1. Is Funding Really The Top Issue In The Arts?  Doug Borwick says no. “Insufficiency of funds will never go away. It’s a state of being in the nonprofit sector. Overfocus on this as an issue can get in the way of addressing the causes that might be contributing to it.” Michael Lind writes that […]

1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want? Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want.  One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience. But perhaps it’s frustrating that people don’t see more people like themselves on stages. “One of my frustrations with what happens on […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]