“Ballet is in crisis, with fresh talent and ideas struggling to break through and the major companies obsessed with 200-year-old productions at the expense of new work, according to the head of Sadler’s Wells.”
Tag: 04.04.11
Architects Are The New Cultural Punching Bags
“Are architects cultured designers or glorified triage surgeons working in towns and cities lacerated by architectural collateral damage caused by political and commercial expediency, rubber-stamped by planners?”
After Google Books Collapse, New Energy For Digital Public Library
“The lofty effort, the Digital Public Library of America, counts a long list of heavyweights among its supporters, including librarians from major universities and officials from the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Some of the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations have said they were interested in financing the project, though its total cost has not been determined.”
A Nation Of Micro Public Radio Stations
“People want something they can’t get anyplace else, and that’s what we do. This is a microclimate for weather; it’s a microclimate for the demographics of listeners; it’s a microclimate for whether you can get radio stations in because of the hills. There are markets like this all over the country. You just have to know where they are.”
Settlement In Detroit Symphony Strike
“If approved by the full membership of the orchestra, the deal would end the longest and most contentious labor dispute among American orchestras in decades. A vote is expected in the next 72 hours.”
China’s New History Museum Writes Its Own History
“China spent more than a decade and nearly $400 million to remake the National Museum into a leading showcase of history and culture, a monument to its rising power no less grand — it is designed to be the world’s largest museum under one roof — and more enduring than the Olympic Games it hosted in 2008. But one tradition has remained firmly in place: China will not confront its own history.”