“Specifically, they found the mean annual income for male artists was $63,061, compared to $43,177 for their female counterparts. After further crunching the numbers, they report that a variety of factors that could influence income — including age, education, one’s specific artistic discipline, and the number of hours worked — only accounted for about one-third of that difference.”
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Artists And The Non-Arts Audience – A Different Kind Of Conversation
“For the artists to figure out a way to be in a conversation with this audience — a whole community of new eyes — is really exciting. Navigating that common space and figuring out what can be done to engage with this crowd while also what can be done to make things happen outside of that space.”
Yannick: What I Love About Jimmy
The incoming music director of the Metropolitan Opera, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, writes a tribute (with anecdotes) to his predecessor, James Levine.
‘The William Faulkner Of Jazz’, Mose Allison, Dead At 89
He combined the mordant blues of his native Mississippi with sophisticated jazz rhythm – and he became a sort of minor deity to the ’60s and ’70s rockers who covered his songs. And those songs could be biting: “What Do You Do After You Ruin Your Life?”, “Your Mind Is On Vacation (But Your Mouth Is Working Overtime),” and “Everybody’s Crying Mercy.”
Munch’s ‘Girls On The Bridge’ Sells For $54.5 Million
It’s the second-highest price ever paid for a Munch (after you-know-what). Yet it was the only bid on the painting, and that was by a party that guaranteed the sale. In fact, the entire evening was disappointing sales-wise.
Jules Eskin, 85, Longtime Principal Cellist Of Boston Symphony
The man Yo-Yo Ma considers a mentor became BSO principal in 1964 and co-founded the Boston Symphony Chamber Players in 1967.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.15.16
Your organization sucks at ‘community’ and let me tell you why
by Ronia Holmes, Assistant Director of Communications for Arts + Public Life at the University of Chicago … read more
AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2016-11-15
Mose Allison Is Gone
Mose Allison has died at the age of 89. A Mississippi pianist, singer, composer, songwriter and sometime trumpeter, Allison made his New York debut in the 1950s as a bebop pianist. … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-11-15
Propwatch: the lace in Giselle
It’s only a moment. Giselle, a migrant seamstress made rootless by a changing world, confronts the dauntingly affluent Bathilde. Their encounter ripples with instinctive distrust (unwittingly, each loves the same guy; this is ballet). … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-11-15
The Inexorable Decline Of Arts Criticism Is Picking Up Speed
Bill Marx looks at the Wall Street Journal and New York Times’ cutbacks in arts coverage: “Too many of today’s arts editors and reviewers embrace a lilliputian vision of arts criticism, a crabbed sense of its possibilities. I teach a class at Boston University on writing arts criticism, and can testify that most of these wanna-be critics have not read any reviews that date earlier than 2000.”
Robert Fulford: A Culture That Marginalizes Humanities Becomes The Poorer For It
“Traditionally, the humanities (history, literature, art, philosophy, etc.) have provided a place for broadening life in the democracies. Today universities have become a site for a bitter struggle between no-nonsense job training and the grander possibilities of the imagination.”
Vagueness Is A Useful Tool. But It Also Threatens Our Sense Of Logic
“You can find aspects of vagueness in most words of English or any other language. Out loud or in our heads, we reason mostly in vague terms. Such reasoning can easily generate sorites-like paradoxes. Can you become poor by losing one cent? Can you become tall by growing one millimetre? At first, the paradoxes seem to be trivial verbal tricks. But the more rigorously philosophers have studied them, the deeper and harder they have turned out to be. They raise doubts about the most basic logical principles.”