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• Michael Berkeley doesnt hold back | Arts diary

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Composer and broadcaster Michael Berkeley gave a speech at the Paul Hamlyn awards for artists and composers in London on Monday night, and its fair to say he didnt hold back. First on the block was the Cultural Olympiad, which, he said, "has been a complete and utter shambles – a fact that has been privately ...
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• Art imitates life?

  
  DGreport.com — Authority: 133
  Looks like local art organizations will no longer benefit from community grants,  based upon the village council’s Nov. 3 budget discussion. The preliminary decision to suspend the $72,000 program capped a roller-coaster 18 months for Downers Grove arts groups, which had been bolstered by an August 2008 council ...
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• Stage Employment News Worth Noting

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  At the moment, because performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and rehearsals for A Christmas Carol are overlapping, the Dallas Theater Center is currently employing 39 actors.And all of them seem to be local.
  5 days ago

• Bring the curtain down on the Ben and Boris show | Charlotte Higgins

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  For the sake of our cultural life, politicians like Bradshaw and Johnson should leave political drama to the arts Art and politics have always been, and always will be, locked in a complicated and often uncomfortable dance, from Velázquezs double-edged depiction of Pope Innocent X to Mark Wallingers Turner ...
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• Wales launches £3m national theatre

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Michael Sheen among homegrown stars in ambitious stage project There will be Aeschylus in the Brecon Beacons, a passion play in Port Talbot starring Michael Sheen and games on the beaches of north Wales. After being talked about for decades, a National Theatre of Wales was launched today with a tiny budget but ...
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• Enron attack

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  The culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has gone on the attack against the Conservatives culture policy – and their attempted crony appointment in London A slightly peculiar speech from culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, given to the Labour group Progress. He begins, predictably enough, by talking about some of the ...
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• Why isnt comedy funded by the Arts Council?

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Standup comedy can be as inspirational – and expensive – as any other art form, yet it attracts almost no public money. Things need to change In 2006, standup comic Terry Saunders hit upon the idea of hosting an event in a Camberwell childrens library. The event featured comic Josie Long and sketch group ...
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• The Importance of Art

  
  Colleen Anderson — Authority: 124
  There has been some brutal slashing of arts funding in BC, not to mention Canada. However, the BC government slashed funding quietly, in the background and almost to nil for most things. Magazines and performance groups that have continued for many years have suddenly found themselves out of business. We already know ...
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• Budget Bill Would Give the NEA and the NEH A Boost

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  From the Chronicle of Higher Ed: A compromise spending bill approved by Congressional negotiators on Tuesday sets the 2010 fiscal-year budgets for the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the Arts at $167.5-million each, a $25-million total increase over the appropriations for the two ...
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• Tuesday Morning Roundup

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  POWER IN NUMBERS: If you play in a band, and no one ever hears you, do you really have a band? That’s a question that Fort Worth musician Matt Skates has certainly pondered. He’s played with more than a dozen current and former bands, so he knows that all the practice in the world is [...]
  2 weeks ago

• ACT Government arts “consultation” under way

  
  The RiotACT — Authority: 147
  The ACT Government’s arts “consultation” – session tomorrow, but you wouldn’t know it. It’s incredibly difficult to find on the act.gov.au website, but here’s what’s on the page: “A number of different consultation mechanisms with both key stakeholders and the broader community will be used ...
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• Boris Johnsons obdurate support for Veronica Wadley harms and discredits him

  
  UK news: Dave Hill's London blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Mayor Johnsons decision to re-run the the entire procedure for appointing the next chair of Arts Council London demonstrates an obduracy bordering on suicidal megalomania. I can understand his wishing to poke Ben Bradshaw in the eye: the culture secretarys comments about Johnsons views on charging for museums ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britain offers great art a true sanctuary

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 155
  One of the worlds greatest ballerinas says we should treasure our lack of political interference in the arts On Thursday, I will run on to the stage at Covent Garden to dance the part of Mary Vetsera in Mayerling , one of the great roles in the Royal Ballet s repertoire. Its a privilege I could never hope for in ...
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• The New Quarterly Fall Issue Launch: Alex James On The Road

  
  State of Affairs — Authority: 417
  Welcome back to State of Affairs, my loyal readers.  I’m coming to you today from The Road, as it were – yes, the Fixer has given me special dispensation to actually go out and do something for once, rather than experiencing the world through the lens of the World Wide Web.  So I took the [...]
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• The dark arts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  A sound and light installation by Berlin artist Hans Peter Kuhn opens this evening in the citys Dark Arches Traffic weaves in and out of the lanes where the London motorway arrives in Leeds and disappears into an underground complex historically known as the Dark Arches. But, from tonight, the cars, buses and trucks ...
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• Arts Council chief warns against funding cuts

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Alan Davey says government risks losing money as well as creativity if arts funding is cut Any future government – whether Conservative or Labour – must continue to fund the arts at current levels despite the bitter economic climate, the Arts Council chief urged today. "The arts ought to be a key part of any ...
  3 weeks ago

• North Texas Artists To Flashmob for Health Care

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  Do you have health insurance? Do you want it?Many folks in our creative community-  actors to gallery owners, fashion designers, authors, filmmakers, painters – are uninsured or underinsured .  But now a group is calling for artists to stand together to change that.   Of course, they’re doing it in a fun and ...
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• The Big Broadway Winspear Gala

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  So Saturday night, the AT&T PAC threw its cumulative wingding-gala, the final fundraising frolic before Sunday’s open house, when the whole Arts District welcomed the two freshman facilities by getting all free and easy with a day’s worth of open-admission museums and concerts. Think of it as kind of a ...
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• AT&T PAC Getting a BIG AT&T Logo —

  
  KERA Art&Seek Blog — Authority: 528
  — on the roof of the Winspear Opera House.The blue-and-white-striped globe won’t mar the pristine, ruby-red glass face of the Winspear or give it a red, white and blue look. And people won’t be able to see it while driving or walking past. But it will be visible to air travelers overhead and to [...]
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• Funding announced for new film centre

  
  Number10.gov.uk Latest News — Authority: 667
  The Prime Minister has announced that the Government will provide £45 million of funding towards a new state-of-the-art film centre. Gordon Brown said the Government is determined to continue supporting the arts through the downturn. The British Film Institute National Film Centre, which will be located on ...
  3 weeks ago

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