“After years of grumbling about steadily rising ticket prices, consumers achieved the nearly unthinkable earlier this year: they forced a momentary drop in the average cost of a movie ticket, to $7.86 in the first quarter, down from $8.01 in the fourth quarter of last year, partly by opting out of costly 3-D tickets for movies like “Mars Needs Moms,” and watching films in cheaper 2-D.”
Tag: 08.02.11
How South Carolina Fought Off Elimination Of State Arts Funding
“Although it comprises only .032 percent of South Carolina’s $6 billion state budget, funding for the arts commission helps the state to develop its creative industries, which return more than $9.2 billion to South Carolina and support more than 78,000 jobs, according to Americans for the Arts, a lobbying group.”
Researchers Say Face Recognition Software Will Let Everybody Identify Everybody
They project a near future in which you could walk in to a bar and scan through the crowd, telling your their name, interests or even their credit score. “It impacts the way you’re going to approach and interact with a person before you’ve even met them,”
Naked Performance Artists Arrested On Wall Street
“Two men and a woman were arrested Monday morning outside the New York Stock Exchange when they and other artists decided to get naked to protest American and international financial institutions.”
Private Albert Hall Box Offered For £550,000
“The box is located on the eastern side of the auditorium and has about 865 years remaining on the lease. When the building was being constructed in the 19th Century, several seats were offered for sale to private individuals on a 999-year lease.”
Bill T. Jones: I Don’t Like Reality TV Dance Shows
Colleagues in the dance world tell him that series like Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance?” exposes dance – an imperiled art form especially in a recession – to the masses. Said Jones: “That’s good for dance, people say. But it’s not good that dance is sport. It is not sport. It is a subtle art form.”
The Pop-Up Museum
“For the last few years pop-up shops have come and gone all over New York, giving real estate developers a temporary solution to the eyesore of an empty lot or storefront, and retailers the chance to test concepts or brands without making long-term commitments. But the Guggenheim project is believed to the first example of a major New York museum getting in on the act.”
Mary Poppins Dominates Australia’s Helpmann Awards
“The lavishly produced Walt Disney musical won eight of the 12 categories it was nominated in, including best musical, best musical direction, … best choreography, best sound design and best direction” as well as best lead actor and actress in a musical.
Geoffrey Rush Finally Wins His Homeland’s Top Stage Award
“[He] has a Tony, an Oscar, a BAFTA, several AFI awards and has often lamented his failure to nab a Logie. But while television’s top prize remains elusive, he was inducted into the ranks of [Australia’s] elite performing artists last night with his first Helpmann Award.”
Brisbane Rules Helpmann Awards Dance Categories
“An original ballet staged in a haunted Queenslander beat out acclaimed works from Victoria and Europe to claim the 2011 Helpmann Award for best dance work, presented in a glittering ceremony at the Sydney Opera House last night.”