“According to executives at Spotify, my children offer a peek at the future of music consumption. Spotify, which has just introduced a new version of its app, says that because online streaming services let us call up and listen to anything we like, and because its curated playlists push us toward new stuff, we are all increasingly escaping rigid genres.”
Tag: 06.03.15
Canada Council Overhauls Its Arts Funding Model
Artists have long complained that the Council’s diverse funding categories aren’t flexible enough to accommodate multi-disciplinary work and ad hoc projects.
Museum Workers Versus The Museum Of Modern Art
To be clear, this isn’t a group of laborers that are raking in massive amounts of cash. According to a press release sent out by the union prior to the demonstration, the salary of “entry-level museum staff starts at approximately $29K per year and the membership, which includes professional staff such as curators, librarians and conservators, averages $49K.”
Is Live Theatre Anachronistic In Today’s Mobile Always-On World?
“Think about it: we (mostly) ask our audiences to commute to a particular location, step into a dark building, shut off all access to the outside world, be quiet, and not disturb us as we attempt (not always with success) to transport them to the world of a play that is—to hit on another tired trope —a reflection of the world we have asked them to ignore.”