http://www.artsjournal.com/issues.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:41:28 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:14:35 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/breaking_how_ma.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/breaking_how_ma.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:23:48 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nine_ways_of_lo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/nine_ways_of_lo.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:55:32 -0800 "What is the future of this thing called college? What became quickly and painfully obvious in their deliberations is that the center will not hold. In something of an irony, higher education leaders acknowledged here Thursday that the very system that put them in the position to run the nation's colleges and universities is no longer fit to groom their successors or the rest of the U.S. work force."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_future_of_c_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_future_of_c_1.shtml issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:43:34 -0800 Want to get appointed to the President's Committee on Arts and Humanities? It's a star-studded group. Here's a little something to think about...... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/who_advises_the.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/who_advises_the.shtml issues Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:19:09 -0800 Eight months after opening, "the Durham Performing Arts LLC [has] made a profit of $1,004,265, of which 40 percent, or $401,706, is to be shared with the city, which owns the building." (Who says the arts aren't an economic engine?)... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/durham_nc_pac_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/durham_nc_pac_1.shtml issues Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:20:29 -0800 "Despite the reduced resources however, more than three-quarters of the survey respondents said the field of philanthropy would become stronger and more strategic as a result of having weathered the financial crisis."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/survey_foundati.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/survey_foundati.shtml issues Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:20:29 -0800 "Passengers on the 9:00 am train from the suburban community of Modiin to Tel Aviv put away their morning tabloids and iPods to listen to a talk from Professor Hanoch Gutfreund [of Hebrew University of Jerusalem] on 'Einstein's love letters.' The lecture was the first of the university's 'scientists on the rails' programme."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_dreaded_ear.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_dreaded_ear.shtml issues Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:29:53 -0800 Today the very term "insane asylum" conjures up images of the squalid, cruel institutions portrayed in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Titicut Follies. "But asylums started out as philanthropic dreams," comfortable, well-appointed places of refuge and healing. (Consider the very term "asylum.")... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/from_sanctuary.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/from_sanctuary.shtml issues Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:09:28 -0800 Britain's culture secretary, Ben Bradshaw, "said Tory culture policy was totally aligned with the commercial interests of Rupert Murdoch's News International and predicted the central tenet of British cultural policy - the arm's length relationship between the arts and government - is about to be swept away."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/uk_culture_secr_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/uk_culture_secr_2.shtml issues Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:42:55 -0800 "Giant Magnet, formerly known as Seattle International Children's Festival, has let go its executive director of 14 years. ... The 23-year-old organization is known mainly for its nearly weeklong festival featuring performers -- theater artists, puppeteers, dancers, musicians -- from around the world."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/seattles_giant.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/seattles_giant.shtml issues Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:50:00 -0800 "In large part because of the huarango [tree], the Nazca flourished from the time of Christ to about AD 500. They are renowned not just for their geoglyphs -- the giant drawings, whose purpose remains a mystery -- but for their pottery and textiles."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/deforestation_c.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/deforestation_c.shtml issues Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:42:15 -0800 "In a freewheeling conversation..., Mr. Landesman was true to form--brashly candid. But his provocative words in both [a recent Brooklyn] speech and our discussion suggest that he doesn't see what's looming between him and the goal--political opponents, waiting to tackle him."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rocco_landesman_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rocco_landesman_2.shtml issues Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:19:23 -0800 Yo-Yo Ma, Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Anna Wintour and Alfre Woodard are among those tapped for the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a largely ceremonial panel.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/boldface_names.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/boldface_names.shtml issues Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:11:24 -0800 "Most board members I meet are scared and frustrated and most staff members believe their board members are not being as generous or as helpful as they should be during this crisis."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_trouble_wit_16.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_trouble_wit_16.shtml issues Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:23:05 -0800 "Over the last two decades, no other American city grew as quickly as Las Vegas. In 1980, it had 460,000 inhabitants; now it has 2 million. But now, the recession has blasted open one of its deepest craters here in this city surrounded by the Mojave Desert. Las Vegas now has the country's highest rate of home foreclosures, and more than 70 percent of homeowners here owe more on their mortgages than their houses or condos are worth. Since 2006, the average home price has dropped by a half."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/las_vegas_dream.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/las_vegas_dream.shtml issues Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:13:30 -0800 "The distribution in the world of arts education is tremendously unjust. When arts education takes the place in our society that it deserves, we will have much less delinquency and violence, and much more motivation towards noble achievement."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jose_antonio_ab.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/jose_antonio_ab.shtml issues Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:47:21 -0800 "The most deadening influence on art in our time is the belief that content matters more than style. If you look back on the artists who have won the Turner prize since the 1980s, or the artists most often mentioned in the media these days, what they have in common is a message."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_meaning_of_7.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_meaning_of_7.shtml issues Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:35:13 -0800 "There is such a narrow window of opportunity to ensure that the site remains viable. If we don't take advantage of this opportunity, we believe it will be lost."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ground_zero_art_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/ground_zero_art_1.shtml issues Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:33:01 -0800 "Longtime rivals in trade and finance, Hong Kong and Singapore are vying to become Asia's regional arts hub, part of a strategy to be crowned Asia's top city."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_battle_for_4.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/the_battle_for_4.shtml issues Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:17:45 -0800 "The share of 18- to 24-year-olds attending college in the United States hit an all-time high in October 2008, driven by a recession-era surge in enrollments at community colleges, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/record_number_o_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/record_number_o_2.shtml issues Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:11:04 -0800 "To the consternation of some faculty members at Berkeley, the university's sports program is running multimillion-dollar deficits -- on top of the annual institutional subsidies -- that are requiring the university to make short-term loans to the sports program."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/not_okay_univer.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/not_okay_univer.shtml issues Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:46:55 -0800 "It seems that at some schools they have become quaint anachronisms who stand in the way of educational progress and financial efficiency. This idea that faculty do not matter seems supported by some accrediting agencies."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/colleges_do_we.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/colleges_do_we.shtml issues Fri, 30 Oct 2009 07:37:04 -0800 "A new, national initiative is under way to heighten Canadians' awareness of the arts, their accessibility to art and artists, and their 'participation in and engagement with' the activities of the cultural sector."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/canada_launches.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/canada_launches.shtml issues Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:03:28 -0800 Billionaire philanthropist Peter G. Peterson says a charitable donation by Goldman Sachs would have to total "at least $1 billion" in order to "have much resonance in the public," furious as it is over bonuses paid to employees of the taxpayer-rescued securities firm, which is "considering a new charitable program."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/how_big_a_goldm.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/10/how_big_a_goldm.shtml issues Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:31:47 -0800