Since 2000, movies that won the People’s Choice Award at TIFF earned in total more than $3-billion US worldwide, compared to films that won Cannes’ Palme d’Or, which made over $815-million, according to the movie industry database The Numbers. – CBC
Month: September 2019
50 Years Ago: Pittsburgh’s Big Bang Of Dance
What was happening here 50 years ago that sparked the creation of two of the city’s biggest and oldest forces in professional dance? – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
What Robert Frank’s Camera Saw: A Legacy
Frank’s images weren’t exclusively solemn, but a person could nonetheless get lost in them, trying to figure out what was going on. – The New Yorker
What About The Morals Of Raising Money?
Has the philanthropic sector gotten so distorted that even when evil is recognized, the need to meet financial objectives is too great? – NonProfit Quarterly
Larry Gagosian: “You Always Have To Be On The Side Of The Artist”
“For all the achievements, one gets the sense that Gagosian still enjoys the hustle. He’s certainly in no rush to retire. He’s still signing new artists, still staging exhibitions, still offering the kinds of insights that only a lifetime spent at the highest echelon of the art world can produce.” – GQ
Riccardo Muti On The Post-Strike Chicago Symphony
“You cannot say, ‘They don’t work enough,’ ‘What do they want?’ and all these kinds of phrases,” says Muti. “I think still in Chicago people have not realized what they have. What the world knows about the Chicago Symphony is still maybe – how do you say in English? – taken for granted.” – Chicago Tribune
$8.27 Million & Counting: Metropolitan Museum’s Disposable Irving Gift of Chinese Art
When I attended the celebratory press conference in 2015 that announced multiple major benefactions to the Met’s Asian Art Department, little did I know that a few years later the Met would auction off a good chunk of those lauded gifts. – Lee Rosenbaum
Community Engagement Resources
The beginning of a new academic year feels like a good time to work on making all of these resources more widely known. ArtsEngaged has the following available for people in the field who want to support community engagement. – Doug Borwick
Recent Listening In Brief (really brief)
Rondi Marsh, The Pink Room
Bill O’Connell And The Afro-Caribbean Ensemble,
Wind Off The Hudson (Savant)
– Doug Ramsey
Will Artificial Intelligence Change Our Relationship With Religion?
As more religious communities begin to incorporate robotics — in some cases, AI-powered and in others, not —it stands to change how people experience faith. It may also alter how we engage in ethical reasoning and decision-making, which is a big part of religion. – Vox