“In a way we are monetizing these V.I.P. tickets.”
Tag: 10.23.13
YouTube Close To Launching Streaming Music Service To Compete With Spotify
“The service, designed with mobile listening in mind, will have a free component and a premium tier that offers unlimited access to a full catalog of tracks similar to what’s already available via YouTube’s parent company, Google Inc., via its All Access subscription music service.”
Manhattan’s Galleries Are Being Squeezed Out
Rents are rising everywhere. Prices have more than doubled in Chelsea and have risen by around 30% to 35% in the Lower East Side, dealers say. “New York is very different from the time when galleries moved from Soho to Chelsea. There aren’t really spare neighbourhoods any more.”
The “Personal Reason” Cleveland Museum Director David Franklin Resigned
It isn’t pretty.
Today In Neuro-Pop: How To Build A Happier Brain
In his new book, Berkeley neuropsychologist Rick Hanson argues that the human brain is naturally predisposed to focus on the negative (so as to remain alert to dangers) – but that we can rewire the brain with what another generation called the power of positive thinking.
Edward Villella: “I’ve Been Iced!”
The former Balanchine star and Miami City Ballet founder, back in New York after an unhappy departure from Florida, found himself choreographing, of all things, an ice dancing show. And he loved it.
The Transgender Character That Changed Soap Operas
Coronation Street‘s Hayley Cropper, introduced as a bad joke in 1997, and her husband Roy “are one of the few outposts in soap you can turn to for moral virtue. Among the serial killers, pin-ups, playboys, alcoholics and adulterers of contemporary Corrie, the couple in the zip-up cardigan and the red anorak have become an unlikely symbol of purity.”
Meet Australia’s King Of Theatre Costumes
“‘This is literally a bloody business,’ says John Molloy, as he surveys a crimson-splattered table. ‘I don’t know why it comes down to wardrobe to make blood. Everyone who works in costuming hates blood. It’s almost uncontrollable.'”
“The Barber”: A Story Flannery O’Connor Never Published
“Even at 22, the author was smart, acerbic, and fascinated by human limitations.”
Oh My! What’s Happened To Arts Criticism?
“The avid consumer of arts writing has never had it better and it’s not just a matter of volume. Access and interactivity has empowered readers, albeit at a cost.”