“In the months following Bausch’s death, [Dominique Mercy] took over the joint artistic direction of the company with Robert Sturm, the assistant director, and together they are committed to the continuation of the company she had built. … Initially, their decision to keep the company going was entirely pragmatic: they were away touring when Bausch died.”
Tag: 10.20.10
List of Top Ten Companies Supporting the Arts Holds Surprises
2010’s list, put together by Americans for the Arts, includes – alongside such familiar names as Con Edison, Capital Bank and Conoco Phillips – Iowa’s M.C. Ginsberg Jewelers and Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina. (Who knew?)
Public Radio Thrives While Other Media Decline
“More listeners continue to find public radio and, as evidenced by a couple of developments in recent days, the network and some of its executives want to make the footprint even larger. With NPR already well established as a national and international news source, its biggest gaps are on the local front. And that happens to be where newspapers and other media have cut back.”
How Many Genes In A Human? More Than A Chicken, Less Than A Grape
“Not only do we not know what all the genes are, we don’t even know how many there are. Most estimates place the human gene count in the neighborhood of 22,000 genes, which falls between the number of genes in a chicken and the number in a grape.”
Will Anyone Miss Video Stores When They’re Gone?
“Now that video stores seem just about dead — a decline, more or less, that paralleled the emergence of Netflix, and convenience with it — few are lamenting the end of video stores. Perhaps with reason.”
Academic Libraries – Now Ruled By Commercial Interest?
“Libraries are early and enthusiastic adopters of digital innovations. But these innovations bring the values of the marketplace with them. Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.”
Ax Falls On UK Government Arts Funding – Cut 30 Percent
“The 29.6% cut will see ACE’s current government grant of £449m drop to £349m by 2014. National museums will take a cut of 15% and will remain free to enter. The Arts Council is also being asked to make a 50% cut in its administrative costs.”
Union Chief: Detroit Symphony Labor Fight Could Doom Orchestra
“In a few short years, the symphony will go from world-class to secondary status because of personnel changes. This will change decades of experience where Detroit’s symphony has been famous worldwide. That proves that management is just wrong.”
Why Should Government Fund The Arts? Look At The NEA Study
“Their study, subtitled, Involved in the Arts, Involved in Life, shows that people that attended performing arts events are 2.7 times more likely to be involved as volunteers in their community than people who stayed at home, while someone who reads literature is 1.8 times as likely to take exercise as a non-reader.”
Study: Why Young People Aren’t Attending Classical Music Concerts
The feedback shows how alienated young people feel by traditional concerts and how they blame their own lack of knowledge when they fail to enjoy the music.