“All organizations – not just nonprofits – are now in the business of promoting “social good” in order to gain support… If your organization imagines one of its key differentiators to be its social responsibility, well, then your thinking may be at complete odds with the way the market perceives and evaluates all organizations (i.e. nonprofits and for-profits alike).”
Tag: 02.11.15
Arguments Break Out Over Hotel Planned Near One Of Modern Architecture’s Holy Sites
“The jury tasked with selecting the design for a new hotel adjacent to Peter Zumthor’s Therme Vals spa in Switzerland has ‘dissociated itself’ with the client’s decision to appoint Los Angeles firm Morphosis,” headed by Pritzker winner Thom Mayne.
Pole Dancing At An Art Museum – Politicized Pole Dancing, No Less
The installation at Manhattan’s New Museum, called (in exemplary political art fashion) P.O.L.E. (People, Objects, Language, Exchange), incorporates the original neon “Silence = Death” sign and has included pay-what-you-wish “open pole” sessions.
Now The Arts Are Getting Their Own Version Of The Coachella Festival
In March, about a month before the big rock music shindig kicks off in the California desert, a new one-day event called the Festival of the Desert will debut in the towns around Palm Springs. Headliners include soprano Renée Fleming, ballet dancer David Hallberg, and music biz giant Quincy Jones; the artistic leader is conductor Philippe Jordan.
What’s Up With The Peculiar Way The Grammys Treats Classical Music?
“If the Recording Academy feels that certain awards they give are not worthy of exposure on network television (which ultimately are the awards that wind up getting reported on in most of the media outlets and therefore the ones that most people are aware actually of), why give the awards in the first place?”
Minnesota Orchestra Will Be First American Orchestra To Play In Cuba Since American Policy Shift
“The trip marks a striking return to the limelight for an orchestra that only a year ago was emerging from the longest lockout in American orchestral history, with serious questions about its future. It is all the more fitting since the Minnesota Orchestra’s first-ever international performances were in Cuba in 1929 and 1930.”
Scientists Wonder: How Does The Brain Figure Out How To Read (Here’s What We Know So Far)
“You know where the color of your eyes came from, your facial features, your hair, your height. Maybe even your personality — I’m stubborn like mom, sloppy like dad. But what we’re trying to do is find out, by looking at brain networks and accounting for everything in the environment, is where your reading ability originates.”
Extremists Destroy Important Sufi Shrine In Yemen
Aside from anger at the act of violence, the difficulty of protecting such sites and the Islamists’ capacity to strike have caused frustration and pessimism. The attack took place “barely 20 km NW from Al Anad airbase, where hundreds of US armed forces personnel are based.”
When Sudan Banned Libraries
In the early 1990s, all of the city’s libraries were shut down and the books inside destroyed. Sudan became an authoritarian, single-party Islamic state following Bashir’s military coup in 1989, and censorship ruled. When Bashir came to power, the writers’ union was one of the first organisations he banned. “They don’t want gatherings, that’s all. They don’t want the people to meet,” he says.
Oops! Netflix Releases New Season Of “House Of Cards” Online For An Hour Before Taking It Down (Or Was This Genius Marketing?)
“Nearly as soon as people began to share the news on Twitter – and possibly drum up fake illnesses to stay home for binge watching on Thursday – Netflix yanked the highly anticipated episodes.”