In a deal unrelated to the Time Warner merger, AOL announces a “strategic alliance” with PBS in which the public television system will become a “premiere content provider” for AOL and the internet provider will receive an on-air “branding presence.” – The Plain Dealer (Cleveland) 01/13/00
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CALL IT CREATIVE NEW YORK
The Creative Capital fund was created last spring to try to help make up for the ending of federal arts grants to artists doing controversial work. Now the first round of grants has been made, and after reviewing applications from more than 1,800 artists from 46 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, the fund is awarding $563,700 to 75 artists, 40 of whom live in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx or Staten Island. – New York Times
INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL OF NORTH AMERICA?
New York? Berkeley? Boston? Nope, try Montreal. New McGill University statistical study says that Quebec’s largest city has more university students per capita than any other city. Boston was second. – Montreal Gazette
ART PAYS
The administrative heads of Boston’s largest arts organizations received some of the biggest raises in the nation’s nonprofit sector in 1998, a Boston Herald survey shows. – Boston Herald
- Top 10 Boston arts admin salaries. – Boston Herald
- More Boston arts salaries – Boston Herald
- Why the salaries are so good. – Boston Herald
- Compared to other top non-profit salaries. – Boston Herald
INTERNET BAN
Thirty ultra-orthodox rabbis in Jerusalem have issued a ban on using the internet. In fact, they rule, “the computer should not be used for entertainment at all.” However, those “whose livelihood depends on it” are allowed access to the Internet in the workplace, with “the responsibility not to let others use it.” – Wired
GOVERNMENT ISSUE
Singapore government buys $600,000 Guadignini violin to promote young Singaporean violinists. Violin is loaned for three years to those chosen, with a possible three-year renewal. – Singapore Straits Times
TECH PROBLEMS PLAGUE NEW COVENT GARDEN
Tuesday’s much-anticipated opening night staging of Birtwistle’s “Gawain,” was interrupted 20 minutes into the performance when a stage manager came out to announce that a number of pieces of equipment were not working properly, and request a 30-minute recess to try and wrestle it back to order. “What was striking was the brazenness with which the young stage manager interrupted the singers and orchestra and the matter-of-factness with which he announced that Covent Garden’s much-vaunted new technology had failed yet again.” – BBC Music Magazine
THE SCIENCE OF ART
Until recently picture conservation has been a somewhat sensual, hands-on and almost medieval craft. No longer. New scientific methods unlock secrets. “When Rembrandt painted white preparatory ground on his canvases, little did he realise that some 350 years later a scientist would be interested in the tiny fossils it contained.” – Financial Times
FORGET TV, WHAT ABOUT BOOKS?
Just as TV networks have come in for criticism for not representing more minorities, publishing has similar problems. Just why are there so few African-American book agents? – New York Times
WILL SHE REMEMBER US WHEN?
Teenage singing sensation Charlotte Church was one of Britain’s most talked-about, highest-paid stars (earning about £6 million) in 1999. Now she’s abruptly fired her manager, the one who discovered her and helped make her a star. Legal action commences. – BBC