“Broadway shows grossed $30.9 million last week on sales from 299,090 audience members, the highest dollar amount and best attendance ever recorded for the week leading into Memorial Day … The comparable gross and attendance figures for the same period last year were $25.5 million and 240,878.”
America’s Cultural Capital Has An Arts-Education Problem
“A report from the New York City comptroller “has raised fresh questions about how art enhances learning and whether children will be better prepared for a 21st century economy if they have mastered the ‘soft’ skills that art teaches. In an increasingly ‘creative’ economy, the argument goes, students need original thinking to thrive – and then only wealthy New Yorkers are being set up to succeed.”
Discounted Registration Ends Friday
The Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in Nashville this June 13-15 is your opportunity to learn from and network with more than 1,000 arts professionals from across the country.
Maya Angelou, 86
“From her desperate early years, Ms. Angelou gradually moved into nightclub dancing and from there began a career in the arts that spanned more than 60 years. She sang cabaret and calypso, danced with Alvin Ailey, acted on Broadway, directed for film and television and wrote more than 30 books, including poetry, essays and, responding to the public’s appetite for her life story, six autobiographies.”
Massimo Vignelli, 83, Designer Who Created New York’s Subway Map
“[He was] an acclaimed graphic designer who gave shape to his spare, Modernist vision in book covers and shopping bags, furniture and corporate logos, even a church and a New York City subway map that enchanted aesthetes and baffled straphangers.”
‘Small Army’ Of Conservators Volunteer To Restore Glasgow School Of Art
“Conservators from the UK and abroad answered a social media call for help from within 24 hours of the blaze that destroyed the school’s famous art nouveau library. The volunteers include managers and coordinators, conservators trained in disaster response, archivists, conservators of paper, paintings, textiles and stone.”