Category: issues

“Much like those New Yorkers, arts administrators find themselves in the dark, fretting about how this rapidly growing trend will affect them.”

“Craftsy, an 18-month-old, Denver-based service, is teaching skills that people used to learn mostly from adult-education classes or YouTube. Like Etsy and Pinterest before it, Craftsy is benefiting from the dovetailing of women’s interests in hand crafting and spending time online.”

“More funding should be put into the arts not less, says the artistic director of Europe’s largest arts complex, London’s Southbank Centre.”

Jonathan Landman, 60, wrote in an e-mail to colleagues, “We all know that the newsroom has to reduce its costs. No less urgent is its responsibility to cultivate a new generation of leaders. My continued presence would help accomplish neither. So it’s time to go.”

When the school’s academic journal published “a series of paintings depicting Muslim clerics in scenes with strong homosexual overtones, prompting threats of violence by Islamic extremists, … [officials] pulled all its issues out of bookstores and dissolved its editorial board.” A court is considering blasphemy charges.

“Libya does not have many famous voices, artists and poets. But that could change, as a country that was robbed of creativity and passion for decades starts to rediscover its hidden talents.”

“We found a way to engage people outside the classical European art forms. Listening to Plácido Domingo sing, and people singing themselves — both are valid, both are important.”

“That’s right: People voted for higher taxes to pay for art — they decided it was worth the money.”

“The arts have been downsized, and orchestras, theaters, dance companies and museums across the country face a moment of truth when they are being forced to redefine their role in 21st-century culture.”

“It is continually said that your culture or cultures are just as good as anyone else’s, and that there is no difference between high and low. But this is wrong.”