{"id":773,"date":"2016-02-14T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-14T21:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/?p=773"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:36:39","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T22:36:39","slug":"editors-choice-some-artsjournal-stories-you-shouldnt-miss-from-the-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2016\/02\/editors-choice-some-artsjournal-stories-you-shouldnt-miss-from-the-past-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Editors&#8217; Choice: ArtsJournal Stories You Shouldn&#8217;t Miss From The Past Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-774\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-774 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?resize=100%2C100&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Sense-and-Sensibil_2462481b.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want?<\/strong><\/header>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want. \u00a0One t<a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/news\/2016\/harlow-playhouse-reports-50-audience-increase-with-pay-what-you-can-scheme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">heatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">But perhaps it&#8217;s frustrating that people <a href=\"http:\/\/howlround.com\/lynn-nottage-talks-research-collaboration-and-the-fracturing-of-america\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t see more people like themselves<\/a> on stages. &#8220;One of my frustrations with what happens on the stage a lot of the time when working class people are put up there, it\u2019s like poverty porn. They\u2019re laughed at, or they\u2019re the villains, or they\u2019re ridiculous.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">Theatre-as-Teacher: Hamilton is being used in classrooms <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/hamilton-biggest-thing-broadway-being-taught-classrooms-all-over-424212\" target=\"_blank\">to teach history<\/a>. \u00a0&#8220;Yes, it takes creative liberties\u2014the Founding Fathers didn\u2019t really spit rhymes or use phrases like &#8216;John Adams shat the bed&#8217;\u2014but the story is historically sound.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/03\/the-library-card\/426888\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Not Your Parents\u2019 Library: Libraries Across America Have Reinvented Themselves<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThere are three areas where libraries function as vibrant centers of America\u2019s towns: technology, education, and community.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1666577.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Reading Is Back. Yay! But Let\u2019s Not Put Down Complicated Critiques Replaced By New Enthusiasm<\/a>\u00a0That reading is now a social activity again\u2026 might seem cause for optimism. Yet D.J. Taylor regrets the passing of critical arbitration in matters of taste.<\/header>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/how-the-smithsonian-is-crowdsourcing-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">How The Smithsonian Is Using Crowdsourcing To Transcribe History<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>2. Our Relationship With Art and Creativity<\/strong><\/header>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/theatreblog\/2016\/feb\/09\/theatre-not-a-puzzle-to-solve-the-return-escaped-alone-caryl-churchill\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t get the play you just saw? Don&#8217;t worry about it<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s liberating for a theatregoer not to worry too much whether you\u2019ve worked out exactly what it\u2019s about. If you want to solve something, buy a Rubik\u2019s Cube, not a theatre ticket.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2016\/feb\/09\/in-defence-of-pretentiousness\" target=\"_blank\">In defense of pretentiousness:<\/a> It is axiomatic that pretentiousness makes no one look good. But pretension is measured using prejudiced metrics.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/584850\/creative-peoples-brains-really-do-work-differently\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Studies: Creative Brains Work Differently<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe common traits that people across all creative fields seemed to have in common were an openness to one\u2019s inner life; a preference for complexity and ambiguity&#8230;<\/header>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/09\/science\/new-ways-into-the-brains-music-room.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Scientists Have Figured Out Exactly Where Music Works On The Brain<\/a>\u00a0\u201cBy mathematically analyzing scans of the auditory cortex and grouping clusters of brain cells with similar activation patterns, the scientists have identified neural pathways that react almost exclusively to the sound of music \u2014 any music.&#8221;<\/header>\n<\/footer>\n<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/exposed-to-a-deluge-of-digital-photos-were-feeling-the-psychological-effects-of-image-overload-52562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">\u2018Our onslaught of Images is changing our perceptions<\/a>:\u00a0\u201cAs we snap, store and communicate with thousands of images on our phones and computers, a number of researchers and theorists are already beginning to point to some of the unintended consequences of this \u2018image overload,\u2019 which range from heightened anxiety to memory impairment.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/25\/we-are-hopelessly-hooked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Mindlessly Engaged? What Happens To Culture When We\u2019re Addicted To Our Devices<\/a>\u201cWhat does it mean to shift overnight from a society in which people walk down the street looking around to one in which people walk down the street looking at machines?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>3. Our Aesthetic Relationship With Art<\/strong><\/header>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/03\/ao-scott-critic-without-a-cause\/426828\/\" target=\"_blank\">How Do you Build A Critical Life As Part Of A Creative Life?\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/129621\/a-o-scott-last-power-critics\" target=\"_blank\">Do Critics (Should They) Have Power? (Or Is It Illusion?)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/how-being-awesome-became-the-great-imperative-of-our-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">High Five! On The Nature Of Awesomeness And Suckiness<\/a>\u00a0Philosopher Nick Riggle explains why being awesome doesn\u2019t simply mean excellence and someone or something isn\u2019t merely bad when it sucks.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/museums\/a-microsoft-billionaire-gives-the-public-a-rare-view-of-his-art\/2016\/02\/11\/ffd4f0d8-cf5f-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The problem with collecting masterworks of great artists <\/a>is that the act of ownership is in itself a kind of theft, stealing from the public commons of genius.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><strong>4. The Business\/Impacts of the Arts<\/strong><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-content\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2016\/03\/how-america-is-putting-itself-back-together\/426882\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">An Arts Revolution Is Transforming Small Cities<\/a>\u00a0James Fallows writes, \u201cPerhaps the topic on which I\u2019ve most changed my mind through our travels concerns the civic importance of local arts, and the energy being devoted to them across the country. Almost every place we visited offers an example.\u201d<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-content\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/14\/arts\/television\/smaller-screens-truer-colors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">TV (Unlike The Movies) Has Figured Out That Diversity Is Smart Business<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThat audience wants authenticity; advertisers want that audience.\u201d<\/header>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-content\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/neurobonkers\/a-pirate-bay-for-science\" target=\"_blank\">An argument for the moral authority to &#8220;liberate&#8221; (steal) the world&#8217;s research papers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>5. Reinventing Music in our culture\u00a0<\/strong><\/header>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.operanews.com\/Opera_News_Magazine\/2016\/2\/Features\/Discomfort_Zone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Opera Is A Product Of Its Time. Should It Be Politically Correct For Our Time?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/music\/at-100-orchestra-has-a-midlife-crisis\/2016\/02\/10\/fae25734-cc33-11e5-a7b2-5a2f824b02c9_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">America\u2019s Orchestra Mid-Life Crisis \u2013 A Reinvention More About Repositioning The Deck Furniture?<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/style\/wp\/2016\/02\/10\/how-touring-puts-orchestras-on-the-map-even-with-a-lame-duck-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">How Touring Puts Orchestras On The Map \u2013 Even With A Lame-Duck Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/will-streaming-music-kill-songwriting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Will Streaming Music Kill Songwriting?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><\/footer>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><strong>JUST FOR FUN<\/strong><\/footer>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/speedreads\/538379\/samsung-warns-customers-not-discuss-personal-information-front-smart-tvs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Samsung Warns: Careful What You Say In Front Of Your TV<\/a>\u00a0Samsung has confirmed that its \u201csmart TV\u201d sets are listening to customers\u2019 every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/news\/a41941\/ted-cruz-victoria-coates-national-security-advisor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Onward And Upward In The Arts: Ted Cruz\u2019s Choice As His National Security Advisor? An Art Historian, Of Course<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/picturegalleries\/howaboutthat\/12147299\/most-romantic-quotes-film-tv-books.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Revealed: The Most Romantic Sentence In All Of Literature<\/a>\u00a0An analysis based on the most-quoted romantic lines<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thisiscolossal.com\/2016\/02\/van-gogh-room-airbnb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Art Institute Of Chicago Recreates Van Gogh\u2019s Bedroom, Rents It Out On AirBnB<\/a>\u00a0The bedroom runs for just $10 a night and is part of a larger apartment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. This week in What-Does-The-Audience-Want? Cheaper tickets, for sure. Or at least the opportunity to pay what they want. \u00a0One theatre converted its season to pay-as-you-want and saw a 50% increase in audience. 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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. 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You think changing audience behavior is tough on arts organizations? Try it when you're a multi-billion-dollar conglomerate like NBCUniversal Comcast or Verizon. Olympics TV ratings were down 18% from 2012. NBC had paid\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;arts &amp; tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"arts &amp; tech","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/category\/arts-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-revolt-against-mainstream-media-news-BBC-News.png?fit=948%2C526&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-revolt-against-mainstream-media-news-BBC-News.png?fit=948%2C526&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-revolt-against-mainstream-media-news-BBC-News.png?fit=948%2C526&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/The-revolt-against-mainstream-media-news-BBC-News.png?fit=948%2C526&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":35,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2007\/11\/rethinking_mass_culture.html","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":2},"title":"Rethinking  Mass Culture","author":"Douglas McLennan","date":"November 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"We're consumed by the idea of mass culture. Since television (and before it, radio) brought the immediacy of produced culture into our living rooms, we've treated the power of a massive aggregated audience with awe. That something is popular enough to attain common currency means it has power. Mass culture\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":351,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2009\/05\/if_is_was_just_about_the_money-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":773,"position":3},"title":"If It Was Just About The Money We&#039;d All Be Making Porn","author":"Douglas McLennan","date":"May 14, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A movie studio exec once told me that if it were true that Hollywood was only interested in making money, the studios would have long ago ditched what they were doing and made porn. Huge money in porn, apparently. Who knew? 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