Category: issues

The Boat, long abandoned, will be renovated into a complex with art studios, rehearsal and performance spaces, office facilities, restaurants and galleries.

“Tim Gold, who co-chairs the board, said organizers looked north after learning the museum would not be eligible for tax breaks in D.C. and searching unsuccessfully for a location near the National Mall.”

“It is not clear whether an alternative agency will be formed or whether the arts will be folded into another agency. In either case, oversight of the arts will become political with changes in personnel and programs with each election.”

“A few studies suggest that introverted teachers—especially those who may have falsely envisioned teaching as a career involving calm lectures, one-on-one interactions, and grading papers quietly with a cup of tea—are at risk of burning out.”

“‘There’s a belonging problem in Hollywood,’ Ms. DuVernay said, ‘Who dictates who belongs? The very body who dictates that looks all one way.'”

“Shodan crawls the Internet at random looking for IP addresses with open ports. If an open port lacks authentication and streams a video feed, the new script takes a snap and moves on. While the privacy implications here are obvious, Shodan’s new image feed also highlights the pathetic state of [Internet of Things] security.”

“Despite her effort to backtrack, the damage has clearly been done. (Also: worst apology ever. Does Rampling even have a publicist? Perhaps that person is in a dark corner somewhere, curled up in the fetal position with a bottle of gin.)”

“While No Child Left Behind named the arts as a “core academic subject of learning,” gaps in access to arts learning persisted. In fact, despite the clear evidence of the value of learning in and through the arts, the U.S. Department of Education’s own research finds that the highest poverty schools in this country have the least access to arts education.”

“How many wonderful stories out there haven’t we heard because the person behind it didn’t have the right look, race, sexual orientation, or whatever else? How different might our worldview be if we were exposed to more realistic representations of society? To find that out, we need to see people with a wide range of backgrounds put in charge of programming and development.”

“Tolstoy College was an educational community based on the anarchist principles espoused, late in his life, by the author … It ran from 1969 to 1985, and was part of a project by the president of [SUNY] at the time, Martin Meyerson, to transform the Buffalo campus into the ‘Berkeley of the East,’ a quest for prestige and higher enrollments that required something of an image change for a university in a freezing steel town suffering the effects of a long economic decline.”