“Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser is leaving his contract four months early and taking his arts management institute with him. The University of Maryland announced Wednesday that the Kennedy Center’s DeVos Institute of Arts Management will join the University of Maryland in September, cutting ties with the country’s busiest performing arts center.”
Category: issues
JFK’s Influence On The Arts
“Taking advantage of artists to inspire national optimism, the Kennedy White House made art glamorous. In return, art became a crucial factor in the new Camelot. But it is hardly surprising that this aspect of the Kennedy administration is being overlooked.”
Defending A Role For Philosophy
“It is our obligation as philosophers and citizens to celebrate this day by defending the role and the meaning philosophy has for society, in order to overcome the ideology behind these conservative politicians, who seem so ready to restrict young people’s opportunities to learn philosophy or to make philosophical research more available to the general public.”
Here’s Just How Difficult The Issue Of Racial Diversity Is
“I believe that the sooner we as a field start framing our efforts not around “what can we do as artists and arts administrators to promote diversity?” but rather “how does racial injustice manifest today, what are its root causes, and how can we as human beings most effectively be part of the solution?”, the sooner we’ll actually have something to be proud of.”
Philly’s Kimmel Center Opens New 200-Seat Studio Space
“With a new entrance on Spruce Street,” the SEI Innovation Studio “is readied to play host to a rotating installation of fine art (care of the West Collection) and studio space that will cultivate new talent and performance pieces.”
How Facebook Is Changing How We Tell Stories
“The alleged cultural democratization of social media has only made us hungrier for judgment. So hungry, we care more about the act than the judges. No wonder journalists run away from this, preferring a place where there are zoning restrictions on the new carnival of life.”
British Drive To Create 50,000 New Arts Jobs For Young People
“The national strategy, called Building a Creative Nation, is calling upon the UK’s 107,000 creative sector employers to each recruit a person aged 16 to 24 by 2016. The initiative is designed to ensure that young people are able to gain paid jobs in arts organisations.”
Should Charitable Foundations Throw Money At Detroit To Save DIA Art?
“The federal mediator in the Detroit bankruptcy is asking a group of at least eight local and national foundations to consider collectively contributing hundreds of millions of dollars to solve two of the most contentious issues in the case: municipal pensions on the chopping block and Detroit Institute of Arts paintings on the auction block.”
Art That Defines An Age – Do We Have Any?
“What, then, from our own era, will be remembered as the art that defined our age? Will the explosion in production be reflected in a boom in epochal works? Or will it all pass through a sieve so coarse that only one nugget remains? And if so, which one?”
British Parliament’s World Heritage Status Is At Risk Thanks To New Skyscrapers
How exactly did developers get the official go-ahead – with no public review – on huge schemes that may take away cultural status from Westminster and block views of Big Ben?