Painting, of course. Jonathan Jones says: “Maybe, after years of being told by po-faced curators that we ‘should’ revere video art and various live interactive post-artistic phenomena, we just wanna have fun.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Can ‘The Nutcracker’ Actually Be Working-Class, Christopher Wheeldon?
This is a huge reimagining of the Robert Joffrey “Nutcracker” for the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago: It’s set at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, and a lot of money – like, a lot of money – is riding on its success.
What Happens If We Price Out Culture We Like
“Without public access, a culture becomes dead, an inert shell that serves as a shill for profit, while too rarefied and remote to thrive. The quaestores of modern times use health, religion, and access to sports and art just like those of the Middle Ages used salvation: to exploit people by pricing what they value too high.”
It Can ‘Reach People Who Are Not A Captive Audience’ – Shepard Fairey On The Power Of Street Art
“If you are going to an artist’s gallery or museum show or website, you might find something interesting and new, but it’s not the same as the visceral experience of encountering something unexpected on the street.” A Q&A with correspondent Scott Timberg.
The Problem With Concert Music Reaching For Political And Social Relevance
“What often seems to go unasked is: ‘Who is it for?’ … It’s unlikely that victims of gun violence will draw solace from [a percussion concert], or that grass-roots members of the National Rifle Association will come out of it reconciled with the idea of tighter controls. … [And] how many police commissioners send their law enforcement officials to the opera house for sensitivity training?”
Four Things That Would Change The Complexion Of Classical Music
“I am tired of picking up a classical music magazine plastered with middle-aged white faces. In the same way that a six-year-old boy in Tower Hamlets can run around the living room in his Cristiano Ronaldo-emblazoned jersey, screaming at the top of his lungs while he watches his hero play on the box, we need to ensure that the next generation of violinists, composers, marketers, vocalists, lighting technicians, managers, bassoonists and producers alike can have the same experience when they pick up their parents’ copy of Gramophone or Classical Music Magazine.”
How To Calculate Return On Investment In Arts Marketing
Carol Jones, consultant at Britain’s The Audience Agency, offers what she sees as a simple formula for measuring and assessing success.
Indie Film In The Philippines Is Having A Renaissance – But Can It Break Out Of The Festival Circuit And Reach Home Audiences?
What’s more, considering that many of these small neorealist movies deal with poverty, violence, drugs, and corruption, how will they fare under President Duterte?
Canadian Data: Arts Attendance Shrank Over 20 Years – Is Accessibility The Problem?
“Of the eight areas the index tracks, culture and leisure was the one that showed the most steady decline over the past 20 years: Participation was hit hard by the recession in 2008 and while it has recovered somewhat, it remains well below what it was in the 1990s. So, the report certainly reinforces the perception that arts audiences are shrinking – but it also provides a social and economic context for these losses that could be useful for those who want to turn the situation around.”
The Never-Ending Story: Indian Publishing Finds Its Mother Lode For Popular Fiction, Right Where It’s Always Been
“In the age of [James] Patterson, [Harry] Potter and Game of Thrones, Indian authors have brought their own special flavours to the table: mass-market fiction based on reinterpretations of the two great Hindu epic narratives, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.” Readers are devouring it, and it’s becoming very big business.