“Saturday afternoon’s live-streamed Inside Opera event united all seven of the UK’s publicly funded opera houses in an unprecedented collaboration that aimed to introduce new audiences to the art form.”
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Cornelius Gurlitt Died. Now The Battle Over What Happens To The Art
“Many must have been unpleasantly surprised when they learned that Gurlitt had willed his collection to the Kunstmuseum Bern in Switzerland. According to reports, Gurlitt was deeply shocked by the way he was treated by the government. And now there are signs that his own will and testament won’t be respected by the state either.”
Data In: Active Learning Beats Passive Learning Hands Down
“Students in a traditional lecture course are 1.5 times more likely to fail, compared to students in courses with active learning.”
Could Philly’s LGBT Bookstore Have Been Saved? There Was A Buyer
“Makella Craelius and her business partner, the filmmaker Puppett, founded Queer Books LLC in February of this year with an eye to buying the store. They hired on two other employees and Craelius began working full time at Giovanni’s Room. They’d been in contract talks with [store owner Ed] Hermance up until the week” he announced the closing – without Informing Craelius first.
Met Orchestra Authorizes Strike Vote If Talks Fail
“The orchestra’s contract, along with those of 15 other unions representing workers at the end of July, and the company’s management is trying to reduce labor costs at a time when ticket sales have fallen and its endowment has dwindled. The vote by the orchestra’s union would authorize a strike ‘should management’s intransigence warrant such an action’.”
PBS Will Offer Video On Demand – But Only If You Pledge
“As television viewers increasingly turn to video on demand to watch shows when they want, PBS and its local stations plan to follow them, but with a twist: They are creating a streaming video service that will be available only to members of local PBS stations.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 05.12.14
Art, Work and Money
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-05-12
Who Won The 2013 Curatorial Awards?
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-05-12
Art and money
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-05-11
Crack-Up: Taste, Anxiety and American Populism
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-05-11
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Is The Golden Age Of Philanthropy Over?
It is safe to say that the golden age is over. Not that philanthropy has lost all its luster—there are still plenty of folks who consider it the best hope for, in the words of the Rockefeller Foundation charter, “promot[ing] the well-being of mankind throughout the world.” But there is now, once again, a significant and vocal faction willing to call those ambitions into question.
Colorado Symphony Looks To Relocate To A Church
Church leaders informed the congregation of the proposal during the regular Sunday morning service. They followed up immediately afterwards with a town-hall style meeting so people could ask questions and share their views about the plan. – See more at:
The Most Famous (And The Longest) Battle Of WWI Was An Accident
“The air sagged under the sickening odor of rotting bodies, feces, and fear — fear of decimation, fear of poison gas, fear of being buried alive — all of which made for an especially intense sense of isolation and solitude, perhaps unique to Verdun.”