“The point is to honor and educate. … We’re honoring Judith Jamison, who has been a leader for decades. We are bringing in students from around the country to give them a day in the White House and share with them some of the great performers.”
Tag: 09.01.10
Maybe Fisk Univ. Really Has No Choice But to Sell Its Art
“The endowment of the tiny, historic school in Nashville, which opened its doors to newly freed slaves in 1865, is depleted. Every building on the campus … has been mortgaged. Fisk President Hazel R. O’Leary says that the only asset of real value left is the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art.”
What Oliver Sacks Learned From His Own Eye Cancer
“In general terms, I learned that the brain is always busy. In particular, if a sensory input – whether it be vision or hearing or kinesthesia – is taken away, there will be some sort of compensation, and the cortical systems involved in those representations will become hyperactive.”
Ancien Régime Angry Over Murakami Show at Versailles
“Cultural traditionalists in France are upset that the famed chateau will play host to an installation of [Takashi] Murakami’s work … Known for his brightly colored pop creations that pull from the worlds of anime, manga and cartoons, Murakami is a decidedly odd fit for the Baroque castle.”
Hollywood Wary Of Apple’s 99-Cent TV-Show Rental Plan
“Most major television producers, including CBS, NBC, ABC, Warner Bros, and Sony Pictures, aren’t part of the 99-cent rental deal. Nor are powerhouse cable networks Showtime and HBO. Each has a vested interest in protecting their existing businesses, which brings billions of dollars into the TV industry through cable and satellite subscriptions and advertising revenue.”
Do Popular Books Ensure Movie Success?
“Some books reach a cultural saturation point, where everyone — great aunts and frat boys, baristas and coffee patrons, defense attorneys and police officers — seems to be talking about them or has read them, or is planning to read them. It’s no surprise that these books, with broad and engaged reader interest, attract the attention of Hollywood.”
We Need To Change The Way We Build University Campus Buildings
“Over the last decade, many universities have invested in eye-catching architecture aimed, he says, at attracting investors and business, as a way of transforming places that should be free-thinking and outside the immediate commercial equation into marketing-driven “brands”. Students have become “customers” in business-style machines for teaching; these are expected to serve the economy by slotting graduates neatly into profitable jobs.”
Downturn? Naw. Cal Performances Bulks Up With New Leader
Matias Tarnopolsky not only has managed to arrange significantly more performances than last year, but has also astounded with a host of artistic coups.
Washington National Opera’s Music Director Steps Down
“After 18 years and a recent bout of ill-health that kept him off the Washington National Opera podium for more than a year, Heinz Fricke, the music director of WNO and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, has announced his retirement. “
BC Finds Extra $7M for Arts Funding
“After being in the hot seat for the past three weeks over cuts to cultural funding,” provincial culture minister Kevin Krueger “announced Wednesday that the province would give the Arts Council $7 million [Cdn] from its 2010 Sports and Arts Legacy Fund.”