“The fact is a sea change is going on in the biggest cultural institutions in the city—almost all of which are, or are about to be, run by women.”
Category: issues
Kennedy Center Appoints Its First Ever Artistic Director Of Hip Hop
“An important aspect of our identity here at the center is the fact that we are a living memorial. You can’t really, as a performing arts center, recognize [Kennedy’s] achievements, but you can extrapolate the ideals that we associate with him and bring these ideals to life through performing arts activities.”
#CreatorGate – Scientific Academia Goes Nuts Over One Word In A Study About Hands
“It’s rare for any kind of deity to get a shout out in a scientific journal, let alone one as well-known and widely-read as PLOS One, so the reference raised alarms in the scientific community as soon as it was pointed out online last week.”
Is This A Workable Plan To Create Pensions For Artists?
“Ten years ago, the New York-based program Artist Pension Trust contacted artists with this unusual idea: Give us some of your artworks as assets and rather than sell them as soon as possible, as a gallery would, we will hold them for future sale, probably at least for 10 years. In this way, artists could invest in their future security and benefit from a potential increase in the value of their work.”
Need More Evidence Of The Value Of A Liberal Arts Education?
“Our current national mood may be revealing something missing in our educational agenda — the cultivation of wisdom, judgment, grace once inspired by the liberal arts — and now replaced by things seemingly more serviceable but far less ambitious.”
The Cowshed: A Victim Remembers The Cultural Revolution
“I had the good fortune not only to have seen a cowshed – or rather, to have been forced to see it – but to have lived in one for about nine months. It was no life of luxury, but I did gain a rare opportunity to witness the Cultural Revolution from the inside. … Would anyone these days build a prison for me, and ensure its security by guarding it day and night?”
Free Speech On School Campuses Is Under Attack From All Sides
“It is threatened by police spies, overzealous administrators, and students who are intolerant of dissent. It is threatened by activists agitating for speech codes and sanctions for professors or classmates who disagree with them. It is threatened by people who push to disinvite speakers because of their viewpoints and those who shut down events to prevent people from speaking.”
Have The Arts Been Strangled By The Non-Profit Model?
“Issues of equity in funding, leadership and audiences by race, gender, disability, etc. have manifested differently in different disciplines, but important questions linger on whether the growth of the nonprofit sector has brought with it a growth of inequality.”
When The Man Went All ‘Reefer Madness’ On Dungeons And Dragons
“These days your life isn’t complete if you aren’t part of a role-playing gaming group, but it wasn’t that long ago that playing Dungeons & Dragons was seen as a surefire ticket to madness and damnation.”
Stores That Sell Physical DVDs And Music Are Actually Doing Pretty Well
“The trend is clear – just as the internet has demonstrated that accessibility and convenience are key to selling entertainment, physical stores are demonstrating that if you put entertainment in front of people, they will buy it.”