In the BBC’s list of the 100 greatest movie comedies, the French would not go for Woody Allen, the Americas pulled for Airplane!, Eastern Europe liked Dr. Strangelove as much as the U.S. did, East Asia preferred silent movies, and Bollywood comedy didn’t translate beyond the Subcontinent.
Category: AUDIENCE
Utah Museum Of Fine Arts Reopens After 19-Month Renovation And ‘Reimagining’
The physical plant and climate control have been fixed up, the galleries have been reconfigured, and even the labels and wall text have been rethought.
How Millennials Use Public Radio: Study
The respondents value public radio, but, except for Morning Edition, they listen to very little of it in real time. (They prefer on-demand.) And they do have some frustrations.
Deaf Music Fans (Yes, They Exist) Are Finally Getting Concerts Made Accessible To Them
If Evelyn Glennie can play music, other deaf people should be able to enjoy it, right? Like Glennie, most deaf music fans perceive the music kinesthetically – they feel the vibrations. And concerts, especially rock concerts, are now providing deaf audience members what they need to take part.
We Barely Pause To Look At Art In Museums. So Why Do We Spend So Much Time On Selfies?
“Mobile technology encourages us to forego the Enlightenment Era experience and its accompanying promise of profound self-knowledge. With the invisible audience of social media always lurking in our mobile phones, we are tempted to permanently affix a scrim of personal narrative over the artwork we see and experience. Do art selfies correlate with lower levels of engagement with the artwork?”
Broadway’s Social Media Problem
“Actors’ Equity has contracts with the Broadway League and various producers that constrict what can be recorded; these also make it clear who owns the footage, and it’s not the actors. They can retweet or share something posted by the show or a news outlet, but they typically can’t just go on their own for self-promotion purposes. In recent years, because of the growing importance of social media, actors have been grumbling that they need footage rights.”
Philadelphia’s Mann Center Aspires To Be More Than A Place
Can the Mann be something more? A summer venue can dream, and the Mann is having some ambitious visions. Several trends are converging. Commercial music presenters have come into the Philadelphia market in a big way, giving the Mann some competition. At the same time, arts education has become a bigger priority for arts groups and funders, and the Mann, sitting in the middle of a neighborhood, is beginning to imagine becoming a bigger player in education, perhaps even morphing into an urban Tanglewood, with a resident professional orchestra atop a pyramid of training ensembles and master classes.
Amazon Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithms To Read, React And Create Fashion
“Researchers at the e-commerce juggernaut are currently working on several machine-learning systems that could help provide an edge when it comes to spotting, reacting to, and perhaps even shaping the latest fashion trends. The effort points to ways in which Amazon and other companies could try to improve the tracking of trends in other areas of retail—making recommendations based on products popping up in social-media posts, for instance. And it could help the company expand its clothing business or even dominate the area.”
Yes, It IS Possible To Build New Ballet Audiences In 2017
Boston Ballet, Ballet Austin, and Colorado Ballet have all done it, and Ashley Rivers gives a look at the strategies they’ve used.
The Manchester Model – A Solution For Shared Community Arts Spaces?
The idea is to offer areas that are affordable to everyone, all the while “cross-pollinating” ideas that lead to a culturally vibrant city, whether it’s providing a desk for a playwright, allowing a theatre group share services with an asylum seeker’s support group, or renting out a cheap space for a club DJ to try out music’s next big thing (maybe).