The consensus among museum professionals and exhibition organisers is that the large-scale exhibition is here to stay, “as long as the public continues to attend and as long as the museum needs the exhibitions for its financial balance.”
Tag: 05.19.11
Someone Wants To Pay $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble
“John Malone, the cable mogul who owns a mishmash of assets such as home-shopping channel QVC and a German cable operator, for some reason just offered $1 billion in cold cash to buy book retailer Barnes & Noble.”
How Deep Is Philadelphia Orchestra’s Financial Hole?
“[B]etween now and Aug. 31 – about 15 weeks – the orchestra must raise $3.3 million more just to reach [its campaign] goal. It’s only after that $3.3 million is raised that the orchestra can begin to put a dent in the deficit. In other words, to break even this year on its $46 million budget, the orchestra needs to raise $8.3 million in 15 weeks.”
Detroit Symphony Begins Its Suburban Concerts Initiative
“Even before the six-month strike that gutted the current season, ticket sales at Orchestra Hall were in a long downward slide. The moment the strike ended last month, music director Leonard Slatkin made it clear the orchestra under his personal leadership would begin taking the music out to the DSO’s audience – which largely means the metro area – in an effort to reconnect with the public.”
Lars Von Trier Thrown Out Of Cannes Film Festival
“Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier was booted out of the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday for a bizarre, rambling news conference in which he said he sympathizes with Adolf Hitler.” Von Trier’s current film remains in competition, but he will not be allowed to attend the awards ceremony.
At Amazon, E-Books Now Outsell Paper Books
“Since April 1 of this year, Amazon sold 105 Kindle e-books for every 100 print books sold, hardcover and paperback combined. Kindle e-book sales, which do not include Amazon’s popular free e-book downloads, have been bolstered by the popularity of the newest, cheapest Kindle.”
Lula Washington Dance Company Makes First Tour Of China
This 12-city, three-week trip is the ensemble’s second major overseas tour this season (following a 20-city tour of Russia last fall). These travels are milestones for the Los Angeles-based multi-ethnic ensemble, which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year.
Edward Villella, Ballet Legend And Boxer
“Long before it was trendy for pro athletes to dabble in training regimens outside their comfort zone,” the one-time New York City Ballet star and founding director of Miami City Ballet, “was the ultimate cross-trainer. A child dancing prodigy forced by his parents to put his ballet aspirations on hold … Villella needed a physical outlet. So [he] took up boxing.”
Can Instrumental Music Be Political?
“Art is pure, right? Celestial. To soil it with base, terrestrial politics feels improper, even rude, especially when one considers just how awful politics really is. “Politics is about winning,” the political composer and activist Bob Ostertag says, “a concept meaningless to art.” So how are these things expected to mix, if at all, without the supposed purity and nobility of art being compromised?”
The Way We Get Music Is Changing Again
“A new hybrid approach is emerging, one where you own your music, but also can access it all from the cloud and stream it to many different devices via a Web browser or mobile app. This approach is typically called the ‘music locker.’ It is being developed because each of the two existing models has drawbacks.”