“A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians’ awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their ‘participation in and engagement with’ the activities of the cultural sector.”
Author: Laura Collins Hughes
Where Bernstein Left Off: Teaching The Classical Audience
“Music institutions are feeling, it seems, a responsibility to assume the role that educational institutions are abandoning, in terms of teaching people about classical music. … But there’s a fine line between conveying useful information and lecturing at people.”
New PAC Isn’t Enough; Dallas, Get Serious About Urban Life
“The city fathers and business leaders understand the value that an exuberant arts community has for a metropolitan area, but the urban developers still have not created a vibrant life, as opposed to a lifestyle, in downtown Dallas….”
Copies Of Hemingway Papers Join Collection At JFK Library
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library “announced this week that Cuba has shared copies of 3,000 letters and documents from the Hemingway archives at the country’s Ministry of Culture. The material fills a hole in the library’s collection, which purports to have the most comprehensive body of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s writings.”
MoMA’s Nouvel Tower Gets Green Light From NYC
“The City Council put the finishing touches yesterday on the Museum of Modern Art’s request to build an 82-story tower,” designed by Jean Nouvel, “that would rise as high as the Chrysler Building, granting the project final approval — and leaving Midtown neighbors seeing red.”
The Art-House Cinema Returns To Boston
Tomorrow “the Stuart Street Playhouse reopens as a movie theater and Boston gets its first art house cinema in years.” But, at least to start, it will not be a first-run house; it will open with movies that “have been playing in local theaters since last month.”
Why Not Even Twitter Can Weaken The Power Of Narrative
“Narrative isn’t merely a technique for communicating; it’s how we make sense of the world. The storytellers know this. They know that the story is the original killer app.” So, all threats to its existence notwithstanding, the long-form story is not going to go away.
GarcÃa Lorca’s Grave Opened As Spain Confronts Its History
“On Wednesday … under pressure from human rights activists and with the acquiescence of [Federico] GarcÃa Lorca’s family, Spanish authorities began exhuming six mass graves in Alfacar. The opening of GarcÃa Lorca’s grave is the latest and most high profile effort by Spain to come to terms with its ugly past.”
How Big A Goldman Donation Would Quell The Anger?
Billionaire philanthropist Peter G. Peterson says a charitable donation by Goldman Sachs would have to total “at least $1 billion” in order to “have much resonance in the public,” furious as it is over bonuses paid to employees of the taxpayer-rescued securities firm, which is “considering a new charitable program.”
Ashmolean’s £61M Redo Targets ‘Museum Fatigue’
“[T]he over-riding aim has been to double the gallery space and present the museum’s world-class collection of archaeological finds and art … in a way that is easier to understand.”