“Do we see regularities in the unfolding of the past, or is history all disorganised confusion – just ‘one damn thing after another’? Are there laws that control the unfolding of history?”
Tag: 11.07.16
What Would Happen If You Made Millions Of £ Available To Arts Groups For Entrepreneurial Projects?
Nearly 100 organisations have applied to the £7m Arts Impact Fund to invest in commercial ventures such as cinemas, restaurants and Intellectual Property licensing businesses to subsidise their work. Thus far, more than £3m of unsecured loan finance at affordable interest rates has been shared by eight organisations that are planning to use a cross subsidy model to finance their activities.
A Glut Of TV – So Much Production, In Fact, That Hollywood Is Overwhelmed
“The TV business is facing its biggest explosion of new productions in the medium’s history, sparking a billion-dollar arms race between established TV networks and a deep-pocketed insurgency of online streaming giants. That boom is reshaping the industry from Atlanta to Hollywood, where even washed-up actors are suddenly in high demand and open studio space is the holy grail.”
Explaining Consciousness With Quantum Physics? Really? (Yeah)
“The mere mention of ‘quantum consciousness’ makes most physicists cringe, as the phrase seems to evoke the vague, insipid musings of a New Age guru. But if a new hypothesis proves to be correct, quantum effects might indeed play some role in human cognition.”
Why Movie Comedies Are A Dying Genre
Ten years ago, the blockbuster comedy was a key to any studio’s profit margin, given their relative cheapness to produce and propensity to linger in theaters on good word of mouth. Now, as worldwide box office becomes more crucial to the studio’s bottom line, comedies are vanishing from the schedule—because, in the words of one distributor, they don’t “travel well.”
How Miró’s Only Mosaic Mural Was Restored
“Joan Miró painted many murals in his lifetime, but he designed only one made of glass and marble, for Wichita State University’s Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art. Personnages Oiseaux, or ‘Bird People,’ … adorned the building’s southern-facing wall from 1978 until 2011, when the museum removed it for an extensive, $2.2 million restoration project to repair the deteriorating mosaic. Last month – nearly exactly 38 years from its unveiling – the mural of colorful characters finally returned to its wall.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.07.16
Remembering and Re-imagining an Era
Danspace Project’s Platform 16: Lost & Found revisits and examines the decades when HIV/AIDS felled so many. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-07
An ideal concert
Anderson and Roe, the piano duo, at the National Gallery in DC, on October 30. And why was it ideal? Well, first, … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2016-11-07
Otis Redding at the Whisky — Revisited
You can never really have too much Otis Redding. The great R&B singer and songwriter died in a plane crash in 1967, at just 26 years old, and just about everything he recorded … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-11-07
Monday Recommendation: David Baker
Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Basically Baker, Vol. 2 (Patois) … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-07
The unstructured room where it happens
In my last post I noted that, when I look at an orchestra’s structure, I don’t see anything that parallels a musician’s practice room. Scaled for an organization, what would a workshop like that look like? … read more
AJBlog: SongWorking Published 2016-11-07
Born in Vail
Vail Dance Festival: Re-Mix NYC performs at City Center, November 3 through 6. … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-11-06
Home is the wanderer
Luciana Souza and I go back a long time. The first posting on this blog was about her. We’d met a year before that, in the summer of 2002. A friend told me that she’d … read more
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-11-07
Bob Cranshaw, 1932-2016
Bassist Bob Cranshaw succumbed to bone cancer yesterday at his home in New York City. He was 83. He may be best remembered as Sonny Rollins’s bassist for more than half a century, but Cranshaw’s … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-05
Lit Crawl L.A./ North Hollywood
The other night I ventured out to Los Angeles’s North Hollywood neighborhood for the latest installment of Lit Crawl L.A. This annual night out has been going since 2013, but … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-11-04
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Sotheby’s Reports Big Loss
An expected loss, the auction house says. Sotheby’s on Monday reported a loss of $54.5 million in the third quarter, compared with a $17.9 million loss for the same period a year ago.
Protests Over Gallery Openings In Los Angeles Escalate – The Anti-Gentrification Side Gets Noisy
“The protests come at a time when the city has gained a reputation as a contemporary art capital that some critics say eclipses New York. Over the past decade, the Los Angeles art scene has grown tremendously, with the opening of the popular Broad museum, large flagship spaces created by local galleries, and outposts set up by a string of prominent New York and European dealers, including Hauser Wirth & Schimmel’s 100,000-square-foot complex, all of which have helped transform downtown.”
How Will The U.S. Election Affect The Art Market?
Flagship autumn sales were pushed from early November to late in the month, when whatever has happened is established fact. That’s because auction houses remember all too clearly what happened in the fall of 2000.