“On-demand services like Spotify, which let people choose exactly which songs to hear, must negotiate directly with the music industry to license the music they play. But Internet radio companies like Pandora — which let people listen to ‘stations’ tailored to their tastes, but do not let them pick specific songs — often use a statutory licensing system under federal copyright law, with rates set by the copyright board.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
We Need New Operas On Demand, On Our Screens, Now
“It could create new audiences for live opera, give long-term life to contemporary works, and enable young and emerging composers, librettists, and performers to become more aware of the state of the art.”
What’s The Next Frontier In Theatre? Seniors
“When’s the last time you’ve seen an older adult who isn’t a wealthy senator/CEO/pundit share their perspective on the issues in a public forum? Or, how often do you see an older adult portrayed in film, theatre, or on TV as not only a dynamic character, but as one who doesn’t die in the end? How often are those stories written by or with older adults, as opposed to younger adults reflecting on their relationships and guessing about what is to come?”
The Bookstore Where Every Book Is Recommended
“Hicklin aims to make bookselling more selective and personal — in other words, everything that Amazon is not — by attaching familiar names to titles and having them explain why those books have shaped them.”
Is Television Finally Returning To The Diversity Of The 1970s?
Or even being better? “Something is happening, a subtle rearrangement of the medium’s DNA that better represents both who we are now, collectively and variously, and where we are hopefully headed. The popular arts have always been a harbinger and an agent of change, positing the world that the world grows into.”
Falling Back In Love With MoMA
“The Whitney is serving as a physical example of a way to cater to the ever-growing crowds that come to museums while also providing calm, useful, pleasurable space to view art. MoMA’s de-installing a whole floor to do the Picasso show perhaps signals that this institution is prepared at last to do whatever it can to serve the art in its collection.”
Netflix Is A TV Network For Real, So Now What?
“Next year’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel, along with the news that Netflix will invest in a new film from Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho, signals that the streaming service isn’t simply competing in the series categories at the Emmys and Golden Globes—it’s going after HBO’s TV-movie territory and has the Oscars in its sights.”
Surrealist Unica Zürn’s Terrifying, Hallucinatory Life
“Zürn’s vision as an artist could not have been more pronounced, definitive, a product of great will under duress.”
The Boy Who Quit Football For Ballet
“‘Try it. Just try it,’ he said. ‘I thought I would never like it, but I’d venture a guess it’s even harder than football. With football, there’s a limit to what you can do. But when you’re dancing, you really have no limit. Because you can get better and better and better.'”
In An Unlikely Move, Tony Winner Recoups Its Investment On Broadway
“‘The American public continues to impress with how much they’re willing to embrace the new — every time we thought we had reached the limit for the audience base, it turned out we hadn’t,’ said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the Public Theater, where ‘Fun Home’ began off Broadway.”