“This week marks the 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, a date the city is commemorating in extremes. Creative entrepreneurs and senior government officials are addressing the Wall and its consequences in very different ways, with kitsch and serious remembrances often featured side-by-side.”
Tag: 08.09.11
Will Spotify Kill The Indie Recording Business?
“While the major labels and pop music may be able to reap a real income stream from Spotify simply due to the sheer volume of streams, the Spotify model is not financially sustainable for any indie niche label. As the industry moves more in this direction (competitor Napster, for example, only yields slightly more, about 1 cent per stream), it will simply choke the indie labels out of business.”
Plan To Revive Syracuse’s Orchestra Revealed
The Syracuse Philharmonic Society “has new leaders, a new financial plan rooted in Syracuse University’s Setnor School of Music and a flexible attitude about the venues and kinds of music it will play. A new group could immediately start performing, but it would take about five years to evolve into a stable, full-time orchestra.”
London Theatres Cancel Shows Due To Riots
“Tonight’s shows at London’s Landor, Arcola, Union and King’s Head Theatres have been cancelled, and Battersea Arts Centre is also closing early in response to the riots across London.”
Can We No Longer Relate To Conventional Sculpture?
Michael Kimmelman: “Is it me, or do we seem to have a problem with sculpture today? I don’t mean contemporary sculpture, whose fashionable stars (see Koons, Murakami et alia) pander to our appetite for spectacle and whatever’s new … I mean traditional European sculpture … the enormous universe of stuff we come across in churches and parks, at memorials and in museums.”
R. Crumb Dumps Sydney Festival After Being Called Pervert
“World-renowned American cartoonist Robert Crumb has pulled out of his headline appearance at the Graphic arts festival in Sydney later this month. He made the decision after being described in a Sydney newspaper as a ‘self-confessed sex pervert’ and a ‘very warped human being’.”
Remembering Agnes de Mille
“Classical ballet originated in the courts of Europe, but Agnes de Mille helped to democratize it.”
No Surprise: Where You Work Affects Your Longevity
“The first thing the researchers discovered is that office conditions matter. A lot. In particular, the risk of death seemed to be correlated with the perceived niceness of co-workers, as less friendly colleagues were associated with a higher risk of dying.”
US’s Largest Concert Promoter Posts Big Gain In Profits
Bolstered by reviving concert attendance, Live Nation Entertainment Inc. posted a 23% jump in revenue and reversed a year-earlier loss.
Latest Stats: Book Business Is Growing
“BookStats, a comprehensive survey conducted by two major trade groups that was released early Tuesday, revealed that in 2010 publishers generated net revenue of $27.9 billion, a 5.6 percent increase over 2008. Publishers sold 2.57 billion books in all formats in 2010, a 4.1 percent increase since 2008.”