This is a purely philosophical question … only, it’s about our duty to ourselves and to each other. “The possibility of a duty to leave Facebook arises once one recognizes that Facebook has played a significant role in undermining democratic values around the world.”
Category: issues
These Argentine Arts Workers Have Been Spending A Year Fighting Sexism In Their Industry — Have They Made Progress?
“Calling themselves Nosotras Proponemos (nP), meaning ‘we propose,’ the group [of 100 women] published a manifesto-like list of 37 demands, asking that women receive equal representation in exhibitions, collections, and leadership positions in Argentina’s arts sector. One year later, nP is celebrating the significant changes their activism has made in Argentina’s art world” — even as much work remains to be done.
Claim: Arts Degrees Promise “Unrealistic” Job Prospects
“Arts and media does stand out as the area where there is greatest mismatch between the numbers of students taking the courses and the employment prospects at the end. There is a point up to which courses that engage learners have value, but ultimately there have to be viable prospects at the end.”
Report: 85 Percent Of Arts Internships Are Unpaid
According to the research, 86% of internships in the arts, which includes theatre and music, are unpaid. Its definition of unpaid includes expenses-only placements, and those that offered rates below the minimum wage. The research highlights how the arts had 32% fewer working-class interns than in the graduate population as a whole.
Where Artists Are Working (And Why Minnesota Stands Out)
Among the 30 largest metro areas in the U.S., Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco host the largest contingents of artists in their workforces, followed by five metros hosting 20 to 40 percent more artists than the national average: Washington, D.C.; Seattle; Boston; Minneapolis-St. Paul; and San Diego. In follow-up work done by Texas researchers on the great recession, they found that Minneapolis-St. Paul posted the highest rate of increase in our artist workforce during the years of the great recession, 2006-09, years when the top three barely held even.
No Surprises: Survey Says People Like The Arts
“Americans Speak Out about the Arts in 2018” was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs for Americans for the Arts in May 2018. It is based on a nationally representative sample of 3,023 American adults, making it one of the largest public opinion studies about the arts ever conducted. As one might expect when hearing from the public, we find a mix of assumptions challenged and observations confirmed.
Why Jude Kelly Left London’s Southbank Centre To Start A Series Of Festivals About Women’s Achievements And Stories
Kelly stepped down last year from the artistic directorship of one of the world’s largest arts centers to work full-time on the Women of the World (WOW) festivals. “I decided I was going to make a body of work which in every single sense was going to be questioning the place that women’s stories have in art, culture, and in everyday civil life and political life.” (video)
Two Family Foundations Launch Program To ‘Capitalize’ Arts Groups
The goal of the Barr-Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative is to increase arts organizations’ “adaptive capacity” (because the arts landscape is changing and the next recession could hit anytime) by building capital (in terms of both cash and staff) and “cultural competence.”
An Iconic Seattle Music Venue Under Development Threat
The Showbox is nothing special architecturally, but it has been home to a generation of music fans. Now the venue is in danger of being torn down for a highrise. “The city is now trying to say, ‘Oops we made a mistake,’ after people have invested and relied upon the zoning. Then this is what you get in response. You get lawsuits.”
Miami’s Arsht Center Gets A New CEO
Johann Zietsman’s appointment comes at a pivotal point for the 12-year-old Arsht, which occupies the center of a neighborhood that’s belatedly but rapidly changing after years of stagnation that the facility was meant to help reverse.