http://www.artsjournal.com/issues.shtml Copyright 2009 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:47:30 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_having_an_e.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/why_having_an_e.shtml issues Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:03:49 -0800 "According to an online petition entitled "When the Night Quietly Dies," which was organized by a group from the techno and electronic music scene, the City of Lights is in danger of becoming the "European Capital of Sleep." Among the complaints listed in the petition are the closure of leading bars, strict rules on noise and smoking regulations."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/has_paris_night.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/has_paris_night.shtml issues Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:01:33 -0800 The Independent offers a debate on the question, with entries from, among others, theatre director Simon McBurney, novelist Lionel Shriver, Serpentine Gallery director Julia Peyton-Jones, and nine thoughtful readers. (Says Shriver, "This assignment is a formula for sounding like a prat.")... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/and_what_is_art.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/and_what_is_art.shtml issues Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:53:33 -0800 On Friday, "an assortment of academics, federal bureaucrats, and staffers from private think tanks and research organizations will assemble in Washington, and in cyberspace at www.nea.gov." The forum is an attempt "to broaden and improve the statistical evidence" that what artists do "is not just fluff and filigree, but part of the dollars-and-cents fiber of the country."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/live_online_see.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/live_online_see.shtml issues Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:58:24 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_are_the_ru.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/what_are_the_ru.shtml issues Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:31:56 -0800 Michael Kimmelman on the Cafesjian Center for the Arts in Yerevan: "Imagine an Art Deco version of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon stretching nearly the height of the Empire State Building, its decorations coded with Armenian symbolism. Did I mention the artificial waterfalls?" What the Center will house, however, is a different question.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/armenias_new_ar.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/armenias_new_ar.shtml issues Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:48:46 -0800 In this era of live blogging and TiVo time-shifting, "[p]eople are, if anything, more insistent on keeping their bubbles of cultural innocence intact. Heaven forbid they should learn that, in a romantic comedy that opened three weeks ago, the guy gets the girl in Act 3."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/whats_the_etiqu.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/whats_the_etiqu.shtml issues Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:16:51 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/panicking_over.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/panicking_over.shtml issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:15:33 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/get_ready_for_g.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/get_ready_for_g.shtml issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:02:34 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/tampa_bay_pac_g.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/tampa_bay_pac_g.shtml issues Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:56:32 -0800 "Modernity both exalts and threatens remote Aboriginal societies, yet there is no path of retreat back to some gilded pre-contact time. In fact, the academic penetration of the north is now at its height, our knowledge of the Yolngu, the clan groups round Oenpelli and the people of Groote Eylandt is incomparably greater."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/studying_aborig.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/studying_aborig.shtml issues Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:51:04 -0800 "At a time when record labels and, to a lesser extent, music publishers, find themselves in the midst of an unprecedented contraction, the last thing they need is to start losing valuable copyrights to '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s music, much of which still sells as well or better than more recently released fare. Nonetheless, the wheels are already in motion."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/copyright_bomb.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/copyright_bomb.shtml issues Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:57:25 -0800 "Teams are focused on season tickets, big theater groups are focused on subscriptions, that kind of stuff. We are really focused on viral social-marketing technology that will allow music venues and promoters to sell tickets."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_new_approach_1.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/a_new_approach_1.shtml issues Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:27:27 -0800 "How many video game addicts also do drama? Probably very few. Away from central London, professional theatre and music struggle to compete with multi-channel television, video games, pubs, clubbing and IT networking, a situation exacerbated by 25 years during which arts and culture have been downgraded in the curriculum, and the chance of being enthused decreased by the daunting documentation and fear of litigation that deters schools from organising trips."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/wheres_the_arts.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/wheres_the_arts.shtml issues Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:02:24 -0800 "The cultural responses to totalitarianism and the censorship of the arts differed from country to country. But one common thread through the undergrounds of the Eastern Bloc was that artists wanted their ideas to spread and be considered by the general population. A freedom of speech, however constrained, was very much fueled through the arts."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_the_arts_co_2.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_the_arts_co_2.shtml issues Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:10:31 -0800 "In the 1980s, [David] Letterman pioneered the kind of college-age male humor that dominates late night. But now, his audience is almost 55 percent women; [Jay] Leno's is more than 53 percent, and [Conan] O'Brien's just over one half. Yet the writing room and sensibilities of the show itself remain largely male."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/most_latenight.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/most_latenight.shtml issues Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:47:45 -0800 The Royal Opera House plans a full-fledged northern branch at Manchester's Palace Theatre, which was owned by Live Nation; new owner Ambassador Theatre Group may or may not want to proceed with the deal. Says ATG's CEO, "At a time when everybody is tightening their belts, we need to all be sure we can find the money to do it."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/royal_operaball.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/royal_operaball.shtml issues Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:41:40 -0800 "The arts, through sheer ubiquity, are making doomsday way too familiar. And frankly, there was a time when large-scale disaster unsettled -- when each time a movie or book or TV movie gave it serious thought, the moment could be unnerving." Not any longer.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_doomsday_lo.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/how_doomsday_lo.shtml issues Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:18:43 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/worker_killed_d.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/worker_killed_d.shtml issues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:01:17 -0800 A survey of 100 people on the street, opining on whether and how much they'd pay for digital music, news and books. Fourteen of them said they'd pay for subway musicians if they had to.... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/does_informatio.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/does_informatio.shtml issues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:26:38 -0800 "It's no surprise that gays and lesbians are strong supporters of the arts. What has changed in recent years is that they are choosing to be recognized as couples. Quietly in some cases, more publicly in others, these philanthropists are providing vital support and spurring the organizations to recruit other like-minded couples...."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/samesex_couples.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/samesex_couples.shtml issues Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:19:29 -0800 "Crisis is sexy. Crisis shakes you up. And if it changes our habits when it comes to looking at art, reading about it, or even making it, then that's probably good, too. Artists, if they're any good, are engaged in a war against habit, complacency and indifference."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/were_all_in_cri.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/were_all_in_cri.shtml issues Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:19:47 -0800 "Much of current philanthropic giving, by foundations and individuals, neither meets the needs of our charitable organizations nor addresses some of our most urgent public needs. ... Here are nine changes that would go a long way toward making philanthropy do what we all claim we want it to do."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philanthropy_is.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/philanthropy_is.shtml issues Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:09:52 -0800 The NEA chairman's unflagging ebullience during "a grueling day of arts appreciation" reflects "his natural tendency to play the extrovert.... But it should be remembered that he hasn't come all this way simply to launch his national cultural crusade, under the NEA slogan he dreamed up: 'Art Works.' He's also here because being off-the-cuff can land you in the soup."... http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rocco_landesman_3.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/rocco_landesman_3.shtml issues Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:11:57 -0800 http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2009/11/britain_wonders.shtml issues Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:14:35 -0800