L.A. County November Election Will Include Arts Funding Measure

The ballot measure concerns “whether to absorb $23 in annual per-parcel property taxes over the next 30 years for improvements to parks and cultural facilities within them as well as recreational facilities, beaches and wildlife areas. If the required two-thirds supermajority says yes, the county would have $53 million each year to spend for all those purposes combined.” Most major arts venues in L.A. County are technically within parks.

What Do We Really Learn From Teaching Apes Language? Inside The Strange World Of Koko The Gorilla And Kanzi The Bonobo

“Koko is perhaps the most famous product of an ambitious field of research, one that sought from the outset to examine whether apes and humans could communicate. … But no new studies have been launched in years, and the old ones are fizzling out. A behind-the-scenes look at what remains of this research today reveals a surprisingly dramatic world of lawsuits, mass resignations, and dysfunctional relationships between humans and apes.”

New Route Chosen To Keep Cruise Ships Out Of Historic Venice (This Isn’t As Good News As You Think)

The decision is “to use a channel in the lagoon called the Canale Contorta Sant’Angelo to bring the vast cruise ships into the port of Venice instead of sending them through the city. … It is like stopping juggernauts from travelling along the London Embankment by rerouting the same traffic and more down a new highway across Hyde Park.”

Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.20.14

Ethics 101 For Dealers: Deaccessioning
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Will Indie Film Survive?
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-08-20

Rationales
AJBlog: Engaging Matters | Published 2014-08-20

Name The Best Four Hudson River School Paintings — To Go On Stamps
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts | Published 2014-08-20

The Six Sins of Joan Mitchell
AJBlog: Artopia | Published 2014-08-19

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