 with budgets in the tens or hundreds of millions. It’s comparable to what the 1% do to statistics on Americans’ average earnings and household wealth.
In Los Angeles, for example, the only art museums that consistently spend $14.8 million a year or more are the Getty, LACMA, Hammer and Museum of Contemporary Art. The Broad may join the club; the art division of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino cost $10.3 million in 2012-13, according to its most recent audited financial statement. Art museums in Orange and Riverside counties spend far less than the $14.8-million average.
To show what it takes to run a museum -- and to illustrate how little of it comes from earned income -- the AAMD reported that, on average, each visitor who came through the door cost a museum $53.17 in expenses, dwarfing the $7.93 it got back from admission and food and museum store purchases.
Whether art museums should use visitation as a measure of the cost of doing business might be debatable. For one thing, a good deal of that $53.17 figure is spent behind the scenes, paying for collection storage, art conservation and research, administration, cultivating those all-important donors and paying experts for advice on how to invest those very important endowments.
Regardless how the expenses are characterized, giving visitors worthwhile art to see is, ultimately, the point. To that end, the surveyed museums reported collectively acquiring 86,010 new works in 2013-14, building the aggregate art trove they hold for today’s public and for posterity to 13,329,116 objects.
The average museum was able to buy 55 new works for its collection and received an additional 336 as gifts.
President Donald Trump harshly criticized and mocked three Fox News anchors in a tweet on Sunday.
It was unclear what sparked Trump’s outburst. At the time the president was tweeting, a rerun of "Fox News Sunday" was on the air, according to The Hill.
However, Shepard Smith has several times pointed out Trump’s inaccurate statements during his presidency.
Trump is a frequent watcher of Fox News and often tweets out quotes from several programs on the network.
Trump’s attack on the three Fox News anchors came after he earlier in the day urged the network to "stay strong and fight back with vigor" and not cave in to left-wing campaigns to silence leading hosts like Judge Jeanine Pirro and Tucker Carlson,, who have faced criticism in recent days for controversial remarks.
The president regularly slams news outlets for coverage he considers unfavorable, although he has rarely targeted Fox.Rob from MovieRob previews Back to the Future (1985), a Time Travel movie for the 2 Reel Quirky Cats.
HUGE Thanks to 2 Reel Quirky Cats (Gill and Cat) for this letting me partake in this very fun opportunity to talk about a trailer I love watching.
This is the way a proper teaser trailer should be made.
None of the scenes used are in the movie itself and the idea is to give us a taste for the film without knowing anything about it and more importantly, not giving away any spoilers.
I recall seeing this on TV as an 11 year old and the tease here is more than enough to get anyone interesting in seeing what this was all about.
The opening that just shows that this is made by Steven Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis is also enough to get people to want to see this film and many of us flocked to see it as soon as it came out.
The clincher tho is the use of Michael J. Fox with his sunglasses on; When he takes them off and says the classic line (that he, btw never says in any of the movies, Doc does) “About 30 years” followed by the now iconic Huey Lewis song Back in Time featuring the lightning trails the you just wanna drop everything and rewatch this classic film.
Thanks again to 2 Reel Quirky Cats!
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Want to add a cooking club to your programme or want to make yours more exciting? If you answered yes, then you will want to join this training. Uriel Gallardo with High Tech Middle will be leading this training where you will get information on starting and operating a cooking club, and then you will be able to participate and learn how to make some recipes with simple ingredients. You don’t need to be a chef to join this fun and interactive demonstration where you will learn to cook two new delicious dishes that you can immediately implement at your own sites using flour, milk, eggs, butter, and sugar. You won’t want to miss this training as Uriel will use his culinary expertise to show you healthy recipes using simple ingredients that will win over your audience every time! June 15, 10 pm. Sign up on www.allevents.in.
Great website content can help you achieve your site’s desired results — whether that’s more sales, more signups, or more visitors. But before you’ve put a pen (or cursor, if you like) to page, you have to do your research. This workshop will help you write better content for your website that will appeal to your target audience, as well as search engines such as Google. The webinar is titled Writing Killer Web Content. June 16. Sign up on www. allevents.in.
Join the New Mexico Museum of Art to learn how to get more out of the camera that you almost always have with you! Smarter Smartphone Photography covers some of the fundamentals of composition, photographic content, and editing on your smartphone. Registration is required for all ages. June 19. Sign up on www.allevents.in.
Storytelling Through Comic Making workshop is all about using simple everyday tools to tell stories we want to. Stories that involve our thoughts and emotions that can help us communicate our messages better. Participants will be introduced to comic grammar and its various elements, thinking through a comic story, and actually creating a four-panel comic of your own. June 13, 4 pm. Register on www.insider.in.We highlight recent algorithms and results for explainable AI in the context of deep learning for visual search, motivated by a project called Traffickcam.This tool to fight human trafficking is trained for investigatory searches to find the hotel where a trafficking victim was photographed. It's currently used by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and by law enforcement investigators to characterize the type and extent of trafficking operations. We'll share and describe the search tool, which is based on Deep Distance Metric Learning.We'll also share our derivations of new visualization tools inspired by the need to explain to investigators why Deep Distance Metric Learning considers two images to be similar.We'll also describe quantitative results based in our dataset, Hotels-50K, composed of more than 1 million images from 50,000 hotels worldwide,which we share to encourage additional work in this area.At the age of 7 Ralph demonstrated a natural interest and aptitude in all things musical. In his younger years Ralph's innate musical talents were nurtured by private lessons with many highly accomplished tutors mostly focusing in the disciplines of Jazz, Latin and Rock. Under the guidance and training of his tutors Ralph began playing the electric...
Excited to kickstart our meaty mission, we headed to MASH London to get our teeth into the good stuff. They did not disappoint! Premium in quality, evident in the taste, we enjoyed every juicy bite!
As our hunt continued, we stumbled across a great one. Head to Heliot Steak House, a hidden gem in the heart of London serving super steaks and sides. Tasty is an under-steak-ment.
After hearing great things, we couldn’t wait to visit The Coal Shed – a restaurant that ‘was born from the love of cooking the finest meat and seafood over fire’. You can certainly taste this in the food. Our steak was superb & we’d definitely recommend you grab a gang of friends and head to the shed!
Next stop, Sophie’s Soho. Wicked bar, delicious steakhouse – Sophie’s is your Saturday Night destination sorted! Pictured here, their 10oz Ribeye. A feast for the eyes.
We ate our next steak at Lutyens Grill at The Ned London. Classy setting, cracking steak. The team enjoyed the ‘Hereford’ Cote de Boef alongside woodland mushrooms, mac ‘n’ cheese and tenderstem broccoli. Looks delicious, tastes even better!
Next up a visit to Blacklock. True to their ethos ‘great quality meat for an unbeatable value’ we got stuck into our delicious steak. Great food, cool atmosphere. we’d recommend a visit- chop, chop!
The next stop on our meaty mission was the all popular Ivy Soho Brasserie. Classy interior, quality steak. Definitely your ‘go-to’ for a catch up with friends, dinner with family or steak date! Pictured here our fillet steak (