“Called Turnaround Arts, the program aims to improve academic performance and increase student engagement through the arts. It was developed by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities in cooperation with the Education Department and the White House Domestic Policy Council.”
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International Publishers Flock To India As Book Sales Soar
“With the printed word considered an endangered species in much of a rapidly digitizing world, India now represents one of the best English-language book markets in the world. … Beneath this publishing boom are demographic changes, rising literacy and the increase of Indians speaking English, the lingua franca of economic growth.”
Actor Playing Judas In Passion Play Accidentally Hangs Himself
“Tiago Klimeck, 27, was enacting the suicide of Judas during a Good Friday performance in Itarare, southern Brazil. The audience and his fellow actors didn’t realise anything was wrong for more than four minutes. Kilmeck died this week after being in a medically induced coma for the last 16 days.”
Christopher Hitchens Snubbed By Orwell Prize
“Hitchens has been described as the heir to Orwell, but never won the £3,000 prize which seeks to reward the art of political writing. It was widely whispered among critics that Hitchens, who died aged 62 in December after a long battle with cancer, would likely receive posthumous recognition this year.” But his final book, Arguably, did not make this year’s shortlist.
Philadelphia Orchestra Settles Case With Musicians’ Pension Fund
“Resolving the most quarrelsome aspect of its bankruptcy, the Philadelphia Orchestra Association has settled with the national musicians’ pension fund that had threatened expensive and time-consuming litigation over the orchestra’s withdrawal from the fund.”
How Schiele’s Portrait Of Wally Changed The Art World (Decades After It Was Painted)
“Far less graphic and edgy than the works that made Schiele’s reputation, the painting is nevertheless destined for iconhood because of its history as Nazi loot and the 13-year legal battle waged for it.”
UK Science Fiction Writers Ask To Be Matched Up With Scientists
“A group of six major British science fiction authors including Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod and Geoff Ryman are calling urgently for closer collaboration between the arts and the sciences,” including a body like the US National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange, which connects scientists with fiction projects that need expertise.
New York’s Dance World Unites To Pay Tribute To Its Shoes
“Well, shoes are very important to dancers – pointe shoes, ballet slippers, Broadway dance shoes, tap shoes. So it was an opportunity for dance – loads and loads, of all varieties – when Capezio celebrated its 125th anniversary Monday evening with a gala at New York City Center.”
Two Cuban Actors Defect After Flight To Florida
“Six days later, the whereabouts of Javier Núñez Florián and AnailÃn de la Rúa de la Torre remain unknown. They missed the film’s opening on Thursday night, and the Spanish-language press in Miami, sensing another opportunity to score points at the expense of the dictatorship that has ruled Cuba for more than 50 years, is now crowing that the pair, imitating the characters they played, have defected.”
Actors Storm Stage At Stratford-Upon-Avon To Protest BP Sponsorship
“The actors performed a short piece to challenge the Royal Shakespeare Company’s decision to accept sponsorship from BP after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The group then asked the audience to tear the BP logo from their programmes.”