“The decision ends almost two years of roiling debate about an education that was long revered for being ‘free as air and water,’ and stood as the [art, architecture and technology] school’s most distinguishing feature.” The fees will be on what the college calls a “steeply sliding scale.”
Category: issues
Is There A Better Way Of Supporting The Arts Through The Tax Code?
“A case can be made that the nonprofit sector’s lobbying on behalf of the charitable deduction has neither improved the financial stability of the sector nor created greater legislative security. At best, it has limited the declines in individual giving in recent years.”
Cooperating – Small Chicago Arts Groups Try Cooperative Fundraising
“Creative Partners–a venture of dance theater company Lucky Plush Productions, puppeteer Blair Thomas & Company, and new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird–will test whether three disparate groups can benefit by sharing what is arguably their most challenging and competitive endeavor: fund-raising.”
And The Next Director Of The Edinburgh International Festival Is –
– “Fergus Linehan, 43, a former artistic director of both the Sydney Festival in Australia and the Dublin Theatre Festival … [He] will succeed Jonathan Mills, whose final festival will be next year, and will run the festival until at least 2019.”
How Egypt’s Art Has Changed After The Uprising
“The only thing that I have seen really change after the revolution is art. The revolution crushed the fear in us. We felt we had the right to act freely.”
When Will Older Arts Leadership Move Over And Give Younger Talent A Chance?
“Where does a senior artist transition to, so a mid-career artist can move and a younger artist can move, so we are not just trying to kill each other’s empires?”
New Movement On Arts Funding (But Maybe Not In The Right Way)
After a long lull, we’re starting to see some action on the arts and related topics at the federal level.
Ignorance Of The Law Excuseth … Internet Downloaders?
“As many as 44% of those who took part in an independent, online survey of 2,500 respondents … said they thought it was legal to upload commercially produced media to a file-sharing website, or did not know whether it was lawful or not.”
When A Country Loses Expertise, Will Its Economy Follow?
Germany is running out of experts – and its companies (especially those that demand German-speakers as employees) may be out of luck.
Half A Million’s Worth Of Rhino Heads Stolen From Ireland’s National Museum
Three masked men broke into the National Museum Archives building in north Dublin and stole four stuffed rhino heads. The heads’ horns, eight in total, are worth an estimated half a million euros on the black market, where they would be bought and used for traditional Asian medicine.