“When it emerged that artist Ellie Harrison had secured a £15,000 Creative Scotland grant to enable her to live in Glasgow – and not leave – for a year, politicians and activists had plenty to say.”
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Should Arts Funders Take Into Consideration An Artist’s Income?
“I’d like to say that funders could simply instruct panelists to consider financial need without asking for data, but assuming somebody’s income is a horrible idea. What to do?”
Scotland’s Arts Funder Under Fire For Supporting Artist’s ‘Poverty Safari’
“Creative Scotland launched a strident defence of their decision to put £15,000 into a project that sees artist Ellie Harrison not allowed to leave Glasgow for a year. The news of the Glasgow Effect ‘durational performance’ caused a social media storm with hundreds of people taking to Harrison’s Facebook page to attack both the artist and the funding body.”
The Most Popular Course Online? How To Learn
The course is “aimed at a broad audience of learners who wanted to improve their learning performance based on what we know about how brains learn.”
‘A Peculiarly French And Savage Tradition’: Adam Gopnik On Charlie Hebdo And The Fine Art Of Blasphemy
“There is a huge space between an insult and a threat, and it isn’t actually that hard to tell one from the other. … Mocking your prophet is not at all like threatening your person. Blasphemy is ridicule directed at an ideology; hate speech encourages violence directed at individuals. … Blasphemy is just the fanatic’s name for criticism.”
Detroit’s Music Hall Needs Money Or It Will Close
Music Hall officials said failure to meet its April 30 deadline could lead to the institution closing its doors. “It’s dire,” said board secretary Shaun Wilson. “We need to raise $1.7 million or we have a serious situation.”
Critic Once Argued For More Booing; Now He Takes It All Back
Martin Kettle: “I have got what I wished for – only now I don’t like it. … The threshold is so low that the boos rarely mean anything. Except, of course, to the person being booed. Performers and players have always lived with fear of failure and the audience. But why make these things worse so cavalierly?”
Italy Says It Will Spend €300 Million On Cultural Projects
“The funds will be available immediately for the 241 projects, which includes the renovation of palaces, including Rome’s Palazzo Venezia, galleries, museums and libraries across Italy, the minister said in a statement.”
Should Burning Man Be Taxed? Nevada Wants It
“Burning Man appealed, estimating the tax change could cost $2.9 million. That could force the Project to raise ticket prices by as much as $35 above last year’s main sale price of roughly $390. That’s a steep entry fee for a week in a no-commerce zone where participants give away everything for free.”
Quantifying The Unquantifiable: Arts In The Time Of Big Data
“To be sure, the current mania over data-driven thinking and its seemingly limitless applications to journalism, education and all aspects of government has huge upsides that are themselves incalculable. But in focusing too heavily on economic multiplier effects and other such pieces of data, we risk standardizing cultural experiences to meet those fantasy numbers in the same way education has been standardized to achieve acceptable test scores.”