance — fulfilling their contract obligations, as they pointedly mentioned — but skipped the red-carpet photo ops and left vacant their places alongside wealthy patrons at the dinner tables. The quasi-strike comes amid contract negotiations, with dancers insisting that their pay reflect New York’s soaring cost of living. - Page...

Lord Of The Irish Dance Michael Flatley At 67

He hasn’t danced for nearly a decade. He has damaged bones and tendons and claims to know all his vertebrae by name. But he’s still fiendishly driven. - The Guardian

Akram Khan Talks About His Last Work For His Dance Company Before It Dissolves

After 25 years, the Bangladeshi-British choreographer is closing down his touring troupe to pursue new creative directions. In a Q&A, he discusses the Akram Khan Company’s final project: Thikra: Night of Remembering, which uses dancers trained in Bharatanatyam for a ritual work inspired by the ancient Nabataean culture of Petra and AlUla. - ArtReview

Broadway Musicians Authorize Strike

The musicians' most recent contract expired August 31, 2025. Since then, the union has been trying to achieve a new contract that includes increased wages, increased healthcare contributions, and employment and income security. - Playbill

What Are The Issues Behind The Threatened Broadway Strike?

The Broadway League, which represents Broadway producers and landlords, is currently in tense negotiations with two different unions: Actors’ Equity (performers and stage managers) and AFM Local 802 (musicians). Here’s an explainer covering what’s at issue and what could happen if an actual strike is called. - TheaterMania

Bob Dylan’s Art Makes Its Off-Broadway Debut

To get into Masquerade, you must go through Dylan’s door. Masquerade’s creative director, Shai Baitel, says that Phantom of the Opera and Dylan’s work have shared themes. For instance: “Bob is very connected to Paris. This is something that has influenced his entire career.”- Vulture

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

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

Why, With Broadway’s Stresses, Revive A Long-ago Flop?

Put simply, “Chess,” first produced in the U.S. in 1988, didn’t work on Broadway. So remounting the show, even though it’s become a cult favorite, is risky at a time when the box office is largely driven by long-running, big-brand musicals like “Wicked” and “Mamma Mia!” - Variety

At 93, Is Gerhard Richter Our Greatest Living Artist?

That much will certainly be made clear in a massive Richter retrospective opening this month at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris. Comprising some 250 objects, it is the largest survey of his work to date, exceeding MoMA’s landmark Richter show in 2002. - ARTnews

Toby Talbot, Who Helped Create America’s Art-House Cinema Circuit, Is Dead At 96

“(She and her husband, Dan,) through their distribution company, New Yorker Films, and such prominent Manhattan theaters as … Lincoln Plaza Cinemas, were a prolific force behind the transformation of movies in the 1960s and ‘70s from popular entertainment to an art form regarded with the seriousness of literature or painting.” - AP

What Happened to Kevin Costner?

The Oscar-winning director and actor with the most iconic American screen presence since Gary Cooper is now brawling with his castmates, getting sued by his crewmembers and, in recent months, giving paid keynote speeches at bakery and veterinarian conventions. - The Hollywood Reporter

Susan Griffin, One Of The Inventors Of Ecofeminism, Has Died At 82

Griffin was “an influential poet, playwright and prolific feminist author who pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, blending propulsive, poetic prose with history, memoir and myth.” - The New York Times

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

Theatre And Opera Director Ian Judge Dead At 79

“(He) enjoyed a wide-ranging career as a theatre and opera director without any of the obvious attributes for being so – no university or musical education, no artistic background, no connections – yet he succeeded over many decades in opera houses around the world, and for 10 years at the Royal Shakespeare Company.” - The...

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Actually, English Majors Are Thriving

At least, at the University of Minnesota: “Students come to our courses not only for practical career training but to fulfill their love of reading, passion for writing, and hunger to reflect on essential questions about who we are as individuals and communities.” - Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Chicago Arts Leaders Ask The Mayor For An Arts Leader With The ‘Gumption’ To Stand Up To The Federal Government

“My hope is that the administration continues to recognize how important artists and culture workers are to telling the story of Chicago and to making Chicago the kind of beautiful, vibrant place that we’re all fighting for.” - Chicago Sun-Times

The Arts Column That The Washington Post Refused To Run

“Monuments are supposed to be collective tributes to shared ideals. Like Confederate statues, would function as the opposite — broadcasting a one-way message.”  - Aesthetic Insecurity

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

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

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

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

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László Krasznahorkai Wins Nobel Prize For Literature

“Often described as postmodern, Krasznahorkai is known for his long, winding sentences, dystopian and melancholic themes, and the kind of relentless intensity that has led critics to compare him to Gogol, Melville and Kafka. Satantango, was famously adapted into a seven-hour film by director Béla Tarr.” - The Guardian

Did The Postwar Modernists Ruin The Whole Idea Of New Classical Music For Everyone Else?

Countless casual classical listeners will tell you they hate the “new stuff.” When asked for an example, they’ll cite some highly dissonant music written between 40 and 80 years ago — in a “modern” style which hasn’t been dominant in contemporary classical music (in North America, at least) for decades. - The New York...

National Gallery Of Art In D.C. Closes Due To Government Shutdown

“It is the first major museum in D.C. to shutter because of the shutdown. The Smithsonian Institution, which runs an array of museums in D.C. and beyond, is using its own funds to remain open at least through Monday.” - ARTnews

Here’s What Portland’s Arts Organizations Have To Say About Making Culture In So-Called Hell

Portland is very clearly not “hell,” and just as clearly not a war zone. But also: "Although the number of events and the amount of ticket sales have not yet recovered to pre-pandemic levels, they have increased significantly ... and are now getting close to pre-2020 levels.” - Oregon ArtsWatch

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