As a result, audiences have engaged with art forms often considered ‘elitist’ by some individuals, such as opera or ballet. “It’s vital that people feel that the arts are for them – given all the benefits they can bring to our emotional and social wellbeing – and if we can help break down some of those barriers by the range of films we show in cinemas, then we’re delighted.”
Tag: 03.06.17
Is A Slump In Chinese Movie Box Office Because Audiences Are Getting More Selective?
“China used to be a market where the screen count was growing so much, people would kind of go see anything, or see a lot of things. But it’s become a much more mature market, like the rest of the world. It’s more sensitive to content.”
The 40 Years When New York Built Its Biggest, Enduring Cultural Icons
“Everything from the formation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park, to the building of the Brooklyn Bridge and opening of Ellis Island, happened over the course of these four decades.”
IMdB Adds An “F” Rating For Movies
Curator Gali Gold said the rating was “a simple and effective way to signpost films where the stories are told by and about women and to highlight the issue of gender imbalance within the film industry”.
Report: Here’s What The Current $45 Billion Art Market Looks Like
The report paints a picture of “a stable and resilient market, experiencing positive growth.” However, sales are moving away from the auction houses to the private sector, both to private sales by auction houses and to dealers. In 2016, public auction sales of works of art, high-end jewelry, and decorative arts, reached $16.9 billion globally, a drop from $20.8 billion in 2015.
Will Changes To Twitter’s Algorithms Further Divide Our Discourse?
“As it gradually tightens the loops in Twitter’s social fabric, the algorithm risks further insulating its users from people whose viewpoints run counter to their own—a phenomenon, already rampant on Facebook, that has contributed to the polarization of the American electorate and the Balkanization of its media.”
If Humans Are Special, As In Not Just Animals, What Does That Mean?
Scientists may try to define or explain this, says a philosopher, but only philosophers can really do the job. “Human beings live in mutual accountability, each answerable to the other and each the object of judgment. The eyes of others address us with an unavoidable question, the question ‘why?'”
It’s Utterly Ridiculous, From A Talent Point Of View, That We Don’t Have More Women Composers
The executive of the national charity for new music in the UK says, “Working with a more representative group of composers leads to a more thrilling variety of new music, more artistic innovation and also, perhaps, a positive and constructive challenge to an industry that can sometimes fall back on traditional ideas of what, or rather who, constitutes a composer.”