Total National Lottery sales for the 2017/18 financial year increased by £26.4m to £6.95bn. Returns to National Lottery Good Causes were up £27m to £1.66bn, translating into a £331m return to the arts – a 1.7% increase on the year before. But the upswing is not strong enough to return to the highs of 2015/16, when £380m in lottery funding was directed to the arts.
Category: issues
Net Neutrality Ends Today
Barring some last minute miracle, the protections of net neutrality will become something people in the US used to have instead of something they still enjoy. “Internet service providers will be much freer to block, speed up or slow down access to certain content” – but only until state regulations come in to prop up the freedom of the internet waves.
It’s Time To Eliminate The Casting Couch, Says SAG-AFTRA, And Gets TV Networks To Agree
One lawyer characterizes it as “the very first step in a very long marathon” toward a finish line of ending sexual harassment and assault in the industry – but it’s a good step. “SAG-AFTRA struck a new deal with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, which limits private meetings in off-site locations, including hotel rooms and private residences.”
Sir Elton John Says It’s Time To Boycott Facebook, Twitter, And More If They Don’t Act On Homophobic Bullies
“I don’t know why they allow it,” he says. “The things that are on social media are so disgusting that there has to be action taken by the people that own these companies.”
New York Times Declares Cincinnati An Arts Mecca
Jada Yuan: “What I’d failed to pick up from those gauzy recollections [from my college freshman roommate], though, was just how vibrant and inspiring of an arts scene I would find. … This time around, I got to dig deep on the wealth of murals in public spaces; an architectural history to make your jaw drop; and three newly renovated, world-class performing arts venues in a roughly four-block radius.”
Can Art Get Us To Understand And Care About Climate Change?
“There’s no evolutionary reason for us to be able to comprehend the scale of [climate change]. The museum has to create space for strong feelings and recognize that [those feelings] are a primary pathway into climate engagement. We saw that with [Weil’s] exhibition. Visitors described themselves as feeling emotions including awe and an intense sense of responsibility.”
Why Are European Leaders Suddenly Quoting Dostoyevsky?
French President Emmanuel Macron cited Dostoyevsky’s speech about Pushkin—in which the writer makes a dramatic appeal for Russian universalism—in a press conference with Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg on May 24. Then, on Tuesday, the prime minister of Italy’s new populist government, Giuseppe Conte, paraphrased—or perhaps mis-paraphrased—the same Dostoyevsky speech in his first address before the Italian Senate.
Edinburgh Fringe Street Performers To Use Credit Card Payments For Donations
Audiences will be encouraged to use electronic card readers to help tackle fears from artists about a slump in donations as growing numbers of people shun carrying money around with them. Street performers are also expected to get the chance to go “on tour” to new pop-up sites around the city in future.
The Toxic Problem Of Super Fandom
To be a member of a fandom is to take a property and embrace it like a vise. You consume it, you talk about it with fellow fans, maybe you go to conventions, maybe you write fanfic or draw fanart, and no matter what — and this is the most crucial part — you pray that, if there’s more of it, it’ll be as good as the best of what’s come before. There are polite fans who say it quietly and don’t get mad when their needs aren’t met. But, by their very nature, such fans are always going to be drowned out by the ones who, like Bobby Axelrod, declare to the world, These are my needs. What’s remarkable and dangerous is the fact that, in the past 20 years, Hollywood started feeding them. They started getting what they wanted, and they’ve never looked back.
The Meltdown At Chicago’s Black History Museum
“[Theaster] Gates is just one of several high-profile board members (including Chance the Rapper, his father Ken Bennett and Eric Whitaker) who have departed in recent weeks. People familiar with the DuSable [Museum] say its problems stem from mismanagement and from precarious finances, as well as board and staff instability.”