There are plenty of strategic reasons to use hybrid content to further artistic goals that don’t have to be around making money. But ultimately the model, whatever it is, has to make sense.
Archives for 2021
#2. Five Observations about COVID and the Arts: The Great Resignation and Beyond
The arts workforce, and those being recruited into it, is changing. “We’ve never had as many openings at one time. And we recognize that in hiring so many positions at once, we have a huge responsibility — and opportunity.”
Observations on the Arts 18 Months into COVID: Finances
Many arts organizations are coming out of the COVID shutdown in better financial shape than they were going in.
ArtsJournal Turned 22 Today: A Chronicle of a Remarkable Cultural Era
Over the past year, while compiling 150,000 stories in the AJ archives, I realized that this is a unique record of an extraordinary period in our cultural history. Sorry – that sounds grandiose, but here’s what I mean…
Make Google Pay for Linking to Content? Hmnnn.
You might think this is just a journalism issue, but one can draw parallels of paying to read stories to paying for music streaming, which has not proven to “pay off” for the vast majority of musicians.
How Has Technology Changed Orchestras? — My Talk for the League of American Orchestras Conference
I was asked to deliver a “provocation” for this week’s League of American Orchestras annual conference with the prompt “How has Technology Changed Orchestras Forever?” Here’s a video of the talk and the transcript:.