“Younger collectors don’t find these works intimidating. They relate to them on a generational level. The market is still nascent, but this is a direction contemporary art is going in.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Nikki Finke Destroyed And Rebuilt Hollywood Reporting. Is She Coming Back (Today)?
“Though there are things people in the entertainment business do miss about Finke — her ability to uncover stories the industry doesn’t want broken; her in-depth box office analysis; her unique, roaring writer’s voice; and the fact that her mere existence kept her competitors on their toes — the list of what they don’t miss is longer.”
People Who Write About Technology Are Missing The Biggest Stories
“Even as we see technologies of a year or two ago decline, the tiniest shifts in the cool new thing merit microscopic dissection as though they will affect our great-grandchildren. If only we paid so much attention to climate change.”
Reviving The Mandolin Orchestra
“It is hard to say what is more surprising: that such a thing as a mandolin orchestra exists in New York City in 2014 — or that mandolin orchestras were once everywhere.”
California Assembly Falls In Line On Sweetening The Deal To Keep Film And TV Companies Happy
“Between 2004 and 2012, California lost more than 16,000 film- and television-industry jobs, according to the U.S. Department of Labor, resulting in more than $1.5 billion in lost wages and economic activity.”
The Perennial Question: How Can Musicians Do What They Love – And Still Make Money?
“With wedding music or random cocktail receptions, it is easy to offer rote performances and make an easy buck. But for the concerts that I’m sure most of us NewMusicBox musician fans love to perform—the concerts with music by living composers who have poured their energy and love into writing it—we can’t just phone it in. And we shouldn’t.”
Yale Gets A Big Donation For Poetry – And Opera
“The professorship comes with considerable leeway. The person selected can teach the poetry of any era, in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian, ancient Greek or Latin.”
Um, It’s 2014. Why Are Theatres Still Doing Brownface, Yellowface, Redface, Blackface?
“If our media fail us and our school systems refuse to teach true American history, shouldn’t we as theater-makers do something about it? I write about these things to not be a downer, but to urge the theater community to make room for more stories.”
Actually, Women Do Write War Literature (And Rather A Lot Of It)
“Military women are too often portrayed in the media as victims rather than heroes. Now, however, women are telling their stories, adding to the tales of war and homecoming that men have been recording from the Odyssey and Iliad on.”
Libraries Have So Many Books – And Librarians Have To Toss Them
“At the heart of the [weeding] method is a formula consisting of three factors—the number of years since the last copyright, the number of years since the book was last checked out, and a collection of six negative factors given the acronym MUSTIE, to help decide if a book has outlived its usefulness.”