“Barnes & Noble plans to close about 20 retail stores a year over the next ten years – meaning it would have 450 to 500 stores in the next decade, down from 689 stores today.”
Tag: 01.28.13
Could This Be A New Business Model For US Art Museums?
For most American museums, annual contributions are the biggest source of revenue – and that source tends to dry up when the economy turns sour. At the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass., director Dan L. Monroe seems well on the way to making endowment income the biggest revenue source, ahead of both annual contributions and earned income.
Rhode Island Theater Offers Free Seats To Tweeters
“The Providence Performing Arts Center … has designated a section of its theater for ‘tweet seats’ since last spring. Located in the back two rows to avoid distracting patrons, the seats are free for those who promise to live-tweet a performance.”
Are Wine Experts Charlatans, Even If They Don’t Know It? (Yes And No)
“With wine, however, blind taste tests by experts are supposed to eliminate those external cues. But it turns out the experts may be no more reliable than the rest of us.”
Data Are In: Arts Education Really Does Improve Student Academic Performance
“New research finds 1994 legislation that included the arts as a core subject in American schools made a difference in many places.”
Why Zero Dark Thirty Seems To Have Fallen Out Of Oscar Contention
“Earlier this month, the conventional wisdom was that Kathryn Bigelow’s hunt-for-Osama bin Laden film was the one to beat.” Since then, Ben Affleck’s Iran-hostage drama Argo has developed momentum, especially after big wins at the Golden Globes and SAG Awards. “What’s going on? Well, the truth is, it has probably been over for Zero Dark for a while now.”
‘The Pulsating Mr. Darcy’: A Graph For Pride And Prejudice‘s Bicentennial
“In a light-hearted attempt to measure the relative appeal of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy over the years, we have compared the number of times each is mentioned in books or journals published in Britain.”
Ontario’s Shaw Festival – Smaller, But Now Stable
“The Shaw Festival’s audience may have shrunk in 2012, but the southern Ontario theatre company has ended up in the black after two years of large deficits thanks to a “right sizing” that reined in expenditures.”