“The American Antiquarian Society houses the largest collection of materials printed in the United States. Its library has books, newspapers, letters, even board games dating from 1640 to 1876.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
In Scotland, Arts Agency Scares Away Artists
“Artists and arts organisations have become ‘afraid’ of Scotland’s flagship arts agency and believe they are now seen as a nuisance, a crisis summit has heard.”
Print’s Final (News) Stand
“Porn used to account for about 35 percent of Ahmed’s supply; now it’s 10 percent. Ahmed reasons that porn, compared to fashion, is something people generally prefer to consume over the Internet.”
Cultural (Choice) Overload! Condition Critical!
“I recently counted the books in the Tower of Doom, estimated how long it would take to read them all, tallied this against my available reading hours on an average day, and concluded that the only realistic solutions were to shoot myself in the foot like a panicky first world war Tommy or get sent to jail, where I might be able to fit in some regular exercise too.”
Artists (Like Others) Get Depressed. How To Keep On Working?
“Somehow I don’t think I’m the only artist in the era of late-stage capitalism to experience infrequent bouts of mild-to-moderate depression.”
Movies: SO Not Irrelevant! (Say Movie People)
“Several industry groups, including the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, and the nonprofit American Film Institute, which supports cinema, are privately brainstorming about starting public campaigns to convince people that movies still matter.”
The Future Is Here, But We Have No Idea How To Make It Work
“No one publishes a city, they publish a magazine or a book or a news site. If we’ve thought about our readers reading, we’ve imagined them at the breakfast table or curled up on the couch … or in office cubicles running out the clock. No one knows how to create words and pictures that are meant to be consumed out there in the world. This is not a small problem.”
The Return Of A Venerable ‘Dance Craze’
That’s right, it’s time to party like it’s 1799 with the return of the waltz. (Seriously. Yep.)
Broadway Doesn’t Try To Tough Out The Hurricane
And we don’t mean metaphorically – as Sandy makes its way to New York, theatres cancelled a wide variety of Sunday night and Monday shows (luckily, the lightest theatre days of the week).
Incorporating The Streaming World – And Pissing Everyone Off
“Everyone in the music business knows that is not the business we are in anymore, that a stream on Rhapsody or Spotify, or a download at iTunes or Amazon — all these different things — are a meaningful part of the fan experience. And to have genre charts that don’t reflect that? I can’t believe anyone would be arguing for that.”