Monday, April 4, 2016
A number of stories this week tackled the meaning of greatness in art (even if they didn’t explicitly frame it that way). A changing culture requires changing definitions of greatness,…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:14AMSunday, March 27, 2016
This week’s best reads hover around existential questions. What arts organizations should exist? Does truth exist? Can theatre really change anything, and should it even try? Canada…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:57PMSunday, March 20, 2016
My picks for the five most interesting stories we gathered this week. The Arts’ Existential Challenge Arts organizations, along with every business sector trying to cope with sweeping …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15PMSunday, March 13, 2016
Researchers find links between what you watch and how you behave, how women are changing classical music, fascinating fights over who owns Picasso, a Golden Age for New York theatre, and con…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:39PMSunday, March 6, 2016
New York gets its first new major museum in decades. English National Opera continues its slow-motion implosion. The relationship between art and critics frays. Some counter-intuitive findin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:46PMSunday, February 28, 2016
Arguably, the dominant cultural issue of our time is the changes in how people are finding and getting culture. In response, business models supporting culture and the kinds of culture bei…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:31PMSunday, February 21, 2016
1. Is Funding Really The Top Issue In The Arts? Doug Borwick says no. “Insufficiency of funds will never go away. It’s a state of being in the nonprofit sector. Overfocus on this a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:22PMWednesday, February 17, 2016
Anyone you know like ads? No. They’re the cackling crows getting between you and what you’re after. They’re uninvited, unwelcome, and we do whatever we can to swat them awa…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:14AMMonday, February 15, 2016
Adam Grant, in his new book, Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World writes about the necessity of anchoring new ideas in familiar things. To generate creative ideas, it’s importan…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32PMSunday, February 14, 2016
1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want? Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want. One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50%…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:12PMSunday, February 7, 2016
Ah, an old-fashioned press-banning. Feels like the good old days. Of the 162 stories we collected this week, a few memes emerged: It was the week of artistic directors in dance. First, Be…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:56PMThursday, February 4, 2016
Last week we conducted our first ArtsJournal poll, asking: What’s the biggest challenge facing the arts? We had 3,191 votes, with the largest percentage – 37% – answering f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:38AMSunday, January 31, 2016
A new music director at the New York Phil. Some things we're learning about audiences. Some ways of analyzing writing. And the police who mistake a man singing opera for urgent screaming.
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:02PMTuesday, January 26, 2016
C-NET came away from this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas pronouncing that virtual reality is going to displace traditional porn. No surprise that the porn industry lead…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:08PMSunday, January 24, 2016
Welcome to our weekly “best of” ArtsJournal. These aren’t necessarily the most important of the 156 stories we found this week, but these particularly caught our eye. Your …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:56PMThursday, January 21, 2016
As inconsistent and distracted a blogger as I am, I am hardly a great blogger. But as someone who runs a network of arts blogs, I do have some observations. Great bloggers don’t just g…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:09PMWednesday, January 20, 2016
One weekend last November, the biggest box-office at movie theatres throughout the UK wasn’t for the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the latest “Hunger Games” movie opened th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:28PMTuesday, January 19, 2016
A survey of dancers in the UK last summer reported that “more than half of professional dancers earn less than £5,000 a year from their performance work.” That’s profes…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:08PMWe’re aggregating upwards of 150 stories a week on ArtsJournal these days. Despite the decimation of the daily newspaper arts journalism profession, there are more good stories about t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:16AMMonday, January 11, 2016
Remember when the internet came along and everyone wondered whether there would still be a use for libraries? Oddly, just as the question was being called, in the early 2000s there was a bui…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:15PMMonday, January 4, 2016
Maybe it’s obvious, but in the for-profit world, making money is the point; profit defines success. In the non-profit world, the relationship between profit and success is more complic…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:09PMMonday, December 7, 2015
Recently, an orchestra manager told me that his orchestra was going to be “the most innovative orchestra in the world.” I asked what he was doing that was so innovative, and he r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57AMMonday, November 30, 2015
What does it mean to “engage with an audience”? It’s a fundamental question for anyone who makes anything. Whether it’s a political party trying to win votes, Coke tr…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PMFriday, September 4, 2015
“The rules of engagement in theatre have changed, and now audience participation is everywhere. But artists have a responsibility to take care of those they pick on.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:25PMThursday, September 3, 2015
“Once settled in your seat, I suspect the first thing you’d notice would be the unusual ethnic and racial diversity onstage.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:56AMWednesday, September 2, 2015
“The fringe broke the 2 million barrier for the second year in a row, recording a rise of 5.24% on last year’s figures to 2,298,080, on an increase in productions of 3.79% to 3,3…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:01PMTuesday, September 1, 2015
“I’m not trying to tell you the sky is falling . . . I’m here to say that what goes up, must come down (or in our case, go flat), and the more we know and understand when these thi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:45PMFriday, August 28, 2015
“If a single company gets scared and it is willing to pull work that it has invested time and money and love into… that is a very dangerous precedent.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:13PMWednesday, August 26, 2015
The ten plays – five full-length and five one-act works – were discovered by producer Julius Green while researching a book about the author’s work in theatre. He heralded the find as …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:57PMTuesday, August 25, 2015
“Assassination Theater, now in a run at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, is a provocative multimedia history lesson dressed up as a docudrama. An engrossing, rapid-fire exposé …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:13PMFriday, August 21, 2015
The season, announced piecemeal since December, includes Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love,” David Lindsay-Abaire’s “Ripcord,” Richard Greenberg’s “Our Mother’s Brief Affair,”…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:23PM 
