This Week: Arts in, arts out (duh)... A link between ticket cost and attendance? (Nope!)... How short attention spans are changing behavior... Let's get beyond audience ratings... Can the arts make a difference in war zones? If You're Exposed To Art, You'll Pay Attention To Art: Some things just seem so obvious it goes without saying. But here's yet another study that … [Read more...]

This Week: Make art for people and they'll come (who knew?)... How we communicate culture shapes its values... Researchers are looking inside our brains to see how we react to art... Why people are becoming evangelical about the TV shows they like... Make It And They Will Come: It's a basic law of consumption. And museums have figured it out. Between 2007 and 2015, there … [Read more...]

Last Week: Government funding for the arts is more about audience and artists... And another comments community goes away... Shocking data on how people use (or don't use) music... A backlash against digital and a return to analog... How streaming has interrupted our impulse to want to "own" music. The fundamental argument in the fight about funding the Corporation for … [Read more...]

This Week: Systematically learning to love classical music... Where people going into the subway just to see the art... The down sides of TV binge-watching... I fought the ticket boys and the bots totally won... A budding romance between classical music and movies. Conquering Everest - How I Learned To Love Classical Music: When you don't know anything about an art form, … [Read more...]