“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.”
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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
Is This The City Of The Future Way Out In The Sonoran Desert?
“A portmanteau of ‘architecture’ and ‘ecology,’ arcology was first theorized by the Italian architect Paolo Soleri in the late 1960s. Billed by its creator as the blueprint for a “city in the image of man,” arcologies challenged the notion of the urban environment as something separate from and antagonistic to nature. In Soleri’s cities, cars would be useless and the very notion of roads would be abolished as divisive constructs. Work and living spaces would be nearly indistinguishable. There’d be no need to ever use a light bulb during the day or air conditioning during the summer, even in the desert.”
How Western Philosophy Excluded The Rest Of The World
“Africa and Asia were excluded from the philosophical canon by the confluence of two interrelated factors. On the one hand, defenders of the philosophy of Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) consciously rewrote the history of philosophy to make it appear that his critical idealism was the culmination toward which all earlier philosophy was groping, more or less successfully. On the other hand, European intellectuals increasingly accepted and systematised views of white racial superiority that entailed that no non-Caucasian group could develop philosophy.”
Berkeley Using Optical Scanners To Recover Decayed Recordings Of Languages That Have Died
Among the thousands of wax cylinders in the University of California (UC) Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology are songs and spoken-word recordings in 78 indigenous languages of California. Some of these languages, recorded between 1900 and 1938, no longer have living speakers. The history on the cylinders is difficult to hear. The objects have deteriorated over the decades, mold eating away at their forms, cracks breaking through the sound.
After Years Of Debate, Construction Of DC’s Eisenhower Memorial Begins
Officials will host a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday for the $150 million memorial on its four-acre site on Independence Avenue between Fourth and Sixth streets SW. Construction on the controversial project is expected to take three years, with an opening date set for 2020.