03.12.14 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Sotheby’s Under Attack (And How What The Auction House Does Might Utterly Change)

There’s a “battle between the Sotheby’s Old Guard and a financier who views artworks as financial assets that trade in a market made by the auction houses. The confrontation figures to get bitter and bruising between now and May, but at its center there sits a rather more exalted question: How do you properly value art?”

Is This True: Audiences Are More Open To New Choral Music Than To New Instrumental Music?

“Choirs routinely look for and program new music and that draws audiences, but instrumental ensembles suffer at the box office when presenting new works. In my opinion, there are a few reasons for this, with the main reason having to do with the difference between the human voice and instruments.”

36 Ways The World Wide Web Has Changed Us

“With more than 4 billion indexed Web pages, thousands imploding and starting up by the day, any thorough accounting of the Web’s impact would be impossible.”

When Was the First E-Book, Anyway?

Well, that depends on what you think qualifies as an e-book …

Who’s Designing the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion This Summer?

A Chilean architect named Smiljan Radic – and it will look like a cross between a flying saucer and Stonehenge.

Why Can’t Conservatives Pull Off a ‘Daily Show’?

“Political philosophy isn’t what keeps Republican-leaning comics from succeeding – it’s corporate hurdles, cultural forces, and the demographics of show business.”

Why We Can’t Stop Liking the Brands We Loved as Kids

Derek Thompson describes it as the Concrete-Mix theory of habit formation.

The Most Famous Playwright Most of Us Have Never Heard Of

Jon Fosse is “perhaps Europe’s most-performed living dramatist, translated into 40-odd languages. In 2010, he won the biggest prize in global theatre, the £275,000 Ibsen award,” and last year he was thought to be a frontrunner for the literature Nobel. Why does the English-speaking world know so little of him?

Russia’s Upstart Ballet Company Finally Schedules U.S. Debut

The Mikhailovsky Ballet, the well-funded St. Petersburg company that famously lured Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev away from the Bolshoi, was going to appear in New York in 2012 – until ABT, which also engaged the couple, invoked a non-compete clause. But they’re coming stateside at last.

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