“The arts need their space. For the roughly 2,000 arts organizations in Philadelphia, whether fledgling or established, space is typically one of the greatest expenses and most critical needs, second only to personnel. At the same time, some two-thirds of Center City Philadelphia sacred places report having space that could potentially be available for sharing with the community.”
Tag: 03.10.15
Are ‘Big’ Truths Better Than ‘Small’ Truths?
“Humans, with our finite lives, are naturally drawn to grand questions about time, space and the cosmos. But, astrophysicist Adam Frank asks, where does that leave life’s little truths?”
Bill Watterson Speaks! “Calvin And Hobbes” Creator Gives Rare Interview
“Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.”
If There’s A Crisis At English National Opera, It Certainly Isn’t Artistic
“Let’s be absolutely clear about this … there has been no crisis in ENO’s run of productions over the past year and two months, indeed in the bigger picture of the last 10 years. … So where’s the problem? Clearly, as usual, in the management, not in the artistic team.”
When A Career Cunningham Dancer Gets His Own Company
“After the Merce Cunningham Dance Company disbanded in 2011, Robert Swinston, who was with the troupe for more than 30 years, did just that. He began again” – in France,”where he now directs the National Contemporary Dance Center in Angers and is also the artistic director of Compagnie CNDC-Angers.”
A 19th-Century Japanese View Of London, By An Artist Who’d Never Been There
“Utagawa Yoshitora’s 1866 prints Igirisukoku Rondon no zu form a triptych view of London. Together, the three images depict a street scene near the River Thames, complete with thronging English pedestrians, two sailing ships, horses, oxen, and carriages.”
17 Things We Know About Forgiveness
First of all, “The scientific literature on forgiveness only dates back to 1989, amazingly.”
Warning: Theatre Is Losing An Entire Generation
“Now, there are fewer young companies and there has been an incredible drop in the number of drama teachers working. And that seems to me to be a fairly urgent thing that theatres need to be talking and lobbying about.”
UK Arts Funding Is In Crisis Says Museum Director
Most museum directors are wary about criticising government, which funds them, but David Anderson, the director general of National Museum Wales (funded by the Welsh government) and the outgoing president of the Museums Association, says it is time to speak out.
UK Museums Struggle With What To Do With Wealth Of Archaeological Artifacts
“We have archival material in museums that are becoming increasingly inaccessible because of the lack of specialist archaeology curators and we have museums that are ceasing to collect this material which has created a backlog that has nowhere to go.”