Category: issues

“Equity is warning that a proposal to remove a section of the Education Act, which allows travelling performers to educate their children on the road, would ‘have a huge knock-on effect not just for child performers but also for experienced professional performers with families who could be forced to give up their careers’.”

“In 2012, comic-book-based movies accounted for a whopping 14 percent of U.S. box office revenue. … They represent a huge chunk of our cultural imagination. … But on the road from Tony Stark’s (pretty racist) origin fighting a bunch of commies to a world where graphic novels can be just as artful as stories without drawings, something remarkable happened. The nerds won.”

“The cause of distress: a national magazine, Coastal Living, named Sag Harbor as a finalist in a contest to crown ‘America’s happiest seaside town’.” Says one longtime resident, “Is Sag Harbor a happy place? No, Sag Harbor is not about happy.” (Note: The town that ended up winning the title just elected Mark “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” Sanford to Congress.)

“It’s got to be more than a set of venues, theatres that are open when there’s a show on and dead at other times. When you think about the location that we sit in as a portal through to the rest of the precinct, people want to spend time here.”

“We pay something for the majesty of the monarchy, we pay something to preserve the beauty of the countryside – and for similar reasons, we should pay something for the arts. They are as essential to our national dignity as the Queen and Hadrian’s Wall or the Lake District: they make us who we are and how the world sees us.”

“Arts and culture delivers a significant return on relatively small levels of government spending and directly leads to at least £856m of spending by tourists in the UK, according to a new report seeking to analyse the value of the arts to the modern economy.”

“All the promises such as ‘I’ll still come on that march/go to that conference/burn down that sex shop’ disappear when they sprog. All those in my circle with offspring seem to become unhealthily obsessed with their own little world. Principles go out of the window.”

“During the Arab spring, and in Egypt in particular, there was this incredible meeting of great unrest with social media and art.”

“Ferguson asked the audience how many children Keynes had. He explained that Keynes had none because he was a homosexual and was married to a ballerina, with whom he likely talked of ‘poetry’ rather than procreated.”

“The decision — one of the more significant in a recent spate of controversial repatriations by American museums — came after the Cambodians offered evidence that the works had been improperly removed from the Koh Ker temple complex.”