“Culture programs are budgeted at $235 million this year, down from nearly $295 million last year, including cutting ‘arts sector support’ from $18.5 million to $6.5 million. Additionally, the Ontario Arts Council, which awards grants, is receiving $10 million less from the government this year. And a $5 million Indigenous Culture Fund that the council administers, and was only established last year, has been discontinued.” – Yahoo! (Canadian Press)
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Stan Lee’s Former Business Partner Arrested On Theft, Fraud, Elder Abuse Charges After Fleeing California
Keya Morgan, who was captured and detained in Phoenix, “is facing felony charges including theft, embezzlement, forgery or fraud against an elder adult, and false imprisonment of an elder adult.” Lee, for many years the star creator at Marvel Comics, suffered from dementia; he died last November after a turbulent final year. – Yahoo! (AP)
Are The Liberal Arts Worth It? The Rich Seem To Think So
What, then, can we make of the anomaly that the elite liberals arts education so coveted today by the rich or those seeking to get rich consists largely of diatribes against the rich? – Washington Post
Oh, Forget It, It’s Probably Fake Anyway: Louvre Gives Up On Borrowing ‘Salvator Mundi’ For Its Leonardo 500 Show, Says Author
Ben Lewis, who wrote a recent book on the history of Salvator Mundi, says curators at the Louvre don’t believe the $450 million painting is entirely Leonardo’s work and wouldn’t exhibit it as such. – The Guardian
Israel’s Most Famous Choreographer Says Slightly Sympathetic Things About BDS; Israeli Right Flips Out
Batsheva Dance Company’s Ohad Naharin told Army Radio, “BDS is against the occupation, something I sympathize with. I’ve always said that if protesting and boycotting my performances would improve the situation in the territories or bring a solution to the conflict, I would support the boycott myself.” There were prompt calls from some members of the public for Naharin to be stripped of all previous honors and for state funding of his work to be withdrawn. – Haaretz (Israel)
Louisville Orchestra Music Director Teddy Abrams Gets A Segment On CBS’s ‘Sunday Morning’
“Louisville, Kentucky has gotten used to the fact that the maestro rides his bike to concerts. No limo, no tux for him. At 32, Teddy Abrams is the youngest conductor of a major orchestra in the United States, and in Louisville (if it’s possible for a classical musician) he’s a rock star.” (video and text) – CBS