This Week In Audience: How We Think About Measuring Audiences Edition This Week: Business models and arts audiences… The rising impact of crowdfunding on the arts… Big Data can measure the wrong things, so be careful… Data show audiences are less affected by information overload … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts Audience Published 2016-12-18
Weekend Extra: “Freeway” Two Ways
Chet Baker became famous as a trumpeter, not a composer. Still, when he was with the Gerry Mulligan Quartet he wrote a tune that attracts musicians more than sixty years later. “Freeway” has clever rhythmic … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-12-17
‘Tis the Season
Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House. Five of the dancing snowflakes in Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut. Photo: Yi-Chun Wu Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut sets the knowing audience at … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-12-17
On Stage with the Marx Bros
ONE of the glories of American culture is the cinematic ensemble known as the Marx Brothers. But before Chico, Zeppo, Harpo, and Groucho became anarchic movie stars in film like “A Day at the Races” … read more
AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2016-12-16