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WOMANSOWN.co.uk

Radio

BBC Radio 4
November 2014

Should a city owing 18 billon dollars, much of it attributed to unfunded pension obligations, sell its prestigious art collection? This question has been asked within and outside the city. And it's a question that resonates worldwide as financially strapped arts institutions struggle to pay their bills. Presenter Alvin Hall visits Detroit to find out if, in the words of a famous advert for the D.I.A "You Gotta Have Art", even when you're broke.

News

Carrie Mae Weems recreated Phillip Johnson’s 90th birthday party in the MoMA Sculpture Garden. Agnes Gund arranged the original party. Alvin Hall joined in the celebration—and the hat-wearing.

Alvin joined “The Awakened Palate,” a benefit for Copland House, a nonprofit centered around the Westchester home where the composer Aaron Copland spent the last 30 years of his life.

News and TV Appearances

Alvin Hall is one of the Season 2 celebrity teachers in Dream School, a SunDance original series produced by Jamie Oliver, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Chuck D.

http://www.sundance.tv/series/dream-school/about/

How We Got to Now
"Light" episode
PBS

Alvin makes a guest appearance as Steven Johnson relates the story of people who take us out of the dark and into the light. Hear about Edison’s light bulb, which he didn’t actually invent, and learn how an 18th-century shipping community discovered a source of illumination by putting a kid inside a whale’s head. See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the myth of the individual “eureka” moment, Johnson reveals that teamwork and collaboration led the way to the most transformative ideas. Whether, altering the world’s sleeping patterns, giving rise to mass spectator sports, revolutionizing how global business is done or triggering one of the great social reforms in American history, the pioneers of light have made themselves indispensable throughout human history.

Forum

http://www.mirror.co.uk/all-about/money-matters

The Mirror's Money Matters Road Show visited Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle with a team of experts including international money man Alvin Hall.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/money/personal-finance/saving-you-money-mirror-launches-4465851