“Brault, CEO of the National Theatre School in Montreal, a former vice-chair of the Canada Council’s board and a co-founder of Quebec’s annual Journées de la culture (Culture Days), will assume the job June 26 for a five-year term, the Canada Council said in a news release.”
Category: issues
L.A. Moves To Unfreeze $7.5M In Frozen Arts Money
The funds, from a levy on developers to pay for public art and/or performance, have been accruing unspent since a 2007 City Attorney ruling that the money had to be spent within one block of the construction that generated it – which, depending on the location, isn’t always realistic.
Passover, The Jewish Holiday For Goyim
“Every spring, restaurants, churches, and student organizations invite non-Jews to relive the Israelites’ exodus from bondage. How did such an exclusive feast come to have seats for so many different faiths? … Does it dilute the real essence of Passover to turn the seder into a general celebration of freedom and a call for universal justice? Is it really that commendable to dip one’s toe into millennia of someone else’s tradition?”
Brave New World: STILL Too ‘Controversial’ For Some Americans
“Why would we teach kids what is negative in society? Let’s teach them what is right, to become good citizens and improve the fabric of society.”
New Rules For New Technology – We Need ‘Em
“The hybridization of ourselves and our technologies, and the political and economic struggle around this process, threatens to destabilize some qualities of our intimate lives that are also among the core foundations of our civil and moral society: freedom, trust, empathy, forgiveness, forgetting, attention.”
Say Goodbye To The American Folk Museum’s Façade
“On Monday, scaffolding and protective netting will begin to go up around the folk art building, at 45 West 53rd Street,” according to MoMA. “The building’s facade will be removed first, panel by panel, and taken to storage. Its future remains uncertain. Demolition is expected to continue through the summer.”
Would An Arts Boycott Of Russia Have Any Impact?
“One reason this can work is that Russia really cares about art, music and literature. It has a great cultural tradition that is both truly popular and profoundly serious.”
We’re Number One! We’re Number… 39?
“While the U.S. enjoys the second highest per capita GDP of $45,336, it ranks in an underperforming 16th place overall. It gets worse. The U.S. ranks 70th in health, 69th in ecosystem sustainability, 39th in basic education, 34th in access to water and sanitation and 31st in personal safety.”
UK Appoints New Culture Secretary (Very Quickly)
Not 24 hours after Maria Miller resigned over an expenses scandal, prime minister David Cameron appointed merchant banker and Treasury official Sajid Javid, 44, as the new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Minister for Equalities.
What’s Maria Miller’s Legacy As Britain’s Top Culture Official? (Not A Lot)
“BBC arts editor Will Gompertz said the arts community had been ‘largely ambivalent to a culture secretary who, it suspected, wasn’t particularly interested in culture’.”