“The orchestra saw a 300-percent increase in subscriptions sold last season, at least in part the result of incentives that gave concertgoers a free ticket to see superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma or “Star Wars” composer John Williams in exchange for purchase of tickets to 10 concerts. In addition, the CSO received nearly $3 million more in contributions than in the previous fiscal year.”
Tag: 12.18.11
Does Anyone Go To The Movies Anymore? The Stats Say Not Really
Ouch: “After two previous weekends that were Hollywood’s worst of the year, overall business was down again, about 12 percent lower than the same weekend in 2010.”
Time For U.S. Auction Houses To Pay Up, Says A New Congressional Bill
“The bill, which amends existing copyright law to provide for America’s first nationwide royalty on sales of visual art, calls for funneling half the proceeds to a new federally supervised fund that would help nonprofit museums buy artworks by living, U.S.-based artists.”
For The Best In Baroque Architecture, Get To Prague, And Hope For Sun
“Unlike cities such as Salzburg, which are lucky to display the Baroque in small clusters, Prague opens the Baroque onto the visitor like the spread of an eagle’s wings.”
The Ubiquitous Beethoven, And What U.S. Pop Culture Thinks About Him
“Early fans turned the composer from a cultural hero into a god of sorts, a fountainhead of edifying, ‘ethical’ music.”
Will EU Law Ruin UK Art Dealers? Or Is That All Bollocks?
Art dealers in Great Britain aren’t best pleased with a law that gives heirs of artists a percentage of resale money, but heirs say the dealers’ protests “sound like a load of nonsense.”
Irreplaceable Archives Destroyed By Fire In Egyptian Clashes
“The Institute of Egypt was set on fire two days ago and the building is still smouldering. It had housed national archives going back over two centuries and its paper archives have now been largely been destroyed.”
Want Award Nominations? Be British (Of Course), And Deal In War
Want a nod for the Golden Globes or even the Oscars? Get into war (movies). “Filmmakers are offering a kind of master class in the history of warfare, interpreted through everything from classics, to spy novels, to biopics and kids stories.”
Oscars Academy Goes All Out – Outside, That Is, With New L.A. Theatre
What’s the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences up to now, other than crossing its fingers that more Oscars hosts won’t quit? Building. “The 17,000-square-foot outdoor space is designed to function as a venue for showing classic films and is expected to open in May.”
Who Will Win The (Meerkat Holiday Book) Battle Of Britain?
That’s right: The Brits like their meerkats. Celebrities in the U.K. fight it out for top holiday meerkat book status.