Ah, an old-fashioned press-banning. Feels like the good old days. Of the 162 stories we collected this week, a few memes emerged: It was the week of artistic directors in dance. First, Benjamin Millepied said he would be leaving Paris Opera Ballet after a rather short tenure. Why? “I want to regain my freedom and I want to create,” he […]
We Asked: What’s the Biggest Challenge Facing the Arts?
Last week we conducted our first ArtsJournal poll, asking readers: What’s the biggest challenge facing the arts? We had 3,191 votes, with the largest percentage – 37% – answering funding. Second at 24% was “relevance/changing tastes” followed by “diversity” at 15% and “leadership” at 13%. Technology came in a distant fifth at 4%. I will […]
@AJDoug’s Top Arts and Culture Stories of the Week for 01.31.16
A new music director at the New York Phil. Some things we’re learning about audiences. Some ways of analyzing writing. And the police who mistake a man singing opera for urgent screaming.
The Virtual Arts – Have It Your Way?
C-NET came away from this month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas pronouncing that virtual reality is going to displace traditional porn. No surprise that the porn industry leads in technology. Because of all the money in the early days of the internet, porn invested heavily in technology and pioneered pop-ups, redirects, payment collection and […]
FIVE PICKS: Stories From This Week’s ArtsJournal
Welcome to our weekly “best of” ArtsJournal. These aren’t necessarily the most important of the 156 stories we found this week, but they particularly caught our eye. Your #AllWhiteOscars Controversy Primer The biggest flurry of stories this week was the reaction to last week’s Oscars nominations, where for the second week in a row, all […]
What Makes A Great Blog(ger)? Five Observations
As inconsistent and distracted a blogger as I am, I am hardly a great blogger. But as someone who runs a network of arts blogs, I do have some observations. Great bloggers don’t just get you interested in a post, they draw you into a topic. They stake out that topic, pick away at it, […]
Playing For The Screens – Is Our Obsession With Video Changing The Live Arts Experience?
One weekend last November, the biggest box-office at movie theatres throughout the UK wasn’t for the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the latest “Hunger Games” movie opened that Friday). It was for a live broadcast of Kenneth Branagh’s production of “The Winter’s Tale” which was streamed live to 520 theatres in the UK and 100 more internationally […]
If Dance Can’t Pay Its Dancers What Does It Mean To Be A Professional Dancer?
A survey of dancers in the UK last summer reported that “more than half of professional dancers earn less than £5,000 a year from their performance work.” That’s professional dancers. “The statistics also show that around 50% of dancers’ jobs pay less than the minimum wage, and that 70% of dancers have performed in ‘unsuitable work […]
Last Week’s Top Stories on ArtsJournal
We’re aggregating upwards of 150 stories a week on ArtsJournal these days. Despite the decimation of the daily newspaper arts journalism profession, there are more good stories about the arts now than there have ever been. But that also means it’s more difficult to sort through. We look through more than 1000 stories a day […]
When Libraries Realize That The Most Valuable Thing They Own Isn’t Their Collections
Remember when the internet came along and everyone wondered whether there would still be a use for libraries? Oddly, just as the question was being called, in the early 2000s there was a building boom of new libraries around North America. And public libraries didn’t die, they flourished, many reinventing themselves as community centers for […]
Is Earning Making Money The New Audience-Building Strategy?
Maybe it’s obvious, but in the for-profit world, making money is the point; profit defines success. In the non-profit world, the relationship between profit and success is more complicated. “Profit” (or balancing the books) is regarded as a hill to be climbed over rather than the objective. In the hyper-connected world of social media, profit […]
The Innovation Imperative (But Will It Get Us An Audience?)
Recently, an orchestra manager told me that his orchestra was going to be “the most innovative orchestra in the world.” I asked what he was doing that was so innovative, and he rattled off a list of initiatives – performing out in the community in unusual spaces, partnering with other artists and arts organizations on […]
The Mass Market Ain’t What It Used To Be (And What That Means For The Arts)
What does it mean to “engage with an audience”? It’s a fundamental question for anyone who makes anything. Whether it’s a political party trying to win votes, Coke trying to sell drinks, an entrepreneur trying to sell an idea, or a theatre trying to sell tickets. Whole industries thrive on trying to define, quantify and […]
Why Is My Hotel Following Me? (Ah, It’s Big Data)
The hotel I stayed at in San Diego last month has been following me around for weeks. Seriously, it’s getting annoying – a one-night-stand that refuses to recede gracefully into memory. Everywhere I go on the web, it’s there waiting for me, promising me a “great location in the center of town” even though my stay […]
Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value?
Scott Timberg’s book Culture Crash makes a case that the transformation of our culture right now is killing artists’ ability to make a living making art. He cites a number of reasons, but in the end it boils down to the fact that with so much free culture/art available, people are increasingly unwilling to pay […]
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