“The southern Italian regions of Sicily, Calabria and Campania have failed to spend hundreds of millions of euros in European Union (EU) culture and tourism funding,” which Brussels has now taken back.
Tag: 05.16.16
GWU Cuts Faculty At Corcoran Gallery As Enrollment Falls
“Ten full-time faculty members who came to George Washington University when it took control of the Corcoran school were told Monday that their one-year contracts would not be renewed. … The cuts come as enrollment dropped 24 percent since the university assumed control of the school in August of 2014.”
Pranksters Jailed For Staging Bogus Art Heists For YouTube
“Four men have been jailed for pranks filmed for YouTube channel Trollstation, including a ‘terrifying’ fake art heist in the National Portrait Gallery. … Later that day, the pranksters, who have 718,000 subscribers, staged another fake robbery … [at] the Tate Britain gallery.”
‘Bio-Techne’: Robots And Replicants In Ancient Greek Myth
“The beloved myths of Hercules, Jason and the Argonauts, the sorceress Medea, the engineer Daedalus, the inventor-god Hephaestus, and the tragically inquisitive Pandora all raised the basic question of the boundaries between human and machine.”
Teacher Suspended For Selling Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’ To Students At A Loss
“Todd Friedman, a 29-year public-school veteran who teaches at Midwood High School [in Brooklyn], was put on administrative duty – and faces possible termination – after the city Department of Education slapped him with disciplinary charges. His crime: He personally ordered 102 paperback copies of the novel from a publisher last September for his Advanced Placement students.”
The Insane Life Of America’s First Famous Nude Art Model
“‘That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue – my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned,’ Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed. … Yet following those Gilded Age years as the ‘American Venus,’ she had a failed silent film career …, was caught in a murder scandal, attempted suicide by poison, and was ultimately committed to a mental institution.”
Arts Org CEO Warns Of Embezzlement, Gets Attacked With Lye; Board Fires Her, Then Votes To Shut Org Down
“Scandal has rocked a Queens-based arts charity that abruptly shut down on May 11. Healing Arts Initiative (HAI), founded in 1969, offered performances and workshops for the city’s poor, disabled, and elderly, but was brought down by a $750,000 embezzlement scheme that left director D. Alexandra Dyer disfigured after she was attacked with lye while investigating the organization’s finances.”
The Little Journal Of Theatre Criticism That Could, Now Turning 40
“That was before email. Our writers would come in and drop the text off at our offices — Susan Sontag came by to bring the intro to a volume of plays by Maria Irene Fornes; agents came, artists. They all came to deliver their articles and plays and we’d talk for a long time. I remember one particular day when Jonathan Kalb dropped by; we stopped everything and we talked a few hours. He said to us, ‘Is it always like this?'”
BBC To Start Paid Subscription Streaming Service
“BBC plans to launch a homegrown rival to Netflix and Amazon Prime are a step closer to reality after the government gave it the green light to launch a new paid-for subscription service.”
Sold Out Symphony Concerts For 20-Somethings: How Does That Happen?
“They need the ritual, they want to be part of the whole spectacle. Sometimes people think that for student concerts you have to be casual and the orchestra has to be casual too. What we are doing is quite the opposite, and we are very successful in it. I think you should take the audience seriously. You should take the young audience and treat them like adults.”