Featured Story. Actors, artists aim to turn around eight failing schools with pilot project that integrates arts. The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities will announce a new Turnaround Arts initiative as a pilot project for eight schools with officials from the White House and U. Department of Education. Organizers said they aim to demonstrate new research that shows the arts can help reduce behavioral problems and increase student attendance, engagement and academic success.
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To receive it in your inbox rain or shine, please press the subscribe button above - it will take less than 30 seconds to become a subscriber. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for the latest digest of cultural news. Art Gallery of Mississauga press release, Akimbo, 24 April The AGM has brought art to the community and the community to art since Art Gallery of Ontario counts on Picasso mania.
That was no idle boast, and the current world tour of "Masterpieces from the Musee National Picasso" in Paris has been demonstrating the point in cities as unlikely as Richmond, Va. You can bet the leadership team at the Art Gallery of Ontario is hoping the Spanish-born giant of 20th-century art will work his crowd-pleasing magic at the Grange, where this large and spectacular exhibition opens a four-month run officially on Tuesday. Tate Modern unveils underground space β the Tanks β devoted to live art.
Gallery says two former oil tanks will be filled with performances and debates, starting this summer. Mark Brown, The Guardian , 23 April LONDON, ENGLAND - " Dropping in to Tate Modern 's new underground oil tank spaces this summer might mean seeing a performance of minimalist dance, taking part in a debate on what it is to be an immigrant or experiencing work by an artist who most recently filmed naked men playing five-a-side football.
