Tag: 03.13.00

The world’s two auction giants may be having their difficulties, but the art market is the strongest it’s been in years. – The Telegraph (UK)

Seventy-eight percent of the world’s websites are in English – only 1.2 percent are in French. “More than any other medium of recent years, the Internet is challenging France’s attempts to control and protect its culture. Its pride in its culture is fierce. No other country—save Spain—has a body quite like the Académie Française, dedicating itself for the past 365 years to the defense of the national language.” – The Economist

To help arts institutions stop living paycheck to paycheck, the Missouri Cultural Trust has a proposition: for every dollar arts groups put aside for a rainy day, the Trust will add 50 cents. It’s working. By 2008, the Trust expects to have given away $100 million. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“For a long time, people saw Africa as only animals,” said Comfort Opoku Wave of the Ghana tourism board. “Now they’re realizing that there is culture, fabrics, lakes, rivers.” – Die Welt (Germany)

As the wave of college professors hired in the ’60s and ’70s to teach baby boomers nears retirement age, universities are bracing for a major turnover in their faculties. – Chronicle of Higher Education