Apparently, delivery companies value flat-screen TVs more than bikes.
Tag: 09.25.16
Yes, Let’s Keep On Talking About Who ‘Gets’ To Write What, And Why
“A writer has the right to inhabit any character she pleases — she’s always had it and will continue to have it. The complaint seems to be less that some people ask writers to think about cultural appropriation, and more that a writer wishes her work not to be critiqued for doing so, that instead she get a gold star for trying.”
Rolling Stone Sells Almost Half Of Itself To An Investor From Singapore
“BandLab’s investment provides Rolling Stone with the opportunity to expand into the live event, hospitality and merchandising businesses in Asia—areas where BandLab has experience. Its flagship product is a digital platform for creating and sharing music.”
This Week in Understanding Audience: Baby Boomers Reinvent The Movie Experience
This week: Baby boomers are breathing new life into movie theatres… Dance clubs are languishing as millennials stay away… Netflix reveals at what point we get hooked on TV series… How the audience changes when admission is free… The Ticket bots strike again on Broadway.
Five Stories/Trends From This Week’s ArtsJournal: How The Arts Speak To Real Life
This Week: Why is it so hard to tell if American theatre is thriving or not?… Have art and technology had a falling out?… Perhaps TV is the solution to our political polarization… The music industry seems to be finally getting it together… A cautionary tale about getting swallowed up by the online world.
Highlights From This Weekend’s AJBlogs 09.25.16
Man Down! We’ve Lost Andrew Sullivan: The Battle For The Real World Is Coming For You
Is reality just a construct of the online world or is the online world merely an overlay on reality? Every new technological advance that extends our reach also imposes previously unnecessary decisions about how and …read more
AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-23
Pap goes the easel: Painting After Postmodernism, Belgium-USA
It’s being billed as a “manifesto exhibition,” and the curator, my friend, the art historian and filmmaker Barbara Rose, is happy to … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2016-09-25
They Could Have Danced All Night
New York City Ballet opens its fall season (September 20 to October 16) with four new ballets. New York City Ballet’s Indiana Woodward in Lauren Lovette’s For Clara. Photo: Paul Kolnik The New York City … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-09-24
New York City Ballet opens its fall season (September 20 to October 16) with four new ballets. New York City Ballet’s Indiana Woodward in Lauren Lovette’s For Clara. Photo: Paul Kolnik The New York City … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-09-24
John Coltrane At 90
There are so many options that it is difficult to know what to bring you today to observe the great saxophonist John Coltrane’s (1926-1967) 90th birthday. Among Coltrane’s hundreds of recordings and videos, no doubt … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-09-23
There are so many options that it is difficult to know what to bring you today to observe the great saxophonist John Coltrane’s (1926-1967) 90th birthday. Among Coltrane’s hundreds of recordings and videos, no doubt … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-09-23
Can An Old Dance Theatre Do New Tricks?
“The theater looks a certain way, the curtain goes up on a company, and whatever happens on a stage can be vastly different from week to week. However, the experience itself of attending the Joyce has grown to be somewhat regular, and this is a way to challenge that.”
Even After 20 Years, ‘South Park’ Gets Thrown Together On The Fly Each Week
Said co-creator Trey Parker one day earlier this month: “There are times where we go, ‘How do we tell Comedy Central we don’t have a show?’ This is one of those.” Dave Itzkoff watches how they pull it off.