“The old music industry may have had a lot wrong with it, but at least it was clear how everyone in the food chain — the artist, record label, music distributor and physical retail stores — could stay in business. The music had to be created, recorded, manufactured, distributed into stores and… SOLD. Not so in the new music industry.”
Tag: 10.02.13
What Happens When A Theatre Town Like Chicago Loses Some Major Criticism Venues?
“Without the support, the audience reach, and visibility to these smaller groups that established critical resources provide, the game changes significantly. A huge aspect of what has been drawing young, exciting artists to Chicago has shrunk.”
George Steel On Trying To Save NY City Opera: “It Almost Worked!”
“When I arrived in 2009, the … $30 million budget included $16 million of income that just wasn’t there. There really wasn’t enough money to do five operas at Lincoln Center. So we had two options: Close, or do something radical to save the company. And it almost worked! It gave us two more full seasons and two balanced budgets. Our first season away from Lincoln Center we sold every ticket to every show.”
Want To Convince Someone You’re Telling The Truth? Don’t Look Her In The Eye
Recent studies “indicate that not only does looking someone in the eye not convince them, it may actually harm your case. Eye contact, especially if someone is predisposed to disagree with you and you’re pushing them to look you back, is not persuasive at all. (This might be helpful to understand as we navigate out of the government shutdown …)”
English National Ballet Names Former BBC Exec As Executive Director
Caroline Thomson “has been acting as interim executive director since May, when ENB’s chief executive Karen Napier resigned after three months in the job. Thomson, who was deputy director-general of the BBC until September 2012, begins in her new permanent role with immediate effect.”
Scotland’s Arts Funding Agency Restructures
“Job titles and roles [at Creative Scotland] will be tightened up in the eight-strong senior leadership team reporting to new chief executive Janet Archer and they will be augmented with a new director of strategy for an initial year-long appointment.”
Iran Bans Another Filmmaker From Collecting European Award
“Iranian authorities have confiscated director Mohammad Rasoulof’s passport on the eve of a trip to the Nuremburg International Human Rights Film Festival (NIHRFF) in Germany where he was due to accept a lifetime achievement award and present his latest film Manuscripts Don’t Burn.”
Theatre Critics Are Thin-Skinned, Nervous And Overly Gentle, Says Theatre Exec
Nica Burns of Britain’s Nimax Theatres: “I do think critics tend to live in a bubble of their own. They are often very thin skinned and slightly nervous about the reaction they may find from those they criticise, and are actually far more gentle people than we actually need to have because we [the industry] do accept that [criticism] as part of the process.”
Disaster Relief – Build More Libraries?
“A couple of lessons: Places that serve us well every day serve us best when disaster strikes. Health and safety go hand in hand with lively urban spaces. Invest in one, and you aid the other. Also, disasters can be opportunities.”
Hedge Fund Manager: Auction Houses Should Bet On Art
that the auction house begin making speculative investments in artwork “when doing so would not conflict with its clients’ interests.”