Archives for February 2017

Five Story Highlights From The Past Week 02.19.17: Trapped By PACs, New WTC As Cautionary Tale, Exploiting Humanities Workers

February 20, 2017 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Last Week: Have performing arts centers led us to a dead end?... The new World Trade Center in New York demonstrates much of what is wrong with building today's cities... The humanities only exist on the exploitation of its workers... Here's the structure that makes the Grammys racist... A pocket history of fake news. In case you missed it, ArtsJournal published Joe Horowitz's essay on the … [Read more...]

Join Us Today For A Livestream: Artistic Leadership In A Border City

February 17, 2017 by Douglas McLennan Leave a Comment

Following on Joe Horowitz's essay Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bing, Bernstein, and Balanchine Fifty Years Later and the five responses to his provocation, we're in El Paso, Texas today for a conversation about artistic leadership in a city literally divided in two - El Paso, Texas on one side of a border fence and Juarez, Mexico on the other side. The University of Texas, El Paso and the El Paso … [Read more...]

Is The Institutionalization Of Our Arts A Dead End?

February 16, 2017 by Douglas McLennan 12 Comments

In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing arts, might have turned out instead to be a box canyon. Perhaps the buildings are to blame: the Met theatre is too big and unwieldy, and Philharmonic Hall and the State Theatre, despite renovations, haven't … [Read more...]

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…” 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…” 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
David Beauchesne on Some Of Our Orchestras Seem To Be Thriving – Is This A New Trend?: “The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra (& Music School) has experienced just under a decade of balanced budgets, and recent spectacular…” Mar 10, 06:09
william osborne on Is The Institutionalization Of Our Arts A Dead End?: “And finally, even the term "attention span" contains an implicit judgment that only clouds the issue. It's not so…” Feb 22, 00:05

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