“The three evening newscasts added almost 2 million viewers combined in the second quarter compared with the same period the year before. The uptick in the morning is all the more impressive, given the downturn in the audience for broadcast television overall. All three networks lost viewers in prime time this TV season compared with the year before.”
Tag: 08.03.11
‘Museum Of The Seam’ Exhibits Israeli And Arab Artists Together, Right On Jerusalem’s Fault Line
“A museum on the road separating Jewish west Jerusalem from the Arab neighborhoods in the city’s east is attracting a daring group of artists from Middle Eastern nations that shun contact with Israel, trying to erode political barriers through art.”
A Brief History Of (Lower) Primates In Film
“The Rise of the Planet of the Apes blockbuster reboot is out next week. To celebrate, we revisit the strange and complicated history of primate films – and ask whether we’ve lost our enthusiasm for simians on celluloid.”
Struggle Over L.A.’s Southwest Museum Becomes Lawsuit
“Years of wrangling over whether the Autry National Center has a right to shed a costly and inconvenient subsidiary, the Southwest Museum, has spilled, perhaps inevitably, into the courts.” The Southwest Museum has a highly regarded collection of Native American artifacts.
If Funding For Your Museum Extension Is Denied, Go Back and Ask For Ten Times As Much
That’s what the director of the Budapest’s Museum of Fine Arts did. In February, politicians cancelled a planned €18 million underground extension of the museum. Now Laszlo Baan has gone to back to the government with a €150 million plan to add two new buildings to the existing one.
We’re Getting Smarter (But Not In Ways You’d Expect)
“Some measures of intelligence — such as performance on Raven’s Progressive Matrices in Des Moines and Scotland — have been increasing for at least 100 years. What’s most peculiar is how scores have increased.”
In Scotland, Dance Is More Popular Than Soccer (Says Report)
“Dance is more popular as a participatory activity than football in Scotland, according to a new report published by the Federation of Scottish Theatre.”
Alfred Hitchcock’s First Movie Found In New Zealand
“The National Film Preservation Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive are announcing … the discovery of the first 30 minutes of a 1923 British film, The White Shadow, considered to be the earliest feature film in which Alfred Hitchcock has a credit.”
Chief Of Sydney’s Top Art Museum Steps Down After 33 Years
Since he became director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales in 1978, Edmund Capon “has overseen huge increases in visitor numbers, doubled the gallery’s exhibition space and significantly increased its collection. He has been described as the most successful gallery director in Australia.”
Agnes Varis, 81, Philanthropist
A chemist who made her fortune in pharmaceuticals, Varis was a revered supporter of jazz and opera as well as animal welfare and liberal political causes. Among her best-known arts initiatives is the $20 rush tickets program at the Metropolitan Opera.