The paper has commissioned 11 short stories from local writers that they will publish each Tuesday starting next week. They are dubbed “A Dozen on Denver: Stories to celebrate the city at 150.”
Tag: 08.27.08
Canadian Gemini Awards Go For The Dramas
The big splash for drama marks a departure from years past when the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. dominated the competition with its news and factual shows. This year the public broadcaster earned nine nods for its flagship newscast, “CBC News: The National,” and 11 for perennial Gemini contender “The Fifth Estate,” an investigative news show.
Artists Protest Canadian Arts Funding Cuts
“Hundreds of people gathered in downtown Montreal on Wednesday to protest government cuts to arts and culture programs. Artists, singers, actors, writers and politicians spoke out against some $48.5 million in funding cuts announced by the Conservative government earlier this summer.”
How Europe’s Exiled Artists Changed America
“European and American culture have always been a two-way interchange and to talk about either of them exclusively is like trying to cut water with a knife. Joseph Horowitz says that Stokowski’s dream of a democratic high culture never arrived. But it couldn’t, because such a thing, as an aim, can exist only in theory. In practice, a successful artistic event deals with the anomaly by removing it.”
Amateur Vs. Pro – Does It Matter Anymore?
“In most areas of life professionals are paid and amateurs are unpaid, but in the theatre lots of actors who regard themselves as professionals end up working for nothing. The distinction between pro and am often seems to be more a state of mind than anything else. But ‘amateur’ doesn’t have to mean ‘amateurish’.”
Huxtable: World Trade Center Project Is A Monumental Fiasco
“I would say that this has probably been the greatest planning fiasco in the history of the world. Daniel Libeskind’s prize-winning design, a flexible, schematic concept that established a framework of achievable, creative possibilities, has been progressively purged by political pandering and economic pragmatism. The Port Authority’s own brutally detailed report earlier this year gave some cogent reasons why a strong, unified vision of civic and urban renewal on a plane worthy of a great city could not survive.”
The World’s Ten Most Endangered Languages
“There are more than 6,900 languages used around the world today, ranging in size from those with hundreds of millions of speakers to those with only one or two. Language experts now estimate that as many as half of the existing languages are endangered, and by the year 2050 they will be extinct. The major reason for this language loss is that communities are switching to larger politically and economically more powerful languages, like English, Spanish, Hindi or Swahili.”
Moscow’s Tratyakov Wants To Build New Home For Modern Art
Russia’s Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow’s largest collection of Russian art, said it has begun talks with the city government to build a new space for its modern and contemporary art collection.
UK National Museums Want 50 Million Pounds To But Titian
London’s National Gallery and the National Galleries of Scotland seek to buy a Titian painting for 50 million pounds ($92 million) as part of a plan that would allow the U.K. to continue showing the most important private collection of Old Masters on loan to the nation.
Has The Edinburgh Fringe Turned Into A Slave Factory?
“In Edinburgh, a vast majority of venues are staffed by unpaid volunteers, serving the needs of performers who have actually paid to perform in return for an often derisory cut of their box office takings. As monster-venue empires spread ever more widely, they begin to resemble factories built on slave labour and exploited workers.”