(The reality, he added, is that the glass is bulletproof, and all of the synagogues have state-of-the-art alarm and surveillance systems. Indeed, in some instances, he said, the German government has insisted on greater security measures than the congregants requested).
Police were alerted during the night when the gallery's state-of-the-art alarm system went off but the thieves had already left the premises by the time officers arrived at the scene.
This sort of sci-fi, techno-terror art is alarming.
And a report this month by Harvard University, long a bastion of the liberal arts, drew alarm with statistics showing that only 20 percent of its undergraduates in 2012 were majoring in the humanities, a drop from 36 percent in 1954.
ERIKA RUBEN St . Louis June 19 , 2013To the Editor: Re "Humanities Committee Sounds an Alarm" (Arts pages, June 19): Good luck to the leaders trying to save the humanities as a road for study in higher education.
A great opportunity to love and hate art – or be alarmed and entertained by an art-world stratosphere that lives in a financial bubble, while another struggles to keep afloat.
One was Thomas Belfiore, the public safety commissioner, who said that the shelter, besides having a state-of-the-art surveillance and alarm system, would be closely watched by police officers in patrol cars who would be "equipped with the names and photographs of the various sex offenders staying here".
In her speech, titled A Farewell to Arts, Forgan will express alarm at the absence of arts subjects from the Ebacc, the new qualification at 16 awarded to pupils who have gained GCSE grades A-C in five subject areas: maths, English, two sciences, languages and the humanities.
The cover art of "Ring the Alarm", caused controversy because alligators were used during the photography session.
The cover art of "Ring the Alarm" proved controversial because Knowles used alligators during the photography session.
Arts advocates sounded an alarm last year when several states approved sharp cuts in their arts budgets.
