The Croydon museum can say goodbye to accreditation and grants if it goes through with plans to sell a major Chinese ceramics collection – but the town council doesn’t care.
Category: issues
Are America’s Cities FIguring Out How To Reinvent Themselves?
“Cities and metropolitan areas are really networks of leaders and institutions. They’re very powerful on their own, but when they come together and they collaborate to compete, they can do grand things together.”
Embattled President Of American Academy Of Arts And Sciences To Resign
Leslie Cohen Berlowitz “has been on paid administrative leave since early June, following reports that she had falsely claimed, on several grant applications and other documents, to have a doctorate.”
Size Doesn’t Matter Much – For Peahens
“Peacocks are the dandies of the bird world, investing a huge amount of energy into growing their elaborate coloured tails. Now we have the first idea of just what a peahen looks for in a peacock’s tail – and for such an icon of evolutionary biology, the answer is surprisingly little.”
Arts Council England Restructuring (To Save Money) Has Cost Almost £10 Million
“An ACE spokesperson said that it anticipated that the costs of the restructure would be recovered via savings in the next two financial years, while stressing that £2.3 million of the redundancy payments come from a pot given to ACE by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport specifically for that purpose.”
Tale Of Two Cities – Detroit And Pittsburgh
“Pittsburgh develops talent. New York City consumes it. Education and then migration promote upward mobility. People didn’t abandon metro Detroit like they did metro Pittsburgh. Why? Pittsburgh did a much better job of educating its residents. Thus, Pittsburgh offers much greater upward mobility opportunities.”
Are Our Arts Organizations Screwing Over Artists?
“It has become ever more obvious that virtually none of the money that flows into major arts institutions, companies that distribute creative content, and art markets actually reaches the artists who generate the work. And people are getting vocal about it.”
Portugal Essentially Eliminates All Support For The Arts
“They’ve just cut culture out.”
U.S. House Republicans Propose Massive Cuts To NEA, NEH
Legislation now moving through the Appropriations Committee would reduce the budgets of the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities by $71 million each. Funding for the Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art would be cut by almost one-fifth.
Alabama Arts Center Closed Due To Bat Invasion
“A bat infestation in March caused Kentuck [Art Center] to evacuate its downtown Northport building and seek about $50,000 from the city of Northport to help get rid of the bats and restore the structure. The bats have been banished, but four months later, the arts association is still not back in its building.”