Under a new law submitted in the UK Parliament last week, “anyone caught using automated software to instantly buy tickets in such a way will face an unlimited fine. The move is part of a wider government drive to protect ‘real fans’ whose experience is being soured by inflated prices and limited ticket availability.”
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Hundreds Of YouTube Channels Discovered Promoting Academic Cheating
Popular YouTubers, some as young as 12, are being paid to personally endorse the service. In some of the videos YouTubers say if you cannot be bothered to do the work, EduBirdie has a “super smart nerd” who will do it for you. The adverts appear in videos on YouTube channels covering a range of subjects, including pranks, dating, gaming, music and fashion.
UK Report: Older Adults’ Arts Engagement On The Rise
The proportion of people in England aged 65 to 74 who engage with the arts at least once a year increased from 71% in 2005-06 to 79% in 2016-17. Among those aged 75 and over there was also a rise, from 58% to 62% over the same period.
An Ambitious (And Revolutionary) Plan To Reconceive Paris
The new Guide for Grand Parisians “is a guide to the present and the future,” says Rémi Babinet, the president both of BETC and of the Endowment for Art and Culture of the Grand Paris Express. “It proposes quite simply and radically to reconsider our representation of Paris. It’s a new imaginary, a new mental map that helps render more concrete the Grand Paris of tomorrow.” Enlarge Your Paris’s co-founder Renaud Charles has said that the book “is not a guidebook. It’s a manifesto.”
The Great Shame: How Universities Exploit Academics For Their Labor
“Volunteer adjuncts” — it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing whatsoever to their university. After all, there’s no reciprocity to be found when health insurance is still, for many in academia, considered a plush amenity.
Canadian Tax Agency Reclassifies Artists As Hobbyists, Disallowing Deductions
“It is the determination of this audit that the taxpayer operates as a personal endeavour (a hobby), not a business,” Canadian Revenue Agency said in its Jan. 26, 2018, reassessment letter to Steve Higgins. “Most of the income generated is from grants, honorariums and awards, and not the sales of artwork. Therefore, all income and expenses related to the business has been removed.”
Are They Trying To Privatize The Taj Mahal? Uproar In India Over Scheme For Companies To ‘Adopt’ Historic Sites
“Opposition politicians accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government of leasing out’ monuments under the ‘Adopt a Heritage’ plan that will see 95 historic sites taken over by private entities. India’s tourism ministry on Saturday announced a five-year contract worth 250 million rupees ($3.7 million) with the Dalmia Bharat conglomerate for the iconic 17th-century Red Fort in Delhi and another fort in the southern Andhra Pradesh state. Other monuments on the list include the Taj Mahal – which two conglomerates are competing for – and the 12th-century UNESCO-listed Qutb Minar complex in Delhi.”
NEA Chairman Jane Chu To Step Down
“National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Jane Chu said in a statement that she will resign June 4, after four years at the head of the federal arts agency. The Trump administration has twice targeted the NEA for elimination, but Chu made no reference to this turbulence in her statement, saying only that it has been an ‘honor and privilege’ to serve as the agency’s chairwoman.”
The First Kenyan Film To Debut At Cannes Is Banned In Its Home Country Thanks To Homophobia
The film, Rafiki, was banned, and the film classification board even issued threats. “The Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) said the film ‘seeks to legitimize lesbian romance.’ KFCB warned that anyone found in possession of the film would be in breach of the law in Kenya, where gay sex is punishable by 14 years.”
Controversial Statue Of Stephen Foster In Pittsburgh Comes Down
“The move followed an October decision by the Pittsburgh Art Commission, which found that the statue should be removed within six months and hosted in a private, ‘properly contextualized’ location. Many residents have held that the sculpture – showing a shoeless African-American banjo player seated at the famed composer’s feet – is condescending or outright racist. Speakers at commission meetings last year largely agreed.”