‘The future of the arts depends on programming in both new and old spaces, creating experiences that satisfy current participants and speak to new ones. Ultimately, “where” should and will grow to be an ever more important variable in the presentation and production of art, especially as one considers “who” one serves.’
Category: issues
The Ticket Prices You’re Paying Are Changing (Sometimes Daily)
“It’s game changing. There’s a lot of publicity given to what happens on Broadway, the fact that they can charge hundreds and hundreds of dollars for a ticket, but for theaters like ours, the ability to adjust prices both upward and downward means that you can stimulate demand when you’re doing a new play or a play that maybe didn’t get good reviews but people still have an interest in.”
Report: The State Of How We Pay For The Arts
“The average organization brought in nearly $8 in contributed support for every dollar spent on fundraising. Fundraising expenses generated a similar level of total contributions over the years regardless of annual shifts in the mix of organizations.”
Struggle For The Soul Of Nashville Culture
“These two tendencies — save our soul, but grow grow grow — are now colliding in a bizarre form of hyper-gentrification. Neighborhoods close to downtown once drew teachers, writers and musicians with well-built, well-priced Craftsman homes. But with the influx of wealth has come a new kind of buyer, often an investor offering cash well above asking price. A house that went for $40,000 a decade ago might now go for 15 times that amount.”
NY Armory Works On Defining Its Art As It Seeks A New Artistic Director
“Since the Armory’s opening, a number of curators have come and gone in relatively quick succession. The cutting-edge programming originated when the building was home to the Seventh Regiment National Guard and hosted concerts.”
Could the Creative Class Be Priced Out of L.A.?
“From Santa Monica to Venice to Highland Park – and now the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles – the painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers who made those and other neighborhoods centers of artistic creativity can’t afford to live or work there anymore.” (audio)
European Union Finally Publishes Guidelines On Right To Be Forgotten
“Search engines (mainly Google) that have been attempting to comply with the European Union’s right-to-be-forgotten regulations have had to muddle through without guidance for making subjective decisions about what to take down and what to leave up. Now the EU has finally released guidelines.”
Manchester To Get New £78M Arts Venue Named The Factory
The theatre, built on the site of the old Granada TV studios, will be “‘a large scale, ultra-flexible arts space’ that [will] hold 2,200 people when seated, or 5,000 standing … and provide a permanent home for the Manchester International Festival.”
Florida Caves To Satanic Temple, Will Allow Holiday Display Of Angel In Hellfire
In 2013, calling the idea “grossly offensive”, officials rejected the Temple’s request to put its seasonal display in the State Capitol Rotunda alongside those of Christians, Jews, secular humanists, atheists, and even Pastafarians. So why is this year different? …
Even Pippi Longstocking Gets Caught Up In Racial Controversy
“In Sweden, Pippi is something more: a national treasure and embodiment of the country’s egalitarian spirit. So when the Swedish national broadcaster announced this fall that it would edit two scenes that it considered offensive in a 1969 television series about Pippi – including one in which she says her father is ‘king of the Negroes,’ using a Swedish word now viewed as a racial slur – it hit a nerve.”