“After months of turmoil, including the firing of its chief curator and the announced departure of its current director, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has chosen its next director: Klaus Biesenbach, chief curator at large at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and director of its experimental satellite space, MoMA PS1.” (Biesenbach’s career at MOMA has not been without controversy of its own.)
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Māori Has Gone Mainstream: New Zealand’s Indigenous Language Is Now Cool, Even Among Pakehas
“Te reo is undergoing a revival in New Zealand, with jam-packed classes and waiting lists now common. Māori language teachers from Auckland in the North Island to Dunedin and Invercargill in the South say they are unable to meet demand for their services and free classes routinely draw hundreds of students.”
Swedish Crown Jewels Stolen In Broad Daylight Boat Heist
Two thieves entered the cathedral in Strängnäs, west of Stockholm, around midday on Monday, broke into a glass display case, grabbed two crowns, an orb, and a cross, ran to a waiting motorboat in a lake, and fled. The jewels were part of the funeral regalia of the early 17th-century monarch Karl IX (son of Gustav Vasa) and his wife, Kristina.
St. Petersburg’s Crumbling Old Mansions And Churches Rescued By Arts Groups And Businesses
There are roughly 15,000 buildings in the old imperial capital that date from before the Russian Revolution, and many of them are in, frankly, terrible repair. But, one by one, the old landmarks are being renovated and repurposed by groups (formal and informal) of artists, who are turning them into galleries, performances spaces, reading rooms, and spaces for creative businesses.
Academy Of Ancient Music Director Richard Egarr To Step Down
When Egarr departs after the 2021-22 season, he will have been in the post – he succeeded founder Christopher Hogwood – for 15 years. The AAM, London’s oldest Baroque orchestra, has made more than 300 recordings: among its many landmarks were the first period-instrument discs of Handel’s Messiah and the complete Mozart symphonies.
The Neuroscience Of Cruelty And Evil (Not Much To Go On)
Today, biology is a powerful explanatory force for much human behaviour, though it alone cannot account for horror. Much as the neurosciences are an exciting new tool for human self-understanding, they will not explain away our brutishness. Causal accounts of the destruction that humans inflict on each other are best provided by political history – not science, nor metaphysics.
Think You Have A Book In You Yearning To Be Free? Naaah.
“A story may be things that happened, embellished for interest, but that’s not a book. Many stories don’t get good until the end. Some stories — true ones even — are hard to believe. Other stories are just too short, don’t have enough tension, or frankly aren’t that interesting. The stories we tell that enrapture our friends and families may be extraordinarily boring to those who don’t know us. Those stories are not a book.”
Sixty Former Royal Winnipeg Ballet Dancers File Class Action Suit
When the ensuing police investigation ended in 2016 with no charges, they sued. Today more than 60 former RWB dancers, now adult women, have joined a class-action lawsuit that was certified in July and is seeking $75 million in damages from photographer Bruce Monk and the ballet company.
Is Art For The Sake Of Art Missing The Point?
Nonprofit organizations must be service-oriented to better the lives of those who cannot better it on their own. Using that as a jumping-off point, I believe that every single person has the right to succeed. Yet a whole slew of people cannot act on that right without being blocked. Therefore, if I should choose to run another nonprofit arts organization before my mortal coil shuffle happens, our group would happen to produce plays. But, everything we would do would be for the purpose of connecting and improving the effectiveness of those with expertise and working service portals — those with access to a proverbial “underground railroad.”
UK Claims For Tax Relief Were Sharply Up Last Year
Theatre tax relief was introduced in 2014, offering qualifying productions a reduction in corporation tax of 20%, or 25% if they were touring. It is among a suite of tax incentives offered by the Government to the creative industries, with other beneficiaries including film, video games and high-end television. Last year there were 910 successful claims for theatre tax relief, with both large and small productions benefiting. About half of the relief awarded (£39m) went to claims for over £500k, of which there were 40. At the other end of the scale, more than a third of the claims (330) were for amounts of less than £10,000.