“Under the decree, Lincoln Center agreed to install additional wheelchair seating, including locations closer to the stage, seats with removable armrests, Braille signs and an automatic door to the balcony. The center will also renovate food and retail areas as well as add accessible parking locations, all over the next year and a half. No fine was imposed.”
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So Now Canada’s Conservative Government Supports Arts Funding?
“It’s equally important for those of us who area advocates of the arts to make sure that we stand up and stare down those who are enemies of investing in the arts, and to make sure we beat them back with sound arguments and judgments.”
An Arts Degree? Survey Says: You’re Happier, More Likely To Be Employed
“According to SNAAP’s survey of 36 000 creative arts grads, their unemployment rate is half that of the national average and 71% of bachelor’s degree holders in the arts and 86% of those with an MA are working or have worked as professional artists.”
Organizers Say Half Of All Tickets To London Cultural Olympiad Have Already Been Sold
“More than two million people have bought tickets, although this includes events that have already happened such as the 85,000 tickets sold for the Globe to Globe Festival and attendances at the David Hockney and Lucian Freud exhibitions at the Royal Academy and National Portrait Gallery.”
Scotland Backs Off, Temporarily, Switch To Project-Based Funding
“Creative Scotland, the Scottish arts funding quango, has delayed by six months its controversial proposal to remove flexible funding from 49 cultural organisations” in favor of per-project grants made from the Lottery fund.
Boosters Try To Reboot Fundraising For New Orlando Arts Center
Construction began a year ago on the first phase of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, which will include two halls. But backers still need $75 million for the second phase, a venue for Orlando’s orchestra and opera and ballet companies – and the effort to raise that money has stalled.
International Uproar Develops Over Policy Changes At Romanian Cultural Institute
“Over the past five years or so, the Romanian Cultural Institute has become an important force in global cultural exchanges, promoting writers, artists and especially the critically acclaimed cinema movement known as the Romanian New Wave.” But a new government has moved to tighten political control of the RCI, changing its focus to servicing the Romanian diaspora.
Richard Florida On How The Creative Class Weathers The Recession
“What I would call the super-creative core, they’re very adept at mixing income. It doesn’t mean they don’t struggle, of course they do, but compared to trauma of a blue-collar worker in Detroit or a construction worker in Phoenix, they’ve been able to mix and match [freelance] income and to somehow survive.”
And What, Exactly, Is Art? Here Are 16 Attempts At An Answer
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings gathers thoughts on the matter from the likes of Aristophanes, Oscar Wilde, Leo Tolstoy, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles Eames, Thomas Merton and Francis Ford Coppola.
Why A Silicon Valley Tech Non-Profit Is The Place People Want To Work
“Khan Academy, an educational non-profit, is becoming one of the sexiest workplaces for programmers in Silicon Valley, where stock options, IPOs and big-money acquisitions have long been considered key to luring talent. It’s attracted star coders from companies like Google and Microsoft and, as it grows, has its pick of some of the tech sector’s top engineers.”