"At a time when public discourse around issues like trans rights materially impacts the lives of LGBTQ people, such institutions have carefully considered how to frame queer history, and they have come to different conclusions about how these radical movements of marginalized people should be institutionalized." - The New York Times
The grant, earmarked for an Indigenous artist and awarded for a short documentary, was instead used by then-director of community investments Barbara Mumby-Huerta for travel expenses for herself, a daughter, and a friend. She has now been fined by the city's Ethics Commission. - San Francisco Examiner
The NTIA recorded the lowest number of nightclubs on record - 1,130 - in its latest set of data, based on the situation in England, Wales and Scotland. In March 2020, when the figures were last published, the number was 1,418. - BBC
Office occupancy downtown is still less than a third of what it was before COVID arrived, so the public-private "community benefits district" for the neighborhood commissioned a plan, just recently submitted, to redesign and rezone the streetscape to attract more people downtown during and after business hours. - Bloomberg CityLab
Over the years, he said, studio executives have rejected his pitches for stories, telling Leguizamo — who is of Colombian descent — that Latino people apparently don’t want to see “feel-good movies,” he said. - Los Angeles Times
"Not even two months after taking office, Yoon Suk-yeol has made a huge investment in the country's culture: a $3.7 billion fund for film, TV, art, and other cultural projects, as well as plans to transform a historic presidential home into Korea's answer to France's Palace of Versailles." - Artnet
What killed them wasn’t just online shopping or big box stores, but a broader cultural shift. Malls succeeded by catering to different groups, from housewives to retirees to teens, the latter often attracted to cinema multiplexes and arcades, until Netflix and Nintendo undercut both options. - City Journal
The type of cultural appropriation we need to be vigilant about is fairly simple. It occurs when members of a dominant culture – for example, white Americans or white Australians – take elements from the culture of an ethnicity or racial group they have typically oppressed – e.g. Indigenous peoples – and use them for themselves. - Fast Company
Most suspect work is left to fester in the literature. When corrections do appear, they may be slow to be acknowledged; even retracted papers can haunt science from beyond the grave, accumulating citations long after their flaws have been exposed. - The Atlantic
The State Theatre at Arts Centre Melbourne, the city's venue for the Australian Ballet and Opera Australia, is closing in March 2024 for three years of renovations — and the designated replacement theatre has too small a stage and too few open dates for those companies' productions. - The Age (Melbourne)
The decree has generated conversations in the tourist-heavy, gentrifying borough about history, art, and the effects of globalization: How should a city balance the need for a general sense of cleanliness and order with calls to preserve tradition and culture? - Christian Science Monitor
The Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative began in 2010, initially to help mitigate the damages to museums, churches, and archives in Haiti due to that January's earthquake. And there's been need for SCRI's services ever since, especially this year in Ukraine. - Smithsonian Magazine
There are reasons to be troubled by the prospect of tech companies like OpenAI controlling the major means of artistic production in the future. - Wired
The money from the bonds, to be paid back over 30 years from a property tax increase, would go toward capital projects, including artist and staff housing, for 15 institutions, including the Bass Museum, Miami City Ballet, the New World Symphony, and the Fillmore and Colony Theaters. - MSN (Miami Herald)
