Thursday, February 16, 2017
In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing arts…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AMFriday, January 27, 2017
As recently as 1990, American symphony orchestras accounted for an average of 60 percent of their budgets in earned income. This meant, at the time, that if you weren’t selling enough …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AMMonday, January 23, 2017
This Week: Trump, the arts, the culture budget and protest… Harvard ART school gets suspended…MIT’s list of 10 things you need to know… Writers and money – the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33AMFriday, January 20, 2017
So it begins. A report in The Hill, then picked up in the Washington Post, says that the Trump administration intends to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AMTuesday, January 17, 2017
Unquestionably, a majority of the people who work in Hollywood lean politically left. More than lean, in many cases. But how much of their politics makes it onto the big screen? Rory Carroll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PMSunday, January 15, 2017
This Week: The Trump era is a challenge to America’s arts institutions… Artificial intelligence is teaching us how to better-design concert halls… How originality has faile…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PMSunday, December 18, 2016
This Week: Mozart outsells every CD this year?… How artificial intelligence is changing thinking… Why should artists be entrepreneurs?… How the West dominated global cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04PMTuesday, 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 06:19PM 
