“Strategically placed cameras will scan faces at the Download Festival site in Donnington before comparing [them] with a database of custody images from across Europe. It is one of the first times it has been trialled outside, normally it is done in a controlled environment. There has been a lot of interest from other festivals and they are saying: ‘If it works, can we borrow it?’”
Category: issues
Ohio Republicans Kill Historic Preservation Tax Credit, And Cincinnati Arts Leaders Fret About Music Hall Restoration
Developers who fought in an intense competition for the money were mystified that senators had slipped a couple of lines into the two-year state budget to eliminate the tax credit.
Has Britain’s National Trust Lost Its Way In The “Visitor Experience”?
This idol now reigns supreme in the NT’s culture: the “visitor experience” of shop, café, loos, car parks and fun for all the family, banishing the dark spectre of “elitism” and making everything ever more “accessible”, has become its religion, superseding a basic respect for the integrity and dignity of what it is charged with conserving and cherishing.
How Artists Are Trying To Fix Baltimore
The spirit of rebirth reveals itself in many ways. But nobody is talking about returning the area to the tailored elegance of a century ago. Baltimore is to Washington what Bologna once was to Rome. Affordable. And uninhibited by pretensions that stifle innovation.
Ford Foundation Re-prioritizes – Will Make All Its Grants To Fight Inequality
“Ford joins a growing number of foundations pouring more money into programs that fight inequality. But its plans to look at every grant to ask how it reduces inequality is a more stringent approach than other foundations have taken. That said, the foundation is taking a broad interpretation of inequality — looking not just at wealth, race, ethnicity, and gender but also access to technology and the arts.”
Cooper Union President And Five Trustees Quit In Bitter Dispute
“Recent controversial decisions — including the board’s announcement last year that Cooper Union would abandon its tuition-free model — and the dismissal of Jamshred Bharucha, who is deeply unpopular with many student and alumni groups and the New York State attorney general, have led to contention and unrest at the New York City college, especially among the leadership ranks.”
England’s Arts Funder Sees Budget Cut By £1.2 Million, Says “Oh, Thank God!”
Upon receiving word, Arts Council England chair Peter Bazalgette tweeted that it’s “good news for arts and culture for this year at least.”
Study: Admittance To UK Performing Arts Conservatories Favors The Rich
Young people aged 18 from the most advantaged fifth of the UK were 6.2 times more likely to be accepted through UCAS Conservatoires by the time they reach 19 than those from the most disadvantaged areas.
Poland’s Government Made A Huge Investment In New Concert Halls, Museums (So What About Audiences?)
“The investments have generated a remarkable audience boom. Between 2004 and 2013, the number of museum visitors rose from 17.5m to 29.0m, visitors to art galleries from 3.0m to 4.5m and audiences for theatres and concerts from 9.3m to 11.5m.”
USC’s MFA Class Quit Their School. The Reasons They Quit Are Present At Arts Schools Across America
“In fine art, innovation means pushing oneself beyond aesthetic tropes and posing what are often extremely uncomfortable questions. It has nothing to do with innovating the way corporations can use metrics and data to monetize the social behaviors of everyday people. Sure, there are plenty of artists who are cash-hungry, capitalist pigs. But…”