More than 60 organisations, including some of the UK’s highest-funded companies and prominent performing arts conservatoires, have promised to take positive action towards equality. The Keychange project is the brainchild of charitable funding body the PRS Foundation. It was launched in 2018, when 180 music festivals committed to programming gender-balanced line-ups by 2022. – The Stage
Tag: 06.26.19
Ha: New York Bookstore Owner Makes Case That His Stores Ought To Get Tax Breaks Amazon Was Going To Get
His argument for assistance is simple: The stores generate $650,000 in annual tax revenue for the city and state, and his 75 staffers (on a payroll of $1.7 million in 2018) spend “virtually all” their income in the city. In addition to its status as a small-but-mighty economic engine, he adds, “Book Culture contributes simply by being what we are, storefront businesses active in a community.”
Met Museum Can Keep Picasso’s ‘The Actor’, Rules U.S. Court Of Appeals
“First brought against the Met in 2016, the suit alleged that Picasso’s The Actor (1904-05) was subject to restitution laws and should therefore be returned to the family of its original owners, Paul and Alice Leffmann, both of whom fled Germany during the Nazi party’s rise to power in the mid-1930s. The Leffmanns’ great-grandniece, Laurel Zuckerman, had alleged that her relatives were made to sell the work ‘under duress.'” – ARTnews
Theatre On The Go: Made For Your Car
This is a theatre column, after all. But I really picked up three actors who directed me around streets previously unknown to me in downtown Markham and its environs, and who each made me believe in ten short minutes that their situations were really happening. – Toronto Star
How I Found A Studio For Merce Cunningham In Postwar Paris
Marianne Preger-Simon recounts how she saw the great choreographer perform in the French capital in 1949, and how she contrived to meet him — ultimately to become his first student and then a charter member of his dance company. – Literary Hub
At Historic House Museums In The South, A New Focus On The Lives Of The Enslaved
“In cities including Savannah and Charleston, … for years, tours of historic homes would focus on their architecture and fine furniture, but not on how the wealth so clearly displayed depended on enslaved labor. … Now that’s changing.” – The New York Times
Why Lists Of “Best” Or “Most Livable” Cities Are A Dumb Exercise
By using data as a driver, such rankings present themselves as dispassionate and impartial, as if they are simply removing the lid on a machine to reveal objectively how the engine beneath is functioning. They nonetheless represent a worldview taken from a highly specific angle, one that is full of scarcely acknowledged assumptions about who the imaginary citizen they address is. – CityLab
What SFMoMA Is Buying From Its $50M Rothko Sale To Diversify Its Collection
Among the works in this group of acquisitions, which will go on view at the museum in August, are Thomas’s portrait of a transgender woman named Qusuquzah, Qusuquzah, une très belle négresse 1 (2011), Bowling’s monumental painting Elder Sun Benjamin (2018), and Belmore’s large-scale ceramic sculpture Tarpaulin No. 1 (2018). – ARTnews
Age-Appropriate Books (For Any Age)
Avid readers could build autobiographies around their favorite books and come to the realization that what they have read is almost as meaningful as when they read it. So here’s a list of books matched to every age. – Washington Post
Preserving The Japanese Writing System Reserved For Women
“Women in medieval Japan were discouraged from studying kanji – characters modelled on written Chinese which represent individual words – and began using kana, which transcribe words phonetically. A [20th-century] standardisation programme … saw 90% of the 550 kana die out. But these forgotten characters are now being kept alive by the artist and master of Japanese calligraphy Kaoru Akagawa, who became fascinated with them after deciphering letters from her grandmother.” – The Guardian