“Mortified, like The Moth, Upright Citizens Brigade, and even TED Talks, is one of the hundreds of live events around the world that have sprouted up during an era in which experiential entertainment, or the IRL economy, were supposed to grow more cherished (and more lucrative) … [But] live events exist in the same way many independent publishers exist – on a shoestring budget in which the performer is usually the last to be paid.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Cast Of ‘Fun Home’ And PFLAG Compare Notes On Coming Out
“‘We thought they could learn a lot from professional actors about public speaking skills,’ said Drew Tagliabue, the executive director of PFLAG NYC, an organization for family members of gay and transgender people. The group runs the Safe Schools Program, which sends those emissaries into classrooms to talk about coming out. … But what was planned as a class about how to hold onto an audience became something different.”
‘At A Critical Crossroad’, Pittsburgh Symphony Posts $1.5 Million Deficit
The phrase came from PSO president Malia Tourangeau, “[who] expressed confidence the symphony could get back to black ink, [although] she said it faces two challenges this season that will cost it $1.2 million
You Can Now Get Free E-Books On The New York Subway
“Subway Reads will last longer than a summer romance, but not much longer. It was intended to promote something that will not disappear, something that transit officials see as a milestone in the digital age: Wi-Fi service in 175 underground stations.”
Tchaikovsky, Meet Hubble: It’s Not Your Father’s Outdoor Classical Concert Anymore
“Summer symphony audiences are supposed to be easy. Just give them pleasant weather, a nice picnic, craft beer, the 1812 Overture with a few cannons … If only.” David Patrick Stearns looks at some ways – high-tech and low-tech – that classical groups are engaging summertime audiences.
She’s Only The Fourth Living Writer To Be Published By The Library Of America
“The Library of America usually restricts itself to Melville, Twain, Hawthorne and the other distinguished dead. But a handful of times it has been so sure of a novelist’s importance that its austere black volumes started appearing while the writer was still alive. Eudora Welty, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth got the call. Ursula K. Le Guin is now on this very short list.”
How Justin Peck Turned ‘Rodeo’ On Its Head
“I usually don’t work with music that has already been choreographed (especially not a work that is historically iconic), but I had an intuition that there was room for an entirely alternate exploration of the same piece of music. … I deliberately wanted to invert the conventional ‘romantic ballet’ setup.”
You Know Who’s Responsible For That ‘Any Similarity To Actual Persons Is Coincidental’ Disclaimer In Movie Credits? Rasputin, That’s Who
“Virtually every film in modern memory ends with some variation of the same disclaimer: ‘This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.’ The cut-and-paste legal rider must be the most boring thing in every movie that features it. Who knew its origins were so lurid?” Duncan Fyfe explains.
New Russian Gérard Depardieu Gets A Cultural Center Named After Him In His New Hometown
“[The] French-born actor… on Saturday inaugurated a cultural and film centre bearing his name in Saransk, the capital of the Russian region of Mordovia in which Depardieu is a registered resident … [He moved there after] giving up his French passport as a protest against French president François Hollande’s proposal to tax France’s highest earnest earners at over 75 percent.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.29.16
In The Church Of Big Data, Artistic Judgment Is Just A Data Point
Lately we’re seeing a steady stream of stories at ArtsJournal about attempts to algorithmatize creativity. But that’s merely the frontier of the data-driven gospel, the idea that algorithms and intelligent machines will more efficiently be able to create the things we want. The mainstream orthodoxy of Big Data, though, is … read more
AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-08-29
The “Scoop” that Wasn’t: Fisher Collection’s 75%-25% Rule at SFMOMA Exposed Six Years Ago
In my previous post about the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s deal to display the coveted Doris and Donald Fisher Collection, I took the San Francisco Chronicle‘s Charles Desmarais at his word and … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-08-29
Thrice more unto the breach
The Mosaic Theater Company’s production of Satchmo at the Waldorf, which began previews last Thursday, opens tonight in Washington, D.C. This is, unlikely as it may sound, Satchmo’s twelfth staging to date.… read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-08-29
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