“With the transformation, Yale would be among the best equipped universities in the Northeast for arts programming while the expansion would help New Haven, a struggling city where the university is a major employer as well as tourist draw, with its two art galleries and the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.”
Category: issues
So, What Do French Muslims Think About The PEN/Charlie Hebdo Controversy?
The people arguing about PEN’s award to the magazine’s surviving staffers have mostly been anglophones, many of whom had never heard of Charlie Hebdo before the murders. Finally, someone has asked French Muslims – well, seven of them, anyway – for their opinions.
Adelaide Festival Has A New Director – A Pair Of Them, In Fact
“Nine years after they last shared the running of Sydney’s Belvoir St theatre, Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy have been announced as the new co-artistic directors of the Adelaide festival of the arts.”
Say Goodbye Forever To Picasso’s Women of Algiers, Heading Into Private Hands Tonight
“Under the guise of so-called ‘quality,’ auction houses fabricate a pervasive psychic field that sees art in terms of price and profit. This seductive shallow field forces collectors with similar work or similar -isms to rush the same artists and -isms to auction the following season to reap ever-higher prices.”
Technology Kills The BBC’s Performing Arts Fund
“Launching as the Fame Academy Bursary, it supported more than 1200 individuals in the performing arts.
Beneficiaries have included global singing sensation Adele, composer Mark Simpson and the Bristol Old Vic.”
When Will U.S. Museum Directors Reflect America’s Demographics?
“The impending influx of new blood at the top offers museums an opportunity to rethink the job and question many of the assumptions that underlie traditional museum operations: the emphasis on splendid buildings, the primacy of curatorial authority and the balance between rich donors, for whom museums are often personal vanity projects, and the public, who see museums as shared common goods.”
Officials Threaten To Close Mosque That’s Part Of The Venice Biennale
“The project, by the Swiss-Icelandic artist Christoph Büchel, serves as Iceland’s national pavilion for the Biennale and is intended in part to highlight the absence of a mosque in the historic heart of Venice, a city whose art and architecture were deeply influenced by Islamic trade and culture.”
Study: Facebook Doesn’t Create Echo Chamber, Our Behavior Does
“In a new peer-reviewed study published today in Science, Facebook data scientists have for the first time tried to quantify how much the social network’s formula for its News Feed isolates its users from divergent opinions. According to their findings, Facebook’s own algorithms aren’t to blame. It’s us.”
Does Tory UK Election Win Mean Disaster For The Arts?
“Proposals for further enormous cuts that have more to do with ideology than necessity, combined with the Conservatives’ politically desperate promises not to destroy the NHS or education, mean the cultural sector will effectively be demolished by a second Cameron government.”
LA School District’s Ambitious Technology Bet – And How It Failed
“If one of the country’s largest school districts, one of the world’s largest tech companies, and one of the most established brands in education can’t make it work, can anyone?”