“His presence is guaranteed to make anything go viral, whether it’s a literary festival, a TV miniseries, or one of the most frequently staged Shakespearean tragedies. … Combine photos of him looking intuitive or alluring with pictures of fuzzy kittens and it’s a wonder the Internet doesn’t implode.”
Tag: 06.12.14
What We Can Learn From Medieval Theatre
Carl Heap, longtime artistic director of the UK’s Medieval Players: “We soon discovered that it was not so much the material of medieval theatre that assured our success, but its style. Central to this style was the acknowledgment by the actors of a visible, lit, audience.”
S.C. Governor Leaves Arts Funding Alone For A Change
Every year Nikki Haley uses her line-item veto power to try to zero out the South Carolina Arts Commission’s budget, and every year the state Legislature overrides her veto and restores the funding. This year, for once, she didn’t bother, and the Commission’s $2.9 million budget is intact.
Would Charlotte, N.C. Enact A Dedicated Tax For The Arts?
That’s one of the suggestions – for the city, suburban towns, and the county – made by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Cultural Life Task Force, convened by local government to suggest solutions to what the task force found was a year-after-year shortfall of $8 million in the local arts sector.
Guess What? Game Of Thrones Isn’t *Really* Medieval (And Yes, That Matters)
“What Martin actually gives us is a fantasy version of what the historian Alfred Crosby called the Post-Columbian exchange: the globalizing epoch of the 16th and 17th centuries. A world where merchants trade exotic drugs and spices between continents, where professional standing armies can number in the tens or hundreds of thousands, where scholars study the stars via telescopes.”
Can Music Lessons Counteract The Effects Of Poverty On The Brain?
“Four or more years of musical training in childhood was linked to faster neural responses to speech, even for the older adults who had not picked up an instrument for more than 40 years.”
Warning: Most Of London’s West End Theatres Need To Be Replaced
“Speaking at the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference in London, Howard Panter, who owns 11 West End theatres, said that theatres upwards of 100 years old were not built to last this long, and as such are ill-equipped to cater for modern-day audiences.”
Traditionally Rivals, Some Auction Houses And Galleries Are Starting To Collaborate
“The arrangements also give dealers, who mostly operate out of one venue, access to an auction house’s global spaces and collector base while the auction houses are able to present the more in-depth look at artists that dealers can provide.”
Why Should We Expect Symphony Orchestras To Champion New American Music?
“Do we really have to worry about whether symphony orchestras are doing their job as the headlining ambassadors of music and culture? The ambassadoring act isn’t what it used to be.”
UK Culture Minister: Arts Organizations Should Raise Their Own Money
“I can see absolutely no reason why every arts organisation in this country cannot raise philanthropic funds. I think there are all sorts of cultural, institutional barriers to that. I think that too many arts organisations think, ‘well, we live in an area where rich people don’t live, so they’re not going to back the arts’. I think that is pathetic, frankly.”