Category: issues

The Canadian Museum for Human Rights was again forced to defend its proposed content against questions and criticisms during the institution’s first annual public meeting in Winnipeg.

“Coast to coast, theaters are experimenting with how to use ‘tweet seats’ effectively. The arts are evolving right now, they are participatory. … Social media is a tool we rely on, and we have been unafraid to experiment with it.”

“This year, when sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War began, I took a look at Southern museums and their portrayal of the war and often felt as if the differences between Northern and Southern interpretations could scarcely be overcome, as if the war were being continued by other means.”

“A new Arts Index has been launched at the House of Commons, a kind of annual health check for the state of the sector and there are lots of interesting facts and statistics to ponder.”

“In an institution whose approach to memory is based on relics of a Lost Cause, how is such a new vision to take shape? How are loyalties to Southern culture to be reconciled with the evils of one of its fundamental institutions?”

“Yes, there may be hellish poverty, slums that almost defy description, conditions which should not be allowed in this century but they should be upgraded, improved, rebuilt and hence disappear. What is observable in the slums of Dhaka, Rio de Janeiro, Shenzhen and Tehran is history in the making.”

“For residents of Aviles — previously known only for smokestacks and pollution — the opening of the Niemeyer Center in March was almost too good to be true.” Apparently so. Now the 9-month-old Niemeyer complex closes Dec. 15 — and it may herald a wave of arts project closures across Spain.

Thanks to a lawsuit, Ticketmaster owes a whole lot of people a fair amount of money. Not that it did anything wrong, of course.

Actors, activists and supporters have occupied the Teatro Valle, Rome’s oldest theatre, for five months – ever since the city council started to talk about privatizing it.

Though Toronto’s arts bring in an estimated $9 billion a year to the city’s economy, city administration wants to cut 10 percent of the arts council’s budget. “There would be no way to cushion that level of cuts,” says the arts council executive director.