{"id":799,"date":"2016-02-28T12:16:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/?p=799"},"modified":"2016-03-01T06:44:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T14:44:27","slug":"this-weeks-top-aj-stories-2-28-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/2016\/02\/this-weeks-top-aj-stories-2-28-16.html","title":{"rendered":"This Week&#8217;s Top AJ Stories 2.28.16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/28mag-teams1-articleLarge.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-807\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-807\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/28mag-teams1-articleLarge.jpg?resize=195%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"28mag-teams1-articleLarge\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/28mag-teams1-articleLarge.jpg?resize=195%2C300&amp;ssl=1 195w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.artsjournal.com\/diacritical\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/28mag-teams1-articleLarge.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Arguably, the dominant cultural issue of our time is the changes in how people are finding and getting culture. \u00a0In response, business models supporting culture and the kinds of culture being made are also changing. \u00a0It also underpins debates about diversity, engagement and power.<\/p>\n<p>Some broad themes this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. How we want the culture we want<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/live-nation-earns-record-profit-amid-concert-boom-062546303.html\" target=\"_blank\">Record Profits As Concert Business Booms<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>The pop concert and festival business is hugely popular, and growing. Concert promoter Live \u00a0Nation\u00a0reported revenue of $7.6 billion in 2015, up 11 percent from the previous year.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/createquity.com\/2016\/02\/are-the-arts-the-answer-to-our-tv-obsession\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Are We So Addicted To Our TVs That The Arts Can&#8217;t Compete?<\/strong> <\/a>TV has gotten radically better. And its ubiquity means that it is easy to consume. The arts are harder, messier, less predictable. So&#8230;<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/21\/books\/review\/where-do-you-draw-the-line-between-commercial-and-literary-fiction.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Publishers (And Critics) Still Draw A Line Between Literary And Commercial Fiction<\/strong><\/a> But \u00a0does the audience? Does anyone still care about the distinction? And if so, where is that line?<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2016\/feb\/24\/website-images-all-publicly-owned-art-uk-britain-bob-roberta-smith\" target=\"_blank\">When 80% Of Public Museum Art Is Locked Away, How Is It Public? <\/a><\/strong>So a website is trying to digitize images of every piece of art owned by the public. Not a substitute, sure, but perhaps it changes notions of what it means to be publicly owned.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. How we&#8217;re measuring\u00a0the arts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/24\/theater\/todaytix-makes-inroads-into-broadways-ticketing-business.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A Last-Minute Ticket App Hits Broadway, But Theatres Aren&#8217;t Happy<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0The mobile app sells discounted and full-price last-minute tickets. Is it a threat to the traditional business of selling full price tickets?<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2016\/02\/netflix-ratings\/462447\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>TV Networks Are Obsessed With Ratings. Netflix Isn&#8217;t.<\/strong> <\/a>So why? Netflix simply doesn\u2019t care about ratings\u2014at least not in the way other television providers do.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/digital.vpr.net\/post\/killacky-lessons-twitter-sitter#stream\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">What I Learned From My Week On Twitter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cMy tweets got 102,700 impressions over the week, averaging 14,700 per day. However, the engagement rate was only 1.6%, which is pretty typical for the site. On Twitter, everyone has a megaphone, but few take incoming calls.\u201d<\/header>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2016\/feb\/23\/anna-meredith-on-classical-music-art-and-pop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">No Money In Pop? Composer Writes Classical Music To Subsidize Her Pop Songs<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThere\u2019s this assumption that there\u2019s money in pop. No \u2013 my contemporary art music funds my burgeoning middle-aged pop sensation career! \u2026 It\u2019s made me realise how much support and infrastructure there is for classical music.\u201d<\/header>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestage.co.uk\/opinion\/2016\/richard-jordan-were-judging-new-musicals-by-the-wrong-standards\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Are Our Criteria For Judging The Success Of Musicals Wrong?<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u201cWhere once a musical running one or two years would have been a great success, that achievement has now been devalued.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><strong>3. What we&#8217;re learning about the nature of creativity<\/strong><\/header>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/when-dementia-unlocks-creativity-1455894610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Some Forms Of Dementia Are Giving Us Insight Into Creativity<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhat if the failure of language itself were the cause of the enhanced creativity, one form of expression compensating for the loss of another?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/02\/clive-thompson-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Study: A Clean Desk Might Actually Impede Creativity<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cClean up your desk too much and you might find you\u2019ve accidentally cleaned out your mind.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/teachers-are-using-theater-and-dance-to-teach-math--and-its-working\/2016\/02\/22\/61f8dc0c-d68b-11e5-b195-2e29a4e13425_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Using The Arts To Teach Math Works<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Instead of art as a stand-alone subject, teachers are using dance, drama and the visual arts to teach a variety of academic subjects in a more engaging way.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/24\/opinion\/dont-turn-away-from-the-art-of-life.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why the &#8220;Inefficiency&#8221; Of Arts And Humanities Is A Feature, Not A Bug<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 They offer us a kind of reach into time and space that we can find nowhere else.<\/li>\n<li class=\"entry-header\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2016\/feb\/25\/access-all-areas-theatre-bsl-captioning-signing-deaf-disabled-audiences\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>When &#8220;Accessibility&#8221; Is Built In To Art Rather Than Used As An Add On<\/strong><\/a> it makes better art.\u201cTheatres are increasingly making their work accessible for deaf and disabled audiences in a more creative, integrated fashion and are placing issues of access right at the heart of their design.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4. How we&#8217;re rethinking our relationships with culture<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/273948\/testing-the-possibilities-of-online-education-with-museum-moocs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Can MOOCs Get You Closer To Your Museum?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Whether they function as a resource for art lovers or provide an introduction for an audience that can\u2019t attend \u2014 or simply hasn\u2019t \u2014 the museum in person, these courses are increasing access in inventive ways.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2016\/02\/who-owns-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Who Owns The Past? Our Museums Seem To Be Confused<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0We&#8217;re risking\u00a0&#8220;transforming our great institutions into places where understanding the past is conditioned by present-day political and therapeutic criteria.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1WGaY9e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Branford Marsalis Talks About The Differences Between Classical And Jazz<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cClassical music makes me a much better saxophonist than jazz does. Because for saxophone technique, guys end up playing fast stuff. In classical music, you just have to develop a technique to execute melodies and ideas that are beyond the linear ways that we tend to think about music.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/23\/world\/asia\/china-weird-architecture.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">China: No More Weird Architecture!<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0In recent years some of the most imaginative (and yes, weird) buildings have been erected in China. But now a\u00a0directive issued on Sunday says no architecture that is &#8220;oversized, xenocentric, weird&#8221; or &#8220;devoid of cultural tradition&#8221; should be built.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/books-smell-like-old-people-the-decline-of-teen-reading\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Why Today&#8217;s Teens Have Stopped Reading Books<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWhen they become twelve or thirteen, kids often stop reading seriously. The boys veer off into sports or computer games, the girls into friendship in all its wrenching mysteries and satisfactions of favor and exclusion.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>5.\u00a0In Other News<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/20\/arts\/international\/umberto-eco-italian-semiotician-and-best-selling-author-dies-at-84.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Umberto Eco, 84\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>\u201cAs a semiotician, Mr. Eco sought to interpret cultures through their signs and symbols \u2026 and published more than 20 nonfiction books on these subjects while teaching at the University of Bologna.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2016\/02\/26\/can-opera-cure-its-sexism-problem.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Opera\u2019s Gender Problem, By The Numbers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cAccording to Operabase, an online opera database, in the years 2009 to 2014 there are only 3 women amongst the 60 most performed living opera composers in the world. Saariaho comes in highest at number 33.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/28\/magazine\/what-google-learned-from-its-quest-to-build-the-perfect-team.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">What Google Learned Trying To Build The Perfect Team<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cFive years ago, Google \u2014 one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity \u2014 became focused on building the perfect team.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/where-does-swearing-get-its-power-and-how-should-we-use-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Why Are So-Called Bad Words Actually Bad?<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cSwearing is a form of dispreferred linguistic behaviour.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong><a class=\"ext-link\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/host.madison.com\/ct\/entertainment\/arts_and_theatre\/citing-lack-of-donations-madison-ballet-cancels-peter-pan-remainder\/article_7cd47d3a-f374-5891-9313-8db2ff47b2f8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-target=\"_new\">Madison Ballet Cancels Remainder Of Season<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;<\/strong>Despite a solid showing for <em>Nutcracker<\/em> in December, the organization has struggled with cash flow, lower than expected ticket sales for <em>Dracula<\/em> and flagging fundraising.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>This Week&#8217;s Most-Read AJ Stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol class=\"list\">\n<li class=\"odd\"><a class=\"item-title\" title=\"What's Wrong With \" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/2016\/02\/whats-wrong-with-hamilton-and-why-its-important-to-say.html\">What&#8217;s Wrong With &#8220;Hamilton&#8221; (And Why It&#8217;s Important To Say)<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"even\"><a class=\"item-title\" title=\"After He Died, This Writer Was Kept In The Closet By His Controlling Family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/2016\/02\/after-he-died-this-writer-was-kept-in-the-closet-by-his-controlling-family.html\">After He Died, This Writer Was Kept In The Closet By His Controlling Family<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"odd\"><a class=\"item-title\" title=\"Newly Discovered Handel Cantata Turns Up In Conductor's Own Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/2016\/02\/newly-discovered-handel-cantata-turns-up-in-conductors-own-library.html\">Newly Discovered Handel Cantata Turns Up In Conductor&#8217;s Own Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"even\"><a class=\"item-title\" title=\"Dmitri Hvorostovsky Talks About His Brain Cancer Treatment, Recovery, And Return To The Opera Stage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/2015\/11\/dmitri-hvorostovsky-talks-about-his-brain-cancer-treatment-recovery-and-return-to-the-opera-stage.html\">Dmitri Hvorostovsky Talks About His Brain Cancer Treatment, Recovery, And Return To The Opera Stage<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"odd\"><a class=\"item-title\" title=\"How Cat Hair Busted A Pair Of Art Forgers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/2016\/02\/how-cat-hair-busted-a-pair-of-art-forgers.html\">How Cat Hair Busted A Pair Of Art Forgers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arguably, the dominant cultural issue of our time is the changes in how people are finding and getting culture. \u00a0In response, business models supporting culture and the kinds of culture being made are also changing. \u00a0It also underpins debates about diversity, engagement and power. 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