“What we found was that scalpers took in more than $15.5 million from the 100 performances before Mr. Miranda’s final show. The 32 performances between the June 12 Tony awards — where “Hamilton” won 11 statues — and July 9 may have brought in more than $10.5 million for scalpers alone.”
Archives for July 2016
Researcher: Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt Were More Creative When They Were Unhappy
Polish economist Karol Jan Borowiecki, who previously examined the link between art and war, charted the emotional life of the three composers via their correspondence. He found “creativity, measured by the number of important compositions (they produced), is causally attributable to negative moods — in particular, sadness.”
How Kickstarter Has Impacted The Creative Economy
“Filmmakers, photographers, artists, authors, designers, musicians, and others reported that their project led to professional growth, greater earnings, and career advancement.”
Pavarotti Family To Trump: Stop Using Singer’s Recording
“We learned today that the aria ‘Nessum dorma’ performed by Luciano Pavarotti is being used (on) the Donald Trump campaign soundtrack,” wrote Nicoletta Mantovani, his widow, in a letter cosigned by Pavarotti’s three daughters. “We remind you that the values of brotherhood and solidarity that Luciano Pavarotti upheld throughout his artistic career are incompatible with the world vision of the candidate Donald Trump.”
“Arts-Washing” – Neighborhood Revitalization Or Community Destroyer?
“Naysayers resent what they see as the patronizing cultural overlay, arguing that the community will be radically transformed, housing prices will go up, the poorest in the neighborhood will be displaced, etc. They brush aside the hope that the community will be revitalized, becoming more diverse, safer and, if done right, experience an improvement in its quality of life. In an urban design and planning sense, a cultural blanket is a very warm way to generate progress of all kinds.”
Yup: Comic-Con = Hollywood. Hollywood = Comic-Con
Most studios may have played it cool this year, but Hollywood and Comic-Con are now one and the same. The only thing left to do is start preparing for next year. I’ve already got my Joker T-shirt packed.
Canadian Workplace Study Of Workers Most At Risk: Arts And Entertainment
The study looked at wage theft and precariousness of employment. Arts and entertainment workers topped the list of workers in all industries who are least protected.
The ‘Zines Of Renaissance England
“From the 15th century onward, everyday English people passed broadsides around, sang their songs, and gossiped about the news contained within. Unlike books or early newspapers, broadsides and pamphlets were not curated nor intended for a specific, upper-class audience. This early form of journalism and storytelling was sold on the cheap, and many took no time at all to read.”
Adrian Hall Once Ran The Dallas Theatre Center. Now He’s Fighting To Remember
Hall sees one positive aspect to his Alzheimer’s. It’s caused him to assemble the archive that now surrounds him at home. The word ‘legend’ comes from the Latin for ‘to read,’ but it also means ‘to select, to gather together.’ Hall has been gathering this rich chronology, piecing together the meanings and connections in his life and career. “So that’s what I have been doing,” he says. “I live in a world where I am constantly with my past.”
Stunning Chronophotographs Capture the Patterns of Birds in Flight
“For the past five years, the Barcelona-based photographer [Xavi Bou] has captured different bird species soaring around the Catalonia region to form his ongoing Ornitographies series, using a particular method he has honed to compress multiple seconds into a single frame.”
Whoa – When Did Howard Stern Turn Into Terry Gross?
“Since settling in to his new home on satellite radio, which he did in 2006, Mr. Stern and his show have gradually taken on an improbable new dimension. Scattered among the gleefully vulgar mainstays are now long, starkly intimate live exchanges – character excavations that have made Mr. Stern one of the most deft and engrossing celebrity interviewers in the business.”
How Mexico’s Great Architect Got Turned Into A Diamond
An American conceptual artist got the family of Luis Barragán to give her his ashes, which she had carbonized into a 2.2-carat diamond – all as part of a gambit to free up access to Barragán’s all-too-closely-held archives in Switzerland.
A Play About Critics Moves A Critic To Ponder Her Younger, Less-Compassionate Self
Laura Collins-Hughes, reflecting on Brenda Withers’s new play The Kritik: “I did what so many young critics do. In love with the sound of my own voice, unaware of how lastingly harmful meanness could be, I was sometimes far harsher than I should have been.”
Famous Armada Portrait Of Elizabeth I Will Stay In Britain Following Fundraising Appeal
“A grant of £7.4m from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), using money from national lottery players, was the final piece in a campaign to raise £10.3m to buy the work … showing an elegant and triumphant Elizabeth I after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, … from descendants of [original owner] Sir Francis Drake.”
Why Is Whether Or Not Athletes Dope So Important To People?
Consider the anger at Lance Armstrong once the truth came out. Consider all the time and money spent on catching and eliminating athletes who dope. “If technology can help sports officials perform their jobs more efficiently and fairly, why can it not be used to help athletes do their jobs more effectively? The answer is quite simple: Athletes have to be human.”
The Latest Trend In LGBT Fiction: Gay Shame
“Shame informs much of the work of our latter-day gay novelists, offered as an antidote to our overriding gay culture that recognizes ‘pride’ as the core (and perhaps only) important expression of gayness today. The literary projects offered by [Hanya] Yanagihara and [Garth] Greenwell are cultural counterpoints to gay pride, attempts to show how shame – just as much as pride, if not more – still meaningfully forms part of the terrain of gay life, and must be acknowledged as such.”
After #CastSoWhite Controversy, Concert Reading Of New ‘Prince Of Egypt’ Musical Cancelled
A day after news media picked up on social media criticism that only five of 15 cast members for a first concert reading of the work-in-progress, a stage adaptation of the hit 1998 animated film about Moses, were nonwhite, Dreamworks and the producing theater called off the event with no explanation.
Despite All The Criticism, Royal Shakespeare Company, British Museum, And Royal Opera House Renew BP Sponsorship Deals
“The ROH and RSC, with the British Museum and National Portrait Gallery, have renewed their partnerships with the oil and gas giant for a further five years as part of a £7.5 million deal. The move has drawn fervent criticism from campaigners, who earlier this year set their sights on major cultural institutions that continue to receive sponsorship from fossil fuel companies, following the termination of deals with Tate and the Edinburgh International Festival.”
TKTS Half-Price Booth Sets Up At Lincoln Center (Where There Are Real New Yorkers)
“Beginning on Tuesday and continuing for three months, TKTS will sell tickets to Broadway and Off-Broadway productions from a box office inside [Lincoln Center’s] David Rubenstein Atrium … The Lincoln Center venture is an effort by TKTS, which sells predominantly to tourists, to see if it can increase the number of tickets sold to New Yorkers” (who tend to avoid the flagship TKTS location in Times Square).
James Alan McPherson, 72, First Black Writer To Win Pulitzer For Fiction
“[His] life took him from segregated Georgia, where he grew up in poverty as the son of an alcoholic father, to Harvard Law School during the social upheaval of the 1960s. Uninspired by the legal professional, he became a writer … He published no book for 20 years after the announcement of his Pulitzer for his 1977 collection, Elbow Room.”
Filmmaker Mohamed Khan, 73, Leader Of Egypt’s Neorealist Cinema Movement
“Khan’s films included The Street Player (1984), The Wife of an Important Man (1987) and Dreams of Hind and Camilia (1988) – all of which were named among the ‘100 Greatest Arab Films of All Time’ by the Dubai International Film Festival.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.28.16
Community is natural. But we’re losing it.
We talk about community a lot. The word gets thrown around so much that it begins to lose its meaning. It begins to sound like just another empty word … like sustainability … read more
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Family
To me community means family. It means we’re in this together no matter the outcome. Community is unity, love, compassion. Community is dancing with your tribe just because your happy. … read more
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A practice of commitment
I’ve been noticing a trend that many of my friends and colleagues will, after having children, attend church or participate other memberships and meetings so their developing family has … read more
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Community: A Poem
Community is beautifully imperfect. Community is acceptance, not tolerance. Community is the past, present, and future. Community is innovation, an open door. Community is a space where all voices are heard. Community is … read more
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How To Fund The Arts? The City Of Birmingham Comes Up with 50 Ways
“Through discussions and consultation, the Enquiry has generated almost 50 suggestions for ways to boost investment in the city’s arts and culture, which it presents in a new report. These are broken down into four sections: public sector investment, alternative finance, collaborative working and philanthropic giving.”
Can Audiences Hooked On Binge-Watching TV Be Wooed To Binge-Reading Books?
“As TV dramas get better and better, book publishers are hoping to convert binge TV watchers into binge readers. Serialized books have a long history in publishing — Charles Dickens famously released many his novels in serial form.”
Our Digital Expanses Have Made Us Confidently Arrogant. Where’s The Value In Humility?
“The internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. But, by making us lazy, they have opened up a space that ignorance can fill.”