“After interviewing more than 40,000 residents over three years, the top three answers for why someone loves living in a place shocked almost everyone – they are “social offerings, openness, and aesthetics.” To those of us working in the arts, this fact said something huge – that if you are trying to build an equitable community, you need the arts at the community development table.”
Category: AUDIENCE
How Kickstarter Is Changing How (What) Movies Get Made
“While there’s a pretty diverse range of voices, the unifying factor we’re finding is that all these filmmakers have an independent spirit – these are directors who are making work in their own way, and always have. There’s also a real desire to engage with the audience.”
New Director Of Detroit Institute Of Arts Lays Out A Vision
Salvador Salort-Pons: “I really see the DIA as playing a role in the city like town squares play a role in European cities. You go to Madrid, Rome, Barcelona or Paris, there are these main squares where people come and gather to talk, to drink coffee to read a newspaper. I see the DIA as the city square of Detroit.”
Thousands Stand In Line To See ‘China’s Mona Lisa’
“Since an exhibition celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Palace Museum [in Beijing’s Forbidden City] opened in early September, people have been waiting for up to 10 hours to see this 17-foot-long masterpiece attributed to the painter Zhang Zeduan, an intricate ink-on-silk tableau of life in the Northern Song dynasty capital, Kaifeng. The best-known painting in the museum’s vast collection, it has been shown in public only a few times.”
Female-Driven Movies Are Big Box Office. So What’s The Problem?
Female-driven movies make money. In an era when movies are beset by competition from quality television, video games and alternative entertainment, the industry can’t afford to be biased.
Can Artists Still Shock Or Surprise In The Age Of The Selfie?
“How can performance artists possibly compete in a world where a selfie-taking Canadian can make thousands of dollars after being inadvertently kicked in the head by a Peruvian train driver and posting an 11-second video of the event on his YouTube channel?”
Research: Here’s The Music Americans Hate (Uh, Oh)
“While in 1993, a college-educated person between the ages of 25 and 29 had an 8 percent chance of disliking classical (music), in 2012, a respondent in that same age-education group had a 15 percent chance (of doing so),” the researchers write.
A Smarter Conversation About Video Games And Behavior
“Sure, Jack Thompson–like figures are on the wane – it’s increasingly uncommon for broad, radical arguments linking video games to real-world violent behavior to be taken seriously. But there’s still a lot of scaremongering, and it’s not just occurring on hyperventilating cable news. … Its clearly time for more complex theories about how this multi-billion-dollar industry affects those who partake in its wares.” Here are a few ideas.
GarageBand: Good Or Bad For Music?
“While audiophiles and classic rock enthusiasts might sneer at the software’s humorously simple design, digital natives simply see it as making something impenetrable now liberatingly accessible.”
The New Arts Center In Buenos Aires Hosts 10,000 Visitors A Day
“Remarkably, everything in it is free, from video installations to comedy acts to symphony concerts.”