Monday, December 23, 2019
The DOJ investigation found that Live Nation had repeatedly violated the 10-year consent decree signed after the merger, in which the company agreed to refrain from monopolistic practices su…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]"My explanation is that interest groups that are involved primarily in providing professional services like finance or law or medicine have distorted or corrupted markets. The result is that…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:33PM[SHARE]Friday, December 20, 2019
Though the list is all fiction, overall the trend is moving towards nonfiction on the best-seller lists. According to Lee Graham of the NPD Group, "In 2010, nearly 80 percent of the top-sell…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Welcome work by the Tyndall Centre for Climate Research examines all the areas of impact touring has on the environment and recognises that the issue is complex: it cannot be solved by plant…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]"Theater people resent "Cats" not just because it made Broadway uncool until "Hamilton" finally rescued it from the pop cultural stocks. What really infuriates buffs is that "Cats" ushered i…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]The academy had given its students "insufficient medical and therapeutic care," a commission set up by the Austrian government, said in a report issued on Tuesday. There also seemed to be "n…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:24PM[SHARE]Broadway's supply and demand for theatres is a far cry from the mid 1980s, when commercial theatre in New York in general seemed like it might be on the ropes. Hamilton, Moulin Rouge!, The L…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:31PM[SHARE]The Newseum was "prey to the economic and cultural forces that have bedeviled institutions as diverse as symphony orchestras and the electronic media. It had to compete for audience and achi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:03PM[SHARE]What '60s science fiction did do was establish one of the wildest, widest, most stylistically and conceptually various commercial spaces for writing (and reading) fiction in the history of f…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen below 10 per cent of the world's population for the first time. It was 60 per…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"As a transgression, plagiarism comes with a fully operational stigma attached. Not so with self-plagiarism. It can be forbidden but without the benefit of shame as a reinforcement. I did fi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]"Hollywood started as a green industry and then became brown. Everything was used repeatedly; nothing went into storage. Then when studios began to decline, they got rid of everything, sold …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:54PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 19, 2019
Like many of us today, the Soviet leaders misunderstood what humour is and what it actually does for people. Telling a joke about something is not the same as either condemning or endorsing …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]Good listening is not a matter of technique but of having the willingness to enter into another person's life. Many bad listeners can't be there for someone else because they are too locked …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]The country's first parliamentary inquiry into its arts funding system concluded the Government should aim to commit at least 1% of its £425bn national budget towards culture. "Public fun…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]There was a cultural difference between pre-boomer collectors, motivated by "connoisseurship and aesthetic appreciation," and subsequent generations, who had "more of an awareness of the fin…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]"To survive, opera has to confront the depth of its racism and sexism point-blank, treating classic operas as historical artifacts instead of dynamic cultural productions. Opera directors sh…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]A US Department of Agriculture spokesperson said the Kingdom of Wakanda was added to the list by accident during a staff test. The department's online tariff tracker hosted a detailed list o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]Ty Bur: "You've heard of the "uncanny valley" effect? The eeriness or revulsion felt when looking at a humanoid figure that's not quite human? The digital era has given us many examples of t…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]John Foxwell's research found that 69 percent of authors hear voices of their characters, and 42 percent can enter into dialogue with them. Sixty-five percent say they can act on their ow…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]We shouldn't be surprised that Rieu is a box office sensation. In an era when, we are told, nobody sells DVDs and CDs anymore, Rieu has sold more than 40 million of them. Last year, the Dutc…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]Rarely has the power of "influence" been felt so acutely in an industry in which a media blitz usually involves not much more than a handful of speaking events at local bookstores. For the k…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:18PM[SHARE]About 1 million Netflix subscribers made the switch last month, following the Nov. 12 Disney+ launch, according to survey results released Wednesday by brokerage Cowen & Co. The firm est…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33AM[SHARE]"Everything about Celebration telegraphed cozy familiarity. Brochures depicted a quasi-fantastical realm of home-cooked meals, traditional family values, and G-rated movies. The civic buildi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33AM[SHARE]Bring your love of dance, theatre, music, or opera to leadership roles in national and international performing arts organizations through NYU Steinhardt's MA in Performing Arts Administrati…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33AM[SHARE]The Director of Marketing and Communications will drive earned revenue through ticket sales, devise strategies to maximize public participation, and build brand awareness for Long Wharf Th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Collectively, the dealers hope, Komunuma's mix of programs will make it a destination, especially as the greater Paris region seeks to shore up activity in the capital's suburbs. They forese…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Virtual reality and augmented reality (AR)"which overlays digital elements on the real world rather than creating a fully immersive alternative"are "unbelievably promising" for the future of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]In a Letter to the Editor published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander confirms that funding was rescinded in direct response to the set…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]With Playing in the Dark, Morrison changed the rules of the game, effectively recasting what we see when we look back to figures like Woolf and to writers of the present and future like Cols…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:33PM[SHARE]In the decades since "Merry Christmas," she has created her own evolving brand of hip-hop pop. And she has leaned"or, better, reclined"into the role of playful diva. " The New Yorker
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