“The creators of the Puma Creative Impact award believe [the effect documentaries have in the wider world] can be massive.” The stated aim of the €50,000 prize? “To honour the documentary film creating the most significant impact in the world.” Are they right?
Tag: 10.06.11
Should Funding Bodies Require Theatres To Provide More Parts For Women?
Julia Pascal, who was the first woman to direct a play at England’s National Theatre, recently suggested that the only way to get the country’s stages to offer more good roles for actresses is to convince Arts Council England to require it. Lalayn Baluch – and readers – wonder if Pascal has a point?
Human Brains Evolved To Hate School
“Mothers and fathers know well that their youngsters would rather pay attention to one another than to the blackboard. But parents may not realize that the reasons children struggle with education lie deep in our evolutionary past.”
Come On. We Need The Arts On Canadian TV
“In the past few months, two staples of the channel – Bravo!News and Arts & Minds – were abruptly cancelled. Both were magazine-style shows covering the arts – profiles of Canadian writers, interviews with writers visiting Canada, the opening of exhibitions, new opera and ballet productions, the opening of new exhibitions, coverage of many arts awards.”
Supreme Court Justics Stephen Breyer Chosen As Juror For Pritzker Prize
“Pritzker officials said the justice’s intelligence, disposition and enthusiasm for architecture made him a good choice to serve on a panel that hopes to expand the breadth of its jurors’ experience.”
Judge Quashes Last Attempt To Stop Barnes Collection Move
“Judge Stanley Ott of Montgomery County Orphans’ Court ruled that the Friends of the Barnes, an organization opposed to moving the renowned collection of Impressionist and early Modernist work from its original home to a new museum on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, had no legal standing to challenge the move.”
Swedish Poet Tomas Transtroemer Wins Nobel Lit Prize
“Tipped as a potential Nobel prize winner for many years, Transtroemer is the eighth European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last 10 years. He is the first Swede to receive the prize since authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson shared it in 1974.”
Gramophone Awards Announced
The Manchester-based Hallé Orchestra won the contemporary and choral prizes at the prestigious event in London. Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel was named artist of the year.
How Arab Artists Foresaw Their Nations’ Uprisings
“Newly deposed Arab dictators might have been well advised to have paid attention to the works of their home-grown artists more closely: Many visualized the revolutions in their countries long before they happened.”
How Google Is Taking Over The World
“The more data it gathers, the more it knows, the better it gets at what it does. Of course, the better it gets at what it does the more money it makes, and the more money it makes the more data it gathers and the better it gets at what it does – an example of the kind of win-win feedback loop Google specialises in – but what’s surprising is that there is no obvious end to the process.”