“The city has been funding the arts since the 19th century, but until now City Hall has never embarked on a comprehensive review of where all that money goes and what it does. The result of that effort is a 180-page report … called ‘CREATENYC: A Cultural Plan for All New Yorkers,’ which aims to reorient the city’s cultural life toward neglected corners of the five boroughs by bringing the arts to previously ignored neighborhoods and pushing some of the jewels in the city’s cultural crown to make a greater effort towards getting residents of those neighborhoods through their doors.”
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The Arts Really Can Make People Healthier, And Doctors Could Legitimately Prescribe Them: Report
“GPs prescribing arts activities to some patients could lead to a dramatic fall in hospital admissions and save the NHS money, according to a report into the subject of arts, health and wellbeing published after two years of evidence gathering. … [The] inquiry contends that the arts can keep people well, aid recovery from illness, help people live longer, better lives and save money in health and social services.”
Three Tips For Staying Sane When You’re Both A Dancer And Choreographer
“Many people see dance and choreography as separate pursuits, or view choreography as a dance career’s second act. For some dancers, however, performing and choreographing inform one another. … Though a dual career can be fulfilling, simultaneously inhabiting the roles of dancer and choreographer requires focus, organization and a great deal of energy.”
The Pompidou Center Shanghai Is Coming
“Officials at the Centre Pompidou have confirmed that … more than 20 exhibitions drawn from the holdings of the Beaubourg Gallery will be shown in the new outpost, called Le Centre Pompidou Shanghai (West Bund), which is based in a wing of the new 25,000 sq. m West Bund Art Museum designed by the UK architect David Chipperfield.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.19.17
The World Is Your Classroom (Or Gym)
Naomi Even-Aberle introduces us to her community: her gym. She shares how impactful it can be to take part in the successes, failures, and challenges of her students and peers as well as … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-07-19
Part of Something Bigger
Jaclyn Roessel reflects on the first time she felt like a part of a community, when she was 12 years old and had her Kinaaldá ceremony, in which she became a woman and felt the kinship of not only her nuclear family, … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2017-07-19
Recent Listening In Brief: Mitchell, Zeitlin, Cole
Roscoe Mitchell, Bells For The South Side (ECM)
If you have followed Mitchell’s searching music over the past 50 years, Bells For The South Side will reassure you that the septuagenarian composer, … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2017-07-19
The End Of Spain’s Traditional 3-Hour Lunch Break?
“This week, change could finally be on the way, as 110 professional bodies in Catalonia have signed up to a plan to change the region’s daily timetable by 2025, shortening the classic three-hour lunch break so that employees can finish work earlier in the evening. Such a change would radically reshape ordinary people’s lives—and controversially, it could drive a wedge between Catalonia and the rest of Spain.”
Inside An Immersive Theatre Experience Below The Streets Of Manhattan
We’re are not in Hoboken but in a space beneath the 14th Street entrance and exit of New York City’s High Line, and this is the immersive theatrical experience of Seeing You.
Dolly Parton Is Sending Free Books To Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pre-School Children Every Month
The goal of the Dollywood Foundation’s Imagination Library project is to send one free book a month to every child under 5 who wants one. “Five percent of the U.S. population younger than 5 years old receives a book through the program. The goal is to reach 10 percent by 2024.”
The Gates Of Paradise Are Now In Kansas City
The only copy outside Florence of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise, cast in bronze from the 15th-century originals, has arrived at the Nelson-Atkins Museum. Victoria Stapley-Brown tells the story of the work, how and why it came to be copied, and how the copy arrived in Kansas City via Japan, India, South Korea, and New York.
It Ain’t Easy Running A Venue At The Edinburgh Fringe (It Ain’t Lucrative, Either)
“[It’s] about more than booking acts, selling tickets and waiting for the cash to roll in. It means knowing where to hire a crane at 3am so you can lift a trampoline through a window, as Zoo Venues’ artistic director, James Mackenzie, had to do one year. Or dealing with a hole that opens up overnight right in front of Pleasance Dome’s entrance. Or ferrying truckloads of water from Leith to fill the Pleasance Courtyard tanks when the water supply fails, so the venues’ toilets can flush.”