The Metropolitan Arts Centre received £40,000 in unannounced emergency funding in October from Belfast City Council “to keep the doors open”; the venue now says it needs an additional £300,000 by March and a further £270,000 for the 2018-19 season.
Category: issues
Study: Economics Professors’ Output, Accomplishment, Decline Markedly After Getting Tenure
“On average, the number of annual publications fell by approximately 30 percent over the two years after tenure was granted and by an additional 15 percent over the next eight years. Home-run publications also fell by 30 percent within two years of professors earning tenure and by an additional 35 percent over the next eight years.”
American University Presidents Believe They’re Being Scapegoated
“It’s not enough anymore to just say, ‘trust us,'” Yale President Peter Salovey said. “There is an attempt to build a narrative of colleges and universities as out of touch and not politically diverse, and I think … we have a responsibility to counter that — both in actions and in how we present ourselves.”
Here’s How Challenging It Is To Try To Fund The Arts Equitably
“How can philanthropy be a place where we redesign the way our culture engages the capitalist classes in order to build a system of wealth redistribution that has a goal of justice, rather than the unjust goals we have now?”
The Long (And Sometimes Cringeworthy) History Of Jokes About Office Sexual Harassment
Rebecca Onion, Slate‘s resident history maven, looks at the cartoons and quips that go all the way back to the entry of female secretaries, stenographers and typists into the workforce around the turn of the 20th century.
U.S. Holocaust Museum Reissues (With Changes) Study On Syria It Withdrew Under Pressure
“The study, … on Syria’s civil war and American options to mitigate it …, had been the subject of controversy this fall after the museum briefly published it online and then retracted it in the face of a political backlash. Some groups had balked at the conclusions, which expressed pessimism about American options. Then, after the retraction, academics accused the institution of allowing political pressure to suppress important research.”
In A Surprise, Scottish Government Boosts Arts Funding Substantially To Offset Lottery Declines
Creative Scotland’s budget will increase by £6.6m each year for the next three years, specifically to support the Regular Funding programme, and the Scottish Government will contribute £10m to the delivery of a new ‘Screen Unit’.
How’s A Critic Supposed To Review Work By Compromised Artists?
How do we write about the work these figures create? To what degree do we acknowledge the actions of the creator, and what bearing should that have on how we consume, experience, dissect, and analyze art? The questions cut across all disciplines.
This Museum Will Leave You Upset, And That’s A Very Good Thing
“To a startling degree, and despite being a state-sponsored institution, [it] refuses to sugarcoat history.” Holland Cotter visits the new Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson.
The Disneyland Of Detroit Has Become A Symbol Of Hope
“The destination has become iconic thanks to the man whose initials, D.S., appear on the tail of the helicopter—Dmytro Szylak, a retired Ukrainian-American auto-plant worker. To keep busy after leaving the working life, Szylak built this curious installation over the roofs of two adjacent houses he owned. Along the way, he became a beloved artist who captured the hope and heartbreak of one small city’s melting-pot culture. Locals named his creation Hamtramck Disneyland, a title he came to embrace.”