In the 1980s, Hawaii, like most American states, saw its school curriculum stripped of arts education. But recently a series of new initiatives has found the teaching of creativity returning to the classroom.
Tag: 11.15.02
The Man who Saved UNESCO:
Unesco is the United Nations’ cultural wing. But it’s been disorganized and ineffective for much of its 30 years of existence. But under a sharp new director, “today Unesco not only displays more dynamism, efficiency and financial transparency—’accountable to all State holders’—than has been seen since its foundation in 1945, but it has also persuaded the US to return to membership.”
Guggenheim Visits Down 25 Percent:
Is the Guggenheim Museum in danger of going bankrupt, as a New York Sun story suggested in late September? Not at all, say museum officials. Sure the museum is hurting – staff has been cut, and the museum’s Soho gallery was closed – and attendance is down 25 percent this year. For next year? “Staff layoffs, reduced museum hours, and changes in the exhibition programme were all suggested as possibilities, according to a spokesperson for the Guggenheim.”