There are, for instance, “numerous nods to [Martha Graham’s] work in Suspiria — even the floor-length dress Tilda Swinton’s character, Madame Blanc, favors in the movie.”
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So Just How Are Arts Organizations Supposed To Measure Social Impact?
At the London Film Festival last week, the British Film Institute (BFI) announced it was going to start measuring ‘class and socio-economic background in their funding and staffing’. This move reflects the growing attention given to inequalities in the arts: academic evidence increasingly shows that cultural professions are unequal across ethnicity, gender, age, disability and class. How we measure class and social mobility to reveal inequality is a thorny issue, however.
David Garrick, The Man Who Made Acting A Respectable Profession
He was skilled at charming his way into the circles of the great and good, and he built himself a riverside mansion for entertaining them. He was also admired for the high standards he expected of himself, his colleagues, and the operations of his theater. As Samuel Johnson once said of him, “Garrick has made a player a higher man. He lives rather as a prince than an actor.”
Never-Before-Published Sylvia Plath Story To Be Released Next January
“‘Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom’, which describes a fateful train journey, is one of a series of standalone short fiction titles being released by Faber to mark the publisher’s 90th anniversary. According to the Plath scholar Peter K Steinberg, it is completely unlike anything else she wrote before or after.”
Trumpet Practice Does Not Constitute Noise Pollution, Rules German Federal Court
“The neighbors of a professional trumpet player had taken the musician to court, complaining about the noise pollution caused by his practicing. Germany’s highest court ruled in favor of Siegfried Ratz – within reason. The decision from the BGH in Karlsruhe reads that the interests of the accused were not in direct conflict with those of the plaintiffs and that a balance between the two parties could only be found by ‘limiting the amount of time spent making music’.” The musician and his neighbors must now agree to a schedule.
Arts Orgs Have Big Social Impact In Metro Seattle, Finds Study
The ArtsFund study of King County, Wash.,”finds that ‘arts are a viable and proven — yet often underutilized and unacknowledged — strategy to positively transform and benefit our communities.’ Translation: A robust arts scene with well-funded arts organizations isn’t just ‘nice to have.’ … This study proves the arts can help solve serious problems facing this region in particular, including homelessness, inequitable and inadequate education, and general divisiveness. The only problem? Well, there’s a couple problems.”
New Synthetic DNA Technology Being Used To Combat Theft Of Rare Books
“Booksellers have always had to contend with warding off book thieves hungry for valuable volumes. As part of its ongoing efforts to deter book crime, Raptis Rare Books in Palm Beach, Florida, is employing a new piece of technology called synthetic DNA.” Here’s how it works.
New York’s Storefronts Are Disappearing. Can You Regulate A Fix?
Several studies indicate that 20 percent of Manhattan’s storefronts lie vacant—concentrated in the borough’s most trafficked areas, where commercial rents have soared. The worrisome trend—which exists outside of Manhattan, too—suggests a question: What happens when a city becomes too costly to offer the very ingredients that people look for in a city?
Six Broadway Lighting Designers Explain How They Work
“Lighting is in many ways the last creative act of the totally collaborative process that we call theatre,” says Peter Mumford (The Ferryman, King King). Says Les Dickert (Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet), “Light is a visual element that can ‘whisper’ into the eyes of the audience. It can shout as well, but it’s the whispering that I fell in love with.”
The Idea That It’s Too Risky To Program Plays By Black Playwrights Is A Myth: UK Study
“Providing evidence to counteract the idea that such work presents a risk in terms of audiences, ticket revenue or artistic quality, [the report] concludes that ‘it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the reasoning behind risk-averse programming, when risk is all too often closely associated with race’.”