Broadway theatre grosses “dipped by 25% overall to total $15,474,798. That news was made even grimmer by comparison with the same frame last year, when 28 shows (as opposed to the current 30) tallied $17,341,680.”
Tag: 01.14.08
Proposed UK Arts Funding Reforms Undermine Artists
“A report by former Edinburgh International Festival director Brian McMaster, published last week, talks of a ‘cultural Renaissance’ in Britain. But even if the ACE does scrap some of its planned cuts, what looks certain is that artists’ confidence in it has been seriously dented.”
French DVD Sales Drop 10 Percent
“France is the only major European country to exhibit such negative results in DVD sales in ’07, and the DVD market here has seen a 25% decrease in value over the past three years.”
Met Museum Buys Its First Major Contemporary African Art
It’s ‘Between Earth and Heaven’, created by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui in 2006. “The Met’s collection of African art is mostly traditional, ranging from ritual sculpture and monuments of wood and stone to gold and silver ornaments, masks, costumes and other textiles.”
Up And Down – A Tale Of Two Theatres
“The Theatre Royal Bath and Bristol Old Vic are less than 15 miles apart, yet the fortunes of these West Country near neighbours couldn’t be more strikingly or dismayingly at odds.”
New York To Get Art Waterfalls In East River
“Olafur Eliasson, a Danish-Icelandic artist whose installation ‘The Weather Project’ drew 2 million people to the Tate Modern in 2003 and 2004, has designed what will likely be the city’s biggest public art project since Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s ‘The Gates’: a series of freestanding waterfalls in the East River.”
How Can You Do Hollywood Awards Without A Red Carpet?
“The red carpet plays host to American glamour, commerce, banality, charm and shallowness. The display serves the publicity interests of fashion houses, and apparently a few designers were crying into their bodices over the loss of the Sunday-night dress parade, worried that they wouldn’t be able to move warehouses of lip gloss.”