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Tag: 08.16.11
How Lower Manhattan Has Cleaned Up Ten Years After 9/11
“Ten years later it seems every building and street in Lower Manhattan has gotten (or is getting) a good scrubbing. Exuberant Art Deco towers soar out of the Cubist collage of brick and stone structures that jostle each other along the shadowy sidewalks.”
UK Musicians Protest Dropping Music Requirements From Schools
“Musicians are furious that the new measurement – known as the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc) – excludes music and other creative subjects, such as art and drama. The Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM) and Music Teacher magazine said they had already noticed that fewer pupils were taking music as a result.”
Poor Old CBC Limps To 75
“The CBC is chronically underfunded and over-mandated: Canadians want it to do everything and please everybody, but would rather not pay for it.”
Can You Have A Shaw Festival Without Shaw? (We’ll Find Out)
“The Shaw Festival, in Ontario Canada, for the first time in its 51-year history, will not be presenting a play by Bernard Shaw in its flagship Festival Theatre during the 2012 season.”
Lucrative Acting Sideline – Playing Patients In Hospitals
“These days, to support themselves between gigs, or simply keep plying their craft, actors are auditioning at hospitals and medical schools to portray sick people—’standardized patients’ in med school terms—who help aspiring doctors learn their craft.”
Huge Increases In Price Of Copper Causes Sculptors To Economize
“Piero Mussi, owner of Artworks Foundry in Berkeley, Calif., stated that the per-pound price of bronze has risen in the past 10 years to $5 from $1.20. And Marc Fields, owner of New York’s The Compleat Sculptor supply house, claimed his prices have more than tripled since 2008, reaching $7 a pound.”
LA County Museum Bond Rating Downgraded
“The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s bond rating has been downgraded a notch, with Moody’s Investors Service warning that a default could ensue if another market collapse causes the museum’s investment portfolio to lose a third of its value.”
First Concert To Use All-Mobile Tickets
“The Billboard Summer Blowout party was billed as the first event for which every ticket distributed was done via mobile phones. Joshua Dziabiak, founder of ShowClix, the company behind the service, said the new MMS ticketing system was the first of its kind to be used in the United States and hopes the system will revolutionize the way ticketing works.”
After Museum Attacks – How Do You Protect The Art?
“The sad paradox is that to really protect it, you need plexiglass. But if you put it under glass and behind ropes, you might as well just show it in a catalogue.â€