“Bezos wrote that he ‘very much’ hoped workers did not recognize the workplace depicted in the article — ‘a soulless, dystopian workplace where no fun is had and no laughter heard.'”
Category: issues
She Sculpted New York’s Frederick Douglass, But She Can’t Afford Her Studio Anywhere In The City Anymore
“The relentless tide of gentrification has made it impossible for her to stay. One by one, the craftsmen and artists have vanished from the red brick building on Jay Street where Ms. Koren worked. The cabinetmaker? Gone. The photographer? Gone. The lamp maker, the painter and the dealer of 1950s furniture? All gone.”
Can Anything Save Small Businesses In New York?
“When I say they’ve destroyed New York’s old stores, bars, restaurants, hangouts, I’m saying the real estate market has destroyed the sacred watering holes and gathering places of the 20th century.”
For Government Arts Agencies, A Problem With Contracts And Staffing
“Every weekday for the past two and a half years, Ariel Wilson Cetrone showed up for work in the morning at a small District government agency, poring over grant applications and performance reviews for the arts projects she oversaw. Her name was listed on the staff directory on the agency’s Web site, she had a D.C. government e-mail address, cell phone, and business cards, and put in 40 hours just like everybody else. But she wasn’t like everyone else.”
Amazon: Not A Pleasant Workplace … To Put It Mildly
“Employees say that the Bezos ideal, a meritocracy in which people and ideas compete and the best win, where co-workers challenge one another ‘even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting,’ as the leadership principles note, has turned into a world of frequent combat.”
Think Accommodating The Arts To Audiences With Disabilities Is Simply About Building Ramps? Here’s A Little Imagination
“In disability circles, we are reminded to always lead with the person first — it’s better to say “a person who uses a wheelchair” vs. “a wheelchair user.” (The only exception is in the deaf community, where many want to be referred to as a “deaf person.”) With artists, I am reminded to always lead with the person and art form, and then add an identifying contextual tag when and where appropriate.”
Research: Five Popular Education Reforms That Don’t Work
In a new paper, “What Doesn’t Work In Education: The Politics Of Distraction,” published by Pearson Education, Hattie takes on some of the most popular approaches to reform. Small classes. High standards. More money. These popular and oft-prescribed remedies from both the right and the left, he argues, haven’t been shown to work as well as alternatives.
Audience Engagement? Everyone’s Talking, But What Does It Mean?
“As ongoing technological and demographic changes have altered the relationship between arts organizations and that of artists and the audiences for their work, the value proposition offered during the latter half of the 20th century is in many cases changed and less relevant. Many arts groups therefore struggle with diminishing audiences and instability as the connection between the arts consumer and the arts offerer has frayed.”
‘Sesame Street’ Goes To HBO And Makes Clear Why We Should Fund The Arts
The new agreement “simultaneously demonstrates, once again, that the show is a valuable commodity, and makes one of the best, most underlooked arguments for public arts funding. It’s not … about whether art exists or not. It’s about whether people who don’t live in areas with museums, or who can’t afford cable, much less premium cable subscriptions, have access to arts and culture.”
It Can Pay For Itself : Arts Council England Defends Decision Not To Fund Comedy
“An open letter written by the producers of the London Sketch Comedy Festival criticised ACE’s policy not to financially support the art form, claiming it is ‘negligent and dismissive’. A spokeswoman for ACE said the main reason it does not fund comedy directly is that it ‘tends to be a commercially self-sustaining performance form’.”