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This Week’s Top AJ Stories: Does Pittsburgh Symphony Strike Settlement Solve Anything? Should Arts Funding Be Dependent On Encouraging Bad Behavior?

November 27, 2016 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

This Week: Did settling the Pittsburgh Symphony strike just kick the can down the road?... The idea of progress is a fragile (and recent) notion... Why should this arts funding depend on encouraging bad behavior?... The art establishment is caught in an increasingly high-stakes investment battle... We celebrate reading - but has the dissemination of ideas and knowledge moved on? Pittsburgh … [Read more...]

CoolWriter on What If Disruption Was Just A Tech Con Game?: “Netflix is a good example of how rapidly changing technologies can strike even a very advanced business project, tightly tied…” Jan 2, 04:23
Jam on What If Disruption Was Just A Tech Con Game?: “I understand that Kindles, Kobos and Nooks are also dropping off with many returning to real tangible books, to read,…” Oct 23, 13:18
william osborne on Classical Music’s #MeToo Stories Are Just A First Step: “There is an important factual omission in your comment. CIM did not just pay the alleged victim in the 2007…” Jul 30, 20:43
ariel on How a Beethoven Tweet Broke Our Twitter Feed (And Other Lessons About Social Media Today): “To most of the world the name Beethoven means nothing and the 9th, symphony even less so . One suspects…” Jul 29, 17:26
G.M. Palmer on How a Beethoven Tweet Broke Our Twitter Feed (And Other Lessons About Social Media Today): “Re the Beethoven #9 article: Kind of reminds me of Third Reich stuff like they commissioned a new Midsummer Night's…” Jul 27, 05:07
Singer on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “It could also be argued that there WERE a lot of musicians back then as well but didn't have the…” Jun 26, 17:01
Sheryl Smith on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “I have noticed that artists look to everyone but themselves when the rent on their garret becomes harder to pay.…” Apr 14, 17:41
Jaym on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “That won't work. The vast majority of contemporary art is bought as a tool by people who want to mark…” Dec 28, 18:35
Jaym on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “Haha the arts education lobby. Must be the most impotent lobby on the face of the earth. I don't think…” Dec 28, 18:18
Peter Nelson on Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?: “For purposes of this discussion how are we defining "artist"? Are the various creatives involved in the advertising industry, the…” Mar 17, 13:02

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