We already have books, music, movies, and TV shows that can’t be loaned or resold – are video games the tipping point?
Author: ArtsJournal2
It’s Bloomsday! What Do Famous Authors Say About Their Experiences Reading Joyce?
If you’re in Dublin on June 16, watch out for – or join in on – the revels of those celebrating James Joyce’s Ulysses.
Why Is The Colorado Symphony Ending A Successful Season With A Drive For Money?
The campaign isn’t deeply bad news: Things have dramatically improved since last fall when the board of the CSO resigned en masse, but that left a few financial holes.
Is A Good Bartender A Performance Artist?
“The dive-bar geezer pouring shots with a surly flourish is offering a solo show, as is the nightclub barmaid popping open a Bud Light grasped between her thigh and calf.”
California Budget: Abysmal For Arts Funding
The budget “positions California to extend its hold on last place in the nation in per capita funding for its state arts agency. It has ranked 50th since 2003, except for a brief escape in 2011 when Kansas temporarily eliminated all arts funding.”
Yep, Hollywood Is Totally Broken (And You Know Why: Technology)
“There was none of the extra cash that fueled competitive commerce, gut calls, or real movies, the extra spec script purchase, the pitch culture, the grease that fueled the Old Abnormal: the way things had always been done. We were running on empty, searching for sources of new revenue.”
Nashville Needs To Get It Together And Save The Symphony
“Music City should not want to see one of its greatest treasures sold to the highest bidder.”
The Clothes Make The Plays That Make The Tonys
“It’s a total science; it’s a total art,” he says. “And altogether, you’re not supposed to know any of this has happened.”
Want To Change Societal Values? Hearken Back To William Morris
Morris was “a passionate advocate of what’s much missed today, the pleasure (and pain) of the handmade and the value of the vocational. He esteemed craftsmen and women, makers of tiles and furniture and carpets and china.”
Novelist Margaret Atwood Rocks At Online. How – And Why?
“The Booker prizewinner, who has more than 400,000 Twitter followers, gets stuck into every technological initiative going, from co-writing a zombie novel with Naomi Alderman on Wattpad to changing the way artists interact with their fans online through her new company Fanado.”