“Beyond lowering the prices, something movie theaters are likely loathe to do, there are other incentives that could be explored. For instance, 87% of moviegoers across all demographics were attracted to some kind of subscription plan, which would allow them to pay a set fee for an unlimited number of movies.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
Comedian And Playwright Taylor Negron Dead At 57
“[He] started doing local stand-up gigs when he was still in high school. As his reputation grew, so did the variety of his roles: Negron played comic and serious characters on TV shows including Hill Street Blues, Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He was a familiar face in film comedies such as Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Easy Money.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.13.15
New research from the NEA
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-01-13
Nobody’s victims
(David Jays on “victim art” 20 years after Arlene Croce’s notorious essay)
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2015-01-13
Walters’ Founding Story: Good, Except …
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2015-01-13
A triumph and a question
(Greg Sandow on the National Symphony’s big club gig)
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2015-01-13
Joe Pass’s Birthday
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-01-13
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More Americans Are Enjoying The Arts Online And Not In Person, Says New NEA Study
“The NEA found that in 2012, nearly three-quarters of American adults – about 167 million people – used electronic media to view or listen to art. But just 33.4 percent of the more than 37,000 adults surveyed attended one of the seven categories of art events that same year, compared with 41 percent in 1992.”
Minnesota Orchestra’s Grammy-Winning Sibelius Cycle Is Back On
“The Minnesota Orchestra will resume recording sessions this spring to complete its cycle of Jean Sibelius symphonies. The project” – released on the Swedish label Bis – “had been put on hiatus during the 16-month lockout of musicians that ended a year ago.”
Filmmaker Francesco Rosi, 92
“The French critic Michel Ciment once counted Mr. Rosi among ‘the three last giants of Italian cinema,’ the others being Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonio. His films won top prizes at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin film festivals. Yet he never acquired the kind of international fame many of his peers knew.”
T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize, And £20,000, To David Harsent
“After four previous appearances on the shortlist for the TS Eliot prize for poetry, David Harsent has finally taken the honour for his 11th collection of poems, Fire Songs. He was described by the chair of the judging panel, the poet and novelist Helen Dunmore, as ‘a poet for dark and dangerous days’.”
Rem Koolhaas And Dasha Zhukova Build A Moscow Museum
The Russian art collector “is launching an ambitious campaign to connect Moscow to the international art world, and she’s tapped [the Dutch architect] to execute her vision.”
Is There Really An Anti-Writer Trend In British Theatre?
“There has been a shift of opinion against playwriting, in favour of collective methods of theatre. The very activity of playwriting has been attacked as individualistic, undemocratic and even immoral,” playwright David Edgar recently declared. Lyn Gardner begs to differ: “But even if what Edgar is saying is just a provocation, I’m really not sure that talking about an ‘anti-writer trend’ is either true or helpful.”
You Know About Indian Classical Dance – How About Sri Lankan?
The Kandyan and Ruhunu forms of the genre do have similarities with India’s Bharata Natyam: “The body is held squarely upright in a vertical axis, holding a tight bend in the lifted elbows and knees, the foundation for intricate footwork patterns and expressive, flowering hand gestures. Repetition and sharpness of movement is a central feature of this ritualistic style.” (includes video)