Test Older Posts
The Financial Times kicks off a polemical article with the knock-out sentence, “Europe as a cultural centre is in danger of being eclipsed by the Middle East as western heritage industries struggle with swinging austerity measures.” Speaking to the recession-induced cuts to Western cultural organiza
Opinion
In a column for Artnet [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/ai-weiwei-under-arrest11-12-10.asp], veteran art critic and grumbly curmudgeon/cheerleader Charlie Finch responds to Ai Weiwei's recent house arrest with an ultimatum: the art world should stop having anything to do with China.
Opinion
A November 2, Supreme Court hearing attempted to answer the question of whether or not video games are free speech, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/us/03scotus.html]. How do we decide what constitutes violence in a video game, and who has access to it? Contemporary art
Test Older Posts
Some things leave us speechless and this bite of Twitter wisdom is one of them. There are no words for this ridiculousness though it really does put things into perspective. For information on the history of US arts funding, visit a post [http://blog.art21.org/2009/07/08/arts-stimulus-funding-pt-1/]
Test Older Posts
Arts Council England, a group within the English governmental Department of Art, Media and Sport, is an organization entirely devoted to funding the arts, performing, visual and literary. In total, the council currently funds 880 arts organizations and events. In September, “Britain’s coalition gove
Art
When the topic turns to Park51, the “Ground Zero Mosque”/Islamic community center that’s been so omnipresent in the news lately, aesthetics may be the last thing that comes to mind. The building has become an icon for its political significance rather than its great accomplishments or offenses of ar