“The apparent result of such fluidity is that these young professionals work in technology, do research, and make art, seemingly moving from one to the other without any angst or difficulty. Contrast this with my generation of practitioners, who merely struggled with how to make a living as an artist.”
Category: AUDIENCE
Therapeutic Opera, Coming To A House Near You
“The gist is this: contact the Opera Helps phoneline with a personal problem, and they will endeavour to send a singer to your house. Said singer will briefly discuss the issue with you, select a suitable aria that addresses it, then perform it for you while you relax in familiar surroundings: on a comfortable chair, for instance, or even in bed.”
Making Art About A Community In Crisis
“They wanted me to tell the public how they showed love. How they sacrificed for each other. How they took care of a disabled homie, gave his family money after he was crippled by a gunshot blast. Or how they would pay for his funeral if he was killed. How they would discourage younger siblings from joining the gang. How they stuck by each other. They had their own code of love. I promised to write about it.”
Where Citizen Budgeting Meets Community Arts Groups
“In the North Shores Collinwood area of Cleveland, ‘Ohio’s first experiment with participatory budgeting’ has just resulted in four arts-based community development projects being chosen – by local residents – to share in $120,000 in funding from ArtPlace America.”
Books For People Who Don’t Like To Read Books – James Patterson’s Next Big Plan
“People already read James Patterson’s books – and in staggering numbers. … But Mr. Patterson is after an even bigger audience. He wants to sell books to people who have abandoned reading for television, video games, movies and social media. So how do you sell books to somebody who doesn’t normally read?”
Which Books Have Been Unfairly Maligned?
Benjamin Moser: “In [Susan Sontag’s] essayistic writing, strength expressed through categorical statements often became a besetting weakness. … In her often unloved fiction, however, she turned insecurity into a virtue.”
Charles McGrath: “What we tend to forget about Kipling, in our haste to pigeonhole him as a Victorian crank and reactionary, is that for all his failings he was also prodigiously gifted.”
How ‘Bookchat’ Came To Devour Literary Discourse
“There are listicles of books or about books: there was even one recently about ‘The Top Ten Squirrels in Literature.’ There are interviews and aspirational how-tos. There are publicity statements, which are circulated and regurgitated into light critical opinion – as much as any book review. There is the relatively new phenomenon of the author self-testimonial: upon publication of his novel, the author will write a piece about writing the novel.”
‘Be Ready For Blood’: Diana Damrau On Covent Garden’s Upcoming ‘Lucia’
“I think audiences are going to leave feeling quite shaken. They will see what people in desperate circumstances are able to do and that is actually the basis of this drama. Everybody is desperate and it gets very dark and very sad and horrible. So, I am sorry, be ready for blood.”
Millennials Are Flocking To The Broad Museum In Downtown Los Angeles
“The average visitor age is 32 — a full 14 years younger than the national average for art museum attendance in the U.S., according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ most recent study.”
How Do Museums Attract New (And Younger) Audiences?
With events, says Cleveland: “For a museum trying to lure in a younger crowd, MIX provides the perfect atmosphere: Millennials mingling, DJs spinning, cocktails swirling. In the museum’s dimmed atrium, for example, visitors chat over drinks and dance in the roaming colored spotlights.”