“New Orleans’s latest working relationship with the Dutch began in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina. After the storm, Dutch ambassador Boudewijn van Eenennaam and senior economist to the Netherlands Dale Morris knocked on Senator Landrieu’s door to offer their services.”
Category: issues
In A Country Where Culture Is Repressed, How Do Artists Express Themselves?
“In 1965, Jeddah was home to Saudi Arabia’s first art show in modern times. Back then, the scene was more vibrant, with cinema, music and live theater. But in the late 1970s, a conservative religious establishment took control of the country’s social life and education and that vibrant scene was shut down. Today, every piece of art that’s shown publicly must first pass the government’s muster.”
Is “Effective Altruism” A Threat To The Arts?
For those dedicated to supporting culture, the scariest part of the effective altruist movement is that it seems to resonate strongly with the new generation of young, data-driven donors.
Coming To Terms With ‘Slut’: What A Woman Faces When She Publishes A Sex Memoir
Robin Rinaldi: “As a protagonist, I was far from perfect. As a writer, I struggled as best I could to tell the raw truth about how these issues played out in my life. … But it’s the combination of social media and sexism that filters an entire range of potential feedback down to its surprisingly predictable essence, as I learned from tweets and Facebook messages directed at me after my book was published.”
What A Small Startup Online News Service Can Teach The Arts About Finding An Audience
“They encouraged and facilitated the community’s thoughtful, respectful commitment to their community in its relation to the news and the site, and this engagement of their audience helped to lure advertisers who might have gotten a cheaper and better CPM at some other news venue.”
Black America, Please Stop Appropriating African Clothing And Tribal Marks
Zipporah Gene: “Black Twitter is littered with countless examples of the uproar that ensues when White people appropriate Black culture. Words such as fancy dress, mockery and profiteering are thrown around quite freely, but no one seems to realize that this selfsame violation is committed against us Africans – all under the guise of tribal fashion and connecting to The Motherland.”
‘We’ve Made Every Possible Mistake’: The Director Of ‘Russian Ark’ On The Problem With Russia
Alexander Sokurov: “We can blame [Putin] for many things, but in reality it’s because there’s huge support from the people. It’s just like a ring, a circle, and the question for Russian society is how to get out of this vicious circle. But we haven’t been able to get out of this circle since the time of the Romanovs. … There is a way out of a crisis of any kind, but from the moral crisis – you can spend centuries getting out of the moral crisis, and that’s our problem.”
China’s Economy Is Crashing. What Might Save It? The Arts?
With some saying the era of “Cheap China” and “Dirty Manufacturing” is over, the central government is focusing on expanding creative culture, adding 4,000 museums, galleries and art centers in the past five years and creating multi-million-dollar tech incubators and “creative clusters.” The government is funding book fairs, film festivals and promotes artistic works by writers and artists of whom it approves.
What Palmyra Meant To History, To Us
“What was done in Palmyra was a crime. The crime was committed in particular circumstances and for particular ideas—in geopolitical and ideological contexts. There is no escape from these contexts into lyrical speculations. This war on a parcel of a universal human patrimony—people still believe in such things, don’t they?—was part of a larger war, an actual war, over territory and power and the meaning of life.”
In The Age Of Creativity Everyone’s An Artist
“We’ve become fascinated with innovation as a culture,” said Aaron Rasmussen, a founder of MasterClass, a new online education company that features writers, actors and sports figures teaching classes about the creative process. “People used to look at a movie and say, ‘I could do better than that,’ but they had no vehicle.” Now anyone can watch instructional videos on YouTube or observe experienced photographers on Instagram.