This week: Baby boomers are breathing new life into movie theatres... Dance clubs are languishing as millennials stay away... Netflix reveals at what point we get hooked on TV series... How the audience changes when admission is free... The Ticket bots strike again on Broadway. Baby Boomers Are Reinvigorating Movie Theatres: They're coming back to the theatres. But “more … [Read more...]

This Week: How free museum admission changes audience and behavior... Legislation to battle the ticket bots... Is YouTube making it tougher for live performers?... Detroit Symphony starts an amateur orchestra to get closer to its audience... Theatre for short attention spans. Study: How does free museum admission change audience? Of course making museums free changes who … [Read more...]

This Week: There's a creative divide in America but it's not where you think... Rethinking the modern concert hall in favor of the audience... Is glamour an ineffective sell for pop music?... A link between audience attendance and donations (not what you think)... Why has reading of literature declined? America's Creative Divide Isn't Where You'd Think: Conventional wisdom … [Read more...]

This Week: Tate goes for an artificial intelligence art project... UK has more amateur orchestras than you can shake a stick at... Does community storytelling take advantage of the storytellers?... Why the Louvre's attendance is down 20%... When data drives your art experience the art changes. Using Artificial Intelligence To Link News And Art: Tate Britain's prize for a … [Read more...]

This Week: Have orchestra pops concerts lost the pops thread?... A decade of experimenting with pay-as-you-will theatre in Charleston... NBC confirms a shift in how audiences want to watch the Olympics... Are middle class norms stifling the arts?... What do regular museum goers think about the art? New Thinking In "Popular" Classical Music: There was a time when pieces … [Read more...]