“I miss those suits at the major labels calling the shots and deciding what was worthy of release. The suits made hits and created stars because they knew something. The suits had been around the block and back, having experienced, firsthand, everyone.”
Category: AUDIENCE
A Year In The Life Of Ireland’s ‘National City Of Culture’
“What I would hate to see happen now is that City Hall would breathe a big sigh of relief and think, Thank God that’s over: we made it to the finish line and nobody got hurt – now let’s not talk about arts and culture for a long time.”
Book Publishers Need To Understand Fan Culture
“The online book world is about gathering around a book, or a love of books generally. As I’ve argued here before, for millions of us, the solitary act of reading becomes incredibly social in the digital spaces where we spend our time.”
Museums Are Set To Become Downright Creepers (In An Attempt To Collect Data)
“A team of experts at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum searched for hidden spots in the rotunda to conceal tiny electronic transmitters. The devices will enable the museum to send messages about artworks to visitors via their smartphones while at the same time collect details about the comings and goings of those guests.”
How To Move Contemporary Art Beyond The 0.1 Percent To The “Creative Class”
Sure, the market for new visual art is booming among the super-rich. Marion Maneker argues that art can become vitally important to the wider public – well, educated urbanites – the way high-quality food has, and in more or less the same way.
Letting The Audience Set The Ticket Price – After The Show
That’s just what one venue in England is doing for the first half of next year: free entry for all theatre, spoken-word and dance performances, with each audience member deciding after the show is over what it was worth. How will they make this work?
How New Ideas Spread: Contagion Or Persuasion?
“In contagion models, influence goes one way, from one infected person to an uninfected one, or from someone who has adopted an idea to one who hasn’t. In persuasion models, on the other hand, influence is a two-way street, and adoption isn’t an either/or condition. Instead, people have some belief in a new idea’s value, and those who believe in it more are in turn more likely to adopt it.”
Venerable Canadian Theatre Launches Painfully Modest Fundraising Campaign (Really? That’s All?)
“In good Passe Muraille tradition, McKim argues that an achievable campaign that asks a lot of people to give small sums lets all donors feel they are making a difference. But can the citizens of Toronto really value this past and this present so lightly that a contribution of $1 a week is all they can be expected to offer?”
As Our Relationships With Artists Change, So Do The Ways We Treat Public Art
“We don’t see artists as sole, heroic, mysterious creators any more. We are used to appropriation of all kinds, from sampling to mashups to critical homages. We are used to referencing and remixing. We are in constant debate over the possibility of originality. And we are used to the idea of art as vandalism, too.”
Why Twitter Buzz Doesn’t Correlate With TV Ratings For Most-Watched Shows
“Measuring how Twitter activity correlates with ratings remains an elusive process. Nielsen, the dominant ratings company, has announced and then delayed the much-anticipated rollout of its multiplatform measurement services, which would help assess what Twitter buzz is doing (or not) for shows.”