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Jacquie Jones, 52, Award-Winning Filmmaker And Advocate For Other Black Filmmakers
“As a director, Ms. Jones won a Peabody Award for the four-hour documentary 180 Days: A Year Inside an American High School. … In 2005 Ms. Jones was appointed executive director of the National Black Programming Consortium, now called Black Public Media. Her work there included moving beyond the organization’s role supporting black filmmakers. During her tenure, the consortium created an online digital media project documenting the 2005 hurricanes that devastated New Orleans and neighboring Gulf states.”
New Survey Hopes To Shed Light On Arts Salaries
“The survey, which is targeted at art industry workers of all genders, asks for information on compensation, job title, what types of tasks and responsibilities workers engage in, and benefits and other job-related data. There is also a section for demographic information, such as age, gender, and race.”
Roy Cohn And ‘Angels In America’ – More Oral History
In another excerpt from Isaac Butler’s and Dan Kois’s The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of ‘Angels in America’, Tony Kushner and various directors and actors who have worked on the show over the decades talk about the play’s most repugnant, most compelling character – in real life as in the script.
How Facebook Killed Online Comedy?
The whole story is basically that Facebook gets so much traffic that they started convincing publishers to post things on Facebook. For a long time, that was fine. People posted things on Facebook, then you would click those links and go to their websites. But then, gradually, Facebook started exerting more and more control of what was being seen, to the point that they, not our website, essentially became the main publishers of everyone’s content. Today, there’s no reason to go to a comedy website that has a video if that video is just right on Facebook. And that would be fine if Facebook compensated those companies for the ad revenue that was generated from those videos, but because Facebook does not pay publishers, there quickly became no money in making high-quality content for the internet.
The World’s Darkest Building Has Just Gone Up At The Winter Olympics
A pavilion designed for Hyundai by architect Asif Khan has been covered with a coating of Vantablack – the world’s blackest black, which absorbs more than 99% of the light that hits its surface. (Didn’t Anish Kapoor buy exclusive rights to that?) Oliver Wainwright describes the building as “an angular black hole, … a portal to a parallel universe.” The interior, naturally, is bright white.
The Getty, The World’s Richest Museum, Is Hunting For Wealthy Donors (The Rest Of L.A.’s Art World Is Not Happy)
“The then co-chairs of the board of … sent potential donors a letter in December, just in time for tax-deductible gifts in 2017 that said: ‘We often say that the Getty can do anything, but it cannot do everything.’ The letter invited supporters to ‘join with us in special initiatives that can raise the Getty to new heights’, especially education programmes and exhibitions.” The Getty’s endowment as of last year was $6.9 billion.
The ‘Netflix Of Reading’ Is Finally Taking Off
“Amazon stepped into e-book rentals in 2014 with its $10-per-month Kindle Unlimited service … But a small competitor named Scribd started even earlier and offers larger quantities of popular content – for a buck less. In the past year, it’s grown subscribers by over 40% to 700,000 (still well behind Kindle Unlimited’s estimated 2.5 million-plus) and has started making a steady monthly profit. After introducing unlimited reading and then moving away from it, the company is bringing it back, with some limitations designed to make it economically viable.”
Australia’s Only Classical Music And Arts Magazine Abruptly Closes
Limelight, launched in 1976 as the magazine of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Classic FM radio and spun off in 2006, cancelled printing of its March issue on Tuesday and laid off its staff. Said publisher Andrew Batt-Rawden, “The magazine has improved a lot financially, we are reaching a big audience across Australia and a few internationally, but my personal situation was that I simply couldn’t continue the monthly profit and loss.” (He is talking to potential buyers.)
Montreal Mayor Wants To Strip Charles Dutoit Of City’s Highest Honor
The Order of Montreal was founded in 2016 in honor of the city’s 375th anniversary, and Dutoit – music director of the Montreal Symphony from 1977-2002, and the conductor who brought the orchestra to international prominence – was one of its first recipients. Now, with serious allegations of sexual misconduct being revealed, Montreal mayor Valérie Plante has asked the committee administering the Order to consider whether Dutoit’s award should be revoked.