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Trump Cuts Leave Few Caretakers for a Massive Federal Art Collection - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/08/arts/trump-cuts-leave-few-caretakers-for-a-massive-federal-art-collection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU8.OVra.1uXe-vGMVe-O

3 Arts Entertainment buys OManagement, a talent agency that specializes in working with news and journalism talent, including Steve Kornacki and Kristen Welker (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bus…

3 Arts Entertainment Expands Into News With Acquisition of OManagement (Exclusive)
The talent firm founded by CAA and NBC veteran Olivia Metzger counts Craig Melvin, Harris Faulkner, Kristen Welker and Steve Kornacki among its clients.

Prominent lawyers join press freedom fight to thwart Paramount settlement with Trump
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-06-06/freedom-press-abbe-lowell-norm-eisen-bre…

Press group adds high-powered attorneys in fight against Paramount
Prominent attorneys Abbe Lowell and Norm Eisen joined the Freedom of the Press Foundation's campaign to thwart efforts by Paramount to reach a settlement with President Trump over his "60 Minutes" lawsuit.

GED language arts test today. failed to prepare well. fortunately, judging by the practice test, it seems like anyone who can comprehend a book for 12 year olds could ace this. wish me luck ig
update: 🥳

A look at Nintendo's US marketing, from targeting young boys in the 1980s to avant-garde GameCube ads in 2001, as its Switch 2 ads focus on online communal play (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/arts/ninten…

Nintendo Has Something to Sell You
The marketing campaigns for the Switch 2 and its previous video game consoles provide a window into the company’s business strategy.

I just got my (early) birthday present to myself... it's a book.
"Hail Murray!: The Punk Photography of Murray Bowles, 1982-1995"
➡️ https://www.kqed.org/arts/13968840/murray-bowles-punk-photography-book-hail-murray

Finally, a Book of Murray Bowles’ Bay Area Punk Photography | KQED
‘Hail Murray!’ collects hundreds of Murray Bowles’ photos of bands, people and shows across 14 years of Bay Area punk.

🪂 Extreme turnover of Latin American legislators highlights political instability in the region
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-extreme-turnover-latin-american-legislators.html

Extreme turnover of Latin American legislators highlights political instability in the region
A new study led by Karel Kouba from the Faculty of Arts, Charles University, reveals unprecedentedly high rates of legislative turnover in Latin America, raising concerns about democratic stability and governance quality in the region.

RIP Edmund White. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/arts/edmund-white-dead.html

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again? https://theconversation.com/a-1980s-cost-of-living-crisis-gave-australia-a-thriving-arts-program-could-we-do-it-again…

A 1980s cost-of-living crisis gave Australia a thriving arts program – could we do it again?
Four decades ago, amid a cost-of-living crisis, rising unemployment and stagnant wages, a unique partnership between artists and trade unions thrived.

After Trump Takeover, Kennedy Center Ticket Sales Fall Sharply (Javier C. Hernšndez/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/arts/music/kennedy-center-ticket-sales-subscriptions.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p150#a250603p150

Smashing! 😻
https://smashingconf.com/freiburg-2025/speakers/matthias-ott

Matthias Ott — Freiburg in Germany, September 8–11.
Matthias is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer. He teaches interface prototyping at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design and runs workshops on modern web design, design engineering, and prototyping. He writes Own Your Web, a newsletter about personal websites, and blogs about design, development, CSS, the open web, and more on matthiasott.com.

Trump proposes elimination of
National Endowment for the Arts,
National Endowment for the Humanities;
Inter-American Foundation;
Institute for Museum and Library Sciences in 2026 budget. #NEH #NEA

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#InTune
- In session with stellar classical artists
Katie Derham introduces live music from clarinettist Sarah Williamson and pianist Simon Callaghan, who perform at the Devizes Arts Festival.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002cp7t

There’s a new museum on Naoshima Island! This NYT article also describes the many other museums and exhibits installed there.
This is the “art island” that Lynn and I visited a couple months ago. Looks like we’ll have to go back! This time we’ll know to book rooms way in advance (and to stay longer than two nights).
🎁 link

Japanese Islands’ 10th Tadao Ando Museum Caps a Billionaire’s Quest
Benesse Art Site Naoshima, a sprawling art constellation on three islands, adds a 10th museum by the star architect Tadao Ando that caps the cultural quest of Soichiro Fukutake.

Visited the Fine Arts Museum here in Budapest, and it was great. Many more important works than I was expecting. The temporary exhibition ”Master MS and his age” https://www.mfab.hu/exhibitions/master-ms-and-his-age/ was great, too.
Apart from the art on display…

Master MS and his Age - Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
  The exhibition showcases one of the most significant yet enigmatic figures of medieval Hungarian art, known as Master MS. At the heart of the monographic exhibition is Master MS’s most famous work: the former high altarpiece of Saint Catherine’s Church in Selmecbánya (now Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia). The seven surviving panel paintings of this monumental …

"In coming weeks, proposed job cuts and restructures will be released for the Academic Portfolio, Research and Innovation Portfolio, the College of Science and Medicine, and the College of Arts and Social Sciences."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025…

Australian National University announces first round of job cuts as part of effort to turn around financial issues
As the Australian National University grapples with its dire financial position, the first of several rounds of job cuts has been announced as the institution seeks to save $250 million by the end of the year, including $100 million from salaries.

We're recruiting on our MSc Sociology and Data Analytics for next September at the University of Limerick @…

This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research… | Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Limerick
This MSc offers in depth knowledge of sociological analysis, research methods and social science analytics - including high level training in data, data science, and data mining, and a range of sequenced topics that include crime, law, and deviance, culture and media, health and well-being, political analysis and social movements, and stratification and social inequality. The combination of high level training in research methods and robust exposure to core topics in Sociology and the Social …

E eu a pensar que tinha sido o Borat.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz/-/a-NQ-Kpwb6RASYGbvxDfYZyg:a:89340020-/0

Meet Robert Kun, the actor bringing Kazakhstan’s action film industry to the world stage
Actor and stunt coordinator Robert Kun’s path in cinema started with martial arts and led to blockbuster stunts. Now he’s bringing the lessons from …

"What Stroustrup wanted was apparently what a lot of people wanted: a language that provided OOP features, such as those offered by Smalltalk, but compiled into binaries that would execute as fast as an executable written in C.
The solution Stroustrup adopted was not to adopt the Smalltalk model, but instead to take inspiration from fellow Scandinavians and to bolt ideas borrowed from Simula into C."

CNN's chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, whose 2021 story led to a suit in which a jury awarded $5M to an ex-CIA operative, is leaving CNN (Stephen Battaglio/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latime…

CNN parts ways with correspondent whose story led to defamation lawsuit
A jury awarded a military contractor $5 million over Alex Marquardt's 2021 report on a military contractor.

I've gone through exactly what Ellen Pompeo did at LAX. I was headed to Italy & the TSA detected something on my shoes. Sirens went off & before I could say anything, I got detained.
A guy with military gear & a rifle appears & I got to play 20 Qs for an hour. I'm showing my plane ticket, itinerary, passport, driver's license, business card, Academy of Magical Arts membership card, Disney D23 card... not kidding.
Almost missed by flight. A tad unsett…

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

Q Hayashida est le pseudonyme d’une mystérieuse autrice de mangas japonaise, qui protège ardemment sa vie privée. D’après la page Wikipédia qui lui est consacrée, on sait très peu de choses d’elle. Outre sa date et son lieu de naissance (1977 Š Tokyo), on peut y lire qu’elle a étudié Š l’Université des arts de Tokyo...
🌊 Continuer la lecture sur le Sillon

For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface https://theconversation.com/for-both-artists-and-scientists-slow-looking-allows-surprising-connections-to-surface-252355…

For both artists and scientists, slow looking allows surprising connections to surface
This process of looking and asking questions about what you are looking at is needed at all levels of science, and science students can learn through arts-inspired visual analysis.

Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Pont de Levallois – Bécon en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur.
🤖 03/06 19:41

Intersting (automated) posting background artwork of Lucas Arts games:
This reminds me that I have never played The Dig nor have I played Full Throttle beyond a short demo that was on a shareware CD-ROM.
https://mastodon.social/@lucasarts_places/1143774055917190…

Artist's Gotta Eat
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Artist’s Gotta Eat | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Artist’s Gotta Eat Host: Brad Shean Category: Arts Sub-Category: Careers, Performing Arts & Music, Stand Up Comedy First Episode: 2025 We dig into the business side of Show Business as we…

Today’s breakfast. Hummus, cheese spread, veggies, some of which pickled. Very healthy, I hope. I definitely didn’t feel like going for the very sausagey Hungarian option. At a posh café/restaurant close to the fine arts museum, where I am about to go. #Budapest

Words On Wednesday
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Words On Wednesday | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Words On Wednesday Host: Sylvia Rosenblum Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations First Episode: 2019 Sylvia Rosenblum, Presenter of Arts Wednesday…

#MAGA Mourns As Country's Biggest Beirdo And Gun Totin' Good Ol' Boy : Phil Robertson, Rural #RealityTV Star of #DuckDynasty Dead at 79.
Former 60's era

‘Duck Dynasty’ Patriarch Phil Robertson Dies at 79
He founded the duck-call business that became the foundation of his family’s reality television empire.

Third throw of the dice on an arts council application for our festival is in, lets see..

I'm getting a bit tired of government censorship of the Arts community
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/21/state-library-of-queensland-karen-wyld-first-nations-writer-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RecordReview
Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting, Les Arts Florissants & William Christie:
🎵 Scherzi musicali: Damigella tutta bella, SV 235
#ClaudioMonteverdi #CarloVistoli
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ZQwfoVMvQIkzx8P08ZCTr

Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison de l'actionnement d'un signal d'alarme.
🤖 28/05 14:55

Woman leads martial arts group in Ithaca Festival Parade
#ithaca #ithacafestival #festival #parade

The whole debacle about AI and copyright is very interesting. It sucks that AI risks affecting the income of a lot of people, especially in the Arts domain. But what we currently call AI is just the start of what, long term, has the potential to change our lives not unlike the internet did.

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

Saturday Breakfast With Julie Reynolds - The "Best Bits"
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/saturday-breakfast-with-julie-reynolds-the-best-bits/

Saturday Breakfast | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Saturday Breakfast With Julie Reynolds – The “Best Bits” Host: Julie Reynolds Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Entertainment News First Episode: 2022 A podcast made…

Un train stationne Š Arts et Métiers vers Gallieni en raison de l'actionnement d'un signal d'alarme.
🤖 28/05 14:55

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Michel‐Richard de Lalande, Véronique Gens, Sandrine Piau, Arlette Steyer, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt, François Piolino, Jérôme Corréas, Les Arts Florissants & William Christie:
🎵 Te Deum
#MichelRicharddeLalande #VéroniqueGens