“It used to be that you toured to help sell the record. Now the record helps support the tour.” How has this come to be? In the case of Live Nation, it’s the result of systematic growth over a decade that has seen the Beverly Hills-based company establish a presence in more than 40 countries via acquisitions or partnerships.
Tag: 02.07.17
London’s New Tall-Building Boom Is Wrecking Its Urban Heritage
“The Paddington cube offends every principle of a conservation area. It demolishes old buildings. It pays no respect to the district’s character, brutalising it with one overpowering structure. Westminster’s own published plan for the area stipulates that “tall buildings could not be accommodated without detriment to the townscape”. As for flexible uses, the collapse of the luxury property market means that the cube is entirely for commercial use.”
What If You Could Upgrade Your Brain? There Are Complicated Moral Issues At Play
Confronting this tendency toward the commodification of persons, and counteracting it with effective cultural strategies for ‘re-humanisation’, will pose one of the most important moral challenges of our time.
Lessons In The Power Of Diversity From A Portland Theatre
“There are, unsurprisingly, literally hundreds and hundreds of contemporary writers of color whose plays will move, engage, titillate, outrage, and delight audiences.”
A Central Role For Dance In A New Netflix Hit
Can dance change lives? In “The OA,” it does. “When people say, ‘I was crying when I was watching it,’ it’s like, exactly. That is exactly what dance has the power to do. Whether or not it’s true — which I think is a beautiful question in the series — I know that it can heal.”
Kill The Corporation For Public Broadcasting? Big Stations Will Do Fine. It’s The Small Rural Stations That Will Be Hit
“So for KPCC, our CPB grant comes to about 5 percent of our overall operating budget. For stations in Alaska, for stations in a number of rural states, it’s as high as 40 percent. So there’s a real disparity in the impact that would have between rural and urban stations, and I think from a public policy perspective, that’s a concern.”
Broadway Is Finally Addressing Its Bathroom Problem
“Theater owners, confronted day after day by long lines of women (and, sometimes, men) clogging lobbies and snaking down stairwells while nervously waiting for an available bathroom, are excavating, annexing, converting and renovating their buildings to remedy the chronic inconvenience. The biggest landlords are also retraining ushers, experimenting with new methods of crowd control, and even reversing the genders on restrooms.”
Actor Alec McCowen, 91
“‘I have always wanted to be an entertainer rather than an actor,’ McCowen once wrote, but the truth is he was both: he could immerse himself in a character but also hold an audience spellbound, as in his celebrated one-man performance of St Mark’s Gospel.”
Why Art-World Resistance To Trump Probably Won’t Accomplish Much
Tom Rachman, writing from the Verbier Art Summit (a would-be Davos for artsy types), is not encouraged: “Politics in the arts often looks more like group bonding than anything that might effect change.”
Sting And Wayne Shorter Win 2017 Polar Music Prize
The rock star and jazz saxophonist “are no stranger to awards: they have 26 Grammys between them.”