“The federal government’s National Cultural Policy, released today, is a big win for the arts generally – it’s got new money and plenty of policy reform. But there are losers.”
Tag: 03.13.12
Extra Funding For Developing Artists In Australia
“Arts Minister Simon Crean will announce funds of $20.8 million (a 30 per cent increase) to six elite training organisations today, including the national youth orchestra and circus school. Every federal MP will get $23,500 to help support ‘creative young stars’ in their electorates. The federal government will also boost six arts companies in NSW, Victoria and Western Australia where those states have agreed to extra funding for touring and education programs.”
Magazines Aren’t In As Much Trouble In Canada – And Publishers Can Thank The Economy For That
Canadian magazines are faring better during the recession. Is that bad news for U.S. publishers? No: “Several of the reasons that Canadian newsstands are doing better support U.S. publishers’ argument that long-term reader demand is only part of the problem. Some of the other problems are temporary, unrelated to magazines, or both.”
Dancing About, And Around, And At, Islam
The movement theatre company DV8’s new piece, Can We Talk About This?, “begins in 1985 and ends in the present day by way of a ‘greatest hits’ of Islam’s low-points. The Satanic Verses affair, the murder of Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh, the publication of the Danish cartoons, ‘honour’-based killings, forced marriages and sharia law are among the events and subjects tackled.”
What You Can (And Can’t) Copyright
“The boundary between the expression of an idea which copyright protects and the underlying idea which cannot be protected is a fluid one.”
Mainstream Media? It Doesn’t Really Exist Anymore
“The DNA of the alternative press is now baked into the mainstream: journalistic gene therapy. The least that critics can do is come up with a new name.”
Stockhausen Opera To Be Staged For First Time (Cue The Helicopters)
“It is not the headache of four separate helicopters carrying string quartet performers that is keeping Graham Vick awake at night. It is more, he confessed, the strain of 11 flying string and woodwind soloists that is exercising his mind ahead of the first performance of one of the world’s most unusual operas.”
UK Judge’s Ruling On Copyright In Photograph Breaks Ground
“Lawyers are appealing against a controversial copyright ruling in which a judge said it was unlawful to recreate parts of a composition of an existing photograph, even if the second work is not a copy but a separate photograph taken from a different angle.”
Should Amazon Be Feared?
“The concern is that they are getting so large and they compete so ruthlessly that there’s a lot of fear for what the world with Amazon in charge is going to look like.”
Paris’s Institut Du Monde Arabe Overhauls Its Entire Approach To Its Subject
“Having previously concentrated on Islamic art, from now on the institute will also explore the pre-Islamic past of Arab countries, highlighting the diversity of cultures, languages, beliefs and ways of life that have coexisted in the Arabian peninsula and Africa for thousands of years.”