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Tag: 01.18.12
American Folk Art Museum, Once Near Collapse, Now Stabilized
“The American Folk Art Museum can survive in a storefront on New York’s Upper West Side, its volunteer president said today, buoyed by more than $3.5 million in contributions and pledges since it sold its main building to the Museum of Modern Art.”
L.A. Opera Adopts Dynamic Ticket Pricing
“Los Angeles Opera is the latest arts group to adopt a dynamic ticket-pricing policy. The company will announce Wednesday new pricing programs for the 2012-13 season, including a new low ticket cost of $18 for every performance.”
Jaipur Literature Festival Grows Into One Of World’s Largest
The annual fete “began with ‘a few readings’ on the edge of a small arts event … This year, with Oprah Winfrey, Deepak Chopra, Jamaica Kincaid, Lionel Shriver and Richard Dawkins among its lineup, organizers expect as many as 100,000 attendees to turn up in this arid Indian city.”
L.A. MoCA To Create Original Programming for YouTube
“Joining its hometown industry and betting on the success of YouTube’s new initiative to promote original content, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced that it would start an online video channel in July featuring news and talk-show programming, among other art-focused shows.”
How Bad, Actually, Is Digital Piracy? (It’s More Complicated Than You Think)
There’s no evidence that the United States is currently suffering from an excessive amount of online piracy, and there is ample reason to believe that a non-zero level of copyright infringement is socially beneficial. Online piracy is like fouling in basketball. You want to penalize it to prevent it from getting out of control, but any effort to actually eliminate it would be a cure much worse than the disease.
How Spielberg’s “War Horse” Could Make More Money For National Theatre Than For Movie Studio
Despite the film taking more from its opening weekend in the UK and Ireland alone than the National’s annual profit on the stage version, Nicholas Hytner told Sky News: “I’ll stick my neck out and predict the play will be more profitable to us than the movie will be to DreamWorks.””
Re-setting The Place Of Latin American Art In Art History
mari Carmen RamÃrez “wants to shake up the politics of art history, to prove that Latin American art, far from being derivative, has had its own identity, its own breakthroughs.”
US Supreme Court Says Putting Work Back Into Copyright Is OK
“Lawrence Golan had argued that taking works back out of the public domain would hinder creativity by making artists more cautious about remixing or otherwise using works, fearing their status could change in the future in a way that required payment to copyright holders. More broadly, academics have expressed concern that upholding the 1994 law would make it much more difficult to write books or assemble course readings without having to deal with a host of legal hurdles–or just prohibitively expensive fees–to avoid violating copyrights.”
New York City Opera Strikes Deal With Both Unions, Ends Lockout
“New York City Opera has reached a tentative deal with its unions, ending a lockout that began on Jan. 9 and potentially resolving a bitter labor dispute that threatened the company’s entire season.”