“Most people walk into an art exhibition and see only works of art. Author Sarah Thornton sees the art, but also signs of hustle and hierarchy in the status-obsessed art world. Thornton is not an artist or critic, but a social scientist who has used ethnographic methods to study the behaviour of artists, dealers and curators.”
Tag: 05.21.10
Are Movie Ticket Prices Too High?
“Even though ticket prices in the first quarter of 2010 were up 8% from the same period last year–the biggest yearly increase since theater owners began tracking ticket data in 2001–they’ve already taken another leap upward.”
Is Dudamel The Future Of Classical Music? (Maybe Not)
“With a rags-to-riches story and a media presence of perhaps unprecedented proportions, Dudamel, as leader of a major orchestra at a relatively young age, represents everything right classical music is doing today. Or wrong. It depends entirely on what you think the field should be banking on as its future.”
Latest Renovation At Lincoln Center Fails To Add
“While the new spaces do a lot to connect the famously aloof complex to its surroundings, their architecture is too subdued in some places, pointlessly gimmicky at others. Worse, the spaces don’t flow together in a way that might have given the center the internal coherence that it sorely needs.”
What’s Next For The Vancouver Art Gallery? Who Knows?
The issue “has become a hotly-debated preoccupation of the city’s chattering classes since the gallery indicated its desire to move to a site a few blocks east of its current location.”
A Frank Discussion About Translating El Sistema To The United States
“In general, the attendees agreed that the obstacles in translating El Sistema to the United States have as much to do with differing economic and social values as they do with the right-versus-wrong way to cradle a violin or finger an oboe.”
Google Wants Inside Your TV
“Google wants to turn televisions into giant monitors for web surfing so it can make more money selling ads. The company generated nearly $24 billion U.S. in revenue last year, mostly from internet ads displayed on computer screens. The demonstration of the new technology didn’t go smoothly, though.”
What Your Choice Of Music Festival Says About You
“It’s safe to say music festivals are now an established part of British summer time. There are 450 in the UK alone this year and more people are going to them than ever before, says Virtual Festivals UK.”