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Pennsylvania Reverses Decision Not To Fund Smallest Arts Organizations

“Last year, the (Pennsylvania Council on the Arts) renamed itself Pennsylvania Creative Industries and reorganized its funding criteria, making organizations with budgets under $100,000 ineligible for grants. … (Last Thursday) the council approved a new program called Spotlight, which makes state funding available to organizations with budgets between $10,000 and $100,000.” - WHYY (Philadelphia)

Survey: Nearly Half Of Mid-Career Women Are Considering Leaving The Arts

While the inaugural survey revealed gaps in leadership roles and pay for women, this edition offers a more detailed picture of the structural pressures determining who is—and, crucially, who isn’t—able to build a sustainable long-term career in the arts. - Artnet

Carbon Fiber Violin — Meet Stradivari

Both the carbon fibre violin and the bow impressed with their dark, warm, and distinctive tone. From the very beginning, the two violins blended beautifully; despite their different personalities, they seemed perfectly matched. They were also remarkably powerful, filling the room with sound. - The Strad

A New Penn Station We Won’t Dread Walking Into?

PTT's plan features a design by PAU and HOK that references the original beaux-arts station – unceremoniously demolished in the 1960s – and retains Madison Square Garden (MSG) on the site. - Dezeen

Atlanta Has A New Classical Theater Company

Georgia Classic Theatre is being founded by former artists with Georgia Shakespeare, which operated from 1985 to 2014. GTC held its first fundraiser last month and will present its first production, of Macbeth, this fall. - ArtsATL

After Eight Nominations, Glenn Close Will Finally Get An Oscar

It will be an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement, but it’s something. Joining her as recipients of this year’s Governors Awards are director Ridley Scott and animator Floyd Norman. - AP

U.S. Authors’ Incomes Are Down. New Study Looks At Why.

“(The Authors Guild research) found that only 25% of print books and e-books read in the past month were bought new or through a paid subscription. ... Average author earnings, now pegged at about $10,000 annually, have declined about 42% since 2009, the year Kindles first entered the market.” - Publishers Weekly

Collateral Damage From Trump’s Iran War: W.H. Smith, The Big Airport-Bookstore Chain

“The retailer, which operates 1,200 outlets globally in airports, railway stations and hospitals, … has already experienced a fall in revenues in its UK airport operation due to the conflict in the Middle East, (and) said North America had now also been affected.” - The Guardian

Photographer Duane Michals, 94

“In a career that spanned six decades and crisscrossed artistic and commercial contexts, Michals challenged photographic convention and innovated new forms; he is best known for building sequential, frame-by-frame narratives that pair photographs with handwritten text to poetic effect.” - Frieze

A New CEO For Aspen Music Festival And School

Meghan Umber has spent two decades at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where she’s currently the orchestra’s chief programming officer and president of the Hollywood Bowl. She replaces current Aspen CEO Alan Fletcher as of October 1. - Aspen Public Radio

Turks Turn To Tango

The passionate ballroom dance of Buenos Aires and Montevideo has found a large, equally passionate base of fans in Istanbul, where a multitude of milonga clubs, dance studios and schools have arisen to support a vibrant tango scene. - AP

Director Milo Rau’s Staged Moral Tribunals Have Been A Big Success. His Latest Choice Of Subject Has People Judging Him.

Rau’s trials — with real witnesses and arguments, followed by symbolic judgments — have put Gisèle Pelicot’s rapists, mining companies in the Congo, and the Russian jurists who prosecuted Pussy Riot in the dock. But when Rau invited controversial billionaire Peter Thiel for a tribunal, stakeholders rebelled. - The Guardian

Web Video Is Coming To TV. But The Tyranny Of Web Format Is Problematic

How much do we want the internet to be television? A good gimmick for social-media content doesn’t automatically translate to interesting TV, a medium that many of us enjoy precisely because it doesn’t live or die by an algorithmic social-media feed. - The New Yorker

Condustor Ryan Wigglesworth On What The Classical Music World Is Now

A new generation – of concert-goers as well as performers – are essential to classical music’s future. Would a Ryan Wigglesworth born today still become a musician? Are the networks and resources still in place? Wigglesworth thinks not. It’s a problem he’s navigating first-hand with his own children. - The Guardian

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