Latest Arts News from around the World

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Collaboration is working together. Can two people work together without ever having met?

The Arts Council Ireland announces major grants 2009
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (Ireland)
The Arts Council, the Government agency for funding and developing the arts, has made its major grant allocations for 2009, distributing almost €60 million.

FORMAT09, International Photography Festival
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
FORMAT09 Festival comes to Derby in March 2009 with the theme of PHOTOCINEMA. Featuring over a hundred different international photographers and filmmakers, the festival will be on show at QUAD and at 20 venues throughout Derby.

Beauty Spot: Tony Heywood
Arts Hub
Tuesday, January 06, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Beauty Spot, Tony Heywood's latest horticultural-based art installation, suggests that our experience of nature is becoming distant as is it increasingly mediated through television, film and magazines.

Picasso, Matisse prints stolen from Berlin gallery
Yahoo! News
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Germany)
Thieves stole works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and others from a Berlin gallery over the New Year's holiday, police said Friday.

Mastermind of modern ballet
FT.com
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Russia)
May 18 marks the centenary of that first evening of ballets presented by Diaghilev in Paris, and with it the first shoots of balletic rebirth in western Europe.

Secret of the White Rose
The Guardian
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Germany)
Carl Orff's famous Carmina Burana has an ugly history: it was a Nazi favourite. But a new film reveals that the composer's own story was even uglier.

Screen Australia Survey
Arts Hub
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Australia)
Screen Australia released the report of its 2007/08 Drama Production Survey, revealing an above-average result with increases in foreign production and co-production activity, particularly TV drama.

Pit blast inspires 'docu-ballet'
BBC News
Monday, January 05, 2009 (United Kingdom)
A 19th Century colliery explosion which killed nine men has inspired a ballet.

Design Loves a Depression
The New York Times
Monday, January 05, 2009 (USA)
Few of the arts benefited from the late economic boom more than design. After all, when the wealth is flowing, people don’t covet the concerts you see or the books you read. They covet the couch you bought, and then they buy a cooler one.

Briton of the Year: Neil MacGregor
Times Online
Monday, January 05, 2009 (United Kingdom)
'Saint' whose charm and enthusiasm had a curative effect on the British Museum.

Building business in the creative economy
Arts Hub
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Australia)
The Young Entrepreneurs Success program has been designed to provide a nononsense guide to business growth and marketing for the creative industry sector.

Overseas b.o. breaks record with $9.9 bil
THR.com
Monday, January 05, 2009 (USA)
The six majors pass $1 bil each for second consecutive year.

No Bailout for the Arts?
Washington Post
Monday, January 05, 2009 (USA)
In the past few months, dozens of opera companies, theater companies, dance organizations, museums and symphonies have either closed or suffered major cash crises.

Big Story Country
Arts Hub
Monday, January 05, 2009 (Australia)
The variety and quality of art across regional Australia and even its power to transform lives has been revealed in a new collection of stories published by Regional Arts Australia.