Hockenberry, who co-created the WNYC-Public Radio International co-production and hosted or co-hosted it since its launch ten years ago, said in a statement, “Ultimately, in every challenging career, there comes a time when it is important to know when to move on.” His final show airs on Friday, Aug. 11.
Tag: 07.21.17
Are Pricey University Fine Arts Degree Programs On The Verge Of A Crash?
“In recent days, it was announced that a graduate program in theater at Harvard would suspend admissions for the next three years after receiving a so-called failing grade from the Department of Education that could result in a loss of access to federal student loans. The finding, which I first read about in the Boston Globe, should be a shot across the bow for elitist arts programs with high tuitions, programs that long have ignored the realistic economic prospects of their graduates.”
Addressing The Gender Imbalance In The Non-Profit Sector
“In the non-profit sector, 75 percent of all workers and volunteers are women. Yet somehow only 45 percent of women will go on to secure a top position at any of these organizations, and only 21 percent of these CEOs will have access to budgets of $25 million or more. So what gives?”
It’s A Noisy Cacophonous World. Here’s How Eight Top Curators Try To Make Sense Of The World
Dickens’s characters are cardboard cutouts, even in their names: Inspector Bucket, the Brothers Cheeryble, Jerry Cruncher. They are mechanicals. His prose is turgid and, less forgivable, tortured. Here’s his rendition, in “Dombey and Son,” of a sea-captain’s dialect: “It’s an almighty element. There’s wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling.” What a load of bosh.
What Hemingway Learned From Miro
It was pretty direct (Miró timed Hemingway’s boxing matches, by the way): “Miró models a visual clarity that the writer, for whom the sun was a central symbol, used in the descriptive passages with which so many of his works begin. With Hemingway’s writing, this is not a passive record of the scene, but the probing vigilance of the hunter, fisherman, and combat veteran.”
This Photographer Lived With And Documented The UK’s Industrial Poor
Chris Killip says of his subjects from English towns in the 1970s and 1980s: “They are at the tough end of things, the people in my photographs. … It’s about the struggle for work, being out of work, fighting for work.” (And yes, he sees parallels to the United States today.)
Does Canada Put Artists At Risk With Lax Copyright Laws?
Yikes: “The educational loophole has left Canada with the reputation of being lax on copyright; publishers as venerable as Oxford University Press have simply stopped publishing Canadian schoolbooks because they view this market as too risky.”
An Immense Screw-Up Over A New Building May Kill This Drama School In England
One of the current students; “It’s sad to see such a unique, outstanding, renowned college be let down by a bunch of suits who didn’t make their mind up over the future of it, and there’s at least a hundred of us that have been left with the mess they patched together for us.”
Sure, Netflix Does Original Shows And Reboots – But Its New Secret Weapon Is Genre Movies
Directors, showrunners, and cast members were at San Diego Comic-Con. “To hear them say it, Netflix could do no wrong. ‘I was able to do my shit here,’ Ayers said. ‘I was able to tell my fucking story. I was able to do my thing.'”
Opera In Europe Is Not Exactly Content With The Way The World Is Working
“Aix’s outgoing general director, Bernard Foccroulle, described his vision as one in which opera has ‘a vivid and creative relationship to the past, with a focus that is of our time.’ The model should be one of ‘participation, not consumerism.'”