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American Museums Face Deep Cuts Under Trump

April 7, 2025April 8, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Kennedy Center, Madison Children’s Museum, National Endowment for the Arts, Smithsonian

Opposition abounds from state governments and institutions as the culture war continues

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Mél
Politics 

Can Anyone Save the Mél?

April 2, 2025April 7, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Alexandra Destais, Annie Ernaux, Guy du Maupassant, Maison des écrivains et de la littérature, Sylvie Gouttebaron, The Mél

Budget cuts endanger a French literary icon

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Politics 

No, Donald Trump is Not ‘Taking Control of the Arts’

April 1, 2025April 7, 2025 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Ben Folds, Deborah Rutter, Donald Trump, Paolo Zampolli, The Kennedy Center

What’s behind the Kennedy Center panic

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Ghibli
FILM Politics Tech 

The Week Everything Went To Hell, Studio Ghibli-Style

April 1, 2025April 3, 2025 Jake Harris 0 Comments Hayao Miyazaki, Open AI, Studio Ghibli

Open AI meme trend is “An insult to life itself”

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Copyright
Politics 

Who Will Control U.S. Copyright Laws?

March 24, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments AI, Donald Trump, Jon Voight, Mel Gibson, OTSP, Sylvester Stallone, U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy

The people in SoCal want to protect their jobs. The people in NorCal want to create smarter AI. And the Trump Administration will decide who wins.

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60 Minutes
Politics TELEVISION 

Trump ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit Threatens Entertainment Deal of the Millennium

March 10, 2025March 14, 2025 Michael Washburn 1 Comment 60 Minutes, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Michael Mann, Paramount, Skydance Media, The Insider

Life imitates art in an echo of ‘The Insider’

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Hamilton
Politics 

‘Hamilton’ Takes Its Shot at The Kennedy Center

March 6, 2025March 6, 2025 Neal Pollack 2 Comments Donald Trump, Hamilton, Jeffrey Seller, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Richard Grenell, The Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts

In protest of the Trump takeover of the national performing arts center, iconic musical pulls its 2026 run; Center fights back

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NEA
Politics 

Under Trump, the NEA Faces an Uncertain Future

March 5, 2025March 10, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments National Endowment for the Arts, NEA

Arts guidelines and grant structures are changing as rapidly as everything else in the U.S.

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Kennedy Center
Politics 

What’s Going On At The Kennedy Center?

February 12, 2025February 18, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Clint Eastwood, David Mamet, Donald Trump, Kennedy Center, Leonard Bernstein, Ric Grennell

President Trump brings “culture” into the Culture War

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AI
FILM Politics Tech 

‘The Brutalist’ Truth About AI

January 30, 2025February 4, 2025 Stephen Macaulay 0 Comments Adrien Brody, AI, Brady Corbet, Felicity Jones, Register of Copyrights, SAG-AFTRA, The Brutalist, The Current War

Controversy over Oscar nominee’s sound enhancement is just the beginning

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Bans
Politics 

I’m With The Bans

January 29, 2025February 3, 2025 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments All Boys Aren't Blue, American Library Association, Ashley Hope Perez, Damsel, Elana K. Arnold, George M. Johnson, Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes, Office of Civil Rights, Out of Darkness, The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison, Trump Administration

Advocacy groups spar as Trump Administration halts federal book challenges

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FILM Politics 

Everything Hollywood Lost In The Fires

January 28, 2025February 3, 2025 Rachel Llewellyn 0 Comments Altadena, fires, Hacks, Hollywood, Mad Men, National Historic Register, Pacific Palisades, Shrinking, Topanga Ranch Motel, Will Rogers State Historic Park

A natural disaster was the last thing California’s flagging film industry needed

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Censorship
AUTHOR STUFF FICTION NON-FICTION Politics 

2024: The Year In Censorship

December 11, 2024December 16, 2024 Sharyn Vane 0 Comments Ashley Hope Perez, Elisa Albert, Gender Queer, Gregory Maguire, Jason Reynolds, Jodi Picoult, Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Mayim Bialik, PEN America, Randa Jarrar, Salman Rushdie, Sarah J. Maas, Toni Morrison, Wicked

From the right and left, everyone’s trying to ban books and cancel author events

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Allison Pearson
Politics 

The Hunting of Allison Pearson

November 18, 2024November 22, 2024 Jamie Mason 0 Comments Allison Pearson, Ben Sixsmith, Julie Bindel, Keir Starmer

UK authorities are increasingly punishing wrongthink, and a well-connected journalist got in the way

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FILM Politics 

Justine Bateman Is Your Post-Election Tik Tok Critic

November 9, 2024November 18, 2024 Brint Davy 0 Comments Donald Trump, Justine Bateman, Kamala Harris, Tim Walz

Actor, director, Gen-X icon breaks out on social media with hilarious takedowns of short-form meltdowns

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