Governor Scott Walker proposes cutting $1.6 million or about 68% percent of the budget for the Wisconsin Arts Board, which would be merged into the Department of Tourism. He also would eliminate the state’s Percent for Art program.
Tag: 03.02.11
England’s Arts Management Training Scheme Killed Due to Funding Cuts
“Launched five years ago, CLP has been supported by [Arts Council England], the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and Creative and Cultural Skills. The programme’s aim has been to develop new leaders for the arts and culture sector, offering training courses and fellowships for promising individuals.”
Why Don’t French Canada’s TV Successes Translate to English Canada?
“Quebec has a powerful TV culture well endowed with homegrown hits … It’s tempting to think that sharing shows with Radio-Canada might provide ratings fodder for the CBC, and even financial efficiencies.” But since one bilingual show from the 1980s (which lasted only two seasons in English), “the model has never proven itself.”
Julie Taymor Acknowledges (Sort Of) Problems With Spider-Man
Speaking at the TED conference, she said, “Anyone who creates knows – when it’s not quite there. Where it hasn’t quite become the phoenix or the burnt char. And I am right there … in the crucible and the fire of transformation.”
Five Cuban Ballet Dancers Defect to Canada
“A principal dancer with the Cuban National Ballet, Elier Bourzac, is one of five company members who declined to return home with the troupe after its triumphant first appearance in Montreal last month. All five are seeking to stay in Canada in the hope of joining Canadian dance companies.”
Long-Buried Vaughan Williams Score Set For World Premiere
A Cambridge Mass, written when the composer was a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, had been filed away in the University Library. … The choral manuscript was submitted for his Doctor of Music examination in October 1899.”
Actress Annie Girardot, 79
She “played the doomed Milanese streetwalker in Luchino Visconti’s Rocco and His Brothers and, moving easily from drama to comedy, became France’s most popular actress of the 1970s.”
Liberty, Fraternity, Anarchy: Le Punk Français (?!)
Yes, there was punk rock in France in the ’80s, and a new BBC Radio 4 documentary “argues that far from riding the coat-tails of their English and American peers, early French punk groups were applying futuristic, electronic invention to the form back when much of the fluidity and freedom of UK punk was stiffening into cliché.”
Making Art Out of Liverpool Mist
As part of Britain’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad, light sculptor Anthony McCall is creating an installation for the Liverpool waterfront made entirely of mist. Called Column. the artwork will be a machine-generated column of water vapor spiraling up above the city as far as the weather will allow.
What The Thieves Did With the Strad They Stole at a London Lunch Counter
The robber “had used two teenage accomplices to act as decoys so that he could snatch the instrument from under the nose of acclaimed musician Min-Jin Kym as she ate in a Pret a Manger at Euston station.” The next day, they tried to sell the £1.2 million violin to a stranger at an Internet cafe for £100.