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PRI moves on reporting, data
Mandy KirbyAugust 1, 2017 | 12.53pm
It's been a busy year for the reporting and assessment team at the Principles for Responsible Investment, as we've looked to build on the services we provide to signatories.
Last year, at our annual conference, PRI in Person, the PRI made a public commitment to strengthening accountability measures.
Through our reporting and assessment process, we are able to see the progress – or lack thereof – that signatories are making towards implementing the PRI's Six Principles.
Next, we will seek feedback on a basic set of criteria that have been developed with input from the reporting and assessment advisory committee, the signatory stakeholder engagement committee and the board. The finalised criteria will be made public at the end of 2017 and signatories that fail to meet this basic standard, based on 2018 reporting data, will be placed on a private watchlist. Our intention is not to punish signatories but to help them meet the criteria through collaboration. For those placed on the watchlist, our engagement and support will be key. However, those that fail to demonstrate progress over two years will be delisted.
At the other end of the spectrum, the PRI will also recognise responsible investment leaders by developing a leadership board. This will highlight and share good practices being carried out across our diverse signatory base.
New data portal
As part of our accountability measures and commitment to empower asset owners, we have also recently introduced a web-based platform, the Data Portal. For the first time, asset owners and investment managers will have access to a wealth of data on responsible investment across regions, types of asset owners, size of signatories and many other characteristics – all in one place. The portal will enable asset owners to collect and easily review information on investment managers. Our hope is that by giving signatories easy access to one another's data, we will support the sharing of best practices and also encourage signatories to work together more closely.
Climate prominent on the agenda
In the last year, PRI's data from 1200 reporting investors has shown that climate is firmly on the radar of our members. Asset owners identified climate change as the most important long-term risk, with 74 per cent of those reporting citing this issue as a long-term trend that could affect their investments. A majority of investment managers also identified the risks around climate change as a material concern.
Looking across the globe, investors in Australia and New Zealand were most likely to see climate change as a material risk, followed by those in Europe. Investors in emerging markets were less forthcoming on this issue, clearly demonstrating how not only climate change but also ESG issues in general need to gain more traction with these investors.
Beginning next year, the PRI will be aligning its reporting framework to the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures' (TCFD) recommendations, providing an easy way for signatories to comply voluntarily. We think the TCFD recommendations form a valuable framework for investors to disclose information on how they plan to transition to a 2-degree world.
For PRI signatories, the TCFD brings a sharp focus to the financial impacts of climate-related risks and opportunities, providing asset owners and managers with a lens for assessing the material financial impacts of climate change in their investment processes. In addition to providing guidelines for companies, the recommendations also offer guidance for asset owners and managers on their own disclosures. This supports further evolution in good practice investor disclosure to beneficiaries, clients and other stakeholders on climate change and builds on existing good practice investor reporting, such as through the PRI Reporting Framework and the PRI's Montreal Carbon Pledge.
Voting and stewardship activity will continue to be essential for the stability of the financial services sector. By continuing to enhance and improve our reporting framework, the PRI believes it can play a valuable role in improving the dialogue between companies and investors about the real drivers of long-term performance, risk and return.
Mandy Kirby is director, reporting and assessment, at the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).
Kevin Bourne
It is good that the PRI are lending their support to TCFD project. However, data disclosure is only really effective if combined with data discipline. Each individual data attribute needs a date / time stamp to be created for effective and meaningful analysis to be undertaken. Without this key component, it will remain an uphill battle to convince investors of the efficacy of the ESG/Climate data models. Whilst there is a strong desire for ESG data to be correct in its signals value, it will continue to be challenged without such discipline being evidenced. This is before there has even been a detailed debate of the true value of the signal & its actual correlation to performance and/or risk. Unless published data is audited this is unlikely to be forthcoming except for a relatively small group of public companies who understand the needs of investors. It would be helpful for the PRI to initiate the data discipline debate with the quant teams at their client members. They may well be surprised at how simple it is to vastly improve the value of the data they wish companies to disclose.
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Greek Steam merchant
Photo Courtesy of Library of Contemporary History, Stuttgart
Name Stavros
Completed 1925 - Furness Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Haverton Hill, Middlesbrough
Owner Kassos Steam Navigation Co Ltd, Syra
Homeport Syra
Date of attack 14 May 1942 Nationality: Greek
Fate Damaged by U-593 (Gerd Kelbling)
Position 39° 45'N, 72° 35'W - Grid CA 5344
Complement 33 (0 dead and 33 survivors).
Route Lisbon - New York
Cargo Ballast
History Completed in March 1925 as British Ashleigh for Tatem Steam Navigation Co Ltd (W.J. Tatem Ltd), London. 1936 renamed Kingston Hill for Counties Ship Management Co Ltd, London. 1937 sold to Greece and renamed Stavros for Kassos Steam Navigation Co Ltd (Pnevmaticos, Rethymnis, Yannaghas), Syra.
Post-war:
1953 sold to Costa Rica and renamed Atenas for Santiago Steamship Co (N.D. Rallias), Puerto Limon. 1960 sold to Panama and renamed Amu Darya for Cia de Nav. Victoria Neptuno, Panama. Broken up at Osaka in April 1962.
At 13.57 hours on 14 May 1942 the unescorted Stavros was hit amidships by one of two torpedoes from U-593. She was en route in Swiss charter and the U-boat noticed the neutrality markings only after the hit and immediately stopped the attack. The ship was later salved and repaired.


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IN PROCESS - FALL 2017
2017 - 2018 seems to be taking me to school! I was asked to serve in an adjunct role at NYU, mentoring the second year MFA student designers with their props and set dressing work. I have also become adjunct faculty at Kean University in Union, New Jersey, where I designed Marisol in October and I will be teaching Scene Painting in the Spring semester.
I am also designing the world premiere of a new translation by Daniel Brunet of The Last Fire by German playwright Dea Loher. Daniel is also directing, and the piece is brutal, disarming and quite beautiful. It is an examination of community and responsibility, as eight loosely intertwined people in a town all grapple with the loss of a young man in a hit and run collision.
I am just starting work on another world premiere - Little Black Shadows by Kemp Powers, directed by May Adrales. It will open at South Coast Repertory in April 2018. It's also a haunting and amazing piece, about two white children on a Georgia plantation in the 1850's and the two black children charged with their care.
IN PROCESS - CATF
As previously noted, I am returning to the Contemporary American Theater Festival. I continue to be proud of my association with this amazing and improbable place. CATF (in it's 26th season this year) was named one of the top 10 festivals in the WORLD to attend this summer by worldguide.eu. I am designing 20th Century Blues by Susan Miller and The Wedding Gift by Chisa Hutchinson, both world premieres. The two shows run in rep with each other, and there is a two show day in the weekly performance schedule that demands a one hour changeover between the two sets! That requires a transition from a very realistically outfitted New York artist's loft to the multi-location interior of a palace sometime in the very, very distant future. Here are some renderings of both shows.
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It is working out to be a busy Spring around here. I will be returning to Hope College in Holland, MI to guest design scenery for The Tempest. Immediately after that I head to Pittsburgh to the Pittsburgh Public Theatre, to do scenery for Venus in Fur. I will also be returning to the Contemporary American Theater Festival in June to design scenery for the world premieres of two great new plays - 20th Century Blues, by Susan Miller and The Wedding Gift, by Chisa Hutchinson. Both plays are challenging and interesting - and vastly different evenings of theater! I will post some research and developmental work as I get further along. In the meantime, we covered Fashion Week for E! Entertainment again, and I have been working with a new collaborator - Best Events, based in Los Angeles, on the Samsung Concert venue for the South by Southwest Festival in Austin.
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La Prose
The Pochoir Re-creation of La Prose du Transsibérien
View Originals of La Prose in the U.S.
I apologize for the gap in blog entries, but I have been assiduously working on the edition of La Prose and am now almost done with 106 copies, 30 of which are for the underwriters and for Atelier Coloris. That means that there are 74 more copies to make, which will take another nine months to a year. We plan to return to a more regular schedule of blog entries once we return from our trip to the Oak Knoll Book Fest and from our travels to view more originals of La Prose, two in Pennsylvania and two in Boston.
If you wish to make your own tour of originals in the United States, you can consult the list I have compiled below. There are 13 copies in public institutions and at least two in private hands that I know of. Wouldn't it be a miracle if we could organize an exhibition of several of them to be hung side-to-side for comparison? That's what I have been doing virtually through photographs I have taken at various institutions over the past several years, when allowed. You can compare the intensity of the colors, the different folding schemes, the signing of the books, and look at the most complicated areas to determine if they are different enough to be done by different hands.
This video shows my facsimile alongside the Legion of Honor copy:
And here, you can see my facsimile alongside the Getty Research Center copy:
List of institutions holding an original copy of La Prose du Transsibérien in the United States (this is an update to my census published in this blog last year; all copies are on simili Japon except one):
1. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, #124, glued and folded into 21 panels, inscribed to Archipenko, vellum cover not attached
2. Yale University (Beinecke Library), New Haven, CT, #131, glued and folded into 21 panels, vellum cover attached
3. Palace of the Legion of Honor (David and Reva Logan Collection), San Francisco, CA, unnumbered, on Japon (the only one in the US on Japon in a public collection)), glued and folded into 22 panels, vellum cover not attached
4. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, #139 (note that #139 was also assigned by Blaise Cendrars to the copy donated by Sonia Delaunay to the Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne in Paris), glued and folded into 22 panels, inscribed to Chilean painter Manuel Ortiz de Zarate: Noël 1916, vellum cover attached
5. New York Public Library (Spencer Collection), New York, NY, #47 (note that #47 ws also assigned by Blaise Cendrars to the copy in l'Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia), unglued and unfolded, inscribed to M. Jean Decloux, 21 June 1938
6. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, #97, glued and folded into 21 panels but now framed under glass, vellum cover detached
7. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, #38, glued and folded into 20 panels, signed by both Blaise and Sonia, vellum cover not attached, cover has snaps on front and back cover
8. Allentown Museum of Art, Allentown, Pennsylvania, unnumbered, four pages unglued and unfolded, vellum cover is surely a maquette with dark blue lines drawn everywhere as the pattern for painting the oil colors, cover is non-rectangular trapezoid, never folded
9. Harvard University (Houghton Library), Cambridge, MA, unnumbered, four pages unglued and unfolded, vellum cover not attached
10. University of Texas (Harry Ransom Center), Dallas, TX, #41, folded and glued, cover attached
11. MoMA, New York, NY, #150, glued and folded into 21 panels, inscribed to Louis Brun, cover not attached (see Inventing Abstraction exhibition catalog, exhibit shown 2012-2013)
12. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota, MN, #130, glued and folded into 21 panels but now framed under glass), cover still attached
13. Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL, #147
In private hands in the U.S.:
#111 in Massachussetts (note that #111 was also assigned by Blaise Cendrars to the Victoria & Albert Museum in London)
#29 in Louisiana on Japon, folded and glued, inscribed to Mr. Kaplan, vellum cover attached
I have assembled a list of books held outside the U.S. in institutions, which still needs to be updated since last year: (many books on my earlier list show evidence of existence, but I don't yet know where they are, so they are not listed here; all are on simili Japon unless noted))
#4 Muséo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, (vellum copy)
Tate Modern, London, unnumbered (vellum copy), maquette
#11 Jean Bonna Collection, Switzerland (Japon copy)
#16 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France (Japon copy)
#34 Jacques Doucet Library, Paris, France (Japon copy)
#47 l'Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
#51 Bibliothèque Nationale, Switzerland
#57 Foundation Martin Bodmer, Geneva, Switzerland
#71 Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
#110 Zadkine Museum, Paris, France
#111 Victoria & Albert Museum
#119 Biblioteca Marío de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil
#137 National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
#139 Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Jacquet Doucet Literary Library, unnumbered (quite faded)
Musée d'Art et Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, unnumbered (maquette painted by Sonia Delaunay)
British Library, London, England, unnumbered ("epreuve d'artiste", artist proof with note to pocheurs)
Private Collection:
#9 South Africa, four pages on Japon, unglued and unnumbered, vellum cover not attached
Additions and corrections to the list are most welcome. Note that another census was published in the catalog for the exhibition at the Foundation Jan Michalski last November which I still need to correlate with my census. More to come.
Besides making books and trying to sell them, I have written a new long article, to be published later this year in The Codex Papers, with my latest theories about where the pochoir was done and why the edition was not completed, and more information about the type styles used by Blaise Cendrars and about Sonia Delanunay's painting vocabulary. I also plan to have a table at Codex next February and hope to see you there.
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Legion of Honor Symposium and an update on Ongoing Sales
Legion of Honor Symposium
The 2018 Reva and David Logan Symposium on the Artist's Book will be held on Saturday, July 14, 2018 from 1:00 to 4:00 at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. It is free after museum admission and open to the public with no reservations needed. It accompanies the exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco called Paris 1913: Reinventing the Artist's Book.
Organizer Steve Woodall writes: By 1913, Cubism was firmly established as a dominant mode for French artists of the avant-garde. Writers and artists traveled in the same circles, especially in the bohemian communities of Montmartre and Montparnasse, and frequent artist/poet collaborations produced radical new experiments with text and image. In that year, artist Sonia Delaunay and poet Blaise Cendrars collaborated on a groundbreaking artist's book built around the Cendrars poem "La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France." The 2018 Reva and David Logan Symposium takes this milieu, and La Prose du Transsibérien, as the background for an afternoon of discussions that examine poet/artist collaboration and the book as an art medium.
The keynote speaker is Marjorie Perloff, author of The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the Language of Rupture, and many other books. Her talk is titled Simultaneity and Difference in La Prose du Transsibérien.
There are four other speakers:
Craig Dworkin, Cubist Language: The Abstraction of the Word
Harry Reese, Pattern Recognition
Inge Bruggeman, Archives and Histories: Collecting and Recollecting
Kitty Maryatt, Construction and Deconstruction of a Masterpiece
For more information, please see the symposium website.
Ongoing Sales
The project to re-create the Blaise Cendrars/Sonia Delaunay 1913 publication, La Prose du Transsibérien, was published by Two Hands Press on January 1, 2018 and completed books are now shipping. It will take another nine months to a year to complete the entire edition. The title of the book is La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation. The edition is limited to 150 copies, with 30 hors commerce. The price is $3500 plus shipping and may include sales tax if you live in California. To reserve your copy, please email me at twohandspress@gmail.com. I will send you more information about the book, a reservation form, and a pdf with several images.
The type for the book was printed last June by printer Richard Siebert in San Francisco. Two Hands Press licensed a high-resolution scan of La Prose from The Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Richard removed the surrounding pochoir colors from the Blaise Cendrars poem and then went through the whole text for weeks, cleaning up nearly every letter. Sixteen photo-polymer plates were needed to print the four 16 x 23 inch pages, with each one printed in four colors: orange, ruby red, green and blue. Each of the one thousand sheets was printed four times on his Heidelberg letterpress. The printing is very crisp and uses exactly the format of the original.
The gouache color for the Sonia Delaunay imagery is being hand-applied at Two Hands Press using thin metal stencils (pochoir = stencil in French). There are about twenty-five aluminum stencils for each of the four sheets, or one hundred in all. The sixty-six colors have been selected with great care to match the originals. I worked primarily with originals at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Palace of the Legion of Honor, and viewed nine other originals in the US, France and England. The 2008 Yale University facsimile was invaluable in the process; about one hundred tracings of the Yale facsimile were needed as patterns for cutting the aluminum pochoir plates.
The over six-foot book is folded once down the center and folded again into twenty-one panels to result in a book that is 3.625 by 7.125 inches. On one side you see the Delaunay image and on the facing side you see the Cendrars poem with the enhancing pochoir surrounding the type. A booklet with a description of the processes accompanies La Prose. The book is held unattached in its painted vellum cover. Both the book and the booklet are contained in an acrylic slipcase.
Finished, unfolded copy of La Prose du Transsibérien Re-creation
Painted vellum cover holds folded La Prose (left), Booklet with description of processes (right), vellum cover and booklet cover (center); all these parts fit into the acrylic slipcase
Front and back of vellum covers, with acrylic slipcase
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New Faces in the Crowd: Economic and Social Impacts of Immigration-Highlights
1.In 1990, the federal government commissioned The Economic Council of Canada (24 members–16 primarily from business–with the help of 8 university professor consultants) to determine immigration's net economic benefits to Canadians. Their conclusion was that the benefits are very small (around 1% gain in per capita disposable income of hosts by the year 2015).
2. The ECC did this study because of border pressures from refugee seekers; the possible burdensome costs of health and other services for an aging and decreasing population; the prospect of using immigration to maintain the country's population growth.
3. In reaching its conclusions, the ECC looked at historical data. They discovered that immigration has not been necessary for the country's population growth nor for its prosperity. For much of Canada's history, natural increase, not immigration, has driven the growth of population. There is no sustained correlation between immigration and economic growth. The fastest growth in real per capita income occurred at times when net migration was zero or even negative.
4. In reaching its conclusions, the ECC also looked at three generally agreed yardsticks:
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B. Filling Labour Market Gaps–Canadian workers lose as a result of competition from immigrants; there is no reliable way to detect gaps in the labour market.
C. Spillover Effects–Although there are claims that newcomers are more energetic, more productive, and more hard-working, there is no real evidence.
5. The ECC concluded that a higher rate of immigration would cushion the demographic fiscal blow, but only slightly. The costs of social assistance and language training would offset the small future saving.
6. With immigration levels of 0.4% and 0.8%, by 2015, the populations of Canada's three major urban centres (MTV: Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver) would increase, Toronto and Vancouver substantially.
7. Canada's refugee system is being overburdened. Since the 1980's, there has been a very rapid increase in the number of refugees arriving on Canadian soil and claiming refugee status. Despite several ministerial reviews (amnesties), the situation is not getting any better. The ECC found that the projected costs, which do not even include the cost of the refugee-determination process, are far beyond the value of any gains in scale economies or savings in tax and dependency costs that might accrue to Canadians from these claimants. Unlike most other refugee-receiving countries, Canada guarantees refugee claimants virtually the same legal and social protection as its citizens.
8. For humanitarian, not economic reasons, the ECC recommended that immigration levels be gradually increased to 1% of Canada's population by 2015; that Ottawa should double its commitment ($55 M in 1990) to combat racism and foster tolerance; that social friction should be measured consistently and regularly; that Canadian attitudes towards multiculturalism should be measured again and that immigrant levels of satisfaction towards life in Canada and attitudes towards Canadians should be measured; that men and women should have equal access to language training; that language training should be partially charged for; that the balance among the immigrant classifications should be kept at 1990 levels; that the investor class should be carefully monitored, possibly abandoned; that a balanced intake across all occupational groups should be aimed at.
9. Gains are possible, but cautious expansion should be our watchword.
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EDITOR'S NOTE : One very large problem for Canadians is that Canada has not just a very poorly-informed PM (Trudeau) who made some of the most extraordinarily foolish immigration statements since assuming power in 2015, but also has had very poorly-informed Immigration Ministers. The last three, Chris Alexander, John McCallum and its current one, Ahmed Hussen have very limited knowledge of the immigration file and seem completely unaware of Ottawa's own sponsored studies such as that of the ECC. The immigration-related statements from provincial premiers are just as bad. The announcements and decisions these premiers and their provincial ministers of immigration are making are irresponsible and disgraceful.


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The Board of Education voted unanimously to approve the MCPS operating budget for the Fiscal Year 2011 (FY 2011) on Feb. 17. The budget includes funds to meet the state's maintenance of effort (MOE) requirement, which mandates that the county spend at least the same amount as spent last year per student. The per capita requirement is approximately $11,249 according to Christopher Barclay, vice president of the Board.
It's not easy being green
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Whereas a true Leap Year only comes around once every four years, "Leap Year" is no different from typical, romantic comedy films released year after year. With only slightly varied characters and plot, "Leap Year" is a guilty pleasure movie rather than a cinematic work of art. Unfortunately, the overall plot progression of "Leap Year" is quite obvious and too plain to offer any tender, memorable romanticism.
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Dream Lovers
"LE REPOS": A PORTRAIT OF BERTHE MORISOT BY ÉDOUARD MANET.
At the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
The Boston Phoenix, July 12, 1991.
When Berthe Morisot met Édouard Manet at the Louvre in 1867, he was 36 years old and married; she was ten years younger and still living with her parents at home. She was lively, intelligent, charming, talented, soon to be the first woman artist to exhibit with the Impressionists. He was brilliant, difficult, fickle, famous as the author of Olympia and Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, almost ugly, absolutely fascinating. As Emil Zola said, "He departed for the unknown every time he placed his white canvas on the easel." She had long admired him from a distance; he immediately wanted to paint her portrait.
Manet's 1870 painting Le Repos, permanently on view at the delightful little Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, shows Morisot reclining on a couch, dressed in white. Elegant, exotic, and independent, Morisot always wore black or white, and soft slippers; she hated the black lace-up boots that other women wore. Above her head is a Japanese woodblock print of blue and turquoise waves that look like sea nymphs dancing in the sea — or her own restless, lyrical dreams. In Le Repos, Morisot seems almost asleep. She looks sad and dreamy; her eyes are dark and deep. Her eyes are the emotional center of the painting; everything seems spirals around the dark immensity of her gaze.
Manet signed his name to Le Repos not in the traditional lower right-hand corner but inside the Japanese print that floats above Morisot's head like an emblem of her inner life. Although he is not in the painting, you can feel his presence in the room. She sees him, and he sees her, and their seeing each other — really seeing each other — is what makes this painting so great.
In 1872 Manet painted Morisot again, in a suite of four paintings, all in Paris, which show her wearing a veil, covering her face with a fan, standing, and finally in close-up, wearing a bunch of purple violets at her breast. In Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets, she is transformed. Now she is fully awake, fully alive; now there is passion — wisdom — freedom — love in her dark glittering eyes. He also painted a gift for her: a still life with violets, her fan, and a scrap of paper which reads A Mlle. Berthe — E. Manet.
Manet moved on to other subjects, and other dark-haired, dark-eyed beauties, but he painted Morisot one more time, in 1874, just before she married his brother Eugene Manet, who had been courting her for several years. In those last paintings, also in Paris, she is dressed in black, in mourning for her father; her hair is disshevelled; her eyes are wild; and she looks tragic and luminous behind her veil.
Manet and Morisot were friends from the day they met until the day he died in the Spring of 1883. Were they ever lovers? No one knows. Some art historians dismiss the question. "Convention, of course, kept them apart," writes Anne Higonnet in her rather unimaginative recent biography Berthe Morisot. But others speculate that the little painting of violets was a lover's gift — a memento of some blissful Paris afternoon.
When Manet died at 51, Morisot wrote to her sister, "These last days were very painful; poor Edouard suffered atrociously. His agony was horrible…If you add to these almost physical emotions my old bonds of friendship with Edouard, an entire past of youth and work suddenly ending, you will understand that I am crushed…I shall never forget the days of my friendship and intimacy with him, when I sat for him and when the charm of his mind kept me alert during those long hours."
Were they lovers — or was it just a dream? Looking at Le Repos, you can feel the profound and passionate connection between the two artists. Here, at least, there is no life to constrain them — no death to part them. Here, at last, there is nothing and everything between Manet and Morisot.
Only paint.
by Rebecca Nemser for rebeccanemser.com
Tags: Édouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Museum of Art RISD
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Creative Heritage Consultants Ltd
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Recent studies and commissions
This page provides examples of recent Creative Heritage projects commissioned by clients from the:
Brownsfield Mill, Northern Quarter, Manchester
CLIENT: urban splash
View of Brownsfield Mill in the Northern Quarter of Manchester (before residential conversion)
We were pleased to work with architects StephensonSTUDIO and developer Urban Splash, as they developed a scheme for the residential conversion on this grade 2* listed former cotton spinning mill on the Rochdale Canal near Ancoats, Manchester. Originally built by the Leech family in around 1840, it is an excellent example of a well-preserved 'room and power' mill of 'heavy-floored' construction (using layers of thick floorboards rather than secondary joists between the floor beams). It is also significant on account of its completeness, its integral engine house, its internal mill chimney around which a spiral staircase winds, its split-level courtyard and its connection with AV Roe & Co, who built bi-planes inside the building in the early 20th century! The building was mothballed in 2008 by Town Centre Securities PLC, who undertook extensive repair of the external fabric and internal structure. Our Heritage Impact Assessment formed part of a successful application for planning and listed building consent for conversion to generous loft-style apartments. The development is currently being marketed as Avro Lofts
Legge Lane, Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
CLIENT: legge lane birmingham llp
Office range of Legge Lane building, to be largely retained within the proposed development and converted to residential use
This complex site was occupied by the Wellington Works (Walker and Woodward Brassfounders), from the mid 19th century to the mid 20th century. Creative Heritage was engaged to undertake an assessment of the significance of the remaining structures and below ground archaeology on the site, and to prepare a Heritage Impact Assessment report to accompany a planning application for residential redevelopment. We worked iteratively with D5 Architects, who designed a scheme that re-used street frontage office buildings, and retained the historic urban grain and narrow side streets of the Jewellery Quarter, an internationally important conservation area.
Spital Buildings, Castleton, Derbyshire
CLIENT: Private individual
View of the farm buildings and ruinous mill, known as Spital Buildings, on the edge of Castleton in the Peak District
Some projects are such a joy that they don't feel like work! We thoroughly enjoyed researching the history of this ruined late 18th century textile mill in the Peak District of Derbyshire, and working with Peak Architects and Capstone Consulting as they developed proposals for its stabilisation as part of a residential conversion scheme. We identified the historic significance of the listed mill and attached later farm buildings and facilitated an archaeological building recording, undertaken by Salford Archaeology. The Heritage Impact Assessment & Planning Statement we prepared was used to support a successful application to the Peak District National Planning Authority for Listed Building Consent.
Tariff Street, Piccadilly Basin, Manchester: Heritage Impact Assessment
Client: Town Centre Securities PLC & GMI Construction Group PLC
Computer-generated image the proposed Tariff Street development, in Piccadilly Basin, Manchester, designed by Ian Simpson Architects, with the grade 2* listed Jackson's Warehouse beyond (© Our Studio)
This study was commissioned to identify the key heritage assets that might be affected by an 11-storey residential development adjacent to the Rochdale Canal in the sensitive Piccadilly Basin regeneration area and to assist the planning authority in considering the impact of the proposals on those assets. Designed by Ian Simpson Architects, the new building is to be located within ten metres of the grade 2* listed Jackson's Warehouse, and in the immediate vicinity of the highly designated Brownsfield Mill, Carver's Warehouse and the 'mill wall of Ancoats'. The process of developing the design and the heritage impact assessment was an iterative one, with Creative Heritage participating fully in design discussions from an early stage, enabling a greater understanding of the heritage significance of the area to influence positively the scheme development. The final report, which was submitted as a supporting document to the planning application, considered the significance and townscape qualities of the key assets using desk based research and analysis on site, and explored the effect of the development as it may appear in key 'heritage views', using computer generated architectural modelling. Planning consent was secured in September 2014.
Hardwick Hall, Buxton: feasibility study and market appraisal
Client: Trevor Osborne Property Group
Constructed in 1896 as the final phase of the Peak Hydropathic Establishment,Hardwick Hall (link to Facebook page) was occupied by the Buxton branch of the British Legion in 2011. Its upper floors, built as hotel bedrooms but more recently used as High Peak College teaching accommodation and rented offices, have been vacant for decades. Acquired with a view to creating a community assembly and performance space in the former Ballroom, Creative Heritage was commissioned to explore the potential for the upper floors of the building to be converted into modern office accommodation. The market appraisal study extended to considering how this might be used in conjunction with vacant upper floor space in publicly-owned premises in the vicinity, in order to rationalise and improve Council office accommodation and free up architecturally important public rooms for civic purposes. The study was very timely in view of public consultation in autumn 2015 regarding the possible closure of Buxton Courts, which occupied part of the adjacent property. Following an initial heritage, architectural and structural appraisal, our first task was to manage basic upgrading and emergency works to the Ballroom to enable the Green Man Gallery to take occupation on a meanwhile lease. Creative Heritage continues to provide a building management service for the landlord.
The Old Grammar School, Richmond, North Yorkshire
CLIENT: richmondshire building preservation trust
The Old Grammar School, Richmond, from the Batts, which is to be restored by the Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust and converted to a community hub
Creative Heritage has been appointed as project managers for this exciting scheme to create a vibrant community hub. Richmondshire Building Preservation Trust has been awarded a 'round one pass' from the Heritage Lottery Fund, under the Heritage Enterprise programme, with development funding. This is matched by a grant from the Architectural Heritage Fund to help progress plans towards making a round two application in Spring 2019. Richmondshire District Council and North Yorkshire County Council are also supporting the project.
The project aims to protect and conserve and repair Richmond's 19th century former Grammar School, a grade 2 listed building which has been unused since 2011, and convert it to economically viable new uses around an arts and education theme. A multi-use community hall and function room in the main hall and former art room, on the upper floor of the building, will be supported by commercial enterprises on the lower ground floor, overlooking the River Swale and spilling out onto the Batts. Income-generating uses under consideration include a small independent hostel, offices for community organisations, a second-hand bookshop and café.
New Audiences, New Experiences
CLIENT: manchester jewish museum
Located within the grade 2* former Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue on Cheetham Hill Road,
Architect's computer-generated image of extension proposals by night. © Citizens Design Bureau 2017
Manchester Jewish Museum is about to undergo a major redevelopment, with a planned extension to house a new permanent gallery, as well as other facilities. These changes will further establish the Museum's place within an international network of museums, memorials and visitor experiences that explore Jewish history and heritage and what it is to be Jewish in the 21st century.
Manchester Jewish Museum will be a cultural exchange where the stories, objects, food, music, skills and culture of Manchester's Jews are shared with our diverse audiences.
Working with Museum staff and Trustees, architects Citizens Design Bureau and interpretative exhibition designers All Things, Creative Heritage provided project management services for the development of a successful round 2 application to the Heritage Lottery Fund for this £5m transformational project.
Feasibility Study: Increasing Audiences, Securing Long Term Sustainability for Markfield Beam Engine and Museum, Tottenham, North London
CLIENT: Trustees of markfield beam engine and Museum
This 2016 study involved extensive consultation to identify the 'market' for this working beam engine and the themes for its interpretation. The far-reaching review considered opportunities for partnership working with other industrial heritage sites, architectural options for providing learning and exhibition space, business planning and delivery issues and governance requirements. The Trustees – including new volunteers recruited through the study – are currently pursuing our recommended 'next steps' to achieve their aim to make the Museum and its supporting organisation financially viable and sustainable in the short, medium and long-term.
51 Tickford Street, Newport Pagnell: Market appraisal & outline business plan
Client: Buckinghamshire Historic Buildings Trust
Creative Heritage was commissioned early in 2015 as part of a conservation architect-led team to undertake a feasibility study to explore the re-use potential of this listed but semi-derelict listed former inn (currently part of MOT garage) in Newport Pagnell. Our work involved agency consultation and desk-based market assessment to identify potential end uses. Interviews with a range of consultees then identified two social enterprise organisations interested in occupying the building. Following discussions with these possible end users, BHBT and its partners will use the study to inform, acquisition decisions and funding applications.
Coffin Fitting Works project management
Client: Birmingham Conservation Trust
An extraordinary survivor on the fringe of the Jewellery Quarter, Newman Brothers' Coffin Fitting Works was acquired by Birmingham Conservation Trust in 2010, eleven years after the workers closed the door for the last time, leaving behind them the machinery, stock and administrative records of the company stretching back over one hundred years. Most of the moveable contents were taken into storage to facilitate a full restoration of the buildings, which was completed in August 2014, thanks to grant funding totalling over £2m from the Heritage Lottery Fund, English Heritage, Birmingham City Council and a large number of charitable trusts. Kate Dickson provided project management services for the capital works phase, including design team management, coordination of community engagement activities during the build contract, budget control, change management, risk assessment and liaison with funders. Funds were drawn down in monthly and quarterly claims and cash flow was maintained thanks to a Birmingham City Council interest-free working capital loan. The Coffin Works is a visitor attraction (see coffinworks.org) and provides lettable studio space for several creative businesses as well as office accommodation for Birmingham Conservation Trust. In its first year of opening, it has consistently been voted the Number 1 museum in Birmingham on Trip Advisor. The project won RICS West Midlands 2015 Awards for Conservation and for Tourism & Leisure.
Buxton Crescent Heritage Skills programme
CLIENT: VINCI CONSTRUCTION UK, WITH BUXTON CRESCENT & THERMAL SPA LTD
Buxton & Leek College students on the Buxton Crescent construction site during a Heritage Skills taster day
We are delighted to be delivering a number of heritage skills taster days at this very significant building conservation and regeneration project, to enable local people to gain an insight into the specialist skills being deployed. Developed in conjunction with the main contractor, Vinci, the skills sessions for local building tradesmen, construction college students and Buxton homeowners, involve tours of the construction site to meet the specialist subcontractors engaged on the project. They offer a chance to handle traditional building materials and ask questions about the techniques being used to conserve this important grade 1 listed building. The £52m project is being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, Historic England, D2N2, High Peak Borough Council, Derbyshire County Council and the private sector developer, Buxton Crescent and Thermal Spa Ltd. A short video of the first skills day for local building tradesmen has been created by local media expert, Andy Parker, and provides an evaluation of this thoroughly enjoyable day.
Mansfield Townscape Heritage
CLIENT: mansfield district COUNCIL
Image of Leeming Street in 1979, courtesy of Nottinghamshire County Council and www.picturethepast.org.uk
Following our success in developing proposals for the Carrington Street Area Townscape Heritage project in Nottingham, we were delighted to be appointed to assist Mansfield District Council in the preparation of a round 2 Heritage Lottery Fund application for a Townscape Heritage scheme for Leeming Street and part of the Market Place and Stockwell Gate in Mansfield town centre. Largely developed at the turn of the 20th century, Leeming Street has a strong Edwardian architectural quality, with a range of independent shops. If the bid is successful, grants will be made available to property owners for the repair and conservation of quirky 'vintage' shopfronts from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, as well as for Edwardian originals. New traditional-style shopfronts and upper floor windows may be reinstated where historic ones have been lost. We are consulting widely with the general public, heritage organisations, educational establishments and community groups on the development of an 'activity statement' to capture proposals for a programme of activities and events that will enable local people to engage with the heritage.
Ashton Town Hall: visioning exercise
Client: tameside metropolitan borough Council
We were commissioned by the local authority regeneration team to undertake a market appraisal and initial business plan for this listed Town Hall to provide a vision for how the Council might achieve independent, financially sustainable use of the building after severance from previously attached Administration Centre (which provided functions such as plant, fire exits and kitchen facilities). Architectural proposals were developed by Roddie MacLean, with Roger Jackson leading on consultation with agency and sector contacts. The study was well received by Officers and Councillors, who applauded the Vision we articulated: "The Jewel on the Square: Inform, Debate, Celebrate". This has been developed into the Council's current implementation plan and we are delighted to have been invited to develop the full business case for the project.
Ilkeston Town Hall: community engagement activities
Client: Erewash Borough Council
Creative Heritage worked alongside Erewash Council and partners to deliver a highly enjoyable programme of learning and participation activities to complement the restoration of Ilkeston Town Hall. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project included conservation construction skills training for local contractors, a history talk researched and delivered by the local U3A history group and a toolkit for schools' visits. A public vote to select a heritage image to appear on the scaffolding during the works, and a free publication about the building and people associated with it were particularly successful.
Carrington Street Townscape Heritage project
Client: Nottingham City Council
Kate Dickson was pleased to support Council officers during the development phase of a project to establish a Townscape Heritage programme for Carrington Street in Nottingham city centre. Building on a successful round 1 application to the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Creative Heritage team undertook condition surveys, costings and valuation exercises to determine a 'detailed scheme plan' for potential third party projects. Advice was given on the development of an Activity Plan for the scheme, and assistance in preparation of a Conservation area Management & Maintenance Plan, project programme, cashflow forecast and all other supporting documentation for a successful round 2 HLF bid, submitted in August 2015. At the start of the delivery phase, Kate was engaged as 'interim project manager' to kickstart the project.
Manchester Art Gallery: Heritage Impact Assessment for Gallery of Craft & Design lighting scheme
Client: Manchester Art Gallery & Lloyd Evans Prichard Architects
The Gallery of Craft and Design is located within the former Lecture Hall of the Manchester Athenaeum, a grade 2* listed building. Creative Heritage was commissioned to provide advice on the potential impact of a new grid-based lighting scheme, to be suspended from the late Victorian plaster ceiling. After agreeing a small number of mitigation measures with the lighting designer, the Impact Assessment aims to reassure the Planning Authority and English Heritage/Historic England of the benefits of the new scheme, which will de-clutter the gallery and up-light the ceiling to reveal and enhance the historic plasterwork.
Mentoring, monitoring and expert advice
Client: Heritage Lottery Fund
Heritage grants:
Ingestre Orangery, Staffordshire: mentoring the development of round 2 application to convert and extend Victorian orangery to create a community hub
St John's, Hyde Park, London: 'Save Betty' organ restoration project (mentor then monitor)
Northampton Students Union: Engine Shed project (mentor with interpretation focus)
Greater Manchester CVO: Ardwick Green Histories and a sustainable St Thomas Centre (mentor for development phase; round 2 bid not submitted)
Our Heritage:
Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust: mentor for project to undertake an assessment of Historic Buildings at Risk in Derbyshire, with a view to finding new projects and ways of working, to invigorate a long-established, but latterly inactive, Building Preservation Trust
Grants for Places of Worship:
St Margaret's, Somersby, Lincolnshire (mentor)
St Mary Magdalene, Hucknall, Nottinghamshire (mentor)
St Peter's Raunds, Northamptonshire
Townscape Heritage:
Swadincote, Derbyshire (mentor)
Wakefield, Yorkshire (expert advice)
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Government Should Not Define What a Reporter Is—or Isn't
Walter Brasch: Under Sen. Feinstein's belief of who and what a reporter is, Ben Franklin, who wrote hundreds of articles under the byline of Silence Do-Good, and was never paid for it, would not be considered to be a reporter.
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Sen. Diane Feinstein and a horde of members of Congress of both parties want to decide who is and who isn't a reporter. Sen. Feinstein says a "real" reporter is a "salaried agent of a media company."
She mentions the usual suspects—New York Times, ABC News. She dismisses part-time staff. She dismisses freelancers. She dismisses those who write, often without pay, for the hundreds of alternative publications, and often break news and investigative stories well ahead of the mainstream media. She dismisses anyone who, she says, "have no professional qualifications."
The reason she wants to define what a reporter is or isn't is because there's a proposed federal Media Shield Law that would protect reporters from revealing their sources. Forty states and the District of Columbia currently have shield laws. Sen. Feinstein wants to amend the federal bill to take away existing First Amendment protections from anyone not involved in—apparently—salaried establishment media.
There are people who have minimal qualifications to be a reporter. Many write nothing but screeds. Many have problems with basic language skills. Many have little familiarity with the AP Style Book. Many have an inability to ask probing questions of government officials; many merely transcribe what they're told, whether from the president, a council member, or a local reader who is the focus of a feature. Some of them are paid salaries and are agents of media companies, which Sen. Feinstein believes are acceptable requirements.
There are also those who frequently allow "deep background" and "off-the-record" comments. Many news media won't allow sources to go "off-the-record." If the information isn't available to the general public, it shouldn't be available only to reporters. Access to news sources is something reporters enjoy that the average reader doesn't; but there is a responsibility to the reader and viewer and listener not to hide information.
There are those who overuse the "veiled news source," which is a part of the Shield Law. A veiled news source could be someone whom the reporter identifies as, "Sources close to the Governor state . . ." Often, the reporter doesn't question a source's motives for why she or he wants to give anonymous information, or if it is merely a "trial balloon" to use the media to put out information; if the people agree, sources become identified; if the public disagrees with a proposal, no one traces the "leak" to politicians or their staffs.
On more than a few occasions, reporters—whether "salaried agents" of a media company, part-timers for that company or for any of thousands of alternative publications or electronic media, or freelancers—have filled in holes in their stories with false identities—"A 55-year-old housewife in Podunka, who asked not to be identified, says . . . " Good reporters seldom use a veiled news source and then have to protect them should there be a court order to divulge the source of information.
On rare occasions, however, a reporter, in consultation with an editor, will allow a news source to be anonymous. Granting veiled news source status should not be given unless a source's information and identity puts her or him into significant personal jeopardy—and the information can be verified.
But, even if there are reporters who are lazy, who plagiarize, who abuse the veiled news source privilege, there are no enforceable ethics rules in journalism. Reporters aren't licensed—such as physicians, social workers, teachers, contractors, and cosmetologists. Only an editor can discipline or terminate an employee.
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Nevertheless, whenever the government says it wants to define what a reporter is or is not—and the public, outraged over something a reporter or news operation did or did not do demands licensing and enforceable codes of ethics—a huge red flag should be in everyone's face. Not one part of the First Amendment determines who or what a reporter is, or what is or is not news. The Founding Fathers didn't forget to include that; they deliberately didn't want to include that. They believed government shouldn't be making those decisions, and the news media, even the media that base their news upon lies and scandal, must be independent.
And, yet, government and the news media often wink at the intent of the Founding Fathers and cozy up together.
The only thing more outrageous than reporters and sources playing golf or tennis together is reporters schmoozing at political receptions, the women dressed like they were movie celebrities on the Red Carpet, the men in tuxedos. And the reason why they go to these receptions? They claim it's because they "get their information" there.
But, "socializing" isn't the only thing that violates the intent of the Founding Fathers. It probably isn't a good practice for Congress to appoint news correspondents to determine who is or is not qualified to receive press credentials—subject to the oversight of House and Senate leaders. Until recently, the establishment press of "salaried agents" refused even to acknowledge that members of the alternative press, even those who have won awards for investigative reporting, should be allowed the privileges that mainstream reporters are allowed.
It violates the First Amendment when police agencies and governments at all levels decide who can or can't cover its activities. Usually, the ones excluded are reporters who are not "agents" of an establishment media company.
[dc]U[/dc]ntil recently, it violated the intent of the First Amendment when the Federal Communications Commission determined what percentage of each day's programming should be devoted to which category because of a law Congress created that decided electronic media, unlike print media, are required to meet the "public interest, convenience, and necessity."
Under Sen. Feinstein's belief of who and what a reporter is, Ben Franklin, who wrote hundreds of articles under the byline of Silence Do-Good, and was never paid for it, would not be considered to be a reporter.
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