“The number of tickets sold fell nearly 11% between 2004 and 2013, according to the report, while box office revenue increased 17%. With home-entertainment options improving all the time— whether streamed movies and television, video games, or mobile apps—and studios releasing fewer movies, people are less likely to head to their local multiplex.”
Tag: 03.26.14
What Can SF-MOMA Do While Its Building Is Closed for Three Years?
Tourists are grumbling, schoolteachers are lamenting, and members are choosing not to renew until construction is finished in 2016. The insane San Francisco real estate market means there’s no affordable temporary museum space in the city, so the art in in storage. What to do? Innovate, improvise, and partner.
Can London’s Financial District Turn Into an Arts Hotbed?
“The Barbican and the Museum of London want to create a cultural hub that will be as buzzy as those on the capital’s South Bank and in South Kensington.”
Can Manhattan Be the Center of the Literary Universe When Bookstores Can’t Afford to Be There?
Ever-rising rents have been pushing out independent booksellers for years, but now even Barnes & Noble is getting priced out.
Can the Paul Taylor Dance Company Absorb Other Choreographers’ Works?
Alastair Macaulay: “Mr. Taylor has said he hopes for revivals of works by the dead choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and José Limón … But the problems of reviving these pieces are immense, especially with casts used to dancing in a Taylor way. The issue of younger choreographers is something else, though.”
How Baz Lurhmann’s ‘Strictly Ballroom’ Was Born (As a Sophomore Student Project)
“A black box stage. A shiny piano-black floor. To the strains of ‘Blue Danube’, eight performers – women in garishly bright dresses, men in elegant black tailcoats – are picked out in the lights. Moving in slow motion, they look like puppets slowly coming to life.”