Category: issues

“The ongoing conflict is part of a process of gentrification in central Berlin, as the remnants of the city’s alternative culture are forced to make way for apartment buildings and hotels.”

The Festival “claimed on Monday that almost two million tickets had been sold for this year’s event, a 5% increase on the previous record breaking year. However, it has emerged that some venues offering free and unticketed shows were included in the figures. An extra 120,000 ticket sales were added to the final total this year.”

“Even though they dwindled into irrelevance before the end of the Seventies, the Panthers, their guns, their afros and their attitude still help to define popular culture, for better or worse.”

“Two-thirds of people agree with the government’s stance on cutting arts funding and increasing reliance on private cash, a survey has suggested. And a fifth of the 2,022 British adults questioned said visual arts should not be given any government funding.”

Matias Tarnopolsky not only has managed to arrange significantly more performances than last year, but has also astounded with a host of artistic coups.

“After being in the hot seat for the past three weeks over cuts to cultural funding,” provincial culture minister Kevin Krueger “announced Wednesday that the province would give the Arts Council $7 million [Cdn] from its 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy Fund.”

Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the architects of Lincoln Center’s redevelopment project, see the LED and video displays they have placed about the campus “not just [as] finishing touches: they are an extension, and in many ways the ultimate expression, of a wholesale reimagining of the complex as more porous, inviting and immediate.”

The Kimmel plans to install a 7.5 x 7.5 x 7.5-foot, two-screen video cube at the building’s most-trafficked corner. In addition, the center is bringing in Puck to create a restaurant in what is currently the ground-floor gift shop space.

“Though government and academic aims are often different, their views toward the struggling artist are often the same, arrogant without knowing, and dismissive without cause.”

“The FSB, Russia’s domestic intelligence agency, wants to force Internet service providers to remove undesirable websites. A law also requires these providers to install hardware at their own expense that allows the FSB — with a judge’s authorization — to keep track of the websites people visit and the e-mails they write.”