“The majority of jobs being created today do not require degree-level qualifications. In the US in 2010, 20% of jobs required a bachelor’s degree, 43% required a high-school education, and 26% did not even require that. Meanwhile, 40% of young people study for degrees. This means over half the people gaining degrees today will find themselves working in jobs that don’t require one.”
Tag: 05.17.16
Why Crowdfunding Is Not A Good Model For Funding The Arts
“Art and content are not the same. Content is produced with a specific, marketable goal in mind. Patreon turns artists into content-makers whose creativity is moderated by their patrons. Patrons with more money have more clout, and the ability to withhold funding shapes what creators make. In this sense, Patreon reproduces key elements of the old patronage model, in which the power to commission and influence artists rests in the hands of those who can pay.”
Acid-Damaged Renaissance Painting Restored After 10 Years Of Work
“The Adoration of the Shepherds by 16th-century Italian artist Sebastiano del Piombo was removed from a wooden panel with acid in the 1700s and then painted over. Conservators at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum worked to repair the damage.”
What Misty Copeland Won’t Be Doing When She Retires
“[Choreographing] is not something I see in my future – it’s not something I’m interested in, it’s just not everyone’s path. Just like I’m not interested in teaching or opening a school – it’s just not something I’ve ever been drawn to.”
Not Fade Away: Remembering, And Celebrating, Yehudi Menuhin
“With disconcertingly few exceptions, time erodes the reputations of the famous. Names that were once metaphors for extraordinary skill, physical prowess or moral courage become, at best, only vaguely recalled. That decay, though, is uneven.”
At Cannes, At Long Last, Progress For Women
“After years in which the festival was criticized for favoring male auteurs, this year three female directors have strong films in competition … Even if Cannes’s selection, like the film industry itself, hardly achieves gender parity, there’s been more conversation this year about the challenges of getting more women behind the camera and in front of it.”
Des Moines Paints Over Public Mural Created By Schoolkids
“At one end of the mural that was destroyed was written, ‘Ideas are forever.’ At the other end was, ‘Writing is Sacred.’ Writing, in this case, meant graffiti, Rollins said. It was how the students were getting their voices heard.”
Opera Star Leaves Stage, Founds Political Party And Runs For Parliament
Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze: “I am forced to leave the sweet and good life of an opera career and go into politics. This is not because I’m a good person or politician, but because the country is in a very bad condition. … We will have strong representation in parliament and we will cooperate with all parties. All Georgia is currently on our side.”
Opera Company Fusses To Editor About Review; Editor Kills Review, Says He Hates Reviews Anyway; Critic Quits; Opera Company Says ‘Don’t Blame Us’
The Canadian Opera Company says that all it wanted was two little corrections to Arthur Kaptainis’s review in the National Post of its current production, not for the review to be taken offline. Michael Vincent reviews the emails between the COC and the editor, and finds that things are not that simple.
‘This Isn’t A Condemnation, But A Challenge’ – Anne Midgette On The Canadian Opera/National Post Review-Spiking Affair
“What it shows is a waning understanding of, and tolerance for, not differences of opinion – those rage happily on in every paper’s Comments sections – but the role of criticism and the arts in a society where they have less dominance. [The National Post features editor] will be vilified in the arts community for his comments, but he’s right: newspaper reviews don’t do well online. This isn’t a condemnation, but a challenge.”