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English Arts Orgs Are Becoming A Bit More Diverse, But Too Slowly: Report
“An annual statistical report, published on Tuesday by Arts Council England (ACE), showed slow progress in representation of people from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background, and barely any progress in the area of disabled employees.R…
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Americans For The Arts Expands Programs For Cultural Equity And Diversity In Arts Leadership
This year the organization will extend its 25-year-old Diversity in Arts Leadership program beyond New York City to New Jersey and Iowa,
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Why Johns Hopkins Is Buying The Newseum Building
The purchase is an opportunity to position the university, literally, to better contribute its expertise to national- and international-policy discussions.
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Why Do Various Foods Disgust Some People And Not Others? There’s A Museum Devoted To The Question
The idea that anything labeled “food” can be described as “disgusting” is a minefield, running up against cultural tastes and
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Walton Family Foundation Funds New Teaching Program To Increase Diversity In Museum Staff
The charitable foundation of the family that founded Walmart has given $5.4 million to Spelman College, a historically black institution in Atlanta, and the Atlanta University Center to create an art history and curatorial studies undergraduate program.
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Why We Should Stop Trying To Justify The Arts (And Their Funding) With Measurable Data
“Underlying the development of quality metrics seems to be the question: ‘Are the arts justified?’ In other words, we are looking for evidence. This is the opening the quantifiers of the world need. Witness the attempts to find the value of the arts in their instrumental benefits to society, to the economy and to things […]
Russian Authorities Shut Down Gulag Museum — But What’s The Real Reason?
The volunteer-run museum in the city of Yoshar-Ola (roughly 100 miles from Kazan) was located in the erstwhile local headquarters — including the torture chamber — of the OGPU, an early Soviet predecessor of the KGB. The founder claims that a new regional governor wants to appease the Kremlin; a group of Russian museum professionals […]
