Over eight years, more than 550 musical acts have played at this “Tiny Desk.” The show has attracted a cult following on the internet, partly thanks to its musical curation — a peculiar mix of indie rock, hip-hop, world music, and jazz — but more so because of its authenticity.
Author: Douglas McLennan
This Week In Audience: Flipping The Approach To Getting More Diverse Audiences, Challenging The Goal Of What Artists Do
This Week: Maybe we need a new strategy to make arts audiences more diverse (the old ways haven’t worked)… An arts funder changes criteria to judge whether the artists “make change”… The cult of the American “Outsider”… Your cell phone is designed so you can’t not pay attention to it… Do books have to be on pages to be books? (not what the data say)
Survey: More UK Adults Prefer Theatre Than Sport For A Night Out
“A forthcoming report finds 26% of British adults identify theatre or opera as a great evening activity, compared with 17% who said the same for sports. Overall, 45% of British adults enjoy going to see live performance across all genres, rising to 63% among the under 25s.”
The Mystery Of A Long Lost Paul Newman Masterpiece And How A Film Detective Tracked It Down
“The saga includes an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor and film director, his much-younger, Russian-born Chekhov-loving fiancée, a dying actor’s wish, a friend of Allen Ginsberg, a one-line New York Times review, and the deep, dark closets in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, where the coffee-colored, bruised-looking box holding the film languished for more than 50 years.”
Helsinki Guggenheim Gets Approval
“In a reversal of a 2012 vote that seemed to have buried the project, the 15-member board voted 8-7 on Monday to approve the 130-million euro ($180-million) plan. A final decision is expected next week by the 85-member city council.”
Writer William Trevor, 88
“Mr. Trevor, who was Irish by birth and upbringing but a longtime resident of Britain, placed his fiction squarely in the middle of ordinary life. His plots often unfolded in Irish or English villages whose inhabitants, most of them hanging on to the bottom rung of the lower middle class, waged unequal battle with capricious fate.”
Adele Tickets Go On Sale In Australia, And Price Quickly Jumps To $5,600
“Fans shared their frustration as the websites of official agents struggled to cope with the demand. Many fans spent an hour or more trying and failing to get through, although some were successful.”
Are The Van Goghs Real Or Not – There’s Money And Reputations On The Line
If you do the math, 65 times, it amounts to more than $180 million: a handsome sum for an offhand find and well worth continuing to court experts over, even in the face of expert dismissals and disavowals. When the Van Gogh Museum rejected the sketchbook outright in 2008 — calling the works “monotonous, clumsy and spiritless” — the owners simply sought more opinions until they found one that fit.
The Steven Galloway Scandal Has Fractured Canada’s Star Literary Community
“Canada’s literary community punches above its weight. Its achievements are notable, but its numbers are relatively small. People tend to know one another – from school, teaching gigs, the writers’ festival circuit. All of this has now ruptured. Some long, meaningful friendships have dissolved. The program Galloway once led has ugly scars and deep divisions. Some very good people have left, or are leaving.”
Philip Johnson’s Crystal Cathedral In Southern California Was A Masterpiece – Now It’s Being Reinvented
“It is surprising that any architect — and especially one with as much understanding of Philip Johnson’s basic philosophy as Scott Johnson — could support the idea that gravitas and the Crystal Cathedral are even the slightest bit compatible. The building has far more in common with the nearby Matterhorn at Disneyland, the Biosphere in Arizona or the domes of Buckminster Fuller than with any cathedral in Europe.”