“The 70% reduction particularly hits artists such as writers and visual artists, who mostly work alone.
Category: issues
Arts Org CEO Warns Of Embezzlement, Gets Attacked With Lye; Board Fires Her, Then Votes To Shut Org Down
“Scandal has rocked a Queens-based arts charity that abruptly shut down on May 11. Healing Arts Initiative (HAI), founded in 1969, offered performances and workshops for the city’s poor, disabled, and elderly, but was brought down by a $750,000 embezzlement scheme that left director D. Alexandra Dyer disfigured after she was attacked with lye while investigating the organization’s finances.”
Anti-BP Activists Gate-Crash British Museum Opening To Protest
“The piece was made of materials including crude oil from the Gulf Coast, a teargas cartridge from Cairo’s Tahrir Square, and 340 lines of black stones, which, according to a release from the group BP or Not BP?, ‘symbolizes how BP’s operations in Egypt are ‘surrounded by human rights violations’.'”
When Advertisers Troll Bigots By Featuring A Gay Or Interracial Family, Everyone Wins
“By now, this is a familiar template: 1. Brand implicitly endorses a mainstream progressive cause. 2. Small band of monsters reacts predictably. 3. Right-thinking Americans rush to embrace and defend the brand. … No matter how the fracas plays out, everybody wins in the end: The trolls get attention, responders get the warm and fuzzy pleasure of combating hate, and the brand comes out looking like a crusader for justice.”
What It Means When All Of Our Experts Are Wrong
“History’s roster of morons, you begin to realize, bears a worrisome resemblance to its roster of geniuses. Whomever you happen to rely on for your present stable perch—John Oliver, Elizabeth Kolbert, the Freakonomics guys — you can’t help but begin to feel the chair-legs wobble. Wrongness, now and forever, is an equal-opportunity affliction.”
Can The Ticket Resale Racket Be Stopped?
“Most ordinary fans simply don’t stand a chance. Within seconds of an event going on sale, the tickets are harvested in their thousands by a small but ruthlessly efficient army of touts, many using multiple credit cards to bypass the limit on the number of tickets that one person can purchase.”
Why The Director Of Last Year’s Oscar-Nominated ‘Mustang’ Says She Can’t Work In Her Country Anymore
“The situation for women in Turkey is, [Mustang director Deniz Gamze Ergüven] believes, now very grave, for which reason she is happy for her film to be regarded as a contribution to the increasingly muscular and conflicted debate surrounding their rights, their freedom.”
How Best To Preserve Hong Kong’s Protest Street Art?
“In Hong Kong, the goal is not only to preserve the objects for posterity. Although the protests have disbanded, Mr. Wong said, the hope is to display the objects in a way that can revive the spirit of the movement.”
Barbican Chief Says The Arts Center Was Wrong To Cancel “Exhibit B” After Protests
“The scale of the complaints took us by surprise. We were not trying to cause offence and we were always willing to engage in debate. But I accept that we did offend and we offended doubly. We offended those who thought the production was racist and those who thought we prevented freedom of speech when we made the decision on advice from the police to cancel the show.”
Why Hasn’t The Teaching Of Philosophy In American Colleges Diversified Beyond European History?
“Given the importance of non-European traditions in both the history of world philosophy and in the contemporary world, and given the increasing numbers of students in our colleges and universities from non-European backgrounds, this is astonishing. No other humanities discipline demonstrates this systematic neglect of most of the civilizations in its domain.”