"The budget signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis allocates slightly more than $59 million for three major grant categories, up from the $26.7 million last year. Once again this year, the budget provides no money for the cultural endowments category" and focuses largely on programming grants. - Sarasota Herald-Tribune
The job vacancy rate has been particularly high since April of 2021, when the sector experienced a record monthly vacancy rate of 8.8%. That appeared to be an inflection point, when the vacancy rate became much higher than previous levels, which were typically well below 5%. - Hill Strategies
"Over the past few months, new advancements in A.I." — in particular, the platforms Sudowrite (text) and Dall-E (images) — "have made it clear that writers, illustrators, photographers, journalists, and novelists could soon be driven from the workforce and replaced by high-tech player pianos." - Vanity Fair
The percentage of college students who believe the political and social climate on their campus prevents people from freely expressing themselves rose from 54.7 percent in 2019 to 63.5 percent in 2021. - InsideHigherEd
Fans are increasingly demanding a return for the precious resource of their attention, their clicks and eyeballs and adulation. We may call celebrities influencers, but we want to influence them too. We are the customers, and our gaze is money. - The New York Times
Arts administrators are starting to try to measure things like mental and even physical wellbeing as a gauge of how successful their programs are, and are using terms like "impact framework." The idea, at heart, is that the arts are a means to an end, rather than being an end in themselves. - Axios
On the streets and on social media, at family gatherings and at work, in interviews and in political journals, people across Ukraine are having a tense conversation over the place of Russian language and culture in Ukraine's social fabric. - NPR
When we examined articles about the humanities more closely and compared them to articles about science, we were surprised to find that humanities scholarship, when it does appear in newspapers, is often communicated in different ways than the results of scientific research. - Journal of Cultural Analytics
The Hollywood Bowl represents L.A. in all its naked splendor, idealism, commercialism, diversity, communal aspirations toward equality, social division, tackiness and even sordidness. It has been, for its full 101 years, the best of us and, if maybe not the worst, the not-so-hot of us. - Los Angeles Times
That this should be considered news says something about the state of things in Australia after years of rule by the conservative Coalition. Declared Tony Burke, the arts minister for the newly elected Labor government, "The nine-year political attack on the arts and entertainment sector is now over." - ArtsHub (Australia)
Built on a Charleston waterfront wharf where more than 100,000 enslaved Africans were brought ashore after the Middle Passage, will officially open the weekend of January 21, 2023. More than $100 million has been raised for its construction and operation. - Hyperallergic
We are well past the point of believing that casual or inferred approaches meet the need. With summer programs right around the corner, there is an immediate opportunity to prioritize students’ mental health in new, more robust ways. - Ensemble News
Since taking office last year, the country's culture minister has had people (including top executives) dismissed from the Museum of Fine Arts in Tbilisi, the National Film Centre, and a TV channel; last week, 40 staffers were sacked from the National Museum. - ArtReview
‘In answer to the question, “Who do you make work for?” people will say, “I make work for everyone – for anyone.” But when you say, “Well, what are you doing to ensure that outcome?” the answers start to narrow considerably. - ArtsHub
Half of all public and private grants now pay administrators’ salaries – only a quarter fund arts production. Even if many are wonderful, managers are collectively the greatest obstacle to balancing budgets. - The Stage
