One project will use algorithms that automatically lower or raise the venue’s ticket prices in line with demand, as well as the length of time they were booked in advance. Another project – the Audience Discovery Project app – which has been granted £100,716 – will allow event attendees to give feedback on their experience. The project hopes to then use that information to personally recommend events at venues across the city, and encourage return visits.
Huge Increase In Los Angeles’ Culture Budget
“After taking a second look at Los Angeles County government’s spending capacity for the 2014-15 fiscal year, the Board of Supervisors has added $54 million to the $84.7 million in arts and culture spending it had authorized in June when the board OK’d the main county budget.”
Ben Heppner To Come Out Of Retirement For… A Musical
“In April, Heppner – who currently hosts CBC’s Saturday Afternoon at the Opera – released a statement announcing that he was “setting aside my career as an opera and concert singer” – but he didn’t say anything about musical theatre.”
Production Of “Carmen” Cancelled Over Fears It Promotes Smoking?
“The West Australia Opera’s planned production of Bizet’s Carmen has been cancelled over fears it would jeopardise a $400,000 partnership with a government health agency.”
Jacques Lacombe To Leave New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
The Canadian conductor will step down as music director when his contract ends in 2016, so as “to better coordinate his commitments to orchestral music and opera, as well as his work in North America and Europe as his schedule as a guest conductor picks up.”
Remembering Saul Steinberg At 100
Ian Frazier: “He said that he always tried to draw like a child. The portrait photo he engineered of his adult self holding hands with a life-size cutout photo of himself at age six shows how seriously he took this idea. The goal was to draw like a child who never stopped drawing that way even as he aged and his subject matter became not childish.”
The Much-Maligned Adverb Finds Refuge, And Even Power, In The Law
“No part of speech has had to put up with so much adversity as the adverb. The grammatical equivalent of cheap cologne or trans fat, the adverb is supposed to be used sparingly, if at all, to modify verbs, adjectives or other adverbs. … Not everybody, however, looks askance at the part of speech. Indeed, there is at least one place where the adverb not only flourishes but wields power – the American legal system.”
Marina Abramovic Begs Lars Von Trier To Work On Her Film
“Dear Mr Lars von Trier, I think you are the most disturbing director in this planet and this is why I’d really, really love to work with you … You really bring the actors on the edge of complete nervous breakdowns. Because I am a performance artist, I understand very well what you are doing.” (includes video)