Category: issues

The budget “positions California to extend its hold on last place in the nation in per capita funding for its state arts agency. It has ranked 50th since 2003, except for a brief escape in 2011 when Kansas temporarily eliminated all arts funding.”

“Unfortunately, it seems that challenging Australian art is attacked and censored. And if we are only permitted to view “correct”, officially sanctioned work then art’s primary function – to reveal us to ourselves – is destroyed. “

“The extent of spending cuts had been expected to be much higher after the Treasury wrote to departments earlier in the year, warning most ministers they would have to cut up to 10 per cent of their budgets for the year 2015-16.”

“ACE is telling them a 10% cut to its budget may force it to cut its roster of regularly funded organisations from 696 to around 300. The organisation would also have to rely more on National Lottery money to supplement its government grant.”

The New York Times’ Michael Kimmelman has “all but dispensed with reviewing buildings, focusing instead on ‘who benefits from them and who doesn’t.’ Architecture, as he defines it, encompasses real estate, zoning, transportation, bike lanes, rising sea levels, affordable housing, and the workings of power–not the least of which his own.”

“For anyone who has ever had an unpaid internship, the Black Swan situation sounds familiar, which makes this ruling even more encouraging. Indeed, many internships appear to be within the grounds of the very internship that a U.S. federal judge just found illegal, both setting a precedent for future disgruntled worker bees and also scaring potential intern abusers into paying their summer or short-term staffers some actual money.”

“The report, requested with much fanfare in 2010 by a bipartisan group in Congress and produced by a blue-ribbon commission assembled by the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is likely to land as controversy continues to surround Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, the academy’s embattled president and one of the report’s prime movers.”

It is they said, the “Creative Capital of the World ” with one of every six people employed in a creative field, and generating over $ 120 billion dollars annually in gross revenue.

“The Office for National Statistics is to use responses from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport’s Taking Part Survey – which details consumption of and participation in the arts and culture – in response to public demand for their inclusion in the Measuring Well-being Programme.”

“This is a scheme that prioritises the accessibility of art over quality. The most obvious problem is that they will be prints of real pictures, pictures that are better seen in the flesh, so to speak.”