“Jed Bernstein, who for more than a decade led the Broadway League, the industry’s national trade association, and has produced Broadway shows himself, was named on Wednesday as the successor to Reynold Levy, who is stepping down in January after 11 years as Lincoln Center’s president.”
Category: issues
Australia Council Gets New Chief
“Tony Grybowski is well known to the industry from his role as executive director of the council’s Major Performing Arts Board since 2007. Before that he was an executive with several classical music organisations and with Arts Victoria.”
Patti Smith To Young Artists: Don’t Come To New York
“New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie… New York City has been taken away from you… So my advice is: Find a new city.”
France Proposes Taxing Smartphones To Fund Culture
“Here’s a proposal that would have a hard time finding support in the United States. A new government study in France suggests levying a new tax as high as 1% on the sale of smartphones, tablets and other Internet devices, with the funds going toward funding cultural initiatives.”
Planning A National Museum For Palestine
Jack Persekian, director of the new institution, to open in Birzeit in late 2014: “The Palestinian Museum is a political symbol only in so far that it celebrates the accomplishments of the Palestinian people in arts and culture, and that it affirms the presence of Palestinians as a people who have agency, who are productive, who shape their own histories.”
German Court Rules Google Must Remove Search Results If They Threaten Privacy
“The feature is notorious in Germany after it began suggesting results for the wife of former German President Christian Wulff suggesting she might have been a prostitute or had an affiliation with a red-light district.”
Researchers: Victorians Were More Clever Than We Are
New research in the journal Intelligence suggests the Victorians were naturally cleverer than we are, and draws the startling conclusion that “the Victorian era was marked by an explosion of innovation and genius, per capita rates of which appear to have declined subsequently”.
Growing Divide Between Arts Donating In London And Out Of London
“Philanthropic giving to theatres, galleries and other arts and heritage organisations rose 10% in London between 2011 and 2012. But donations elsewhere fell 3.5%, said Arts & Business, a charity that seeks to connect arts bodies with donors.”
How Cooper Union’s Endowment Failed The School’s Mission
“Since Peter Cooper’s heirs gave the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art the land under the Chrysler Building in 1902, the school’s endowment has enabled it to offer students a high-quality, tuition-free education through two world wars, the Great Depression and multiple stock market crashes and financial crises. So why does Cooper Union now find itself forced to charge tuition of an estimated $20,000 a year?”
Top Cultural Official In Dublin Suspended Pending Scandal Investigation
“Dermot McLaughlin, chief executive of Temple Bar Cultural Trust,” which funds arts and culture organizations in the Irish capital’s cultural district, “has been suspended on full pay pending an investigation by its board of his role in offering three senior staff members redundancy packages last week, each worth €100,000 or more.”