Tuesday, February 24, 2015
“Now that Broadway-minded songwriters no longer have a universal musical language on which to draw, it isn’t possible to write a show with genuine broad-gauge audience appeal. It say…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AMThursday, February 12, 2015
“Work seems to be being supported and assisted at a community level. So there’s a perception that people with learning disabilities can enjoy participatory activity but – on the other …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AMTuesday, February 10, 2015
By the end of 2015 The Shaw Festival “will announce Jackie Maxwell’s successor as artistic director, Elaine Calder’s replacement as executive director and, if the new leaders are u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AMFriday, February 6, 2015
“The Support Theaters in America Growth and Expansion Act would mean that shows and live theatrical productions would enjoy an incentive given to film and TV productions for certain co…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AMThursday, February 5, 2015
Scott Timberg’s book Culture Crash makes a case that the transformation of our culture right now is killing artists’ ability to make a living making art. He cites a number of rea…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:21PM“Theatregoing is the second most popular cultural activity in Scotland after the cinema, according to a survey that shows that 32% of Scots went to the theatre in 2013.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:47AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
“The mobile-ticket site, Today Tix, has between 1,500 and 2,000 entries daily for a lottery to two tickets offered for $10 each. Sporadic tickets are available on StubHub for exorbitan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:39AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
“It found that new work – including original plays, musicals, pantomime and opera – made up 59% of all productions, 66% of all performances, 63% of all seats sold and 66% of box of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:22PMAudience outreach will ultimately determine if Progress succeeds, because as it stands, Toronto likely has too few regular showgoers to sustain this boom in international theatre.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:05PMFriday, January 16, 2015
Scott Timberg, an arts journalist and author of the CultureCrash blog on ArtsJournal, has a new book out called… Culture Crash. It’s Scott’s attempt to look at how the digi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:55PMTuesday, January 28, 2014
The promise of virtual reality has intrigued science fiction writers for years. But the technology for VR has been rather disappointing. Until now, writes Wired. A headset called the Oculus …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:13AMMonday, January 27, 2014
British orchestras report an increase in attendees – a 16 percent increase no less – over an earlier three-year period: A survey by the Association of British Orchestras (ABO) ha…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:14PMI’m very pleased to welcome a new blogger to ArtsJournal today. Lynne Conner will be writing the blog We the Audience, a blog about the relationships between artists and audiences. Lyn…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AMSunday, January 26, 2014
What a week. First there was the Slate piece that declared classical music dead. Then spiked decided that pop music was over. Why is it that people keep wanting to kill off great swaths of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
.It’s been a while since we redesigned ArtsJournal. AJ is now 14 years old, and this will be the fifth redesign. And a new content platform as well, as the site moves to WordPress. Thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:27PMSaturday, August 10, 2013
# The two terms sometimes get mixed up. They’re not interchangeable. For the most part, the big cultural debates of our time take place without participation of our artists and arts le…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PMSunday, March 24, 2013
That’s “Massive Open Online Course” and they’re everywhere right now. Some of the most prestigious universities are creating courses online and attracting tens of tho…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30PMTuesday, March 20, 2012
How does somebody who wants to write about the arts get an audience? In the old days you found a small local publication to write for while you learned your craft, and graduated to bigger pu…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59PMMonday, January 9, 2012
Mitt Romney said last week he’ll kick funding for the arts and public broadcasting to the curb if he gets to be president. # “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:49PMSunday, December 18, 2011
If I built the best-ever VCR, would you rush out to buy it? Of course not. Even though my VCR might be the most excellent VCR, no one cares about VCRs anymore. # Being excellent at something…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:59PMThursday, December 15, 2011
TV used to be an appointment medium. It’s Thursday night at 8 and you’re in front of the set watching or else you missed your favorite show. Then VCR’s, DVD’s and DVR…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
I pay my cable provider to supply me with TV. # Since I don’t want to watch on my cable provider’s schedule I pay for Tivo. Since my cable provider doesn’t have all the mov…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49PMMonday, December 5, 2011
Build something in the physical world and the minute it’s used it starts to decay – scuffs, dents, chips. Drive a car off the new car lot and it immediately loses ten percent of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:05PMLiteracy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material. - Wikipedia # Literacy at its most basic is the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:44AMWednesday, August 24, 2011
Seems important to note the passing of music criticism as a legitimate job in Canada. John Terauds, for six years staff classical music critic of the Toronto Star, was reassigned this week t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30AMFriday, October 1, 2010
If you’re a follower of ArtsJournal blogs, you’ll notice that this blog doesn’t look the same as any of the others. That’s because I’m in the midst of redesigni…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:31AMFriday, July 30, 2010
Professional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:49PMProfessional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. The…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:49AMMonday, May 24, 2010
Is the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more "familiar" to a generation raised on video screens. Here's a report from Lang La…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:19AMIs the future of live classical music recitals to turn them into a multimedia experience that is somehow more “familiar” to a generation raised on video screens. Here’s a r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:19AMSunday, April 18, 2010
How do you make a living as an artist? In the old mass-culture model you needed a distribution and marketing engine that could fire up on your behalf to reach as many people as possible. Sel…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:15AM 
