Category: issues

“Unlike the discipline of economics, and indeed unlike money – a lately-come tool we invented to facilitate trading at a distance – art is very old. The anthropologists and neurologists are now telling us how old – it’s as old as humanity. It isn’t a frill. Art isn’t only what we do, it’s who we are.”

The festival “will feature dance, Noh theater, taiko drumming, art exhibitions, manga and jazz, as well as performances by orchestras partly founded by Mr. Ozawa: the Saito Kinen Orchestra and the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku.” Much of the programming will also play at the Orange County PAC in California.

They “put everyday gay experience on the page. By default they were documenting the history of gay liberation in Britain. They turned gay people from the butt of the joke to those delivering the punch lines.”

“It is intrinsically impossible to justify public investment in creativity using (economic) tools, because art’s essence is its ability to engage us fully in body, emotions, mind and spirit, … Trying to explain or demonstrate this with numbers is like trying to describe a rainbow without mentioning color.”

“Twenty years ago we published a magazine that looked ahead to London in 2010. Our team of experts foresaw futuristic monorails, machines to control the rain, and a city riven by class wars. Instead we have the London Eye, the Gherkin and a population in thrall to the iPod and the mobile phone. We went back to those experts to ask: how did we get here?”

In a lecture in London this week, Guardian editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger said that the move toward site-wide paywalls is based on a “hunch” and that it could lead newspapers on a “sleepwalk into oblivion.”

“The students will expand The Post and Courier’s “Spoleto Today” staff by writing for print editions and producing online pieces to include video and audio components. They also will communicate with festival audiences through social media, including Twitter and Facebook, during the May 28-June 13 festival.”

“Its vibrant arts scene celebrated the country’s creation, and its public buildings sought to capture the elegance of a past that Haitians held onto though political trauma, staggering violence and a string of natural disasters. That alone has made the depth of the destruction of Haiti’s heritage hard to fully capture.”

These days, artists are “more likely to be stacking supermarket shelves, waiting tables or writing ­advertising copy by day, and acting, dancing or sculpting by night.”

“NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman told the U.S. Conference of Mayors today that the 15 new grants will aid the planning of arts districts and projects that enhance public buildings, libraries and pedestrian bridges – among other public spaces.”