Tuesday, December 13, 2016
This Week: Two stories worth noting – the segregation of DC theatre audiences and what it might tell us… The translation of live theatre to the small screen is more than just fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36AMSunday, December 4, 2016
This Week: The next wave of arts journalism layoffs begins… Lots of debate about the role of artists in the Trump era… Prominent Canadian artists petition the government to ̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PMSunday, November 27, 2016
This Week: Did settling the Pittsburgh Symphony strike just kick the can down the road?… The idea of progress is a fragile (and recent) notion… Why should this arts funding depen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PMMonday, November 21, 2016
This Week: That Mike Pence goes to “Hamilton” story? A textbook protest… Finally – some real data on the health of orchestras… Arts criticism is either being re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AMSunday, November 13, 2016
This Week: Hard to imagine there are arts headlines to compete with election news, but here goes: Science tries to explain why we’re ideologically segregated… It’s not just…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PMSunday, November 6, 2016
This Week: Record ticket sales at the Chicago Symphony but still a budget problem…Wall Street Journal cuts arts coverage and Boston Globe gets a subsidized critic…Why did Shakesp…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PMSunday, October 23, 2016
This Week: Why has dance attendance fallen off a cliff in New York?… Applications for MFA programs are down and things are looking bleak… Has our ad-supported business model for …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:09PMMonday, October 17, 2016
This Week: Did Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize for literature expand the category to songwriting?… Artists protest against gentrification… We’re deeply conflicted about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:31AMSunday, October 9, 2016
This Week: The movie industry is undergoing a top-to-bottom revolution… Claim: teaching humanities fights racism… Outing the identity of Elena Ferrante sparks debate on privacy&#…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:22PMSunday, October 2, 2016
This Week: Three orchestras now on strike as audience waits… Two other orchestras report record success… A museum raises $100 million in just three months… Bots are getting…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:26PMFriday, September 30, 2016
I suggested in a post this week that, based on the lack of any arts business before the 114th US Congress, that it appears that lobbying for the arts seems to be failing. Yes, the NEA/NEH …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:44AMWednesday, September 28, 2016
Americans for the Arts Action Fund PAC has released its 2016 Congressional Arts Report Card rating members of Congress on their support for the arts. Many lobby groups do such rankings as a …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:01AMSunday, September 25, 2016
This Week: Why is it so hard to tell if American theatre is thriving or not?… Have art and technology had a falling out?… Perhaps TV is the solution to our political polarizatio…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:07PMFriday, September 23, 2016
Is reality just a construct of the online world or is the online world merely an overlay on reality? Every new technological advance that extends our reach also imposes previously unnecessar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:22PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
There’s been a change in the news coming out of symphony orchestras over the past summer. Usually there’s a background drumbeat of struggle as orchestras fight to stay alive. But…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:39PMIt appears many of us want a formula for creativity. There are 11, 386 books on creativity for sale on Amazon, most of them promising to unlock the secrets of being creative. Scientists stud…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:26AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Arts Council England says it will use a standardized assessment system called Quality Metrics in evaluating the arts it it considers funding. The system has been developed over several year…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:09PMThis Week: The remarkable new National Mall museum that doesn’t look like the rest… An arts council’s risky change in standards… What scientists have learned about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:15PMThursday, September 15, 2016
Following on my post from yesterday about anticipating the kinds of experiences people will want from concerts comes this article from Wired about virtual reality and music. Evidently creat…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:57AMWednesday, September 14, 2016
Last week Michael Cooper made a plea in the NYT to the New York Philharmonic for some upgrades to the concert amenity experience when the orchestra overhauls Geffen Hall (formerly Avery Fis…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:55AMSunday, September 11, 2016
This Week: Major shakeup in London’s museum world… Nobel laureate says entertainment has killed art… Latest study of Hollywood reaffirms cultural inequality… Why did …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:22PMSunday, September 4, 2016
This Week: What exactly does cultural equity actually mean?… In our social media world everything is about images… A cautionary tale as an artist is erased from the internet̷…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:37PMAre we comfortable letting shareholder-driven companies - any private company - have absolute control over infrastructure that is increasingly essential for the functioning of civil society?…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:43PMTuesday, August 30, 2016
A flood of stories this week show how TV is dying and video is on the rise. You think changing audience behavior is tough on arts organizations? Try it when you’re a multi-billion-doll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:19PMMonday, August 29, 2016
A piece by Yuval Noah Harari in the Financial Times this weekend delves into our fascination with Big Data. The tech industry has made so many billions of dollars being able to track, quanti…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:56PMThree stories this week get to the heart of the question. First, the BBC polled critics worldwide and asked them what were the best 100 movies made so far in the 21st Century. Look at the li…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:44AMSunday, August 28, 2016
This Week: Earthquake Devastates Historic Italian Towns… Has the audience deserted blockbuster movies?… The best new beautiful library of 2016… Is it a good idea to pay you…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:38PMThursday, August 25, 2016
In this week’s AJ highlights I included some of the stories we found about the naked Donald Trump statues that appeared in five American cities last week. One reader was unhappy: Vile …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:50AMTuesday, August 23, 2016
Driverless cars are here and they work and by all accounts they make driving safer than when humans are piloting. So why aren’t they already in showrooms? Not so fast. It’s not j…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:27PMDance is the most physical art. Bodies moving, yes, but physical also because of how bodies relate to the spaces they’re in. Much of the energy in tech innovation right now is explori…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:26AMMonday, August 22, 2016
Last week the Brooklyn artist space National Sawdust announced it had hired away Steve Smith from the Boston Globe to start an ambitious new culture journal. Smith is a former NYTimeser, a …
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