“The arts community has moved forward to the point where it can be set free from targets and measurement. It means we need to rely more on the critical assessments of confident, successful artists and cultural organisations, and to trust the judgement of their peers.”
Tag: 04.13.08
What Your Memory Could Learn From Computers
Although our memories are sometimes spectacular — we are very good at recognizing photos, for example — our memory capacities are often disappointing.
Looking To Tone Down The Offstage Drama
“Opera Cleveland’s first season last year was as operatic offstage as on. Revolving-door syndrome struck early; the new company said goodbye to recently arrived artistic and executive directors and its principal conductor. Staff was cut almost in half. Tensions often ran high on the board.” So what will it take for the fledgling company to settle down and create a sustainable business model?
Too Much Of A Good Thing
What if the problem with classical music isn’t that it’s elitist or stuffy, but that we’re so inundated with it that we can’t hope to truly appreciate or understand it fully? “It’s not just music — it’s cultural effusions in general… There is an overabundance of art around, and it can’t be properly digested.”
How CellPhones Are Changing The World
“Something that’s mostly a convenience booster for those of us with a full complement of technology at our disposal — land-lines, Internet connections, TVs, cars — can be a life-saver to someone with fewer ways to access information.”
A Statistical Sense Of Off-Broadway
What Off-Broadway spends on productions, what it earns, and what the challenges are…
What Ails The Columbus Symphony
“Like many other American arts organizations, it fell on particularly hard times in the wake of 9/11; unlike most other institutions, it has yet to bounce back. Not incidentally, it was also in administrative disarray from 2003 to mid-2006, when it functioned without either a full-time executive director or a music director.”
Britain’s 100 Most Powerful People In Culture
Who Matters in UK culture? Here’s a list…
Norway Celebrates Its Most Important New Building
Oslo’s new $800 million opera house is “being hailed as one of the most important buildings to be erected in Norway since Trondheim got its Nidaros cathedral at the start of the 14th century.”
Is Goya Masterpiece Not A Goya?
The Prado Museum has excluded a prominent Goya painting from a new blockbuster show because of suspicions it was not painted by Goya after all.