“In recent years, the region has seen a number of front-office collaborations among arts organizations, driven mostly by the financial realities of the poor economy.”
Category: issues
US Culture Agencies Get 11.2 Percent Budget Cuts
“The National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services will be faced with reining in their grantmaking between now and Sept. 30, when the 2010-11 budget year ends.”
Forget Chemistry And Music! Teach Students Entrepreneurship, Says Dilbert Creator
“I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. … But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? … Wouldn’t it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?” Scott Adams explains how he learned it (at a bar).
China On Trial In Ai Weiwei Case
“Something historically obscene is happening here. It is as if different times exist simultaneously. In one time-stream, democracy is in global demand and artists including Ai Weiwei are revealing the richness of China’s culture to the world. Yet in the sinister second stream it is 1950, and dissidents can be blackguarded and bullied with total impunity by a system that takes Orwell’s 1984 as a handbook.”
Australian Arts Companies Lag In Exploiting Digital Tech: Report
“However many companies are struggling to keep up with the massive leap in expertise required in the digital arena and also the increasing costs involved,” says the report by the Australian Major Performing Arts Group.
Hero Worship – America’s Burgeoning Award Culture
“Activists are heroes. Coal miners are heroes. People with terminal cancer are heroes. A word once reserved for the extraordinary is now applied to the merely admirable.”
Forget Civil War Reenactors – Meet Gone-With-The-Wind-ies
The “windies” are fans of Margaret Mitchell’s novel and its film adaptation “so ardent that recreating the burning of Atlanta I n an airport hotel banquet room is not out of the question.” And with the book’s 75th anniversary coming in June, Atlanta will become the windies’ Mecca.
War Horse Author Revisits His Favorite World War I Museum
Michael Morpurgo on the In Flanders Field Museum in Ypres, Belgium: “The visitor stands under a vast hanging cylinder gazing up at the faces of Europe: soldiers and civilians, victims all, about to be overwhelmed by violence. To cheering crowds, men march off to war in bright antique costumes, in helmets that would better suit Hans Christian Andersen’s Brave Tin Soldier. And waiting for them, half-hidden in the corner, are the machine gun and the wire, the flamethrower and the gas masks.”
Vatican Introduces New, Old-Fashioned English Liturgy, But Many Catholics Are Wary
“The church officials promoting it say it will bring an elevated reverence and authenticity to the Mass. Many Catholics who prefer a more traditional liturgy are eagerly anticipating the change. But after getting a glimpse of the texts in recent months, thousands of priests in the United States, Ireland and Australia have publicly objected that the translation is awkward, archaic and inaccessible.”
Dancing (And Painting) About Titian: Royal Ballet and UK National Gallery Launch Joint Project For 2012 Olympiad
“Artists including Turner Prize winners Chris Ofili and Mark Wallinger are working with renowned choreographers such as Wayne McGregor and Christopher Wheeldon on the venture which takes three paintings by Renaissance master Titian as its inspiration.