“Officials announced Monday that the historic, 1878 landmark will completely shut down in June for what is now a $129 million construction project. Following an extensive and complex renovation, it will reopen in fall 2017.”
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Study: Participation In The Arts Driven By Education, Not Class
“Sociologist Aaron Reeves of the University of Oxford reports most forms of arts participation are strongly correlated not with class, but rather with education. To his surprise, he found that in a large sample of the English population, those with higher incomes were actually less likely to be active participants in the arts.”
As Old As Humanity Itself: The Birth Of The Creative Class
Scott Timberg: “From the very beginning – perhaps since before the birth of Homo sapiens, in fact – we have craved the effects that art and music can have on us. Simultaneously, we have both worshipful and deeply suspicious feelings toward people who make art or who dwell in the realm of the aesthetic.”
Turning Combines Into Sculptures And Printmaking With Rhubarb Stalks: Minnesota Leads The Way In Rural Arts
“While some of the initiatives currently underway may benefit cultural tourism, most of the efforts seem to be based on an understanding of the intrinsic value of the arts in the life of any community and the sense of belonging that anchors people to a place.”
New York In The ’70s Was A Total Mess – Why Is The Culture Suddenly Acting Nostalgic For It?
“Recently there’s been, in TV and film and certainly in books, an intense yearning for a specific five-year period in New York City, those years between the blackout in 1977, and 1982, when AIDS was finally named by the Centers for Disease Control. … Collectively, these works express a craving for the city that, while at its worst, was also more democratic: a place and a time in which, rich or poor, you were stuck together in the misery (and the freedom) of the place, where not even money could insulate you.”
Jeremy Corbyn’s Great (And Passionate) Arts Policy
The new leader of Britain’s Labour Party puts arts front and center: “Culture and the arts play an essential role on individual and community wellbeing. If we are to achieve our goal in government of supporting people in leading more enjoyable and fulfilling lives, funding for the arts must be central to that offer. “
Study The Arts In College? You’ll Pay Later
“The world needs dancers and poets along with the future investment bankers and tech entrepreneurs streaming out of elite schools. The problem is that the dancers and poets are paying the same, ever-rising tuition, even though the necessary cost of running a good poetry program is probably not much more than it was in earlier times when college tuition was much less expensive than it is today.”
Jobs Report: Applications For Performing Arts Jobs Sharply Down In UK
“There have been a third fewer applicants per job in performing arts compared with last year, a recruitment website has found. The drop comes despite the number of jobs being posted by arts organisations actually increasing in 2015.”
‘How One Of America’s Last Free Colleges Screwed Its Students And Betrayed Its Legacy’ – Felix Salmon On Cooper Union
“Cooper Union would have been better governed by a stinking pile of rotting horseflesh. Horses, dead or alive, don’t happily sign away the very thing they are being charged with protecting.
Why Americans Give To What They Give To (A Debate)
“A 2010 survey by Hope Consulting found that only 16% of American donors give according to calculations of impact. For most, giving is guided by seemingly irrational ties to the communities in which they live. They give to organizations that are recommended by friends; that reflect their religious beliefs; that have had an impact on them or their loved ones; or that provide visible evidence of change within their local community. Yet according to the effective altruist philosophy, these reasons for giving are intellectually lazy and morally deficient, hopelessly constricted by a parochial viewpoint.”