“Both in and outside Athens, pop-up milongas, like tango dance studios, have gained a popularity that have taken aficionados aback.
Tag: 11.17.15
London Arts Crisis – Report Says City Is Losing Arts Spaces To Rising Real Estate Prices
The newly published 2015 report estimates London will lose around 30% of its current artistic workspaces over the next four years due to rising rents, which it describes as “a major blow to a city where creativity is a huge part of its reputation and economic identity”.
Iran’s Amazing Modern Art Treasures
As Iran lurches toward reengaging with the world after the end of years of sanctions, a crown jewel waits in history’s shadow.
Why One (Successful) Artistic Director Quit Her Theatre
“I realized in that moment that my craft, my artmaking and the reasons I came to theater in the first place were not present in the room anymore. What was present was worry about making payroll. And that is anathema to creativity. It started shutting down the joy of being an artmaker.”
High School Student Wins $250K Prize For His Video Explaining Einstein’s Relativity
“Chester’s film takes on one of the biggest ideas in science, Einstein’s theory of relativity. With cartoonish graphics drawn by hand and props from everyday life, like a bowl of popcorn and a moving minivan, Chester explains what Einstein’s famous theory is all about — and why it means that people traveling close to the speed of light age slowly compared to people on Earth.”
Prime Minister Trudeau Writes To His Culture Minister About The Arts
Among his priorities: Restore and increase funding for CBC/Radio-Canada, following consultation with the broadcaster and the Canadian cultural community. Review the process by which members are appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors, to ensure merit-based and independent appointments. Double investment in the Canada Council for the Arts. Increase funding for Telefilm Canada and the National Film Board.
Making Better Babies: The Dream Of Designing Human Beings, From Plato To Nobel-Laureate Sperm Banks To Gene Editing
“For centuries, human hereditary improvement was a problem in social, not biological, engineering: how to persuade or coerce people into marrying to benefit the population as a whole. The obvious analogy was to agriculture and animal husbandry.”
Claim: Ticket Resellers Are A Scourge That Hurts Audiences
“I don’t think parasitic is too strong a word for the secondary ticketing industry. Our view is that this is an industry that’s been allowed to grow on the back of the creative arts without reinvesting anything into it.”
How’s The Art Market? Let’s Do The Numbers
We are in a mature, healthy and broad market in rather rude health, thank you very much. Here’s how it panned out.
How iTunes Is Alienating Music Collectors
“Users interested only in iTunes’ media management features—people with terabytes of MP3s who want a solid app to catalog and organize their libraries—feel abandoned as Apple moves away from local file storage in favor of cloud-based services.”