The report calls for funding large companies on ten year cycles and for all publicly-funded organisations to hold a ‘free week’ every year, in which all admission charges were removed.
Tag: 01.10.08
The Met’s Next Leader
“The job is either the easiest or the hardest position in the museum world to fill, depending on how you look at it. Easy, because the Met is at the top of the ladder, internationally, so it’s unlikely that anyone offered the job would turn it down. Hard, because it is unlikely that all of the qualities a Met director should have will be found in equal degrees in any one individual.”
JK Rowling Sues Fan Websites Over Copyright
“Author J.K. Rowling and publisher Warner Brothers have sued the Lexicon for copyright infringement, exposing the big unanswered question: Are fan guides actually illegal?”
British Museum Director Appointed As Cultural Ambassador
“The UK government has appointed British Museum director Neil MacGregor ‘Chairman of World Collections’, a new diplomatic post which will promote six national collections internationally and encourage links between these British institutions and the rest of the world, particularly Asia and Africa.”
TV Ups The Wow Factor
Even as TV audiences are slipping, production costs for scripted TV shows are going up. Why? Shows are opting for more lavish production effects…
Touchy, Touchy – Seattle Sculpture Park
“Nearly a year after opening, Seattle’s outdoor art park appears to be holding up pretty well. Yet it has suffered some wear and tear, as much from the sloppy wet kiss of Mother Nature as from the poor judgment of those who think rubbing hands across the artwork or engraving initials into them is a fine thing to do.”
Broad Decision Leaves LA Museum High And Dry
“The Eli Broad gift would catapult the museum in rank to having the nation’s greatest collection of American Pop Art — a status especially appropriate to Los Angeles, pop culture capital of the known universe.”
Atlantic Ballet Gets Funding
A New Brunswick charitable foundation has pledged $125,000 to professional touring dance company Atlantic Ballet Theatre.
Funding Cuts Could Cripple UK Theatre
“The criteria are so vague as to be meaningless and the judging process indecently hasty. What strategic thinking guides the decisions? None, I suggest.”
And Sony Makes It Complete – Digital Locks Are History
“Sony BMG made history Thursday by becoming the fourth and final major label to allow its music to be sold without digital rights management, issuing a announcement that Amazon.com’s MP3 store would start carrying music from the label by the end of this month.”