“Many of Broadway’s 40 theaters are off the market because they house long-running hits, giving landlords the upper hand and creating pressure for productions like ‘Side Show’ to click quickly with audiences, or at least demonstrate that they might.”
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Uzbek Museum Sold Off All Its Major Art And Replaced It With Copies
“The chief curator of the Uzbek State Arts Museum, Mirfayz Usmonov, received a nine-year sentence and two other museum staff received eight years each, the Huquq newspaper reported.”
Who’s Saving – And Curating – Protest Art?
“Since it wouldn’t be in the true spirit of protest if there weren’t at least a few voices of dissent, not everyone’s on board with preserving these ephemeral but powerful works. In Hong Kong, many museums that were asked to keep some of the artworks rejected them because they were ‘political.'”
Book Publishers Need To Understand Fan Culture
“The online book world is about gathering around a book, or a love of books generally. As I’ve argued here before, for millions of us, the solitary act of reading becomes incredibly social in the digital spaces where we spend our time.”
The New York Philharmonic Needs (A Lot Of) Money. What Will The New Chairman Of The Board Do?
“The orchestra, which hopes to begin renovating its home as soon as 2019, wants to effectively double the size of its endowment. But there will be stiff competition: Its next-door neighbor, the Met, is planning its own campaign to double its endowment.”
A Supreme Court Case About A 50-Year-Old Spiderman Toy May Change Everything About Patents
“The court noted concern that a patent holder might require someone licensing a patent to also license expired patents in order to seal the deal — a bargaining power that would have undermined the intent of making patents eventually open up to the public. Effectively, it would give some added leverage where they already have a monopoly.”
The BBC Is Facing Massive Cuts That May Destroy It (Or So Its Advocates Say)
“It’s an unsatisfactory system in all sorts of ways but, like democracy, it’s the best we have. The making of good programmes is an expensive business: if you do it on the cheap you just get poor-quality, home-made programmes and a lot of bought-in stuff, much of which is rubbish.”
Is Paris’ New Concert Hall The First “Perfect” Concert Hall?
“The Philharmonie is a huge, organic structure rising up in the Parc de la Villette, the arts and science park built just inside the boulevard périphérique on the site of the old Paris meat market and abattoirs. It is the latest and, sadly, possibly the last major manifestation of the energy and willpower of Pierre Boulez, composer, conductor and the godfather of music in France.”
Ludovic Morlot Quits La Monnaie
“I can only see that the orchestra and I have not been able to share a common artistic vision, and that is why, in the interest of their future as mine, I made the decision to leave. “
Are Video Games Culture? (It Matters Legally)
“Recognising games as cultural products would untie the red tape which unfairly prevents EU member state governments from supporting their national video game sectors.”