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“Get rid of everything.” That was Richard Grenell’s instruction about the Kennedy Center’s permanent art collection, according to a former staffer’s devastating firsthand account of what happened inside during the shutdown (The Atlantic). Meanwhile, the Commission of Fine Arts — stacked with Trump appointees — has approved a preliminary design for the President’s triumphal arch (New York Times). Build the monument, gut the collection. A certain clarity of priorities.
In Paris, more than 100 writers have quit the storied publishing house Grasset after its billionaire owner pushed out the editor who’d run it for 26 years (The Guardian). And in Hungary, arts figures are cautiously imagining what institutional life looks like after Orbán (The Art Newspaper).
On the monopoly front: the jury in the LiveNation/Ticketmaster case swept every claim, giving states serious leverage heading into the remedy phase (Music Business Worldwide).
Lighter: a newly discovered 17th-century map has finally pinpointed Shakespeare’s London house (AP). Four centuries — worth the wait.
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