“There is a European flavor to the funding of the arts in Puerto Rico,” including the fact that board members “are not routinely expected to make financial contributions or to play a central role in fundraising.” New “pressure to increase private funding dramatically” means that “boards will have to change their roles.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
BBC Confirms Plan For Sweeping Reductions
“Unions criticised the cuts as ‘totally unnecessary’ and ‘politically motivated,'” while the BBC’s director-general said the corporation was “putting quality first” in making “significant cuts to its website, radio services and imported programmes,” allowing “an extra £600m [to be] diverted into higher quality programme-making.”
Edinburgh Court Hears Case Of Ransomed Leonardo
A 73-year-old tour guide testified that “she saw one of the men with an axe, standing in front of Madonna of the Yarnwinder while the other removed it. … The evidence emerged as five other men went on trial accused of demanding £4.25 million for the safe return of the painting, estimated to be worth £50 million.”
NYC Subway System Too Strapped For Reality TV Series
“The series, commissioned by the A&E network, would follow an ensemble cast of train conductors, station agents and other subway workers as they handle track fires, angry customers and the grind of running the country’s biggest mass transit system. But as with many of the authority’s major projects, the show is now facing a delay.”
The Onion On Recession Rise In Museum Attendance
(The people interviewed do not, strictly speaking, exist.)
The Pink Noise Of Movie Shot Structure
“Hollywood filmmakers, whether they know it or not, have become steadily more adroit at shaping basic movie structure to match the pulsatile, half-smooth, half-raggedy way we attend to the world around us.” The basic shot structure resembles “a rough but recognizably wave-like pattern called 1/f,” a.k.a. pink noise.
On Tinkering With The Classical Status Quo
“Those who believe that such tinkering with the score is a kind of defacement have overlooked the fact that … our status quo, as far as performance goes, is a product of our own place and time. Compare a Brahms performance from the 1930s and today to hear how much the earlier recording represents a different aesthetic.”
Might Old Bay Bridge Span Become Art That Makes Energy?
“Imagine, for instance, that experimental wind turbines dotted the structure, corkscrews whirling in the stiff afternoon wind. Or a thin-sliced row of photovoltaic solar panels stretched across the top of the span, harvesting the sun on all but the foggiest days.”
How To Make A Jane Austen Web Movie
“All it takes is typing a little dialogue, picking some characters, and bingo! You have a robot-voiced key scene from ‘Pride and Prejudice.'” Or, if Austen’s not your cup of tea, from any other work of literature in the public domain.
Roger Ebert Tweets His Disdain For Tea Party
“Over the last few weeks, Ebert has used his busy Twitter page to give the tea party belittling nicknames, predict it will quickly fade and opine that ‘a loud movement is not the same as a mass movement.'”