“Now, just before the 15th anniversary of the attacks, plans for the complex, to be called the Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center, are taking new shape. The New York architecture firm REX, selected after a more elaborate plan by Frank Gehry was shelved, has released its conceptual design. Its proposal contains three small theaters that can be combined in various configurations to produce and stage theater, dance, music, opera and experimental works, and can serve as a space for the Tribeca Film Festival each spring.”
Category: issues
Data – The American Creative Divide: It’s Between North And South
“Those data reveal a somewhat surprising pattern: America’s Great Creative Divide isn’t between the coasts and the center, but rather between North and South. Take a look.”
Master’s Program In Critical Theory Canceled By College Six Days Before Classes Start
“Six days before the start of the fall semester at Pacific Northwest College of Art [in Portland], a group of Master’s candidates and professors received an email from the dean of students informing them that their program was suspended and they would not be teaching or studying as planned.”
Culture Is Dead, And Entertainment Killed It, Writes Mario Vargas Llosa
“The great majority of humanity does not engage with, produce or appreciate any form of culture other than what used to be considered by cultured people, disparagingly, as mere popular pastimes, with no links to the intellectual, artistic, and literary activities that were once at the heart of culture. This former culture is now dead, although it still survives in small social enclaves, without any influence on the mainstream.”
Charge: Costs Of Arts Administration Have Gotten Out Of Hand
“The managerialism class in the arts have become somewhat like a self-serving class – a mafia, perhaps, in some people’s views – so they will fight tooth and nail to sustain their positions and their incomes.” An Arts Council England spokeswoman said it took fair pay for artists “very seriously”, and stressed that portfolio organisations who failed to pay them properly could lose their funding.
Glenn Gould Prize Aims To Be “Nobel For The Arts”
One prize in each two-year cycle would be for Artistic Excellence; a second for Creative Innovation in the arts; and a third for Cultural Humanitarianism. Tripling the number of awards would help the Glenn Gould Prize meet its potential — “to become the world’s preeminent arts prize,” Brian Levine, the Gould foundation’s executive director, told the Star.
Brown University President Writes About Universities And Safe Spaces
“Universities are doing something difficult and important. We are grappling with how to create peaceful, just and prosperous societies, even as we live in a society that often feels more divided and rancorous than ever, fractured along lines of race, ethnicity, income and ideology. With the right of academic freedom comes the moral responsibility to think carefully about how that right is exercised in the service of society to confront these divides.”
‘Trigger Warnings’ On Campus And The Psychology Of Trauma
“Given the myths and emotions enveloping the issue of trigger warnings and safe spaces, it’s worth asking what science can tell us about the actual effects of verbal triggers on the body, brain, and psyche. Certain people experience certain words as dangerous. Should they have to listen to those words anyway?” Katy Waldman looks at the physical effects that being triggered can have on trauma survivors, the leading therapeutic approaches for overcoming the trigger effect, and the implications for teaching college students.
Artists And Cultural Figures Jailed In Turkey’s Post-Coup Crackdown
“Artists, newspaper cartoonists and cultural figures are among the 35,000 people who have been detained in Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s crackdown after the failed military coup in July.”
The V&A’s Director, Who Is German, Quits Because Of Brexit Vote
“In interviews with the German broadcaster DW, he said the vote to leave the EU felt like a personal defeat and he was particularly upset to hear aggressive ‘war rhetoric’ during the referendum campaign.”