Following a public outcry, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has rejected a proposal – said to have been pushed, behind the scenes, by the office of Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper – to change the provision in Canadian law forbidding license holders from broadcasting “any false or misleading news.”
Tag: 02.25.11
Philip Glass Starts His Own Arts Festival
“Composer Philip Glass will launch an eclectic annual arts festival in August, with music, dance, theater, poetry and film offerings at Hidden Valley, an arts training center near Carmel” in central California.
Making a New Ballet Out of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Royal Ballet director Monica Mason talks about putting together the creative team – choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, composer Joby Talbot, scenarist Nicholas Wright, star Lauren Cuthbertson – for the company’s first full-length commissioned ballet in 15 years.
It’s “Balletploitation” – Another Black Swan Smackdown
Former Balanchine star Toni Bentley: “[It] isn’t a film about real ballerinas at all, no more than Jurassic Park is a film about real scientists (or real dinosaurs for that matter) – it merely exploits the locale, the props, and the outerwear. … Aronofsky has created a movie celebrating the failure of a ballerina, and by implication her entire art – disguised, insidiously, as a film about sacrifice and success.”
With Budget Cuts, UK Theatres Turn To Volunteers
“Increasing numbers of unpaid volunteers are being employed at theatres and arts centres across England, potentially at the expense of paid professional staff, according to new research published by Arts Council England.”
Does The Internet Dilute The Power Of The Press?
“Now, the vast interconnection of humanity we call the internet promises to divorce the press and power forever, by dissolving the press. Now, every mobile phone, every document scanner, every camera, every laptop, are part of an immense network in which everything we see, we think, we know, can be transmitted to everyone else, everywhere, immediately. Democracy in its deepest sense follows.”
Needed: A New Model For Orchestras
“There is no dialogue about what type of musicians music schools are preparing, how the paradigm needs to shift, and what new skills orchestras should be considering for the future. I cannot think of another industry where there is no relationship between the employers and the trainers.”
General Motors Gets Back Into Arts Funding
“For arts groups that have struggled with rising deficits, staff layoffs and artistic cuts during the recession, news that significant GM dollars have started to flow to culture has been greeted with elation.”
Brooklyn Museum’s Main Hall Redesigned as ‘Palace of Culture’
“An extensive redesign of its Great Hall has transformed it into an imposing space, defined by a dense grid of classical columns and 24-foot-high ceilings.”