“Risky Business,” a report issued by the think tank Demos, states that “start-up companies in the creative industries are no more likely to fail than the economy as a whole, and are statistically more successful than hotels and restaurants.” The study suggests that these industries pose less risk “as a result of the passion, dedication and skill of the individuals involved.”
Tag: 10.09.11
What Does Toronto’s Mayor Plan For The Arts? (It’s So Confusing!)
“I would like to radiate optimism, but this strikes me a sideshow that should be called Ford’s Follies. And I almost burst out laughing when I received an invitation to the annual Mayors’s Arts Awards Lunch later this month.”
Reading Spalding Gray’s Journals
“In his personal writings, Gray comes across in a more extreme way than in his theatrical persona, his anguish and need not tempered by his perceptive charm. … But these entries also show an artist discovering his powers, in the process of creating an autobiographical genre that has since been so widely replicated that it is hard to imagine the daring it took to come first.”
Watch Choreographers Make Up Dance On The Spot
A four-night series in Brooklyn is presenting what mastermind Sally Silvers calls “live choreography”: “Each program will feature three teams of choreographers and directors; serving as their raw material will be performers, including dancers, roller derby skaters, actors and burlesque artists.”
Chicago Art Institute’s New Director Has A Plan
“I think that we have to be careful that we don’t compete against ourselves. … We don’t want to confuse people so that they’ll not know what’s on at the Art Institute. I want people to be more fully aware, at any given moment in time, what is on at the Art Institute.”
Actually, The Creative Class Is Alive And Well
“As bad as the overall economic situation may be, the creative class has in fact gotten off comparatively lightly.”
Will E-Books Kill Footnotes?
“The e-book hasn’t killed the book; instead, it’s killing the ‘page.’ Today’s e-readers scroll text continuously, eliminating the single preformed page, along with any text defined by being on its bottom.”
The Past Actually Is The (Unromantic) Past, And We Might Need Economics To Explain Why
“One of the most important outcomes of a liberal education should be the permanent eradication of a romanticization of the past. On any measure we care to generate, from health to wealth, we are better off than at any point in history.” But why do inequalities persist?
Like A Euro Disney, But For The Arts – And In Brasil
This week, Brazilian mining entrepreneur Bernardo Paz “unveiled plans to build a mecca for contemporary arts fans around the Inhotim Cultural Institute, a sprawling rural estate in the hilltops of Minas Gerais state, already one of the most talked-about and unusual arts destinations in Latin America, if not the world.”
Want The Full Album? You’ll Have To Buy All Of The Apps
Icelandic singer Bjork releases an album, sort of – as 10 apps for iPad, one per song, including interactive games, information and all kinds of other goodies. Is this the way music will go?