Australia’s arts and cultural sector still has much to learn in terms of fiduciary duties and duty of care, risk and crisis management, communication and response, and navigating the difference between censorship and cultural safety. - ArtsHub
Since Prop. 28, the Art and Music in Schools Act, passed in late 2022, California has struggled to locate enough qualified arts teachers to place in every school in the state. The five-year, $11.3 million Arts Education Accelerator Fund will develop teacher training, credentialing and apprenticeship programs to help fill the gap. - EdSource (Oakland)
In his massive The Open Society and Its Enemies—published just before his return to Europe in 1945—Popper in effect identifies Plato not just as the father of western philosophy, but also the father of the forces that had wrought the gulags and the gas chambers. - The American Scholar
"The sector is responding to AI as if it were a tool to be adopted responsibly within existing organisational life, often through skills development, guidance, and policy, rather than an environmental shift that invalidates many of its default ways of deciding, governing, and acting." - Tammy Lee (LinkedIn)
The company’s board said that there will be a third-party investigation into social media allegations that founder/artistic director Charles Askenaizer engaged in aggressive behavior during rehearsals. Last week, in solidarity with the accuser, four actors dropped out of Askenaizer’s now-postponed staging of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. - Chicago Tribune
Monica Bustamante, the lead detective on the case, “said a portrait emerged of an executive who exploited the station’s lack of internal controls and weak oversight to carry out what she described as a prolonged scheme of deceit that mirrored the life of a well-to-do jet-setter.” - The Sacramento Bee
The network has nine other outlets of its own throughout the state, but the NPR affiliate in Nebraska’s largest city, news/talk KIOS (91.5), is run by the City of Omaha School District. Now, a commercial broadcaster leaving the market is spinning off one of its stations to NPM. - Inside Radio
“Executive Editor Matt Murray … said the Post will shutter its sports desk, while keeping some sports writers who will write feature stories. It will likewise close its Books section and suspend the signature podcast Post Reports. The international desk will shrink dramatically,” as will the Metro desk. - NPR
The orchestra’s board chair and executive director told musicians and staff that they would remain employed, that the Kennedy Center would maintain its funding of the NSO, and that the Center is contractually obligated to find the orchestra a new venue. But where and when? - The Washington Post (MSN)
Eyebrows were raised at reports that a restored fresco in Rome’s Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina had an angel with the face of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The restorer denies any likeness, but orders came from the office of the local bishop — Pope Leo XIV — that the face be repainted. - The Daily Beast
After a wave of criticism, the culture minister of the Belgian region of Flanders has reversed her plan to move the Antwerp museum’s entire collection to Ghent and turn the museum building into a “cultural center.” - ARTnews
The first major restoration since 1994 of The Last Judgment (as the fresco is titled) a film of microparticle buildup — a “widespread whitish haze, produced by the deposition of microparticles of foreign substances carried by air movements” — caused by the over 6 million people who visit the chapel each year. - AP
Since Walt Disney first created the company, the CEO has been a highly visible presence not only in Hollywood and on Wall Street, but in pop culture. - Fast Company
Our survey reveals that Gen Z’s relationship with AI is more pragmatic than personal. While headlines suggest young people treat chatbots as confidants and companions, the data tell a different story. - Harvard Business Review
