Yearly Archives: 2021
Tickets Or NFTs? Do You “Own” The Experience?
"Tickets are keys to experiences. These keys have a finite life and finite utility. That’s because the majority of rights issuers want to maintain...
The Behind-The-Scenes Disasters That An Arts Festival’s Public (Hopefully) Never Sees
"From natural disasters to cast mishaps, from visa snafus to failing voices, the team at Spoleto Festival USA has been there, done that and...
What Ails The Classical Music Industry
"The problems have built up over at least the last half century and they cannot be solved overnight. But there are a host of...
Folks Have Been Looking For A Gender-Neutral English Pronoun For A Long Time Now
"Even though people did not … personally identify as nonbinary in the way we understand it today (though some identified as 'neuter'), neutral pronouns...
Does Los Angeles Need A New Arts Mega-Donor To Replace Eli Broad? Naaah
Carolina A. Miranda: "Let's retire the outmoded idea that the most important factor in a city's cultural landscape is the presence of some white...
How Big Was The Hit Public Radio And TV Stations Took Last Year?
"Revenues of public television and radio stations declined by $147 million, or 5%, in fiscal year 2020, which included the first months of the...
Richard Robinson, Who Made Scholastic Into A Children’s Publishing Powerhouse, Dead At 84
" nearly five decades at the head of the company shaped it into one of the world's most prominent and recognizable publishers of children's...
Garth Drabinsky’s Comeback Will Be Broadway’s First Fully New Musical Since COVID Arrived
The first production on Broadway that hadn't been previously scheduled and postponed will be Paradise Square, a show about the origins of tap dance,...
Art Theft Is Way Down In Italy, Thanks To The Carabinieri’s Drones
"Fewer art and cultural heritage works were stolen in Italy in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to the annual report of the...
As Italy Was Locked Down, Looting Of Ancient Roman Artifacts Went Up
"The looting of ancient art in Italy is … at least as old as the Roman empire, which not only contended with its own...
How Our Technology Can Change Our Character
There is the possibility that technology can come to influence or reflect our values in ways that are beyond our control. For example, wearable...
Experiments In Opera: Philip Glass At The Circus
The revelation of “Circus Days and Nights” is existentially simple and direct. Cut through a thin layer of tawdriness and cheap tinsel that may...
English City Experiments With Design In Public
Set to open in autumn next year, and operate virtually, online until then, the £4.5m Farrell Centre will occupy a former 19th-century department store...
Princeton Drops Latin And Greek Requirements For Classics Study
"The policy change at Princeton presumes the existence of various potential contributions that classics students knowing no Latin or Greek could have been making...
Music Stars Demand Streaming Music Regulation
It argues that streaming via services such as Spotify and Apple Music be legislated more like radio. “The law has not kept up with...
New York To Stage A Mega-Concert In August To Signal End Of The Pandemic
Seeking a grand symbol of New York’s revitalization after a brutal pandemic year, Mayor Bill de Blasio is planning a large-scale performance by multiple...
Evidence
My introduction of Emanuel Ax in May in Boston, as he received an honorary doctorate from New England Conservatory. - Bruce Brubaker
Howard Herring talks digital in the arts
The President and CEO of the New World Symphony discusses the impact of digital environments on our art and audiences. - Aaron Dworkin
Why Are Non-Profit Endowments Under-performing The Markets?
Today, it’s possible to capture the average growth of the stock market through passive index funds, which if balanced with some government bonds, have...
Conceptualizing The Palestinian Museum
"As part of the new programs strategy I developed in 2019, we reconceptualized our mission as providing emancipatory learning experiences about Palestine. A learning...
Why Do We Take The Tyranny Of Time For Granted?
“For most people, the last class they had devoted to clocks and time was early in primary school,” Kevin Birth, a professor of anthropology...
Amsterdam Is Falling Apart
"Sinkholes are appearing in its small streets, and nearly half its 1,700 bridges are rickety and need repairs, frequently requiring trams to cross at...
Study: The Size Of Your Eyes’ Pupils Correlates With Intelligence
Now work conducted in our laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggests that baseline pupil size is closely related to individual differences in...
A Keith Haring Mural In Barcelona Is Under Threat
Haring painted the mural inside a nightclub in 1989. The nightclub turned into a billiards hall, and the mural was preserved, but now the...
The Cinque Gallery Gives Us Another Chapter Of Black Art History
Cinque, founded by Romare Bearden, Ernest Crichlow, and Norman Lewis in 1969, showed more than 450 artists of color during its 35-year existence. "The...
