“Its colossal avian presence may yet guarantee the hub a place in the pantheon of civic design in New York. But it cannot escape another, more ignominious distinction as one of the most expensive and most delayed train stations ever built.”
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UK Pledges £141M To London “Olympicopolis” Arts Hub
“A new Sadler’s Wells dance theatre, a world-class V&A museum and exhibition space, and two university campuses that are dedicated to arts, design and engineering will rise on the site of the 2012 Games.”
Arts, Culture And Sports Have “Zero” Effect On Local Economies, Says UK Report
“The financial impact of cultural events on local economies ‘tend not to be large and are more often zero,’ according to new data produced by the What Works Network, a government-backed initiative launched in 2013 to offer guidance on decision making and spending in public services.”
British Campaign To Boycott Amazon For Christmas Racks Up Millions In Pledges
“By the morning of Cyber Monday, 11,463 people had pledged ‘to avoid shopping on Amazon from 1 to 25 December,’ promising to spend a combined total of £2.59m at other retailers.”
The Star Wars Trailer Has A Black Stormtrooper & The Internet Freaks Out
“A black stormtrooper can very well be a black stormtrooper in the Star Wars Galaxy without there being any great significance to it. It’s not that simple in the fraught universe of Hollywood, though.”
All Of That CyberMonday ‘Free Shipping’ Isn’t Actually, You Know, *Free*
“Retailers including Amazon, Best Buy, and the Gap have all raised free shipping minimums, not just because of the higher cost of shipping, but rather because it encourages shoppers to buy more.”
A Literary Love Letter, With Despair And Grief, To Moscow
“The nature of the Russian regime did not change when Peter the Great made his subjects shave their beards and moved the seat of government from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Nor did it change when Lenin moved it back to Moscow. Nor has it changed since; it still ‘wants everything to tremble before it.'”
In Minneapolis, Children’s Theatre Fixes Racism In ‘Peter Pan’ So Thoroughly That Licensing Company May Adopt Permanent Changes
“‘When I said yes to the piece about a year ago, we said obviously we have to tackle this,’ said Rothstein. ‘We had some hard conversations, and it’s been good to re-imagine him for the 21st century. It’s been worth the endeavor.'”
Actually, Even Equity Tours Might Not Be That Great For The Performers
The minimum wage on Broadway is “more than triple the minimum on some of today’s currently running Equity tours. These tours aren’t Broadway and marketing them as such is frankly disingenuous.”
This Is Where The Next Generation Of America’s Wealthy Arts Supporters Is Coming From
“For decades, arts organizations outside the U.S. have raised money by registering their nonprofits here, such as the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra or the Royal Shakespeare Company’s RSC America. Now U.S. arts groups are flipping the script, but with a twist.”