“BECTU and Equity put forward a joint motion at this year’s Trades Union Congress, which called for ‘local authority support for the arts to be a statutory obligation’ and was passed unanimously.”
Category: issues
MOOCs Can’t Replace Colleges, But They Can Make Colleges Better
“The basic idea is to use MOOC-style video lectures and other online features as course materials in actual, normal-size college classes. By assigning the lectures as homework, the instructors are free to spend the actual class period answering students’ questions, gauging what they have and haven’t absorbed, and then working with them on projects and assignments.”
Melbourne Arts Centre Faces Big Deficits, Staff Layoffs
“According to the restructure proposal, nearly every business unit within the Arts Centre could face losses: performing arts (including programming), corporate services (finance and human resources), customer enterprises (commercial and visitor/reception services), marketing and online, as well as development (corporate communications).”
Would It Hurt You To Fake This?
“You’re having a conversation. The other person mentions a name, the name of a book, the name of a person you ought to know the name of, the name of a theory you should have heard of — that’s the implication. And there’s that moment of decision: you could either speak up and say, ‘Oh, I don’t know who you’re making reference to or what you’re talking about,’ … or you could fake it.”
Want A Creative City? The Data’s In. It’s Pretty Simple
“Density and diversity didn’t turn Florence into a creative hub of artists and inventors. Migration did.”
In Defense Of Philosophy As A Serious Field Of Study
“In the division of intellectual labour, philosophers work mainly at the level of the hinges between thoughts, on those concepts deeply embedded within the argumentative threads weaving through our culture. But these are threads that have started somewhere with the formation of beliefs, and end somewhere in actions.”
Is The Internet Killing Gossip?
In the online world, there is no such thing as “between me and you”. There is only “between me and anyone who is reading this or who might do so at some point in the future…” The more we wake up to this, the more we resist the temptation to dish.
It’s Better To Invest In Creative Workers Than Creative Companies
“It’s time to stop the old “industrial policy” approach of subsidizing private firms and industries and focus instead on developing the broader creativity of workers.”
What’s The Matter With Paris? (And, How Can The French Fix It?)
“The vibrancy that made the City of Light the preferred destination for exiled and expatriate artists and intellectuals has dimmed. Parisian teens dream of Brooklyn, not the other way around.”
Why Should Actors Have To Suffer So Much To Film Good Movies?
“Is there a line to draw between artistic dedication and expectation of realism from a medium of entirely artificial construction? Does an actor’s physical and emotional investment in their work constitute a reasonable exchange for a viewer’s entertainment?”