CULTURE COUNTS: THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN OUR TIME: RESOURCES

• Ways to Support Minnesota’s Immigrant Communities as ICE Activity Escalates.

• The non-profit Americans for the Arts has a website; its “By Location” page has state-by-state links to info and ways to get involved. Its “Advancing Arts Locally” page can connect you to the municipal or county level.

• The websites of the Federation of State Humanities Councils and the National Endowment for the Humanities have parallel lists of state humanities councils.

• If you want to address the national level, an easy way to tell your Federal electeds to properly fund the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts is through the links at the "Protect The NEA" page at the Americans for the Arts website.

• Support Arts Education Partnership, a national network of more than 200 organizations dedicated to advancing arts education.

• Support ArtSpeak, a publishing platform that serves as a bridge between arts journalism and academia by blending experienced writers, designers, photographers, and digital technologists with FIU students, faculty, and professional staff.

• Join The First Amendment Culture Team (F.A.C.T.), a New York City-based coalition of creatives, cultural workers, and organizers mobilizing to raise awareness about the First Amendment and the fundamental freedoms that make both art and democracy possible. www.fact-usa.com

THE ARTS IN AMERICA

• Artists & Protest: An Incomplete History, Fractured Atlas

• Some reflections on the intersection between art and activism, Dance Art Journal 

• "Yankovskaya says cultural institutions abroad are supported by a robust public funding apparatus — a starker contrast than ever to the U.S., where the Trump administration is moving to curtail federal investments in the arts." From Chicago Public Media

• More Staff Shake-ups at the Kennedy Center, National Public Radio

• Artists plan nationwide US protests against Trump and ‘authoritarian forces,’ The Guardian 

ART, SCIENCE, AND AI

• Rise of the Machines: Inside Hollywood’s AI Civil War, The Hollywood Reporter 

• Tilly Norwood Creator Doubles Down on AI ‘Actors’ and Says It’s a ‘More Ethical Way to Perform,’ Urges Human Actors to ‘Future-Proof’ Themselves With AI, Variety

• Bandcamp Banned AI Music. For Pretty Much Everyone Else, ‘It’s Complicated,’ Digital Music news 

• ‘Roadmap’ shows the environmental impact of AI data center boom, Cornell Chronicle

• How AI is Fueling a New Wave of Environmental Racism, Feminist Majority Foundation

• The Commodification of Art, and Capitalism’s Infiltration of the Art World, Medium 

• More on STEAM (Science, Technology, Art, and Mathematics), from Arts Integration 

• AI and the Problem of the Last 10 Percent, The Bulwark

THE LATEST ON OUR PANELISTS:

• Alexis Rockman’s Naples: Course of Empire—the major exhibition we opened last January—is now on view in its entirety at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, alongside a focused selection of new works. The presentation will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue published by Hirmer.

• Mfoniso Udofia’s Boston Ufot Cycle of plays

• Laurie Anderson’s Republic of Love Tour announcement and dates
• Laurie’s Harvard Norton Lectures 
• Hari Kondabolu’s latest special, Vacation Baby 
• Hari’s The Problem with Apu Documentary, where he confronts his long standing "nemesis" Apu Nahasapeemapetilon - better known as the Indian convenience store owner on The Simpsons.