There was a time when Boston TV stations each had arts reporters (or entertainment reporters, at least). But the stations have one by one eliminated the jobs. One explanation: “They have access to so many syndicated sources for entertainment stories, movie reviews and the like, that having a local arts reporter becomes redundant.”
Tag: 08.11.03
A New Reality For Arts Funding
Are arts organizations facing a new era? An era when government withdraws its support for the arts? “The best advice to nonprofit arts organizations is cold, but realistic: Go out and have a bake sale. The days of generous, hefty, government support of the arts are numbered. The bottom line to dwindling government support isn’t hard to figure out. Everything costs too much.”
Warning The Kids On File-Sharing
College students will be getting a warning this fall when they return to school. “Specifically they’ll be warned they can lose their Internet access or get slapped with a costly copyright infringement lawsuit if they aren’t careful about uploading and downloading files using programs like Kazaa.”
The 50 Worst Artists In Music History?
Blender magazine takes a stab at a list, and some A-list musicians take some abuse. “Along with expected names like Celine Dion and Vanilla Ice are legends like The Doors and Mick Jagger. Even current top-selling acts, such as the Goo Goo Dolls, Creed and the Gipsy Kings, get savaged.”
Can New Vinoly Building Help Nasher Forget Its Past?
Duke University’s Nasher Museum is working towards a new home designed by a star architect. But will the new $23 million building wipe away the museum’s troubled history?
Scotland’s Magnificent New Parliament
Edinburgh’s new Scottish Parliament building is under construction. “It is a glorious design, but derided by the press for being costly and late. True, its cost has risen from a nominal £10m at the time it was first seriously mooted in 1997, to £40m when its design was approved, to £100m when its scale was tripled, to £300m more recently, and to £345m today. This is a lot of money – but what a building.”
Treasure Bazaar
“These days, the crisis of looting in Iraq has brought the freewheeling world of art smuggling into the spotlight. But long before the turmoil in Baghdad, the clandestine art market had established itself as a multi-billion-dollar international business. By some estimates it ranks in profitability right after the illegal market for arms and drugs. In Italy, as in Iraq, layers of civilization have graced the landscape with a seemingly unending supply of salable treasures. “
A Hit After Death
Crowds are thronging to Jessica Grace Wing’s new musical “Lost” “Ms. Wing’s death so close to the production’s debut — she was said to have finished the musical’s final song just a day before dying — has created an unmistakable sentimental momentum for “Lost,” which is based on the children’s tale “Hansel and Gretel” and has a book and lyrics by Kirk Wood Bromley. Like the Broadway musical “Rent,” which also started in the East Village and whose composer, Jonathan Larson, died just after the show’s final dress rehearsal, “Lost” is selling tickets to those who knew Ms. Wing’s work and those who suddenly want to discover her. “
Uncommon Pressure – Women In Radio
Are female radio hosts discriminated against in Australia? Women in broadcasting say their gender plays a factor in how well they are received by audiences…