“Longer on gadgetry than on literature, AWM is all about the breezy quote and the glitzy busywork toys that are now the currency of the exhibit industry: push a button, spin a wheel, drag an icon, and the gadgets spit out a thimbleful of data. It’s American Lit 101 (and more), the nutshell version. The books? Look up when you first walk in: a lot of them are stapled to a framework hanging just below the ceiling.”
The Mythologies About Neural Benefits Of Music
“There is a gap between the state of research in neuroscience related to music education, and the knowledge of current and future music teachers about these findings,” writes a research team from the Hanover University of Music led by Reinhard Kopiez. It reports instructors are particularly prone to accepting false assertions when they are accompanied by certain brain-related buzzwords.
The Marciano – LA’s Latest Big New Private Museum
Like similar projects in California, Florida, Texas, Connecticut, Maryland and elsewhere, the Marciano Art Foundation isn’t exactly a museum. It’s merely a private collection open to the public. The selection is highly personal. The mission statement is freewheeling (“Through exhibiting a diverse and compelling collection … MAF aims to encourage curiosity and contemplation of art.”) The professional staff is limited, as are public hours.
New Trump Budget Again Eliminates Culture Funding (But It’s Unlikely To Happen)
A spokesperson for the NEA confirms that the president’s 2018 budget proposes the elimination of the department, and includes a request for $29 million from Congress to shut down the agency in an orderly fashion. The spokesperson says that the organization is fully funded for the fiscal year, and will continue to make 2017 grant awards and “honor all obligated grant funds made to date.”
Ex-Mayor Bloomberg Gives $75 Million To New ‘Culture Shed’ On Manhattan’s High Line
“His gift, through his charitable organization Bloomberg Philanthropies, helps solidify what promises to be New York’s first new cultural institution in recent memory, to be completed in spring 2019, that will present performances, concerts, visual art, music and other events. With Mr. Bloomberg’s donation, $421 million will have been raised toward a $500 million capital campaign that includes start-up costs.”
Police Raid Moscow’s Leading Avant-Garde Theatre, Detain Director
Kirill Serebrennikov, famous in Russia as both a stage director and a filmmaker, was taken into custody and held for interrogation following a raid of the Gogol Center (of which he’s artistic director), his apartment, and 15 other addresses. (He was released late in the day and said he was questioned as a witness.) Authorities claim that the issue is suspected embezzlement of state arts funding at the Gogol, but Serebrennikov is a well-known critic of the Kremlin’s policies on freedom of expression, LGBT rights, and Crimea, and several of the theatre’s more controversial stagings have been investigated for violating morals laws.
Deutsche Bank Plans New Culture Forum In Central Berlin
“The arts centre, expected to open in mid-2018, is located in the Prinzessinnenpalais at 5 Unter den Linden – the boulevard leading up to the Brandenburg Gate. … The building will house both permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as hosting concerts, readings, talks, workshops, sporting events and a café.”