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• New NEA Data On Americans’ Arts Participation

  04-11-2026 17:44 via ArtsJournal
  The dataset now spans 2003–2025 and includes newly added data from 2024 and 2025. It is available through the NADAC website for free download and online analysis. – NEA
  
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• Project To Make Downtown Chicago A “Cultural Stadium” Takes A Step Forward

  10-11-2026 21:03 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Former Michigan state representative Donna Lasinski was announced Wednesday as the initiative’s inaugural president. … The project has been discussed in abstract for years but is now moving from idea to reality with the appointment of Lasinski, who has served as the Cultural Stadium’s senior adviser since April.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• How Did Equality Come To Mean Different Things?

  10-11-2026 20:31 via ArtsJournal
  Today, it’s evident that the word ‘equality’ means very different things to different people. What once seemed capable of providing common ground is now just another source of controversy. What explains this shift? – Aeon
  
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• The National Mall In DC Is Getting Too Full, And The Reason Why Is Not A Happy One

  10-11-2026 20:01 via ArtsJournal
  “The sylvan landscape around the Lincoln Memorial is a mess, and it will only get worse. … A landscape that was meant to symbolize peace and reconciliation after the Civil War is becoming cluttered mainly with memorials devoted to war” — too many to fit in this one place. – The Washington Post (MSN)
  
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• The Ethics Of Entertainment Values

  10-11-2026 19:45 via ArtsJournal
  “Is the value of my experience at Disney World undermined by the fact that it is, at the end of the day, a production of the Walt Disney Company? Can I trust a profit-hungry corporation to teach my children universal values? – Psyche
  
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• “Art Is The Great Democrat”

  10-11-2026 19:31 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Art is the great democrat,” wrote Kennedy, “calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color.” He saw art as a means of transcending difference, as both a product of democracy and a contributor to its flourishing. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
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• Anime Could Become Japan’s Number-One Export Industry — If Its Business Culture Can Manage It

  10-11-2026 19:04 via ArtsJournal
  The international demand for anime is certainly big enough, and the struggling Japanese economy could really use the extra earnings from abroad. But the country’s corporate culture is not exactly known for nimbleness, and it may not be able to reallocate resources quickly enough to meet demand with supply. – The New York Times
  
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• The Trap Of Optimization

  10-11-2026 18:46 via ArtsJournal
  We usually assume that more of it must be better. But we can become so focused on improving one thing that we lose sight of the others. You can try to arrange your calendar so that every minute is accounted for, but you’ll soon start running over and end up behind.  – The Guardian
  
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• Canadian Government Announces New Investment In Books

  10-11-2026 18:31 via ArtsJournal
  The new budget released by the government of Canada last week permanently increased the Canada Book Fund by CDN $5 million annually. This increase, the first since 2001, will bring the Canada Book Fund’s total annual budget to approximately CDN $43.4 million starting in 2027–28. – Publishers Weekly
  
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• Skydance, Looking To Cut More Than $6B, Offers Big Staff Buyouts

  10-11-2026 18:14 via ArtsJournal
  
  One of the company’s highest priorities is to get its balance sheet in order. The company has more than $80 billion in debt, and Ellison has promised investors that he and his team would eliminate $6 billion in expenses within three years. On Monday, the executives signaled they were looking to exceed that sum. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Should Non-Equity Touring Shows Be Playing L.A.’s Flagship Nonprofit Theaters?

  10-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  A non-Equity production of The Music Man is currently running at Center Theatre Group’s Ahmanson Theatre, and quite a bit of SoCal’s theater community is unhappy about that. But a cast member says they’re treated well, and CTG artistic director Snehal Desai he didn’t have much choice in this case. – Los Angeles Times (MSN)
  
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• America’s New Movie Capital: New Jersey?

  10-11-2026 17:43 via ArtsJournal
  
  At a time when filming in Los Angeles has plunged to historic lows, New Jersey has soared, becoming one of the nation’s hottest film destinations and squeezing into the limelight of its bigger neighbor across the Hudson River. – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Aquaterra: The Vast Lands Of Civilization We’ve Not Yet Explored

  10-11-2026 17:31 via ArtsJournal
  To understand where—and what—Aquaterra is, you have to think about how sea levels fall and rise during an ice age. As the planet cools, ocean water becomes locked up in continental ice sheets, and sea levels fall by hundreds of feet. – The Atlantic
  
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• The Louvre’s New Director On The Museum’s Many Challenges

  10-11-2026 17:15 via ArtsJournal
  The new challenges in recent weeks come at a time when Mr. Leribault has had to deal with everything in his brief tenure from the threat of staff strikes and a perennial shortage of visitor bathrooms to a whopping funding drive to finance the museum’s planned refurbishment and reorganization. – The Wall Street Journal
  
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• Paul McCartney Is Now Officially A Billionaire

  10-11-2026 17:01 via ArtsJournal
  “Paul McCartney has joined the ranks of the world’s billionaires. Forbes has valued the former Beatle’s net worth at $1.4bn (£1.04bn), making him the world’s third richest musician behind Jay-Z at $2.8bn (£2.01bn) and Taylor Swift at $2bn (£1.49bn).” – The Guardian
  
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• CBC/Radio-Canada To Get $300 Million In One-Off Extra Funding

  10-11-2026 16:33 via ArtsJournal
  “CBC/Radio-Canada will receive an additional $300 million in federal funding over the next two years, providing the Canadian public broadcaster with additional resources for news coverage, digital programming and Canadian-produced content.” – Inside Radio
  
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• Britain’s BalletBoyz At 25

  10-11-2026 16:05 via ArtsJournal
  “Let’s dispel the myth about BalletBoyz — it’s not an all-male company and never has been. There were women in their first shows 25 years ago, in this show and others in between, while the ensemble’s lineup can change every year.” Founders William Trevitt and Michael Nunn never liked the name, anyway. – The Times (UK)
  
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• Chicagoans Vote To Create Permanent Site For Rock Festivals. But …

  10-11-2026 15:36 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The (non-binding ballot) measure, meant to gauge public interest, arrived after pushback in recent years from some Chicagoans who oppose privately run festivals taking place in the city’s public spaces, from Lollapalooza in Grant Park to Riot Fest in Douglass Park. But despite electoral support, there are no clear next steps.” – WBEZ (Chicago)
  
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• Ancient Petroglyphs In Utah Vandalized, Damage May Be Permanent

  10-11-2026 15:04 via ArtsJournal
  
  “The Bureau of Land Management announced on November 6 that it was investigating vandalism at two ancient rock-art sites near Moab, Utah, where someone carved names into petroglyphs, leaving damage that may be impossible to remove.” – Outside
  
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• Former CFO Sues Philadelphia Museum Of Art, Claiming Her Severance Was Withheld

  10-11-2026 14:32 via ArtsJournal
  
  “Valarie McDuffie has accused museum director and CEO Daniel H. Weiss and board chair Ellen Caplan of withholding nearly $150,000 in severance out of ‘spite and retaliation.’ But the museum has countered with allegations of its own, claiming that McDuffie breached her severance agreement.” – ARTnews
  
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• The $900,000 Plug Hiding in Your Balanced Budget

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  Every budget is a set of promises.
  Most boards treat a budget as a forecast, a test of how good or bad management is at predicting the future. But when a board approves next year’s budget, it is also approving a list of commitments the organization says it will keep: pay these people, fix that roof, raise this much from these donors by these dates. The bottom line comes out to zero, everyone exhales, and the minutes record a balanced budget. That zero says very little about whether the promise
  
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• For The First Time, The Booker Prize Goes To A Bona Fide Sci-Fi Novel

  10-11-2026 14:00 via ArtsJournal
  “Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker Prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history.” Booker Prize Foundation CEO Gaby Wood called it “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world.” – The Guardian
  
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• Macklemore Says Nine Arenas Rejected Palestine Benefit Shows

  10-11-2026 00:33 via ArtsJournal
  Good Morning,Macklemore says nine U.S. arenas, including Madison Square Garden, offered dates and then withdrew them once they learned his shows would benefit Palestinian relief (The Wrap). MSG Entertainment says he is “not an arena level act.” The other eight didn’t respond.Seven legal-pad pages of Martin Luther King’s handwritten draft for the March on Washington turned up in a desk drawer of his aide Edward Clayton, and Christie’s expects more than $10 million at a January 22 sale (
  
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• Google, Meta And TikTok Sue To Block California Law Aimed Against Platform Addiction

  09-11-2026 19:40 via ArtsJournal
  
  The law prohibits social media platforms from offering children things like personalized feeds and autoplay for videos. It also requires the deletion of children’s accounts with those features. – KQED
  
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• Many Of DC’s Memorials Are In Darkness As Park Service Maintenance Lapses

  09-11-2026 19:20 via ArtsJournal
  The lapse in upkeep and repairs at some of the most prominent memorials in Washington and at the more than 400 national park properties across the country comes as the Trump administration has reduced the agency’s staff by roughly 25 percent and withheld millions of dollars in funding. – Washington Post
  
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• When AI Transfers Into The Physical World

  09-11-2026 19:05 via ArtsJournal
  
  “With a world model, you give it a visual state of the world, an image, and it will then predict the next visual state of the world.” These 3D generations can be used as digital training grounds. “They’re simulations, but they look and feel real.” – Wired
  
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• Restoration Of London’s Parliament Buildings Could Take 61 Years And Cost £40B

  09-11-2026 18:40 via ArtsJournal
  The Commons public accounts committee this week warned it was “crunch time” for the ailing building’s restoration, which could cost up to £40bn and take 61 years. – BBC
  
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• Macklemore Says Major Arenas Are Refusing To Book His Concerts

  09-11-2026 18:02 via ArtsJournal
  
  “After weeks of reaching out, nine major American arenas have turned us down,” he wrote. Macklemore went on to name the specific venues that have allegedly turned him and his team away, despite having availability in the coming months. – The Wrap
  
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• When Writers Lose Confidence In Free Speech

  09-11-2026 17:40 via ArtsJournal
  If democracy is the political system that allows the fullest human flourishing, the novel is the literary form that most fully cultivates our understanding of human possibility and tragedy and endurance. – The Atlantic
  
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• Everything You Need To Know About Life You Can Learn From “Sound Of Music”

  09-11-2026 17:20 via ArtsJournal
  I would argue that everything you need to know about life can be found in “The Sound of Music.” Quite an expansive claim, but I have good credentials for making it. As a child actress, I played the bookish Brigitta von Trapp for three years in a touring production of the musical. – Washington Post
  
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