“Kim Jong Un’s iron grip on the North Korean people is weakening, and an information campaign rooted in soap operas and dramas could help advance a civilian uprising, a prominent defector told a congressional panel Wednesday.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Denver Art Museum Suffers ‘Data Security Incident’ With Personal, Financial Info
“The Denver Art Museum warned 800 people this month of a data breach that included sensitive personal and financial information about its donors, customers, and current and former employees, according to a letter obtained by The Denver Post.”
How Foundations Are (And Aren’t) Picking Up The Slack As British Arts Funding Shrinks
“After the bottom dropped out of local authority arts funding, those in charge of the purse strings at arts organisations naturally looked elsewhere for support. … But trusts and foundations have consistently stressed that they cannot – and will not – become a substitute for lost local authority funding. … What impact has this tension had on the sorts of projects that receive funding through trusts and foundations in recent years? Representatives from [three foundations] provided more insight.”
How London’s Top Dance Venue Increased Membership And Ticket Sales Even As It Reduced Discounts
The director of marketing and sales at Sadler’s Wells writes about how the theatre was losing tens of thousands of pounds in income due to discounts that had become too successful – and how it fixed that problem without alienating members and other ticket-buyers.
Rome’s Borghese Gallery To Create Caravaggio Research Institute
“Rome’s Galleria Borghese is launching a three-year partnership with the Italian luxury goods brand Fendi to create an international study centre dedicated to Caravaggio. The museum inside a 17th-century villa is one of 20 leading Italian institutions, including the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence and Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, that gained financial independence from central government in 2015, allowing them to cultivate private funders for the first time.”
Pop-Up Replica Of Shakespeare’s Rose Theatre To Debut Next Summer
“A 950-capacity pop-up open-air theatre modelled on Shakespeare’s Rose will rise next summer on a scruffy car park in York, to present a three-month season of [four] Shakespeare plays. … The theatre, which is claimed to be the first of its kind in Europe, will stand in a mock Tudor fairground, with themed food and entertainment including free performances from the back of carts.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.02.17
What Can Augmented Reality Do For Museums?
I tend to me a bit skeptical about the use of technology in museums. But on a recent visit to Denver, I stopped in at the Clyfford Still Museum to see Still & Art,which puts augmented reality to an interesting use. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-11-02
Berkshire Bombshells: Revelations in the Attorney General’s Berkshire Museum Brief
In consigning its collection’s 40 highest-valued artworks to Sotheby’s, the Berkshire Museum tried to pull a fast one. That’s not gonna wash. In a nutshell, that’s the position taken by the Massachusetts Attorney General in … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-11-02
David Vaughan, Modern Dance Historian And Merce Cunningham’s Archivist, Dead At 93
“[He] served the Cunningham company and school in various capacities for a half-century. … He began collecting dance ephemera in the late 1950s and was considered the first in-house archivist of an American dance company, a post he held officially from 1976 until the Cunningham troupe disbanded in 2012 after Cunningham died, in 2009.”
Brown Girls Do Ballet Movement Was Started By Dallas Mom Who Knew Nothing About Dance
“A few years ago, photographer Takiyah Wallace was searching for a dance studio in Dallas for her 3-year-old daughter, who had expressed an interest in ballet, when she noticed something. ‘One of the first things that jumped out to me in visiting local studios here was that there were not any faces that looked like her,’ she says.”
Watch How A Historic 16th-Century Church Crumbled In The Mexican Earthquake
The Ex-Convent of San Guillermo Abad in Totolapan, founded in 1534, suffered severe damage in the 7.1 magnitude quake on Sept. 19 – and security cameras recorded that damage from multiple angles. (includes video and audio)