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Pittsburgh Arts Audiences – How They’ve Changed Since Before COVID

For some arts organizations subscriptions have slipped, but single-ticket demand has offset the drop. - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A Tally Of Cultural Sites In Ukraine Destroyed Or Damaged By Russian Attacks

"Since the invasion in February, The New York Times's Visual Investigations team has been tracking evidence of cultural destruction across Ukraine. ... These documented cases represent only a partial picture of the devastation, with much of what is still unaccounted for believed lost." - The New York Times

University Of California Settles Strike With Academic Workers

The deal promises to substantially increase pay for some 36,000 unionized workers, including teaching assistants, researchers and tutors, many of whom are graduate students. - The New York Times

Inside Disney’s Leadership Coup

That Mr. Iger was unhappy with Mr. Chapek is well established. Less well known is the depth of his antipathy and the lengths he went to deflate Mr. Chapek behind the scenes. - The Wall Street Journal

Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans Links To Facebook, Mastodon, Instagram

This is fine: "The platform said the move would affect content from numerous social media websites, including Meta Platforms’ Facebook and Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post." - The Guardian (UK)

Can Anyone Ethically Encourage Graduate Studies In The Humanities?

"As bad as I thought the situation was, it’s worse—and it’s likely to worsen as high school students acquire more transferrable credits in early-college/dual-degree programs." - Inside Higher Ed

Pussy Riot Has Been Sounding The Alarm About Putin For More Than A Decade

The Russian art collective's members have been harassed, stalked, arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and now exiled - and not once did they stop telling the world what it now knows for certain: Putin is dangerous, even deadly. - Washington Post

Sarah Michelle Gellar Confirms The Awful Toxicity Of The ‘Buffy’ Set

She said, among other things, that on set, "Women were pitted against each other — if women became friends, then we became too powerful, so you had to keep that down." - Los Angeles Times

Iranian Actress Arrested After Voicing Support For Protests

Taraneh Alidoosti, 38, posted messages on social media supporting the protests after Iranian authorities executed a 23-year-old prisoner. "'Your silence means supporting oppression and oppressors,' she wrote." - The New York Times

Smithsonian’s Tsione Wolde-Michael To Lead President’s Council On The Arts And Humanities

Under a new Executive Order PCAH has been established to engage the nation’s artists, humanities scholars, and cultural heritage practitioners on ways to promote excellence in the arts, the humanities, and museum and library services and demonstrate their relevance to the country’s health, economy, equity, and civic life. - NEA

Here’s One Country Where Putin-Supporting Russian Performers Are Still Invited

"While artists identifying with the Russian president are boycotted all over the world, the gates remain open for them in Israel – and these Ukrainian activists are not going to let it slide." - Haaretz (Israel)

The Top 40 Most Arts-Vibrant Communities of 2022

The list is broken out into the top 20 large communities and the top 10 each of medium-sized and small communities.  Because of the unpredictable and uneven nature of recovery from COVID-related shutdowns, this year the list is not ranked. - SMU Data Arts

Are Public Protests Undemocratic?

The fact that people protest when they don’t accept the outcome of the democratic process is a rather clear sign that protests are a non-democratic activity at best, and at worst an attempt to override and undermine democracy itself. - 3 Quarks Daily

Lula Brings Back Brazil’s Culture Ministry, Which Bolsonaro Dissolved, And Appoints A Musician To Lead It

Jair Bolsonaro, the mercurial right-winger whom President da Silva succeeds, abolished the culture ministry on his first day in office.  Lula wasted no time in restoring the department, and he's appointed as minister renowned singer Margareth Menezes, who founded a major cultural nonprofit in her home state of Bahia. - Artnet

Could Cleveland Become America’s First Big “15-Minute-City”?

“We’re working toward being the first city in North America to implement a 15-minute city planning framework, where people—not developers—are at the center of urban revitalization. - Fast Company

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