“Adopt actual social service initiatives. Organizations should shy away from an exclusive approach and move more towards a ‘for the people and (inspired) by the people’ methodology. It’s about inviting people in that may not even know they want to engage with the arts.”
Tag: 05.20.15
Our Culture Is Based On The Enlightenment. Now Those Ideas Need Defending
Immanuel Kant defined the Enlightenment as the “progress of mankind toward improvement” through the “freedom to make public use of one’s reason on every point,” and Vincenzo Ferrone claims it is this critical process that has driven public opinion and politics, giving us the language of human rights, tolerance, and individual liberty.
“Hard To Overstate His Significance In Italian Culture” Dante Turns 750
“I teach Dante to American undergraduates, and I struggle to convey to them his place in Italian culture. The obvious comparison is to Shakespeare, but this is like trying to make sense of Mozart by means of Coltrane: the number of centuries that divide Dante from Shakespeare is practically as large as the number that separates Shakespeare from us.”
How Hollywood Has Failed The Great Comic Books
“To love American cinema is to love comic-book movies, and to want better comic-book movies in the future. What made the first round of actual comic book movies from Superman (1978) to Batman (1989) so disheartening was that they were distinctly bad. They were bad for a number of reasons.”
UNESCO Warns That Antiquities In Palmyra World Heritage Site Are Threatened By ISIS
“Palmyra is home to a UNESCO world heritage site and is famous for its 2,000-year-old ruins, including a Roman aqueduct and necropolises. Syria’s antiquities chief said on Saturday that the militants would destroy the ancient ruins if they took control of the city.”
What Orchestras Can Learn From The Failed “Concert Companion” About Innovating
They must “build innovation into the core product so that eventually innovation becomes part of your incremental track. It’s a 10-year window and requires a real investment in innovation.”
Study: Experiencing Awe Builds Compassion, Humility
“Reminding participants of a time when they experienced awe … increased their tendencies to endorse ethical decisions across a variety of scenarios.”
Utah Symphony And Opera Musicians Sign New Contract, Get Raise
“The deal includes an average 3.5 percent increase in base salary in each of the next three seasons for the musicians, who endured $3.8 million in salary cuts over the past seven years as the orchestra weathered a nationwide economic downturn and its aftermath.”
Why The New Shakespeare “Portrait” Is So Not Him
By the time we get to Shakespeare, a lot of logic has been sidestepped. And now we really do enter Dan Brown territory. Starting from the heraldic tradition of the “sign of 4”, he embarks on a series of elaborate moves involving Latin and coats of arms to produce the name “Shakespeare.”
Remember When The Tech Revolution Was Supposed To Be For The Masses? Now Not So Much
“We are once again living in a go-go time for tech, but there are few signs that the most consequential fruits of the boom have reached the masses. Instead, the boom is characterized by a rise in so-called on-demand services aimed at the wealthy and the young.”