The Royal Shakespeare Company is launching a major campaign to change the way Shakespeare is taught in schools and tackle the impression amongst young people that the playwright is boring.
Tag: 09.22.06
Remembering SF’s Model Arts Patron
James Schwabacher was a true patron of the arts in San Francisco. “And for those who knew him — which would include just about anyone who has participated in San Francisco’s musical life over the past half-century — Schwabacher was someone who spread delight and warmth wherever he went. He was a seraphic presence at musical events of all kinds, beaming from his seat and quietly conducting with his hand.”
YouTube – An Endangered Species?
YouTub has had phenomenal growth. More than 100 million videos are viewed each day on the site. But Steve John suggests there might be rocky times ahead as copyright holders take aim…
NEA Classical Music Critics Institute Fellows Chosen
There are 25 journalists in this year’s program. The Institute is housed at Columbia University in New York City from October 15-25 and is part of a $1 million NEA initiative to “offer intensive training for arts journalists and editors who work outside the country’s major media markets.”
Saltz: Where Are The Women???
Jerry Saltz looks for women in New York art institutions. “According to the fall exhibition schedules for 125 well-known New York galleries—42 percent of which are owned or co-owned by women—of 297 one-person shows by living artists taking place between now and December 31, just 23 percent are solos by women. On the fourth and fifth floors of the Museum of Modern Art, in the galleries devoted to the permanent collection of art from 1879 to 1969, there are currently 399 objects. Only 19, or 5 percent, of those objects are by women. Meanwhile, since 2000 only 14 percent of the Guggenheim’s solo shows of living artists have been devoted to women.”
Slow Down, You’re Reading Too Fast
“The amount of printed material increases exponentially, but the time available for reading remains static or, in many cases, decreases arithmetically. So once we have decided what to read, the question then becomes, How to read? And the paradoxical answer is, Much more slowly.”
Study: Americans Are Watching More TV
“The average amount of time that U.S. households had a television set on each day during the yearlong 2005-06 TV season that ended last week increased by three minutes from the year before, to a record of eight hours and 14 minutes, the report said.”
Senate Pulls CPB Board Nomination
A US Senate Committee has pulled Warren Bell from a nomination hearing to consider his appointement to the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. “The selection of the outspoken conservative disquieted many public broadcasting officials, who were troubled by partisan comments Bell has posted on the website of the conservative National Review magazine. His sharp opinions caused some broadcasters to fear that Bell would rekindle the fierce political debate that engulfed the corporation last year under the leadership of former Chairman Kenneth Y. Tomlinson.”
Klose To Step Down As NPR Chief
NPR president and CEO Kevin Klose will step down as CEO. Ken Stern will replace him. “Klose has held the top job at NPR since late 1998, and has presided over strong growth in NPR’s annual funding, as well as increases in its audience and newsroom staff. During that time, the number of people listening to NPR’s programs doubled, to about 26 million per week, and its annual budget more than doubled, to $167 million.”
UK Prohibits Turner Painting From Leaving Country
A Turner painting which sold for a record £5.8 million at auction earlier this year has been banned from export from the UK. “The temporary export ban gives UK arts institutions two months to express a serious interest in buying The Blue Rigi, which features a Swiss landscape.”