This Week In Audience: A Rotten Tomatoes Model? A Netflix Model? Or Maybe A Little Live Streaming Will Do The Trick
With traditional delivery/distribution for the arts changing, we’re looking at new models: Maybe Rotten Tomatoes or Netflix, anyone? We definitely have to change our ticketing model (and “Hamilton” is trying). A rethink of program notes. And some evidence that making “augmented activity” in movies leads to increased demand for the arts. … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-06-13
Tweets in search of a context: soft disunion
Never before have I felt so strongly that Americans are talking past instead of to one another. It is, I fear, our future and our fate – which is why I have come to believe that I will live to see Red and Blue America negotiate a “soft disunion.” … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-06-14
Ruing Roulin: MoMA Lends (or rents?) Some 150 Works to National Gallery of Victoria
The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, recently announced that it will be the exclusive venue for a multi-disciplinary installation of some 150 MoMA masterworks, June 8, 2018-Oct. 7, 2018. Fans of the home team are going to miss these heavy-hitters by van Gogh, Dali and Lichtenstein, among many others. … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-06-14
Redefining Wilderness in Music and Dance
Choreographer Brian Brooks and composer Jerome Begin collaborate at The Kitchen. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-06-14
Monday Recommendation (A Day Late): Matt Wilson
Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family, Beginning Of A Memory (Palmetto) The title belies the pain of the loss that inspired Matt Wilson’s essentially jovial – even jocular – album. The drummer assembled a dozen of his musical colleagues to celebrate his wife Felicia, who died of leukemia two years ago. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-06-14
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Author: Matthew Westphal
New Robot Can Find Misshelved Library Books
“Misplaced library books frustrate patrons and give librarians migraines. The whole system relies on books being precisely in their proper location. … [Researchers in Singapore] have created an autonomous shelf-scanning robot called AuRoSS that can tell which books are missing or out of place … and instruct librarians how to get the books back in order when they arrive in the morning.”
Brain-Training Games Don’t Really Strengthen Your Cognition – So What Will?
“Over just seven years, the games-maker Lumosity rocketed from zero to 50 million users, promising rapid improvements in general intelligence by playing brain-training video games for just a few weeks. (Lumosity recently settled with the United States Federal Trade Commission for making unsupported claims that its product was scientifically validated.) … So, does all this mean that there is no hope for cognitive enhancement? My view is that there is actually lots of hope, as long as we are not unrealistic about what we can achieve.”
Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart Is Relaunching After Three Years Of Silence
Bernard Haitink will conduct a concert at Bologna’s Auditorium Manzoni [on] 6 January 2017… The ensemble, created in Bologna by Claudio Abbado in 2004, stopped playing in 2014 due to a combination of Abbado’s ill health and Italian government spending cuts.”
UK To Increase Funding For British Arts In Other Countries
“The British Council is hoping to double the amount of UK arts activity taking place internationally with a refreshed global arts strategy and increased budget.”
Reimagining Stravinsky’s ‘Firebird’ With Enormous South African Puppets
“The dragon of this production has a wingspan of 33 feet, and weighs in at 440 pounds. … The beast has three manipulators – one inside the body, one in the head, and it’s walking and flicking its ears and opening its mouth and has teeth. … Dubbed Firebird: Reimagined, the piece receives its live-orchestra world premiere at the Mann [Center in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park] on July 20, … [and] it will move on to Wolf Trap, Ravinia, the Hollywood Bowl, and other summer venues.”
The Books That Hamilton And Burr Checked Out From The Library (That Library Still Has Them)
The New York Society Library, founded in 1754, “not only still keeps records of all the books that Burr and Hamilton borrowed (and, mostly, returned) but also has many of the books themselves – not merely the same titles, but the exact same books that Hamilton and Burr handled and thumbed and read and learned from. What’s more, it turns out that, by a series of benevolent bequests, the library also has a few choice and telling letters from Burr and Hamilton and even from Eliza Hamilton.”
How Brexit Will Hurt Dance – Three Of Britain’s Dance Heavyweights Explain
Ismene Brown: “So here is what the Royal Ballet, Rambert Dance and Akram Khan think about it, three big hitters in ballet and contemporary dance, representing the issues of concern to management, artistic profile and creative work.”
UK’s National Theatre To Commission Virtual Reality Theatre Works
“The National Theatre is to commission new work for virtual reality headsets. … The first project to be produced is an immersive, 360-degree, verbatim documentary, HOME: AAMIR, which tells the story of a refugee living at the Calais migrant camp. It will premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2016.”
Massive Unknown Monument Discovered ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’ In Petra
“Archaeologists … used high-resolution satellite imagery followed by aerial drone photography and ground surveys to locate and document the structure. They report that the monument is roughly as long as an Olympic-size swimming pool and twice as wide. It sits only about half a mile (800 meters) south of the center of the ancient city.”