“‘We have tried for many years to come to grips with the Vienna Philharmonic’s past and face up to our responsibility to make good historical injustices,’ orchestra director Clemens Hellsberg said.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How Did The South Dakota Symphony Save Itself? A Business Plan
“In the symphony’s plan, there’s even a section of a timeline labeled ‘difficult decisions.'”
Keeping Your Actors In Good Repair (They’re Puppets, And They Need Help)
“They instill that from Day 1 — that every puppet has the right to life,” he said. “That is their ethos.”
Music Criticism Has Changed Dramatically – Thanks, Internet!
“By now, Cultural Studies has infiltrated nearly every corner of the humanities and social sciences, and so a generation of educated, internet-addicted music listeners has spent their formative university years questioning the primacy of their own tastes and interrogating bricolage in early-nineties hip hop.”
New York Theatre Thrives On Unpaid Interns – And That’s Possibly Illegal
“Unpaid internships are supposed to be about training, education, and be for the benefit of the intern, not the institution. Yet imagine if theaters suddenly lost all of their interns? Who would be doing all of that grunt work?”
How The Best Cinema App Rose, Succeeded, And Died – All In A Few Days
“Unlike Netflix, the service offered a catalogue of films that was theoretically infinite – including lots of new releases – all for free. It did so by making use of the age-old BitTorrent protocol, which allows users to download files in ‘bits’ from countless other individuals around the world.”
Going Backstage With Paul Taylor
“On days that Paul was not in the studio, … the camera could get right up close to the dancers. For visual continuity, the dancers agreed to wear the previous day’s sweaty dance clothes all over again.”
When Artists Go All ‘Social Practice,’ How Do We Judge Their Art?
“These kinds of manufactured encounters aren’t unique to the art world. ‘The entire foundation of the Apple Store was that it would be a place of human relations,’ he says. ‘Sales people were trained to be empathetic, and the cash register was purposely kept hidden. There is a global interest in human relationships.'”
Major Broadway Tours Can Linger Longer In N.Y. Before, You Know, Touring
That’s because of a new tax break meant to stave off poaching from other states: “State lawmakers included the incentive in their recent budget after Louisiana, Illinois, and Rhode Island began luring nascent productions away with their own live-theater incentives.”
Want A Tax Break On Your Art? Hang It – Briefly – In Oregon
“Collectors who buy art in one state but live in another can owe thousands, tens of thousands, even millions of dollars in state ‘use taxes’: taxes often incurred when someone ships an out-of-state purchase home. But if they lend the recently purchased work first to museums like the Schnitzer, located in a handful of tax-friendly states, the transaction is often tax-free.”