“The financial impact of cultural events on local economies ‘tend not to be large and are more often zero,’ according to new data produced by the What Works Network, a government-backed initiative launched in 2013 to offer guidance on decision making and spending in public services.”
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Confession: I Bail Out After The First Act Of Plays – All The Time
Joanne Kaufman: “I’m embarrassed by how unembarrassed I am to admit [it] … Don’t ask me what happened during the second acts of Matilda, Kinky Boots, Pippin and, reaching back a few seasons, Boeing-Boeing and Billy Elliott. Really, I have no idea. But I am nothing if not cosmopolitan in my tastes, or distastes.”
“What If The Thing That Everybody’s Talking About Is Wrong?” Chris Rock Talks To Frank Rich
“Honestly, it’s not that people were offended by what I said. They get offended by how much fun I appear to be having while saying it. You could literally take everything I said on Saturday night and say it on Meet the Press, and it would be a general debate, and it would go away.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.01.14
“Willful Provincialism”: More From Williams Curator Kevin Murphy on Crystal Bridges
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-01
Useful, fun, important book
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2014-12-01
Good Morning, Helsinki: Guggenheim Poised to Announce Six Shortlisted Architects
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2014-12-01
Are bands on tour winner-take-all?
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth Published 2014-12-01
Ira Glass’s Dance Theater Follies To Tour Through 2015
AJBlog: Fresh Pencil Published 2014-12-01
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A Big New Contemporary Art Museum For Miami
“Groundbreaking is expected for next summer, with an opening planned for December 2016. The facility is to include more than 20,000 square feet of exhibition space, as well as classrooms and a 15,000-square-foot sculpture garden.”
British Campaign To Boycott Amazon For Christmas Racks Up Millions In Pledges
“By the morning of Cyber Monday, 11,463 people had pledged ‘to avoid shopping on Amazon from 1 to 25 December,’ promising to spend a combined total of £2.59m at other retailers.”
How Amazon Ended Up As Literary Enemy No. 1 (And What Happens Next)
“It wasn’t always this way. When Amazon first appeared, in the mid-90s, mailing books out of the Seattle garage of its founder, Jeff Bezos, it was greeted with enthusiasm. The company seemed like a useful counterweight to the big bookstore chains that had come to dominate the book-retailing landscape.”