“Those data reveal a somewhat surprising pattern: America’s Great Creative Divide isn’t between the coasts and the center, but rather between North and South. Take a look.”
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What Explains The Long-Term Decline In Reading Literature?
“Since the share of American adults with a bachelor’s degree or more has nearly doubled since 1982, you might expect to see a concomitant rise in literary reading. But that hasn’t happened. Indeed, previous research by the NEA has found that drops in the literary reading rate have happened across the board, among all ages, races and educational levels.”
Is FringeNYC’s Contract For Subsidiary Rights Fair?
Most fringe festivals, because they don’t actually produce the plays they present, don’t demand a cut of revenue from subsequent productions. But the New York International Fringe Festival requires a 2% cut of subsidiary rights revenue from any production anywhere on Earth for the next seven years. Howard Sherman gets both FringeNYC and the Dramatists Guild to explain their opposing positions on the issue, and then gives a verdict.
Nacho Duato Out, Sasha Waltz In At Staatsballett Berlin
“Nacho Duato is on the move again. After two years as artistic director of Staatsballett Berlin, Duato has announced that he will be handing his post over to a co-directing team of choreographer Sasha Waltz and Johannes Öhman, who is currently artistic director at Royal Swedish Ballet.”
Tate Modern’s New Extension Has A Peeping-Tom Problem
“Residents of London’s Neo Bankside luxury apartment complex, next to the Tate Modern, have lately been dismayed to find photographs of their living rooms and bedrooms popping up on strangers’ Instagram feeds.”
Prommers Against Brexit: Some Folks Will Be Bringing The EU Flag To The Last Night Of The Proms
“It includes rousing performances of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Rule Britannia’ and ‘Jerusalem’ always accompanied by a sea of Union Jacks, but … The Guardian understands activists will be outside the Royal Albert Hall in force on Saturday handing out thousands of EU flags, which they hope audience members will wave instead of, or even along with, the traditional red, white and blue.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.07.16
David Lang’s new opera The Loser may yet win
Pulitzer-winning composer David Lang has written several operas so far, none of them in the least bit conventional, and all of them showing how much the ultra-minimalist Bang on a Can aesthetic can be fascinatingly at odds with an art form that’s traditionally grand. … read more
AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2016-09-07
The Four Parts of (Meeting) Speech
With a new academic year now begun, I’m noticing again how odd and awful meetings can be. People of strong intellect and good intent, when gathered over an agenda (or a lack thereof), … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2016-09-07
Gard Foundation Symposium–Our Communities: Day 1
Today marked the beginning of The Robert E. Gard Foundation’s gathering at the The Johnson Center at Wingspread’s conference center outside Milwaukee. Announced here earlier this year, Our Communities: A Symposium on the Arts is … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-09-07
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Study Describes Hollywood As “Epicenter Of Cultural Inequality”
The University of Southern California’s report showed that women had just 31.4% of spoken roles in 2015’s top 100 films, compared with 32.8% in 2008. Lesbian, gay or transgender characters accounted for less than 1% of speaking parts – or 32 out of 35,205 characters.
Toronto International Film Festival Starts Demand-Based Ticket-Pricing And Some Fans Object
“I just felt like no movie is worth $58. It’s already a stretch at $49,” said Jaimie Marshall, a Whitby, Ont. paralegal. She made the same decision to sit out American Pastoral, as well as the animated comedy Sing, to which she had hoped to take her 12-year-old daughter. Though she has been a TIFF member for five or six years, paying $450 for the privilege of early access to some TIFF tickets, she said “this has seriously made me question whether I will continue.”
Ruth Braunstein, Prominent San Francisco Gallerist, 93
“Braunstein was a purveyor of contemporary art when there was little market for it in the Bay Area, and an early champion of such artists as painters John Altoon and Mary Snowden. She was particularly supportive of artists who worked in clay, taking the so-called “craft” medium of ceramics seriously and building an audience for the work of Peter Voulkos, Richard Shaw and Robert Brady, among others.”