This Week In Audience: Audience Confusion Editon
This Week: Pokemon Go suggests a different relationship between real and virtual, an art prize in which critics don’t matter, museums challenge visitors to spot fakes, a French city that has reinvented itself around art, and a claim that modern audiences are confused and uncertain. … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-07-17
Met Layoffs: “Nobody is Ruled Out”
My Friday post about staff shrinkage, from buyouts, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art set off quite a stir: Emergency meetings were held inside the museum to discuss what was going on and the press office ramped up … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2016-07-17
Language Matters
Once a year, NAS gathers 24 creative changemakers from all over the nation for a week-long residential program called Creative Community House. We spend this week living and learning alongside each other, sharing ideas and experiences and chewing on new information presented by NAS and our partners. And we also debate with each other. A lot. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-17
Communities, Complexities and Commonalities
What does community mean to you? What are the most important aspects of a community? … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-18
An invitation
Like people, communities are complex. Communities are not only defined by location, but also by human relationships and needs. … read more
AJBlog: Field Notes Published 2016-07-18
Doing Violence
Alex Ross’s thoughtful essay on vicious uses of music left a few interesting stones oddly turned. At the conclusion, he asks us to “renounce the fiction of music’s innocence,” citing the damage that music can do. “Either music affects the world around it or it doesn’t,” he says. … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2016-07-18
The Met Mess: Parsing the Organizational Upheavals at the Metropolitan Museum
What do the disarray of the Metropolitan Museum’s finances and the shakeup of its senior staff say about Tom Campbell’s performance as director of this country’s preeminent art museum? … read more
AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-07-18
Monday Recommendation: Peggy Stern
Peggy Stern, Z Octet (Estrella Productions). It has been 16 years since Peggy Stern last applied her piano, composing and arranging talents to a mid-sized ensemble. Z Octet was worth waiting for. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-07-18
Is Brexit Doomed? European Music & (Little) English Country House Festivals Dispel the Gloom
We’re suffering post-Brexit gloom, and disappointment at the cabinet appointments made by the new Prime Minister. Still, there’s a lot to be happy about. Last week we drove, in under an hour (and in opposite directions), to two world-beating country house operatic performances. … read more
AJBlog: Plain English Published 2016-07-18
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What The Social Media Campaign #StarringJohnCho Did For The Actor At Its Heart
“My first reaction was, are they clowning me? I quickly realized it was sincere, and it was kind of amazing. Maybe [it caught on], because the posters made it seem possible. Instead of talking about it or demanding it, it was like, listen, it could be like this. For a minute, people were talking about it in a very serious way.”
Pay To Play Casting Workshops In Los Angeles Now Under City Investigation
“Exchanging money for the prospect of employment is illegal in the state. Yet there have been no prosecutions by the City Attorney’s office since the 2009 legislation, known as the Krekorian Talent Scam Prevention Act, was enacted the following year.”