“Faced with putting paintings in storage or donating artworks to museums, which rarely exhibit them, a solution — especially for collectors in cities like Los Angeles, land of rolling lawns — has become the backyard museum, complete with high-tech lighting, humidity controls and 25-foot ceilings.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
How The Toronto Symphony Conquered Digital Marketing
“For example, the TSO introduced online chat functionality to its website, enabling patrons to receive real-time customer support in both official languages as well as other languages including Mandarin. Its first week in operation produced more than 200 chat sessions.”
What’s London’s Smallest Theatre? (That Depends On Your Real Question)
The answers include basements, pubs, barges … and petite commercial West End spaces as well.
One Of Comics’ Great Creators Just Died, Rather Young And Very Quickly
“Though [Darwyn Cooke] wrote extremely well, he was best-known for his art, filled with clean, thick lines; dynamically smooth action; and evocative simplicity.”
How Best To Preserve Hong Kong’s Protest Street Art?
“In Hong Kong, the goal is not only to preserve the objects for posterity. Although the protests have disbanded, Mr. Wong said, the hope is to display the objects in a way that can revive the spirit of the movement.”
When Big Data Goes Way, Way Wrong (Yes, This Is About OKCupid)
“There are serious ethical issues that big data scientists must be willing to address head on—and head on early enough in the research to avoid unintentionally hurting people caught up in the data dragnet.”
Google Asks Artists To Turn Its (Relatively Ugly) Data Centers Into Canvases
“Data centers are boring places. Even Google’s massive facilities — with all the colorful walls and pipes inside — can get a little stale and repetitive. So to liven up the vibe a little bit, the company has invited artists to create murals at several of its data centers.”
The British Composers Who Took Minor Poems And Made Them Into Major Works Of Art
“Composers, however, have rarely hesitated … to treat their poets in cavalier fashion: changing titles, altering words, omitting or repeating lines or whole stanzas. Of course, poems have become known across the globe, carried by the power of music.”
New Policies Aim To Calm The Hamilton Lines, And Resale Fees, Down A Bit
First, Ticketmaster canceled the tickets of entities that had bought too many – and sold them to Hamilton fans who saw the tweet about new tickets in time. Them, “producers also announced via Twitter new rules for people waiting in line, often round-the-clock, outside the Richard Rodgers Theater, hoping to buy the few tickets released by the box office just before each show.”
The Deal With How We Forget American Writers (The Women, That Is)
“Women’s literary ambitions are not a recent phenomenon. [Woolson] was a writer who aimed for and reached the heights of literary recognition, despite even greater obstacles than those facing women writers today. The fact that Woolson has been buried under decades of critical neglect should matter to anyone who is concerned about the VIDA count and the reputations of women writers.”