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Photogs Get Picture Of Trump Studying Headlines About Demolishing Kenned Center

Late Wednesday night, photojournalists captured images through the windows of Air Force One that showed President Trump reviewing a large poster board with what looked like a rendering of a construction site beneath three very visible words: “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED.” - The New York Times

Singapore Is Paying Its People To Read Books

“Under the scheme, readers accrue points that can be redeemed for a few cents. People will have to log 50 daily reading sessions (of 15 minutes or more) on a government website to earn S$1 (80 cents US). ... One reading session is allowed daily.” - The Guardian

AI Companies Are Destroying Books. What Does That Mean For Art?

AI companies, after losing copyright lawsuits over using pirated books found in digital formats, found a way forward, since the law doesn’t prohibit them from buying physical books and destroying them. In another ironic twist, they are looking only for books printed before 2022, because they want books that definitely have not been produced using AI. - ARTnews

How Marcello Angelini Remade Tulsa Ballet

“During Angelini’s (31-year) tenure as artistic director, Tulsa Ballet has grown from a well-regarded regional troupe — best known for its efforts to preserve the Ballet Russe traditions championed by its founders, Roman Jasinski and Moscelyne Larkin — into a versatile dance company that many critics consider among the best in the United States.” - Tulsa Flyer

Journalism Inside Libraries

“I once described the larger ambition as opening 16,000 community-led newsrooms, one in every public library in the country." Now he believes the goal should be “creating 16,000 places where neighbors can look more closely at where they live and make something public from what they find.” - NiemanLab

London Philharmonic Survey: Interest In Orchestral Music Is Up, Particularly Among Young People

The RPO findings show that there is a rising interest among young people – the nationally representative poll of 2,000 adults revealing that 89 per cent of adults would be interested in attending a concert or performance featuring classical or orchestral music. This figure is up from 79 per cent in 2018. - Gramophone

What Happens Now For The Kennedy Center?

Outside, digital signs that typically advertise upcoming performances instead flashed a red “Emergency alert” announcing the building was closed to the public. Guards stood at the doors. On Wednesday, fencing was erected around the building. - Washington Post

Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum To Add A Second Location

Because of overcrowding in the main building’s galleries, the museum will acquire an additional space a few blocks away: the Ice and Automobile Palace, which has been vacant since 2007 and will undergo a €70 million ($81 million) renovation.  When it opens, the new branch will display 21st-century works. - ARTnews

Why Academic History Matters

Academic history matters. It matters for honing critical engagement, for challenging all-encompassing technological vapidity, for strengthening individuality. It matters because it shows us that process cannot be separated from what we produce. - History Today

FCC Says It Could Earn Billions From New Wireless Spectrum Auctions

 Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr said Wednesday that a series of upcoming wireless spectrum auctions ​over the next couple of years could generate more than $100 billion in proceeds. - Reuters

What Happens To Warner Bros. If The Paramount Merger Falls Apart?

“To be clear, the deal collapsing wouldn't be fatal to Warner Bros. Discovery. CEO David Zaslav would walk away with a $7 billion break-up fee that could offer additional flexibility as an independent company. But experts who spoke to TheWrap are skeptical that management would continue to go it alone long-term.” - TheWrap (MSN)

Inside The Unraveling Of The Ed Sheeran Tour

How Sheeran, a musician known for his crowd-pleasing, inoffensive everyman appeal, landed in this situation illustrates the hazards of planning a lucrative, global music tour at a time of intense geopolitical unrest and cultural division over violent conflicts. - The Wall Street Journal

Spaceship Lucas: LA’s New Museum Of Narrative Art

It is a Goliath of a building, 700 feet long with 300,000 square feet of space. In terms of massiveness, visual impact and sheer joyous bravado, it offers as much spectacle as any of his films. But it is not so much its size that amazes, but its uncanny shape. - The Wall Street Journal

Trump’s Shakedown Of The Kennedy Center

“Trump is taking the Center hostage and threatening to in effect kill it unless he gets his way.” The president is counting on the board’s civic spirit and affection for the institution—neither of which he evidently possesses—to strong-arm it into giving him what the law and courts would not allow. - The Atlantic

Trump Administration Wants To Put Up Signs Accusing The Smithsonian Of Bias

The Trump administration is currently preparing temporary signs that will accuse the National Museum of American History of ideological bias, according to a letter I obtained sent by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. - The Atlantic

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