James McQuaid looks at four assumptions arts organizations tend to make that, all too often, simply don’t hold up.
Tag: 10.06.14
EU Culture Commissioner Rejected By European Parliament
“A European Parliament committee voted on Monday to reject the nomination of Hungarian Tibor Navracsics as education and culture commissioner.” The legislators found that he was qualified for the post, but objected to his former role as justice minister in the controversial right-wing government of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban.
The Mad, Misunderstood Marquis: Why Does Sade Still Have A Hold On Us?
“He is everywhere, and still he scares us. Why? Because with Sade, no cold or objective analysis is possible; the body is implicated as much as the mind, and reason has to be subordinated to deeper, scarier impulses.”
What If Montaigne Wasn’t The Man Who Invented The Essay?
John Jeremiah Sullivan suggests that the form might just have, literally, a royal pedigree.
For Scotland’s National Trust, It’s Overhaul Or Financial Meltdown
The country’s largest historic preservation group will have to spend many millions over the next decade for maintenance and restoration of its properties, which include castles, battlefields, and even a few islands.
London’s National Theatre Earns Record £100 Million
“The National Theatre generated record-breaking income of £99.9 million in 2013/14, with ticket sales from NT Live screenings to cinemas at home and abroad increasing 179% from £2.4 million in 2012/13 to £6.7 million.”
Study: Our Experiences Get More Intense When We Share Them
“Lives unfold socially, but often silently,” the researchers write. “Yet even in silence, people often share experiences, and the mental space inhabited together is a place where good experiences get better, and bad experiences get worse.”
Nobel Literature Prize 2014: The Bookies’ Favorites Are –
“Ladbrokes, which has frequently seen the eventual victor surge to the top of its odds in the days before the announcement, said today that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami were, at 4/1, joint favourites to win Thursday’s eight million kronor (£693,000) prize.”
“Twin Peaks” Is Coming Back To TV
“The nine-episode series will go into production in 2015 for a premiere in 2016 [on Showtime] to mark the 25th anniversary of when the series finished its run on ABC. In a fact that will delight Twin Peaks devotees, Lynch and Frost will write and produce all nine episodes, with Lynch set to direct every episode.”
“Twin Peaks” Made Today’s Prestige-TV Landscape Possible
“The arty, boundary-breaking drama as we now know it wouldn’t exist without Twin Peaks … Everything from The Sopranos to American Horror Story owes it a debt. … And yet, as incredible as it now seems, there was a time when ABC was thought reckless, indulgent, or just plain stupid for giving Twin Peaks a green light.”