The $1.5 million donation, "called the 'Allan Vogel Chair, endowed by the Henry Family,' supports the principal oboe chair. ... The gift is significant for LACO, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary season. The orchestra's annual budget is $4.5 million."
"The grants are intended to fund the preservation of humanities collections impacted by the storm, as well as helping institutions - from universities and libraries to museums and historical societies - to get back up and running."
"The British Museum is embarking on what could be the most far-ranging redisplay of its collection for more than 150 years. In his first in-depth interview since taking over as director in April 2016, Hartwig Fischer has revealed plans to reorganise and revitalise what could amount to half of the museum's 95 galleries."
Among the nominees for Britain's worst new building of the year are a couple that look sort of like actual carbuncles, if carbuncles had right angles.
Remember "slow TV"? The Norwegians pioneered it, with programs like a real-time seven-hour train run from Bergen to Oslo. Well, BBC Radio 3 (the classical music station) is going to try the audio equivalent.
Energo India's main business is building electric plants, but last year it opened a new division called Navrasa Duende, which has already produced concert tours and film festivals. Next month, it's bringing in from Ukraine the first professional staging of the ballet Swan Lake in India in living memory.
"In a fascinating new paper published this summer, five economists, Raj Chetty, John Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan, call into question higher education’s role in promoting upward mobility. The centerpiece of the paper is “mobility report cards” for each college in America. The researchers considered 30 million students between 1999 and 2014 and compared their parents’ incomes to their own post-college earnings, by school. With this data, they could see exactly which colleges helped the most students rise from the bottom of the earnings ladder to the top."
The board of governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “left intact Rule Two, the one that established that a film” — in...
