“The Libyan conflict has halted the creation of a museum of Islamic art in Tripoli, due to open in September to celebrate the anniversary of Colonel MuaÂmÂmar Gaddafi’s rise to power. The acquisition of exhibits was underway and pieces are known to have been bought from London auction houses over the past three years.”
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Warning: Canadian Documentaries Are Becoming Extinct
“According to the DOC, English documentary production in Canada has fallen below 2000-01 levels, and some 2,000 direct and indirect jobs have disappeared over the last five years.”
Writers! Make Money From Publishing’s Decline
“Authors can, increasingly, make a tidy living by giving our opinion on the decline of the publishing industry. Now that we have e-books, a discussion about the impact of e-books is about the only thing authors are asked to talk about, which is not a bad thing, as we weren’t asked to talk about much before this.”
Broadway Producers Sued Over Singers’ Stories
“The producers of a new Broadway musical about the 1960s girl group the Shirelles have been hit with a lawsuit, charging them with pilfering the names and likenesses of the original members.”
In Tough Times, Boston’s Huntington Theatre Gets Its Biggest Gift Ever
The $10 milllion gift doubles the size of the Huntington’s endowment. The Calderwood Charitable Foundation is making the Huntington its biggest beneficiary with this donation, aimed at providing stability for the theater, which it has long supported.
Has Technology Sped Up Human Evolution?
“In most if not quite all parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”
A Debate About Museums And Curators
“Once again, art museums allow themselves to be used. We were used for someone else’s agenda,” said Kaywin Feldman, president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. “What happened wasn’t about this exhibition. It was complete homophobia, and we have to stop putting up with that.”
Minnesota’s Culture Of Bands
Minnesota arguably has more such bands per capita than any other state, causing park band shells to reverberate each summer with Sousa or “Superman.”
Reconceiving The Book
“For magazine publishers and newspapers, one of the trendiest solutions involves creating iPad or Android editions of publications — for which advertisers, so far, seem to pay at rates which rival print dollars instead of web pennies.”
Rahm Emanuel Says Chicago Arts Groups Might Have To Pay Property Taxes, Then Backtracks
“Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel suggested to a theater full of arts patrons Wednesday that he would look into whether nonprofit institutions will have to start paying property taxes under his administration. Later, however, an Emanuel transition aide clarified that the incoming mayor is not considering raising taxes on nonprofits, saying the option isn’t on the table.”