- ROTECTING
OUR OWN: As the World Trade Organization begins meeting in
Seattle, France vows to protect its movie industry from Hollywood
incursion. French directors fear US will use WTO to undermine
French government support for homegrown films in a drive to increase
Hollywood's dominant market share in France.
Toronto Globe and Mail 11/30/99
- AFTER
ALL, THIS ISN'T PRO SPORTS: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation
has pulled out of negotiations on broadcasting next year's Sydney
Festival. "Too expensive," says the national broadcaster.
Sydney Morning Herald
11/30/99
- CROSSING
OVER: Five artists - choreographer Donald McKayle, visual
artist Alexis Smith, TV producer Darren Star, R.E.M singer Michael
Stipe, and director Julie Taymor - sit down to talk about art
in the new century.
Los Angeles Times 11/28/99
- SO
YOU THINK LEARNING IS JUST FROM WORDS? Hartford recently cut
instrumental music from its school curriculum. City's residents
protest while taking stock of its other arts education programs.
Hartford Courant 11/29/99
- CANADA
heads to this week's World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle
with cultural protection on its mind. CBC
11/28/99
- CULTURE
JAMMING: It's National Buy Nothing Day - culture jamming is
a new movement dedicated to resisting the consumer urge when those
about you have had their taste shaped by corporate America.
CBC 11/26/99
- BUNGLING
ART FUNDING: Trying to save face in a last minute move, England's
Arts Council announces £10 million in grants for touring. But
it's too late to help this winter, and it can't disguise the embarrassing
shortage of productions available for the three major new theatres
opening with British Lottery proceeds. London
Telegraph 11/22/99.
- INDIGENOUS
COPYRIGHT: Australia attempts to allow copyright of indigenous
cultural art forms. Not so easy to accomplish though, say those
at the National Aboriginal Dance Conference, held at the Powerhouse
Museum last week. Sydney
Morning Herald 11/22/99
- ENTERTAINMENT
RENEWAL: Many cities believe the key to redevelopment of their
downtowns is building entertainment/retail districts. Do they
work? A survey. Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette 11/20/99
- CLASSICAL
REVENGE: Washington public radio station drops morning classical
music programming in favor of "Morning Edition." Music-lovers
desert, taking their pledges with them.
Washington Post 11/21/99
- FRANCE
CALLS FOR CULTURAL PROTECTIONS: Heading in to new round of
world trade talks, President Jacques Chirac says France supports
the concept of cultural diversity and argues that this can only
be achieved by acknowledging a cultural trade exemption that allows
nations to protect their cultures from being overwhelmed by competition
from outside. CBC 11/18/99
- WHO
HAS TIME FOR SCHOOL? New study says kids between ages of 2
and 18 spend 5 1/2-hours on daily media entertainment - 2 hours,
46 minutes of television; 49 minutes of computer games and other
computer uses; 48 minutes of recorded music; 44 minutes of reading;
and 39 minutes of radio. (AP)
Boston Globe 11/18/99
- IT
HAPPENED TO OIL. IT HAPPENED TO AUTOS: It's the rise and consolidation
of the multinational conglomerate. The global media/entertainment
market is dominated by eight transnationals. The
Nation 11/16/99
- OPENING
CHINA: Chinese admittance to World Trade Organization means
more American movies in China, maybe less piracy. Variety
11/16/99
- A
NIGHTCLUB PIRANESI WOULD HAVE ENVIED: Former cold storage
facility, 24,000-square-feet of vaulted tunnels below the streets
of London, has been turned into city's newest nightclub. London
Telegraph 11/16/99
-
SELF-HELP
BOOKS FOR ARTISTS: Allworth Press celebrates ten years
of publishing practical guides to the business of the arts.
Publisher's Weekly
11/16/99
-
PEDAL
TO THE METAL: Detroit arts economy is booming along with
the local economy. New concert hall, theaters, museums, rejuvenating
downtown. Next up: an arts tax to generate $24 million/year
for the arts. Detroit
News 11/15/99
-
"MICHELANGELO
AND BACH WERE IN ADVERTISING?" Consumer culture is
so ingrained in modern life that traditional barriers between
art and advertising have eroded. Toronto
Globe and Mail 11/13/99
-
THIRTEEN
HOURS AND $32: That's what the average American spent on
movies in theaters last year. Our appetite for entertainment
rockets ahead - last year spending on all forms of entertainment
increased to $55 billion, up 10 percent from 1998. Variety
11/11/99
-
ESTHETICS
ABSOLUTISTS: Increasingly, beauty has become a battleground
for local land-use regulation. Stylistic choices as visual pollution.
Reason 11/10/99
-
OLIPHANT
ON GIULIANI: Cartoonist imagines how great artists would
have portrayed New York mayor in their work. Artnet.com
11/9/99
-
BUSTED:
Seventy-one Carnegie Mellon University students lost their computer
privileges for the rest of the semester after officials staged
a surprise raid and found the students had MP3'd copyrighted
music online. Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette 11/6/99
-
A
(DETAILED) CASE AGAINST PUBLIC ARTS FUNDING: Arts
journalist Alice Goldfarb Marquis contends that public financing
warps how we do culture in America. The
Idler 11/8/99
-
JUST
WHAT, EXACTLY, IS POST-MODERNISM? Chicago
Tribune 11/8/99
-
A
Ph.D IN BEING SMART?: Florida university creates a doctoral
program to turn out "public intellectuals." So now
you need a degree to drop a literary reference at a cocktail
party? Chronicle of
Higher Education 11/99
AND: Camille
Paglia retorts: "They're going to groom people--what?
To be me? Slate
-
HONOR
IN ABSENTIA: Clips of movie nominated for Canada's top film
award can't be shown on national broadcast of this weekend's
awards because Canadian judge has banned it from the air. National
Post 11/5/99
-
BETWEEN
SELF-REFERENCE AND IRRELEVANCE: The cultural world is mired
in itself - how to escape?
Feed 11/3/99
-
NAACP
LIFTS BOYCOTT THREAT: won't boycott one of the major broadcast
networks. Instead will hold hearings on the lack of racial diversity
on US airwaves.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 11/4/99
-
WRONG
MESSAGE? US Congress was ready to pass tax incentives for
low budget movies encouraging them to keep production in US.
Then bill's sponsors discovered the plan might subsidize pornographers
and the bill was quickly nixed. Variety
11/4/99
-
HONG
KONG DISNEYLAND: A plan to build a $3 billion theme park
in the former British colony in bid to boost flagging tourist
industry. BBC 11/2/99
-
TAX
BREAKS FOR ARTISTS: A proposed new federal law would give
tax breaks for playwrights, lyricists, and composers who donate
their work to public institutions such as libraries and museums. Backstage
11/1/99
-
SF.COM:
How internet wealth ruined the best parts of San Francisco.
Salon 11/1/99
-
LIFE
BEFORE THE FLOOD: researchers piecing together epic poem
written 2000 years before Noah, discover similarities between
life in the Middle East then and now. National
Post 11/1/99
-
MY
15 MINUTES: Biographies are hot right now - on the tube,
in film, in print. But are enough of these stories worth telling?
Philadelphia Inquirer
11/1/99
