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Manhattan’s borough president just routed his entire $50 million discretionary budget to the arts (The New York Times) — an extraordinary move.
In art machine news: New software is poised to replace live musicians in musical-theater pits (The Guardian), an LA museum built entirely on AI is asking whether it’s a whole new genre (Artnet), and an essay wonders if prompting is the oldest writerly skill in new clothes (The Conversation).
Four small colleges are adding dance majors while their peers are cutting everything outside STEM (Dance Magazine), and Lin-Manuel Miranda is bringing his first full musical since Hamilton to Broadway next spring (AP).
Meanwhile, Europe’s museums have found an unexpected civic role this week: air-conditioned refuges from the heat wave (Le Monde).
All of our stories below.
