Category: issues

The California Arts Council “will get $3 million this year from state coffers instead of the $1 million called for in the budget legislators passed in June, thanks to Assembly Speaker John Perez, who’s providing the extra money from discretionary funds under his control. … [The] agency’s budget was slashed more than 90% during a recession 10 years ago.”

With the extra $2 million appropriated by the Assembly Speaker, California will be spending 18.5 cents per resident on arts grants in 2013-14 – ahead of Georgia (13 cents) and Kansas (7 cents). (Leading the pack is Minnesota, at $6.50 per resident.)

“I recognize the importance of looking at higher education critically to determine what impact the experience has on individuals and societies but we seem to repeatedly resort to the same fallback strategies of “counting what can be counted” for lack of an effective methodology for an alternative.”

“Reynold Levy made about $7,000 each weekday as president of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, earned about the same, $1.8 million in 2011.”

“Former Cairo Opera House chairperson Ines Abdel-Dayem has been told by Prime Minister Hazem El-Beblawi that she will be appointed Egypt’s new culture minister, a source has told Ahram Online.”

Lionsgate: “We obviously do not agree with the personal views of Orson Scott Card and those of the National Organization for Marriage.”

“Officially, a Berlin spokesman confirmed on Friday, Bienkowski is suspected of having violated a law against ‘insulting organs and representatives of foreign countries.'”

“These plans seemed to have been made without any forethought to the building’s historical and cultural integrity.”

“An Arts Council England report concluded that 177,000 events led to “over 43 million public experiences” of the Cultural Olympiad.”