Overall, Scottish Government is reducing spend on culture in 2016/17 from £170.2 million to £154.1 million.
Tag: 12.19.15
2015: The Year Jazz Roared
“Jazz soundtracked this tumultuous year not within its own confines but in how it escaped to infiltrate other genres.”
One Principal At The Bolshoi: ‘We Still Don’t Know The Truth’
“In Russian ballet, there are no easy people. We’re all difficult characters. Some are more intelligent and some are less intelligent, but you don’t have any people in Russian ballet who are angelic with easy characters. We live in a difficult country; we work in a difficult theater; we depend only on ourselves.”
The Weinstein Brothers Have All Kinds Of Awards Gold, But They Need Straight-Up Money
“One former executive, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of confidentiality strictures, says this would be an ‘optimum time to sell’ the company, because it is in fairly good financial shape. But Harvey dismissed that idea out of hand. ‘We’re not going to do that,’ he said.”
The Forgotten Muralist Who Had A Deep Influence On Art By African Americans In The 20th Century
“In 1942, when Woodruff was at Atlanta University, he founded what was known as the Exhibition for African American artists. It ‘was the only venue where people of color could exhibit on a national scale without the forces of segregation,’ Driskell explains.”
Time For The Arts World To Take A Long, Hard Look At Its Racism
“It is not for white people to decide what is or is not racist and it is not for them to decide what we people of colour are called. I think statues, plaques and awards paying tribute to racist men should be removed, and in their place should be a little notice naming and shaming them, and naming their prejudice.”
Conductor Kurt Masur, 88
“He could bring a meticulous if somewhat dictatorial approach to rehearsal discipline, something that New York’s unruly orchestra was widely thought to need.”