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So Nice, They’re Doing It Twice: A Second Kennedy Center Honors This Year

“We have gone through the worst crisis in performing arts history. We need to celebrate the artists who have carried us through this time.” - Washington Post

France Now Requires COVID Pass For Visiting All Cultural Institutions

"Beginning July 21, the 'pass sanitaire' or 'health pass' will be required for venues with more than 50 people. Visitors over 18 will be required to show a QR code with a record of full vaccination, or a negative ... test from the previous 48 hours." - Artnet

Edinburgh International Festival Director Announces Departure

Fergus Linehan, who came to the EIF from the Sydney Festival in 2014, reveled that next year's festival will be his last. - The Scotsman

How The Arts Could Lead On Thinking About Disabilities

Framing disability in this way—as a series of deficits—adds to the problematic thinking that interprets access as questions of patron services, facilities, or technology. - Artnet

The Potential Benefits Of Using NFTs For Tickets

NFTs can be bought, sold, traded, swapped, used as collateral, borrowed, lent, etc. In other words, your ability to financially engineer to create additional value is only limited by your creativity and your audience’s willingness to participate. - Shelly Palmer

Are Master’s Degrees An Educational Scam?

In some ways, they’re more similar than they might seem. Many of them are one-year certificate programs. We don’t call them that. We call them master’s degrees, but that’s part of the problem. - Slate

History, And Democracy, On The Brink Of Erasure

"A nation’s archive ... is a living testament to the many facets of national identity and history." India's opaque plan for its national archives threatens all of that, a scholar says. - Contingent Magazine

Don’t Let Leisure Time Disappear

Alert, four-day work week advocates: "Leisure is doing things for their own sake, to pursue what one wants. We should fight the urge to reduce it to a productivity hack." - The Atlantic

The Ethics of Using AI To Fake Anthony Bourdain’s Voice In A Documentary

Another documentary filmmaker wonders, "Why borrow trouble, as my parents used to say, by re-creating Anthony Bourdain’s voice that way?" - Chicago Tribune

Why We All Need To Pay Attention To How Artificial Intelligence Works

Each link is a small expression of intelligence, and the algorithm, even without users being aware, extracts and accumulates that intelligence in the form of fixed capital. - Nonprofit Quarterly

An Arts Center In Bethlehem, Right Next To The Israeli Security Wall

At an old stone mansion built in the 1880s by the town registrar, his descendants operate the Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir Center for Art and Research, offering visual art, dance, cinema, theater, music and even urban farming workshops to residents of the West Bank. - The New York Times

This Former Public Restroom Has Become An Arts Organization

The little building on Chicago's Logan Square was constructed in 1927 as a comfort station (as the euphemism of the time had it); for many years it was a tool shed. Now it's home to film screenings, art exhibitions, concerts, and puppet shows. - Yahoo! (Chicago Tribune)

Jeff Bezos Gives Smithsonian Air And Space Museum $200 Million

It's the largest donation in the Smithsonian Institution's history, and $70 million of it will go toward the museum's ongoing renovation, while the remaining $130 million will fund a new education center. - AP

With Sydney Back In COVID Lockdown, Arts Promised Millions In New Aid

The New South Wales state government announced $75 million (Aus) in funding to compensate arts organizations that have had to close their doors again. - Limelight (Australia)

Australian Thinktank Proposes New Model For The Arts (We Have Our Reservations)

ANA pushes the sector further towards a policy model where it delivers ‘returns on investment’ via quantifiable targets. It’s a form of technocratic neoliberalism wildly out of touch with the current COVID-cum-post-COVID reality. - ArtsHub

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