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From 30,000 Feet: Five Year-end Observations about Arts and Culture in 2025

by Douglas McLennan

We posted more than 6,000 stories across all forms of culture in 2025. When you pull back and look at them in aggregate, the individual crises"the closures in San Francisco, the lawsuits in D.C., the endless op-eds about the "death of cinema""stop looking like isolated incidents. They resolve into a structural shift.

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 1:54am on January 1, 2026