“As consumers turn away from traditional advertising, tech marketers are picking up the slack by weaving lots of gadgets into the fabric of TV shows and movies. The net, video games and ad-skipping DVRs are forcing marketers to focus more attention on branded entertainment.”
Tag: 06.03.05
Pavarotti Extends String Of Cancellations
Pavarotti has canceled a Three Tenors performance in Mexico because of laryngitis. “Pavarotti recently cancelled a Dublin performance because of a throat infection and has postponed two UK concerts to have neck surgery. The 69-year-old opera star is currently on an extensive farewell tour.”
Greek Curator On Trial For Offending Church
A Greek curator is on truial for offending the Eastern Orthodox church last year when he “organised a major modern art exhibition in Greece as part of a series of cultural events leading up to the Olympics. The case against him stems from a painting by Belgian artist Thierry de Cordier, which shows a penis next to a Christian cross.” If found guilty he could go to jail for five years.
Art – Entertainment Or Investment
A New York curator says art is facing a crisis. “It’s a dismal time. Young artists in my city are very upset about being suborned by commerce, on an international scale now. Art has just been lassooed to serve the purposes of the larger society, which are totally commercial. It must be said some artists are glad enough to collaborate.”
Smithsonian Pulls Out Of Sponsoring Film
“The Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History has withdrawn its co-sponsorship of a showing later this month of a film that supports the theory of “intelligent design.The museum said it would not cancel the screening of the film, “The Privileged Planet,” but would return the $16,000 that the Discovery Institute, an organization that promotes a skeptical view of the Darwinian theory of evolution, had paid it.”
A Season For Tonys
This year’s Broadway season featured “a bevy of big men on campus, a dearth of decent old musicals, and $768 million in sales. A big chunk of that figure came from shows that opened in the spring, and the Tonys should follow suit, with productions like “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” “Doubt, A Parable” and “The Light in the Piazza” all favored to win multiple awards. Indeed, most on Broadway predict a remarkably democratic distribution of Tonys, though a few old-timers sense the possibility of a big “Spamalot” sweep.”