“The idea of a coherent European culture is actually quite new. Scattered uses of the phrase appeared in the 19th century, but it was only in the 1920s and ’30s that the idea came of age. Those decades saw an unprecedented burst of attention for the idea of Europe, in which the age’s leading liberal intellectuals developed a compelling vision of the continent’s purportedly shared cultural identity.”
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We Can Learn How To Fight For Arts Funding From New York In The 1970s
One idea – among many – is to talk about money: “Indeed, the late ’70s saw the emergence of the idea that theatre might not be a drain on the city’s coffers, but actually help fill them—a school of thought that still holds today, with theatre as an economic engine on a par with tech (something has to replace manufacturing, right?).”
The First Saturday Night Live Monologue Of The Trump Presidency
Aziz Ansari, creator and star of the Netflix show Master of None, went directly at issues around the election. “They should do a second report about some other brown people that are just up to normal stuff — just to calm those people down. So the reports are like: ‘The suspects are considered armed and dangerous. Not armed and dangerous — these four other Muslim people that are eating nachos in Chicago. Let’s go to footage of them. Uh-oh, looks like Nasir just spilled a little cheese on his khakis!'”
The America We All – But Especially Historians And Novelists – Lost When Trump Took The Presidency
All U.S. writers were American exceptionalists, even when they wrote about the terrible things the U.S. has done and is doing. “But that was in a greater cause, too. The absolute conviction, in the end, that I, too, was caught up in the great work; that I was helping us to get to some higher place and fulfill our promise.” And yet no.
Trump Has Sparked Revival Of Protest Culture In American Arts – Especially On Inauguration Day
Howard Sherman: “While there are those in the visual art community who have called for inauguration day, on January 20, to be met with an art strike, asking that institutions be closed in protest, I’m glad to say I’ve not seen the idea gain much traction in the performing arts community. Indeed, in addition to maintaining their performance schedules, some organizations are throwing open their doors, as places of respite and refuge.”
New York’s New Second Avenue Subway Has Already Become A Culture Destination
“There are several contenders for coolest neighborhood in New York, but the Upper East Side is usually not one of them.”
UK Members Of Parliament Want To Ban Arts Internships, Calling Them “Curse Of The Arts Industry”
The report draws on the evidence submitted from people including outgoing Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette, who warned that unpaid internships were “the curse of the arts industry”. He said there was an expectation that young people will work for less than the minimum wage, which he added was a “major barrier for disadvantaged young people interested in accessing jobs in the creative industries”.
Kennicott: Trump Eliminating NEA, NEH And PBS Is Significant Step To Eliminating The Free Public Realm
Phil Kennicott: “The loss of the NEA is mostly about symbolism. But along with the loss of the NEH and privatization of the CPB, these proposed budget cuts are part of a nascent but ominous larger movement to eliminate the last vestiges of a public realm free of the dictates of the market. Privatizing the social safety net and shifting tax dollars away from public schools are essential moves in a longer war on a social contract that preserves faith in the public realm. Academia is another target and is in the cross hairs as well.”
Harvard’s ART Institute Suspends Admissions After Education Department Review
“In an announcement last week, the Education Department listed Harvard’s ART Institute among hundreds of college and university programs across the country that did not meet federal regulations governing the amount of debt students can accrue when measured against their expected earnings.”
Report: Trump Plans To Eliminate The NEA And NEH
“The Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be privatized,” the Hill’s Alexander Bolton reports, “while the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities would be eliminated entirely.” In total, the administration aims to cut spending by $10.5 trillion over the next decade.