Category: issues

These days, knocking an Australian product – including art – is regarded as disloyal and unhelpful in nation-building. Where are the critics?  Sydney Morning Herald

Legendary arts educator Philip Yenawine says the professional art world has failed the public and themselves. Brooklyn brawl is all too sadly familiar. Salon

These days, knocking an Australian product – including art – is regarded as disloyal and unhelpful in nation-building. Where are the critics? Sydney Morning Herald

Is the country’s mainstream art becoming too commercial?  New York Times

AND: Trance music captivates Israel – has authorities worried. 

AND: Building a major international museum from scratch in few short decades.

Is the country’s mainstream art becoming too commercial?
AND: Trance music captivates Israel – has authorities worried.
AND: Building a major international museum from scratch in few short decades. New York Times

Canada’s Canadian content rules are just a game everyone plays – lip service so you can make an American deal. Toronto Globe and Mail

will appoint committee to investigate whether British Museum should return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. BBC
AND:CBC report

Schuyler Chapin, New York’s commissioner of culture, is caught between a peeved mayor and arts supporters clamoring for Chapin’s support in the Brooklyn Museum debacle.  New York Times

Tuesday, artists hung a giant “censored” sign over a billboard promoting the arts in Hartford after city officials pulled a piece of artwork from a show at a public gallery. Hartford Courant

Russia – where copyright piracy is rampant – agrees to align its copyright laws with the European Union.  Variety.com