The newly published 2015 report estimates London will lose around 30% of its current artistic workspaces over the next four years due to rising rents, which it describes as “a major blow to a city where creativity is a huge part of its reputation and economic identity”.
Category: issues
Prime Minister Trudeau Writes To His Culture Minister About The Arts
Among his priorities: Restore and increase funding for CBC/Radio-Canada, following consultation with the broadcaster and the Canadian cultural community. Review the process by which members are appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors, to ensure merit-based and independent appointments. Double investment in the Canada Council for the Arts. Increase funding for Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board.
Paris’s Cultural Institutions Slowly Bounce Back After Attacks
“This week, the places that make Paris one of the world’s great cultural capitals have been slowly coming back to life, and directors are hoping that residents and visitors alike will return. They say that they are more convinced than ever that culture is a form of resistance to terrorism.”
28 People On The Lesbian-Culture Artifacts That Changed Their Lives
Alison Bechdel, Christine Vachon, Lea DeLaria, Carrie Brownstein, and others name books, movies, songs, paintings, photographs, and underwear ads (yes) that made all the difference.
Is There Such A Thing As “American” Art Anymore?
“Many curators of American museums say they’re moving away from traditional definitions: In the past, the label has been more actively used to decide who does and doesn’t belong in the country’s cultural history. But art reflects identity, and the U.S. national identity has only grown more pluralized in recent decades, thanks to immigration and globalization.”
Claim: Ticket Resellers Are A Scourge That Hurts Audiences
“I don’t think parasitic is too strong a word for the secondary ticketing industry. Our view is that this is an industry that’s been allowed to grow on the back of the creative arts without reinvesting anything into it.”
Processing Atrocities Like The Paris Attacks, From Afar
“What we should be using as a measure is what we call emotional distance. It has to do with what you hear in the news and the media, and how relevant it is to you, and to what extent you identify. There’s not a general rule to that. … If the victims are people who belong to your social group, who you identify with, it’s one thing. Everyone makes his own emotional distance from traumatic events. Atrocities shortcut the emotional distance – they are universally perceived as something so incongruous that you keep thinking about it.”
How We Mourn Our Dead Pets: A Brief History
Jessica Miller looks at pet cemeteries (which go back to 1881), pet taxidermy, mourning jewelry, and the latest technology out of Florida: freeze-drying your departed doggie.
Today’s Kids Live On Screens. So How Are The Arts Going To Reach Them?
“There are still just 24 hours in a day, so if the tweens and teens are in front of a screen for 9 of those hours, and in school for say 6 of those hours, and sleep for seven of those hours (and they need at least that much sleep), and eat, exercise (maybe) or whatever else for the remaining two hours, then IF we want to get to them (and we can’t get to all of them in the schools, and not likely in their sleep), then we have to figure out how to get onto those screens they are in front of every day – television, YouTube, Instagram, video games, Vine, movies, social networks etc. etc. etc. because there is no other choice.”
America’s Cult Of The ‘Amateur’
The phrase amateur hour “now registers as an insult. But it has an older meaning, one that betrays America’s sincere enthusiasm for the utterly unprofessional. … The idea of effortless authenticity is so attractive that members of the American establishment have vied for more than a century to buy, cheat or counterfeit their way to amateur status.”