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Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026
Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November
Massachusetts voters face nine ballot questions this November. Questions 3, 4, and 5 could change how the state elects its leaders, who can participate in elections, and how public revenue is managed. MASSCreative brought together advocates to discuss what’s at stake. Here’s what we learned.
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Civic Culture • Oct 01, 2026
ArtWonk: What Does It Take to Make Precarity a Collective Cause in the Arts?
At Company One Theatre’s Boston cultural policy event, artists, funders, and policymakers considered living wages and the beginnings of a collective agenda for the arts. Similar concerns surfaced in local talks by artist Josh Kline and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who each took aim at the growing concentration of wealth and the threats to democracy that arise from the prohibitive cost of participating in society.
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Civic Culture • Sep 18, 2026
ArtWonk: Censorship, Threats of Demolition, and Other Signs of the Season
Greater Boston’s Robert Kraft enters the fight over artists’ speech amid ongoing targeting of the Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian. More hope for the arts is offered abroad, with President Emmanuel Macron calling for a “new multilateralism” across creative industries.
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Civic Culture • Oct 19, 2026
Three Ballot Questions that Could Affect the Arts This November
News by Kim Córdova

Civic Culture • Sep 02, 2026
ArtWonk: Who’s in Charge of National Arts Policy? Maybe No One
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Civic Culture • Apr 10, 2026
ArtWonk: Amid a Week of Whiplash, Wu Aims to Slash Arts Budget
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Civic Culture • Mar 27, 2026
ArtWonk: Building a Bigger Tent for the Arts Ecosystem
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