The annual survey by the Broadway League found that 25% of attendees were under age 25, with roughly 1.65 million of them under 18, the highest number ever measured. The portion of audiences from New York City has risen to 22%, with a further 18% from the suburbs.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Twenty Modiglianis Seized From Exhibition In Italy Are Definitely Fake
“[The] paintings seized by Italian police last summer from an exhibition of works by Amedeo Modigliani held in Genoa are forgeries, according to Isabella Quattrocchi, an independent expert appointed by Italian prosecutors to assess the images. The show at the Palazzo Ducale closed three days early last July after the Genoa state prosecutor ordered the seizure of 21 alleged fakes.”
Young Adult Author Kathleen Karr Dead At 71
“[She] sailed the Nile, learned to box and ensconced herself in library archives to research humorous, frequently suspenseful novels about pioneer girls heading West, ‘turkeypokes’ herding poultry, a grave-robbing phrenologist and – told from a camel’s point of view – an Army experiment in the West Texas desert.”
Art Exports Have Actually Reduced Britain’s Trade Deficit
“Exported works of art were among the UK’s main commodity contributors, rising by 43.3% (£0.5bn). Car exports, by comparison the second largest category, increased by 3.8% (£0.3bn).”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.10.18
McLuhan’s Notes on Finnegan’s Wake
When Gary Lee-Nova read a recent blogpost about a new posthumous collection of Mary Beach’s writings, Electric Bananas, it drew him to Marshall McLuhan’s notated copy of James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake. Gary was kind enough … read more
AJBlog: Straight|Up Published 2018-01-10
How U. Texas Fought Yale For Arthur Miller’s Archive – And Won
“That battle pitted two of the nation’s most prestigious, and deep-pocketed, archival institutions against each other, in a mini-drama mixing Milleresque high principle with more bare-knuckled competition. And it cracks a window onto the rarefied trade in writers’ papers, and the delicate calibrations of money, emotion and concern for posterity that determine where they ultimately come to rest.”
Why So Many People Believed That Trump Watches The (Made-Up) ‘Gorilla Channel’
The issue, writes Jacob Brogan, isn’t the “echo chamber” or “media bubble”. Rather the contrary: Twitter is the opposite of a bubble – and that’s precisely the problem.
Publisher Of ‘Fire And Fury’ Talks About Fighting Trump’s Cease-And-Desist Letter
Macmillan CEO John Sargent: “The person who told me said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ and I said yes, and they said, ‘We have just received a cease-and-desist letter from the president of the United States.’ The reason I was stunned is that it is actually hard to conceive that a sitting president of the United States would issue a cease-and-desist order, because it is extraordinarily unconstitutional.”
Ex-New York City Ballet Dancer Goes On-Camera To Detail Allegations Of Peter Martins’s Violent Abuse
“Wilhelmina Frankfurt, a former NYCB ballerina and currently a dance educator, joined [Alyona Minkovski] on ‘Salon Talks’ to discuss Martins’s legacy and reveal new claims against her former director.” (text and video)
What Directing Teachers Teach Their Students: Five Veterans Explain
Frank Galati: “Certain aspects of the job can most definitely be taught, the way a language can be taught – the grammar, the practice. Those are rules that don’t really change.”
Sarah Schulman: “I can’t teach you talent. I can’t teach you insight, and sensitivity, and awareness, and perception. I can’t teach you poetry – but I can help you expand these skills by asking the right questions.”