“A number of states have passed specific statutes regulating the right of publicity; others just have common law rights (meaning precedent established by case law); some have both; and a handful have neither.”
Venerable Music Publisher Starts Its Own Record Label
“The music publisher Edition Peters, which can trace its history back to 1800, is launching a new record label called Edition Peters Sounds. The new record label will focus on recordings made by artists represented by Edition Peters’ artist management company, … usually performing works from the extensive Edition Peters publishing catalogue.”
Miami’s Getting Another Arts Center, Complete With Starchitect Design
“A new Miami Beach arts center designed by Rem Koolhaas is to open in December 2015 … Called Faena Forum, the 50,000-square-foot institution … will serve as a public forum for the exploration of topics in the arts, sciences, technology, politics and urbanism. It will also encourage dialogue about Latin American cultural practices.”
Can Theatre Make Audiences Better Citizens?
A report from early this year argues that performing arts “are inherently social arts and provide a necessary opportunity to develop the skills of socialisation and communication required by a healthy democracy.” Maddy Costa writes about how she’s exploring that idea in her London theatre festival, Dialogue.
Times Square Livecast Of “Side Show” Was Not, In Fact, Live
“A bid to make Broadway history by broadcasting a scene from the opening night performance of the musical “Side Show” live in Times Square didn’t come off as planned, though the crowd that gathered to watch in the rain may not have known what they were missing at all.”
Ursula K. LeGuin On Choosing, And Straddling, Genres
“Ah, genre. A word only a Frenchman could love. Well, you ask how I decide which genre to write in, and I have to answer, mostly I don’t. My mind doesn’t work that way. … I didn’t follow the sf rules and conventions unless I felt like it; essentially I went on writing what I wanted to write, and they could call it what they liked.”
Wait, So Now Physical And Emotional Pain Aren’t The Same Thing Neurologically?
“In recent years, researchers and the public have, to a certain extent, latched onto the idea that there are important similarities between physical and emotional pain … At the very least,” according to new research, “pain and rejection appear to show up as distinct ‘representations’ in fMRI (brain scan) readings of study participants.”
Here’s The Gender Balance Of America’s Top Orchestras
No big surprises. Only one major orchestra has more women musicians than men. And there is a cluster of orchestras at the bottom of the gender diversity list…
Here’s Why Chopin’s Heart Has Just Been Exhumed
“Chopin’s heart inspires a deep fascination in Poland normally reserved for the relics of saints. For Poles, Chopin’s nostalgic compositions capture the national spirit — and the heart’s fate is seen as intertwined with Poland’s greatest agonies and triumphs over nearly two centuries of foreign occupation, warfare and liberation.”
What Science Can Tell Us About Great Works Of Art
“In Baltimore last week, scientist-conservators told how analyzing great works with devices only physicists and chemists could love — synchrotron radiation sources, ultraviolet-induced fluorescence, high resolution, and XRF multispectrography — lifts the mysteries off some paintings and can produce stories worthy of novels.”
US Congress Asked To Create A Protector Of Cultural Property
The Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act asks Congress to appoint a cultural property protection czar and establish emergency import restrictions to protect endangered cultural patrimony. The bill aims to “deny terrorists and criminals the ability to profit from instability by looting the world of its greatest treasures.”
Color Alert: Scientists Able To Teach Synaesthesia
“By the end of the nine-week course, most of the volunteers had the bizarre experience of seeing text in the real world, on road signs, for instance, take on certain hues.”
The Arts Are Booming In Turkey (But Beneath The Boom, All’s Not So Well)
“Galleries abound. The Istanbul Design Biennial is in full swing. Three new private art museums are in the works, including one designed by the London-based star architect Zaha Hadid. The rock and jazz scenes are thriving. A Turkish film, “Winter Sleep,” took the top prize at the Cannes International Film Festival this year.”
Airline Refuses To Transport Double Bass (Even In Luggage)
“Ranaan was returning home after an appearance on “Dancing with the Stars” when the airline refused to accept his bass—packed to go with luggage, as basses normally do—at all. Appeals to the US Airways shift manager were useless. Ranaan ended up booking with Delta Airlines, which accepted him and his bass with no hesitation.”
Poland’s National Opera House Reaches For The Big Leagues
The Teatr Wielki “has embarked on a new wave of collaborations with major European houses, while maintaining a commitment to Polish repertory. The theater is being physically overhauled … The annual budget of approximately $50 million – 80 percent of which comes from the Ministry of Culture – has doubled since 1998 … The attendance rate has hovered above 90 percent since 2010.”
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian House Arrives At Its New Home, Crystal Bridges Museum
“How many truckloads does it take to transport a 2,800 sq. ft house, designed by one of America’s most revered Modern architects, more than 1,200 miles from New Jersey to Arkansas? Surprisingly, the answer is considerably fewer than one might think.”
Can The Miami Book Fair Become As Big As Art Basel?
“Under the new leadership of Tom Healy – poet, gallerist, fund-raiser – it enters its 31st year with a growing budget and a plan to expand into a year-round institution that would make Miami as indispensable to the book business as it’s become to art collectors on the make.”
Shubert Organization, A Broadway Giant, Buys Off-Broadway Theaters
“The Shubert Organization, which owns 17 of Broadway’s 40 theaters, has completed a deal to take over New World Stages … The move creates a significant opportunity for the Shubert Organization to shepherd fading Broadway shows out of their theaters and into New World Stages, where new profits might be reaped because of the lower Off Broadway production costs.”
ABT To Open A Second Ballet School In Southern California
“Classes at the ABT William J. Gillespie School” – headquartered at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa – “will begin in September for students ages 3 to 14 years old and will follow the same curriculum as the children’s division of the nationally known dance company’s Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School [in Manhattan].”
What Misty Copeland Thinks About “Black Swan”
“I really enjoyed it, but I understood what it was. It was a horror film. I mean I’m a dancer and I knew that it wasn’t supposed to be portraying what we are. The great thing about the movie was that it provoked people to think about ballet, which is always a great thing. But once they open up that conversation, it’s educating them on what ballet is.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.18.14
The Myth of the Lone Genius: A Leading Innovation in Arts and Culture Conversation
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Tomorrow’s Museum Leaders – And A Few Of Today
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2014-11-18
Are Books an “Essential Good”?
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-18
Billy Bragg: Taylor Swift vs. Spotify
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2014-11-18
The Henry Mollicone underground operas
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2014-11-17
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Oslo Is Building A New National Museum. These Architects Are Fighting To Save The Old One
“A group of prominent Norwegian architects who have long opposed the new building are now speaking out to save the original National Gallery, which dates to 1842.”
Rome Opera Settles With Its Musicians (A Test Case For Opera In Italy)
“The closely watched standoff is emblematic of the troubled state of opera in Italy. It was also seen as a test case for labor relations in the country, whose government has been struggling to change laws to make it easier for employers to hire and fire workers.”
Reality TV Networks Are Moving Into Scripted Shows (Here’s Why)
Not only does scripted represent a promised land for boosting audience interest, it’s also bursting with creativity at a moment when reality is, by comparison, “a little bit dull, a little bit stagnant.”
Thomas King Wins Canada’s Governor General’s Award For Fiction
“King had twice previously been a finalist: A Coyote Columbus Story was nominated in the children’s literature category in 1992, while his novel Green Grass, Running Water was nominated for the fiction prize the following year.”