Researchers at King’s College London and the University of Melbourne identified five key ingredients.
Category: AUDIENCE
Turning A Moscow Subway Train Into A Rolling Museum
“From now through June, subway riders on the [Moscow Metro’s] popular Koltsevaya Line (Circle Line), which makes a loop around the city center, can expect to see a variety of [20th-century Russian] artwork on display from the Tretyakov State Gallery.”
Concerts On Demand – We Come To You
Sofar Sounds, named for “Songs From a Room,” is a for-profit company that hosts live music performances in 340 cities worldwide. Founded in London in 2009 by three friends who were sick of the loud, disrespectful audiences at bars and rock clubs — this origin story is recounted before every show — Sofar now has a full-time staff of at least 50, investors like Virgin’s Richard Branson, and a team of unpaid volunteer “ambassadors” in every Sofar city. The company has grown quickly over the past eight years, largely by marketing itself as a grassroots movement for and by like-minded music lovers. Its motto is “Bringing the magic back to live music.”
People Watch Each Other Way More Than We Think But Also Notice Way Less Than We Think
Half-cool, half-creepy (or maybe wholly creepy): “The problem, in both cases, is that we project the focus of our attention onto others. Because we’re fixated on our coffee stain (or whatever we happen to be self-conscious about), we assume others must be, too. But when nothing in particular draws our attention to ourselves, we neglect the fact that we may nevertheless be an object of other people’s interest.”
Pittsburgh Symphony’s Runout Performances At Scottish Rite Cathedral Are Ending After This Season
The orchestra said there were two reasons, but they both sound like an absence of dollar bills rubbing together.
UK Books Sold Record Numbers Of Books Last Year
Sales of children’s books rose 16% to £365m, with the increase due mainly to the purchase of printed works. Readers also flocked to fitness and self-help books, sending non-fiction sales up 9%. Revenues from fiction fell 7%, the PA’s annual report said.
Does Netflix Really Need Movie Theatres For Its Films?
“Since our members are funding these films, they should be the first to see them,” the company said. “But we are also open to supporting the large theater chains, such as AMC and Regal in the US, if they want to offer our films, such as our upcoming Will Smith film Bright, in theaters simultaneous to Netflix. Let consumers choose.” At first glance, this might seem like a reversal: Netflix is open to putting its movies in theaters! Theaters win! When you look at it more closely, though, it’s clear that nothing’s changed. “We are also open to supporting the large theater chains,” the company says, and it’s hard not to note that word choice; it doesn’t exactly suggest the kind of partnership with distributors that exhibitors would like to have.
2017 Index: The Twenty “Most Vibrant” Arts Communities In America
“The overall index is composed of three dimensions: supply, demand, and government support. Supply is assessed by the total number of arts providers in the community, including the number of arts and culture organizations and employees, independent artists, and entertainment firms. Demand is gauged by the total nonprofit arts dollars in the community, including program revenue, contributed revenue, total expenses, and total compensation. Lastly, the level of government support is based on state and federal arts dollars and grants.”
Performing ‘Hamlet’ In A Sandstorm At A Syrian Refugee Camp
Dominic Dromgoole, the former director of Shakespeare’s Globe and godfather of the company’s every-country-on-earth tour of Hamlet, writes about the tour’s visit to Amman, Jordan, and to the Zaatari settlement for refugees near the Jordanian-Syrian border.
Why Does Our Musical Taste Get Frozen In Our Youth?
“It’s simply not realistic to expect someone to respond to music with such life-defining fervour more than once. And it’s not realistic, either, to expect someone comfortable with his personality to be flailing about for new sensibilities to adopt. I’ve always been somewhat suspicious of those who truly do, as the overused phrase has it, listen to everything. Such schizophrenic tastes seem not so much a symptom of well-roundedness as of an unstable sense of self. Liking everything means loving nothing. If you’re so quick to adopt new sentiments and their expression, then how serious were you about the ones you pushed aside to accommodate them?”