“The growing body of museum audience research suggests that people visit museums for a variety of reasons, different visitors may seek diverse experiences from the same museum, and one visitor may even seek diverse experiences in different visits to the same museum.”
Tag: 05.31.13
Les Miz‘s Broadway Return Confirmed
“Cameron Mackintosh has announced that his re-imagined version of the Alain Boublil/Claude-Michel Schonberg musical Les Miserables will make its debut at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in [March of] 2014.”
Big California Arts Funding Bill Stalls
“The bill would have secured $75 million in guaranteed annual funding for the California Arts Council but was frozen last week without a vote. Now advocates aim to persuade legislators and Gov. Jerry Brown to give the agency at least a modest increase as they determine the state budget for the coming fiscal year.”
Jazz In A Concert Hall? Bad Plan
“I see the whole concert hall paradigm as a way to lease entitlement to a leisure class. Like the restaurant, where diners can pay a nominal to exorbitant fee for being served a repast as if they were royalty, concert goers get an ersatz Esterházy experience where they time share the services of their own orchestra that will give them the same sense of disassociation from the hard work experienced by the rest of humanity.”
An Opera About Walt Disney That Isn’t Disneyfied
“What we see is not the finished images, but a little boy dressing piglets up in clothes. It’s a slightly weird, more David Lynch than Disney bit of America.”
Eine Deutsche HuffPo?
The Huffington Post is opening up shop in Germany. How, exactly, is *that* going to work?
Scathing Attack on Alice Munro? No Worries; It Strengthens Canadian Art
“That Canadian critics let Americans and Brits have all the good public ripostes is a disservice to both our cannon and the reading public. The problem is, we’re just no good at not-niceness. We’re too conciliatory, too subdued, too well-mannered – and not in the arch, seething-just-under-the-surface British way, but honest-to-gosh polite.”
William Demby, 90, Writer of Experimental Novels
“Mr. Demby was interested in boundaries — between people, and between the present and the past — and he liked crossing them. His marriage in 1953 to an Italian actress and writer, Lucia Drudi, made news in Rome. (He spent many years writing English-language subtitles for films by Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini and other Italian directors.)”
Under Serious Threat, Belarus Free Theatre Performs In Secret (And In Exile)
“Plays take place in private homes, street cafes and forests. The audience are told the venue only shortly beforehand, by text message, and sometimes assemble under a pretence, like a fake wedding.”
Richard Serra Work Finally Gets Protected Status In Canada
“A group of citizens, who now call themselves Friends of Shift, urged the city to provide legal protection for the sculpture, which is not accessible to the public but is often visited by trespassing art lovers.”