Category: issues

“In a few short years, the symphony will go from world-class to secondary status because of personnel changes. This will change decades of experience where Detroit’s symphony has been famous worldwide. That proves that management is just wrong.”

“Their study, subtitled, Involved in the Arts, Involved in Life, shows that people that attended performing arts events are 2.7 times more likely to be involved as volunteers in their community than people who stayed at home, while someone who reads literature is 1.8 times as likely to take exercise as a non-reader.”

“The State University of New York at Albany … announced this month that it is getting rid of degree programs in French, Italian, classics, Russian and theater. … While many large universities are promoting majors like information technology as career preparation for jobs, French and classics do not seem to fit that bill.” Eight professionals debate the issue.

“When it comes to attention spans, to the giddying, exhausting misery that can come over you when you find you have spent three hours “researching” nothing in particular on Google … well, the answer there is probably: try not to spend three hours wasting time on Google.”

Names are crucial in the delicate art of branding, and sometimes they don’t sound quite right.

“For many artists, Kickstarter simplifies the otherwise complicated process of fundraising. A lot of artists who are profoundly talented don’t have it in them to take care of business. Kickstarter… is less daunting.”

“The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts has been granted full independence from government … NESTA will move from the public to the voluntary sector and become a charitable company. It does not receive money from central government, but is funded by a Lottery endowment. This will continue.”

The arts center’s founding CEO is stepping down next June to head up a venture – wholly owned by NJPAC – to develop real estate immediately adjacent to the complex. The project’s aim is to diversify sources of revenue for NJPAC and to act more directly in the renewal of the center’s neighborhood in downtown Newark.

“With a dozen new museums, libraries, theaters and other cultural centers — all focused on the city’s unique rebranding around kids culture and digital arts — Holon has become an international model for urban renewal, drawing 400,000 tourists last year.”

“The arts are included alongside geography and languages in the second phase of the rollout of the national curriculum. It means that, for the first time, all students from their first year of school through to Year 8 will learn five art forms: dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts.”