“By spending $40 million a year on its operations, the museum triggers a total of $60 million in economic impact. The other $80 million in impact comes from spending by 109,000 visitors a year who come to the museum from outside Ohio, or roughly one-third of the audience.”
Month: April 2012
Growing Consensus: TV Is Higher Quality Than Hollywood Movies
“Clearly, there is lots of dross on TV, just as there are great films such as The Artist still being made in Hollywood. But for creativity and originality, this is a golden age of high-end television.”
Report: The Internet Isn’t Killing Entertainment Industry
“The founder of Techdirt, Michael Masnick, has released a provocative new report (pdf) called The Sky is Rising!, in which he argues that the degree to which the internet is harming the creative industries has been grossly overstated.”
Michael Kaiser: Why Is “Engaging” In The Arts The New Fad?
“The sense of many is that things must change — our art must change, our approach to marketing must change and the nature of the audience experience must change. If we continue to operate in the same manner as we did in the twentieth century, the arts will die. A serious discussion of audience engagement, however, demands more than platitudes and generalizations.”
“Three Cups Of Tea” Author Faces Lawsuit Over Book Fabrications
“The lawsuit — filed by two California residents, a Montana man and an Illinois woman who bought the books — list more than two dozen alleged fabrications and accusations of wrongdoing by Greg Mortenson, publisher Penguin Group, co-author David Oliver Relin and the Central Asia Institute.”
Italian Museum Director Burns Art To Protest Funding Cuts
On Tuesday evening, he launched what he termed “an art war to prevent the destruction of culture” by setting light to a painting by a French artist, Séverine Bourguignon, worth up to €10,000 (£8,200). “This is a war. This is a revolution,” Antonio Manfredi said. “And in a revolution, there are winners and losers.” He vowed to continue destroying works from the permanent collection at the rate of one a day until someone took notice of Cam’s plight.”
Has Art Exhausted Its Ability To Offend?
“The larger question is whether bad taste is even a consideration anymore. And if so, what might it mean?”
An Artistic Response: Destroy A Mexican Museum?
“Eduardo Abaroa imagines that the only response to the Mexican government’s failure to improve the lot of its indigenous peoples in the past half-century is to raze one of the regime’s most significant symbols, the Museo Nacional de AntropologÃa.”
London Olympics To Fans: No Sharing The Action Over Facebook, Twitter
“Fans in the crowd won’t be allowed to upload snippets of the day’s action to YouTube – or even, potentially, to post their snaps from inside the Olympic Village on Facebook. And a crack team of branding “police”, the Games organisers Locog have acknowledged, will be checking every bathroom in every Olympic venue – with the power to remove or tape over manufacturers’ logos even on soap dispensers, wash basins and toilets.”
Is Abu Dhabi Ready For A Contemporary Art Museum?
With all the delays in the construction of the planned museums on the emirate’s Saadiyat Island – including a Guggenheim branch – some observers are wondering if the whole idea was a good one. After all, both the government and the population are very conservative, and the Gulf already has Qatar pouring big money into museums and the art market.