RESALE RIGHT - lasts days for fair resale right contribution
By : SNAPcgt - Wednesday March 9, 2011 Consultation on the implementation and effect of the Resale Right Directive (2001/84/EC) Period of consultation From 07.01.2011 to 11.03.2011 All citizens and organisations are welcome to contribute to this consultation. Contributions are particularly sought from artists, art market professionals, and collecting societies managing resale right royalties. The Commission Services are preparing a report on the implementation and effect of the Resale Right Directive (2001/84/EC), as provided (...)
read more, comments... ARTISTS for RESALE RIGHT in EUROPE
By : snapcgt - Wednesday March 2, 2011 CITIZEN CONTRIBUTIONS opened until 11th of march 2011 Resale Right has been created to allow artists or their heirs to get some profit back from the resale of their works. Very often, artists sell low prices artworks which are resaled later much more expensive value. All citizens and artists unions can contribute to the european consultation to promote resale right in all Europe. Contributions are particularly sought from artists, artists unions and collecting societies managing resale (...)
read more, comments... Making history: support for Israeli artists who say NO to normalizing settlements
By : jewishvoiceforpeace - Tuesday September 7, 2010 When some 60 leading Israeli actors and playwrights signed a letter stating they would refuse to play in the new theatre in Ariel, one of Israel’s largest settlements, the attacks from Prime Minister Netanyahu, Israel’s Minister of Culture and Sport and many others were swift and intense. Over 150 leading Israeli academics and writers-including Amos Oz and David Grossman- came to their defense. It was the first time such mainstream figures had drawn a line around normalizing (...)
read more, comments... Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack tells William Parry why he is boycotting Israel
By : William Parry - Monday September 6, 2010 The movement for a cultural boycott of Israel in response to its treatment of the Palestinians, modelled on the boycott of apartheid South Africa, could eclipse decades of disingenuous political charades in engaging western intellectuals, academics and artists. Internationally renowned figures such as Naomi Klein and Ken Loach have supported the call, and now one of Britain’s most successful bands, Massive Attack, is publicly backing the boycott. “I’ve always felt that (...)
read more, comments... Shock and Awe’t
By : Michael David Morrissey - Monday September 7, 2009 I went to school with a guy who became big in the art world, and that’s how he pronounced it: awe’t. He was from New York. He called himself Reggie in those days, but now he prefers Reginald, thinking it I suppose more befitting of his age and social status. I can understand that. I had an aunt that everybody called "Baby" until she died, in her late 70s, which must have been hard. But Aunt Baby didn’t die in a penthouse, in fact never lived in one, though she did once (...)
read more, comments... Video: Mindblowing Graffiti Animation!
By : Solve et Coagula - Thursday March 19, 2009 http://www.soulpancake.com/view_pos...
read more, comments... Save the Arts Centre, Storytelling Festival and our education work
By : Boroh Piotr (Fr) - Friday January 23, 2009 Save the Arts Centre, Storytelling Festival and our education work Published by SDAC on Feb 04, 2008 Category: Arts & Entertainment Region: Wales Target: Arts Council of Wales Background (Preamble): The Arts Council of Wales (ACW) is proposing to cut the annual grant to St Donats Arts Centre. Unless we can reverse their decision, it will result in the loss of: St Donats Arts Centre and cinema for people in the Vale of Glamorgan, the UK and abroad. Up to 326 arts events in a (...)
read more, comments... Google Censors Sites, Words & Art. Google Censorship Threatens Rational Risk Management & World
By : Dr Gideon Polya - Sunday October 26, 2008 The scientific method involves a successive process of getting accurate data; setting up and critically testing potentially falsifiable hypotheses (models) of reality; and then refining our models of reality based on this experimentation. Of course lying, denial, rubbing out, fudging, or otherwise censoring the data utterly de-rails the scientifc process and that is why there is zero tolerance for lying in Science. Indeed, in a recent article entitled ““Swan Lake” (...)
read more, comments... DEAN REED, AMERICAN REBEL
By : David R. Hoffman, Legal Editor of Pravda.Ru - Monday December 17, 2007 By David R. Hoffman From the beginning he was destined to become an “American Rebel.” Even his name presaged this reality. Dean, his first name, was the last name of the actor James, who became a cultural icon after his 1955 appearance in the movie Rebel Without a Cause. Unfortunately that same year, just as this twenty-four-year-old actor was beginning to enjoy his fame, he died in a car crash. His last name was Reed, shared with the radical journalist John, an eyewitness (...)
read more, comments... Amazing Video: Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva Masterpiece
By : Solve et Coagula - Tuesday September 26, 2006 Amazing Video: Thousand-Hand Bodhisattva Masterpiece Thousand-hand Bodhisattva show. Amazing they are all deaf. A scene I will never forget and want to share with the whole world . U’ll be touched. Watch the video here: http://www.metacafe.com/watch/23811...
read more, comments... IRAQ : Artists become targets in rising atmosphere of intolerance
By : Johan - Sunday April 30, 2006 electronicIraq.net Art, Music & Culture Artists become targets in rising atmosphere of intolerance Report, IRIN 25 April 2006 BAGHDAD - Local artists, actors and singers, who have tried to bring smiles to the faces of children living in deteriorating conditions, have been targeted by insurgents and militias who accuse them of indulging in un-Islamic activities. "Artists are being threatened and killed because they want to change the reality of the country by helping people forget (...)
read more, comments... Hollywood leads campaign for death row reprieve
By : Andrew Gumbel - Saturday December 3, 2005 By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles Hollywood actors, musicians, church leaders and death penalty opponents staged protests and vigils across the US on behalf of Stanley "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips street gang who faces execution in less than two weeks unless the California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, can be persuaded to grant him clemency. The outpouring of support for "International Save Tookie Day" yesterday underlined the controversy surrounding Williams’s death (...)
read more, comments... Opera downsizes as Italy’s divas go on hunger strike
By : Barbara McMahon - Monday November 14, 2005 Singers and staff take drastic action in protest at budget cuts by Barbara McMahon in Rome Opera lovers in Italy this season may notice something different about the performers. Many of them are looking distinctly svelte after going on hunger strike to protest about proposed cuts to the country’s arts budget. Living on only water, fruit juice and coffee, singers’ weights have shrunk. Barbara Vignudelli, a soprano at the famed La Scala opera house in Milan, has had no solid (...)
read more, comments... The life and death of Pier Paolo Pasolini
By : Geoff Andrews - Wednesday November 2, 2005 The career and achievement of the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini is being celebrated thirty years after his brutal murder, but the political controversy surrounding his death haunts Italy still. by Geoff Andrews In the early hours of 2 November 1975, the body of Pier Paolo Pasolini - writer, poet, film director and one of Italy’s leading intellectuals - was found on wasteland in Ostia, just outside Rome. Several hours later, Pino “The Frog” Pelosi, a 17-year-old male (...)
read more, comments... U.S. Out in Cold in UNESCO Diversity Pact
By : JOELLE DIDERICH - Friday October 21, 2005 By JOELLE DIDERICH UNESCO’s member nations voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a pact on protecting cultural diversity after a bitter debate left the United States isolated in opposition to what it sees as a threat to sales of American movies and music. The convention - championed by the European Union and Canada - aims to promote ethnic traditions and minority languages and to protect those local cultures from the negative effects of globalization, UNESCO said. The United (...)
read more, comments... Chile - MIR 40 Anniversary
By : MELBOURNE - Monday August 8, 2005 Chile : "Spreading the social and popular revolution" MOVEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY LEFT OF CHILE (MIR) MIR 40 Years of Struggle in Chile CULTURAL AND POLITICAL NIGHT SATURDAY AUGUST 27 7 PM, MARITIME UNION HALL 54 IRELAND ST. WEST MELBOURNE (CLOSE TO NORTH-MELBOURNE TRAIN STATION) Melway Map 43-C6, Donation $5 More Info: 9481 2273 - 0401 558373 - 0402937280 - 0404075736 Join Us for a Night of Culture and Music Multimedia Presentation Photo’s Display Poetry Music, (...)
read more, comments... The Iraqi government is building a dam wich will destroy the capital of the ancient assyrian empire
By : Joëlle - Wednesday July 6, 2005 Tigris dam damns Assur The Iraqi government is building a dam which will obliterate the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire Martin Bailey , The Art Newspaper LONDON, July, 2005 - The Iraqi government is building a dam which will destroy the ancient city of Assur, the former capital which gave its name to Assyria. Although it has received no publicity outside Iraq, the dam across the Tigris is likely to result in one of the greatest archaeological losses of modern times. John Curtis, the (...)
read more, comments... the iraqi cultural heritage after 2-years of invation
By : mohamed younis - Thursday April 7, 2005 Let us read what the expert has written about the abuses done by the invadors and their allies with the iraqi cultural heritage. ’Biggest Cultural Disaster Since 1258’, Says Expert Humberto MÙ„rquez CARACAS, Feb 15 (IPS) - One million books, 10 million documents and 14,000 archaeological artifacts have been lost in the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq — the biggest cultural disaster since the descendants of Genghis Khan destroyed Baghdad in (...)
read more, comments... GIULIANA SGRENA: APPEAL NET of ARTISTS AGAINST WARS
By : Net of Artists against wars - Monday February 7, 2005 Artists Against Wars Giuliana Sgrena The italian net of Artists against wars appeals to the kidnappers in order to release our friend Giuliana Sgrena. It’s not Giuliana the enemy and not even the other reporters of the free press who talk sincerely in favour of the Iraki people and finally not even the volunteers of the NGO’s. The net of Artists appeals to the Italian government and asks for the withdrawal of the Italian soldiers, like other contries have done before. (...)
read more, comments... ART & CULTURE ESF2003
By : Maurizio Biosa - Saturday June 21, 2003 Cari amici continua il percorso del forum del teatro (fdt) e si rilancia a partire dai luoghi da cui è nato. Verso il FSE2003 di Saint Denis Paris stiamo realizzando visioni condivise e portando stimoli per il consolidamento di un patrimonio collettivo che insieme a tanti di voi abbiamo potuto iniziare a costruire a Firenze l’anno passato. Buone le premesse, il lavoro svolto sino ad ora ha bisogno di una importante accelerazione per la creazione di processi reali, possibilità di (...)
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