“As the United Nations complex in New York undergoes a $1.9bn renovation, the international body’s extensive, eclectic art collection is to go on view in a temporary structure [assembled] to accommodate the UN during the makeover process.”
Tag: 02.25.09
Arts Council England Cuts Staff By 24 Percent
“The proposed changes will meet the government’s requirement that ACE saves 15% on its grant in aid administration costs by 2010. ACE is also seeking to make equivalent savings on its National Lottery administration costs, making the total saving £6.5 million a year.”
Museums V. The Galleries – A Murky Relationship
“It’s all too easy to suggest that the cloudy alliances between museums and commercial galleries are fundamentally about money. Money, of course, especially now, plays into everything, but museums and curators needn’t abandon their independence and critical distance because of some fatuous notion of being soiled by money if they cooperate with commercial galleries.”
New Guggenheim Director Makes A New (Old) Case For His Museum
Richard Armstrong’s vision for the Guggenheim is a return to its mandate after it opened in 1959. “We’ll be assertive,” he says. “We need to expand on the original optimism and taste for the utopian that guided the museum in its beginnings.”
Remember When A Million People Downloaded Free Beethoven?
The BBC made it happen, and it was a huge success. So why won’t anything like it happen again? Shortly after it happened the BBC Trust made a rule banning such a thing…
Ailing Nevada Opera Gets Money, Will Survive
“In late January, Nevada Opera officials announced that the 41-year-old company was on the verge of collapse and would close if it didn’t raise $100,000 in just four weeks. Now, the message is more upbeat.”
What The Modern World Owes To Medieval Islam
Many of us already know that it was the Arabs who preserved – and built on – the scientific knowledge of classical antiquity through Europe’s Dark Ages. “More important than any individual piece of knowledge, though, was the Islamic world’s fundamental realisation that science can grant humans power over nature.”
What Drives Some Of Us To Suicide?
“What the statistics do not tell us – and what psychologists most want to know – is exactly which people are most at risk. The vast majority of depressed, hopeless people do not commit suicide, so why do some do it?” One researcher thinks he may have found an answer.
It’s Not Just Ballet In Saratoga This Summer
“Modern dance returns to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center this summer as the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Paul Taylor Dance Company, guided by two of dance’s greatest choreographers, make their first-ever appearances on the SPAC main stage.”
High Museum Of Art Decreases Staff And Salaries
“The High Museum of Art will cut salaries, enforce furloughs and trim 7 percent of its workforce,” a move that, combined with previous reductions, “will bring $1.4 million in savings and shrink its operating budget for fiscal year 2009 to $23.7 million, the museum said. … Director Michael Shapiro will take a 7 percent pay cut and other director-level employees will take a 6 percent pay cut. All other employees will take a 5 percent pay cut. “