WTF happened this week:

Professor Sandra Gattenhof and Dr John Nicolas Saunders look at the polycrisis facing arts education, Trump says The Trump Kennedy Center will close for renovations for two years and three major Australian arts venues are set to open this year.
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#ArtsEducation #CreativeArtsDegrees #atQPAC #TheKennedyCentre #Trump

WTF now?! #20 – Thursday 29 January–Wednesday 4 February 2026

A triad of factors keep pushing creative arts university enrolments down while the Kennedy Centre is set to close ‘for renovations’ and QPAC’s new theatre, Art Centre Melbourne’s refurbished State Theatre and Powerhouse Parramatta as all due to open this year.

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Plus Spotify still thinks it is the saviour of music, a new Sony Music Entertainment partnership created to buy music catalogues and Anthropic new constitution for Claude comes just in the nick of time as the Pentagon thinks they should be able to deploy commercial AI technology regardless of companies' usage policies.
https://elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-20/
#Spotify #SonyMusic #Anthropic #Claude
WTF now?! #20 – Thursday 29 January–Wednesday 4 February 2026

A triad of factors keep pushing creative arts university enrolments down while the Kennedy Centre is set to close ‘for renovations’ and QPAC’s new theatre, Art Centre Melbourne’s refurbished State Theatre and Powerhouse Parramatta as all due to open this year.

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