“Much of current philanthropic giving, by foundations and individuals, neither meets the needs of our charitable organizations nor addresses some of our most urgent public needs. … Here are nine changes that would go a long way toward making philanthropy do what we all claim we want it to do.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
School Library Trades All Of Its Physical Books For Digital
“If I look outside my window,” the school’s headmaster says, “and I see my student reading Chaucer under a tree, it is utterly immaterial to me whether they’re doing so by way of a Kindle or by way of a paperback.” But critics, such as the president of the American Library Association, say that “the issue here is how far [the school] went.”
Art Experts Admit At Last: Great Nudes Are Sexy
“After well over a century of prim coverups, literal and metaphorical, of the sexual content of the greatest nudes in art, experts have been waking up to the erotic, even pornographic, potential.”
Why Dudamel Vs. Gilbert Is A Specious Smackdown
Tempting though it is to pit them against each other, “the spiritual godfather of both new conductors may be Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has influenced and empowered Dudamel and Gilbert to follow the groundbreaking path he cut during his just-ended 17-year directorship of the L.A. Philharmonic.”
Rocco Landesman In Peoria (Or: Humble Pie! Yum!)
The NEA chairman’s unflagging ebullience during “a grueling day of arts appreciation” reflects “his natural tendency to play the extrovert…. But it should be remembered that he hasn’t come all this way simply to launch his national cultural crusade, under the NEA slogan he dreamed up: ‘Art Works.’ He’s also here because being off-the-cuff can land you in the soup.”
Is The Traditional Symphony Orchestra Model Doomed?
Michael Kaiser: “Somehow the cost structure for American orchestras has risen to the point that every orchestra is likely to struggle to make ends meet. I do believe that a group of elite orchestras will survive, and even thrive. … But the number of orchestras that will be able to achieve this status will be limited.”
Glenn Beck, Art Critic Manqué, Is Driving Fiction Sales
“On his radio show and cable television programs … Mr. Beck has enthusiastically endorsed dozens of novelists, a majority of them writing in the thriller genre.” While he “often selects authors whose plots or characters reflect political stances that mirror his own,” that’s not always the case.
Why Scots Are In The Vanguard Of 3-D Modeling
“Through scanning, the [Scottish] experts can conjure up what objects looked like ages ago, in effect turning the clock back on ancient sites. They can simulate the effects of climate change, urban encroachment or other natural or man-made disasters on those same sites, peering into the future.”
The Welsh Love Theatre — Just Not The Professional Kind
For National Theatre of Wales artistic director John McGrath, the challenge “is to build an audience for the NTW in a country that has a long tradition of amateur performance, but one of the lowest attendance rates at professional theatre in the UK. McGrath thinks the answer is to make theatre in, and with, those communities. “
Publishers Weekly’s All-Male Top 10 Provokes Female Fury
“From Richard Holmes’s history of science in the Romantic generation, The Age of Wonder, to Blake Bailey’s Cheever: A Life, … Publishers Weekly’s all-male line-up has drawn the ire of a group of female writers.”