some good thoughts about his experience at an open meeting with members of the Canada Council on the new funding scheme for visual arts. He raises some valuable points that I wish would be addressed by someone. It’s particularly disturbing to understand that though they are making a radical move to funding exhibitions, not artists, that they didn’t seem to have an overarching principle guiding that change.
Archives for November 2004
Must-read:
at the Daily Kos: Terrorist Strategy 101. Very cogent and concise description of what’s going on and why the current policies do not address the issues adequately.
By Pericles, aka Doug Muder.
Tim Bray:
New North America. Funny.
Maps and Cartograms
of the 2004 Election results. From Michael Gastner, Cosma Shalizi, and Mark Newman of the University of Michigan.
Mark Cuban:
When will the music industry do it right? “That big bad boogieman of piracy is blowing down everyones house. The poor music industry. Except of course that there is nothing more than anecdotal proof that Peer to Peer networks hurt music sales, and to counter those, there are studies and anecdotal evidence that the sampling opportunity that P2P networks create actually help sales.”
