“Liverpool has seen an explosion of new media outlets in the last three years. Once, the choice was between gaudy fashion catalogues or a few raggedy fanzines that a young enthusiast had made using a photocopier, but now the city’s creative media are booming.”
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Can’t We Do Better Than Madison Square Garden?
“New York deserves better, not flashing signs, decorative paving stones and more of the same, in perpetuity.”
Big Bird Gets Close To A Billion YouTube Views
For “Sesame Street,” the milestone — a first on YouTube for a nonprofit or U.S. children’s media outlet — reflects the increasingly multimedia nature of kid entertainment. Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch are now about as likely to be watched on an iPad, phone or laptop as they are on PBS.
Bankruptcy Of Virtual Effects Company Indicates A Problem With Hollywood’s Current Business Model
“The vfx business is the canary in the coal mine for the studios’ movie business — especially the tentpole business.”
Chicago Art InstituteRethinks Its Audience Strategy
“We are also learning a lot about how to market. For example, last year’s Roy Lichtenstein exhibition would probably have drawn 120,000 visitors three years ago. With some reservations, I promised the trustees 175,000. We ended up with 350,000, by being very bullish on advertising.
Chicago Dance Collectives Form Bigger Collective
“The women in the consortium say sharing business resources while retaining individual creativity is a smart way to stay afloat and, like it or not, is the future for artistic nonprofits.”
Oxford And Cambridge Team Up To Buy Historic Jewish Archive
The traditional rivals “joining forces to prevent what will now be called the Lewis-Gibson Genizah Collection” – a huge collection of documents from Cairo’s old Jewish quarter covering centuries of history – “being sold to a foreign institution or, even worse, split up.”