Category: issues

“The results showed that, after 10 years of continuous seawater injection (a total of almost 150 million cubic meters of water), the city could be lifted 25-30 centimeters.”

“Celebrity speaking tours have a long history, but arts venues say they are having a new run of popularity. While everything depends on an individual’s wit, charisma or story, such tours are modest affairs, requiring not much more than a person and a microphone. One hesitates to call them cheap entertainments, but that’s essentially what they are.”

“All around the world, highways are being torn down and waterfronts reclaimed; decades of thinking about cars and cities reversed; new public spaces created.”

“While the European model of arts infrastructure has come under siege, alternative sources of funding have been evolving in the Middle East. Arab filmmakers have increasingly been lured to a web of production grants spinning out of film festivals in Qatar and the UAE (in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi).”

The 118-foot sculpture of Christ with arms outstretched “has divided Poles, highlighting the widening cultural split in Poland between religious Catholics and a growing number of secular urban dwellers who want to see a diminished role for the church in public life.”

The truth is “that 1,000 people who care desperately about a stable society are no match for one person who doesn’t care at all. So while the right bandies about tales of nihilistic rioters and philistine thieves, the left indulges in its orgy of judgment at the phenomenal greed of rich people.”

“No longer merely the fusty home of antiques shows, the armory has recently unveiled art installations, staged dramas, presented operas and concerts and served as an outpost of the Whitney Biennial. Now it has … [named] its first artistic director, Alex Poots, who runs the Manchester International Festival in England.”

“The findings for 2010 commissioned by Otis College of Art and Design and compiled from state and federal government figures by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. showed a loss of 21,500 jobs and an 11% decline in employment in the three years.”

“Under the banner of ‘Culture as an International Dialogue’, the two-day event will bring together ministers with prominent artists, thinkers and those involved in developing and implementing cultural policy. It is being organised as a collaboration between the Scottish and UK governments, the EIF and the British Council.”