Sunday, April 24, 2022
This week's podcast of The UnderTow, ArtsJournal's new weekly podcast, features three stories from the past week. Sometimes stories are not exactly about the things they seem to be about at …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 14, 2022
Today we introduce a new podcast -- ArtsJournal's "The UnderTow" - a more or less weekly deeper look at two or three stories from the past week.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:06PM[SHARE]Saturday, November 6, 2021
There are plenty of strategic reasons to use hybrid content to further artistic goals that don't have to be around making money. But ultimately the model, whatever it is, has to make sense.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:03PM[SHARE]Monday, October 25, 2021
The arts workforce, and those being recruited into it, is changing. "We've never had as many openings at one time. And we recognize that in hiring so many positions at once, we have a huge r…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 22, 2021
Many arts organizations are coming out of the COVID shutdown in better financial shape than they were going in.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Over the past year, while compiling 150,000 stories in the AJ archives, I realized that this is a unique record of an extraordinary period in our cultural history. Sorry " that sounds grandi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 28, 2021
You might think this is just a journalism issue, but one can draw parallels of paying to read stories to paying for music streaming, which has not proven to "pay off" for the vast majority o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:54PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 9, 2021
I was asked to deliver a "provocation" for this week's League of American Orchestras annual conference with the prompt "How has Technology Changed Orchestras Forever?" Here's a video of the…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:18PM[SHARE]Monday, August 24, 2020
We need a significant, stable ongoing source of new funding that is politically insulated and inflation-proof.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 9, 2020
The shutdown has suspended usual rules, positions and behaviors, suggesting there may be opportunities to not just rethink but take action.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:32PM[SHARE]Monday, May 18, 2020
Opera America had asked me to speak at their annual conference this year, but of course the conference was canceled and moved online. So I made this video for the online conference, talking …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:54PM[SHARE]Friday, May 1, 2020
So your workplace has shut down (your theatre, concert hall museum, stage, whatever). Now what? Moving online is the obvious play. And in the weeks since lockdown there has been a flood of a…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 30, 2020
You can see this as nothing but loss. Or perhaps some of our most intractable debates are now suddenly shaken free of their old moorings.
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SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 29, 2019
A few months ago I was at a conference of administrators of large arts institutions when a leading researcher in cultural trends made a bold claim: The election of Donald Trump is a result o…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:12PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 23, 2018
The tide has turned on the tech revolution. Over the past year the breathless articles that used to accompany new tech innovations have dried up, replaced with dystopian concerns about the D…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:06PM[SHARE]Monday, July 30, 2018
This week Washington Post arts journalists Anne Midgette and Peggy McGlone published results of their six-month investigation of sexual harassment in the classical music business. Some of th…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:36AM[SHARE]Friday, July 27, 2018
A few weeks ago we posted a link in ArtsJournal to a piece in the Toronto Star under the admittedly provocative headline: “Time To Retire Beethoven’s Ninth?” In the piece, …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:24AM[SHARE]Monday, February 20, 2017
Last Week: Have performing arts centers led us to a dead end?… The new World Trade Center in New York demonstrates much of what is wrong with building today’s cities… The h…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:18PM[SHARE]Friday, February 17, 2017
Following on Joe Horowitz’s essay Lincoln Center Snapshot: Bing, Bernstein, and Balanchine Fifty Years Later and the five responses to his provocation, we’re in El Paso, Te…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 16, 2017
In his essay looking back on Lincoln Center on its 50th birthday, Joe Horowitz suggests that the cultural citadel built optimistically to be a launching pad for the American performing ar…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:24AM[SHARE]Friday, January 27, 2017
As recently as 1990, American symphony orchestras accounted for an average of 60 percent of their budgets in earned income. This meant, at the time, that if you weren’t selling enough …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:04AM[SHARE]Monday, January 23, 2017
This Week: Trump, the arts, the culture budget and protest… Harvard ART school gets suspended…MIT’s list of 10 things you need to know… Writers and money – the …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:33AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2017
So it begins. A report in The Hill, then picked up in the Washington Post, says that the Trump administration intends to eliminate the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowm…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Unquestionably, a majority of the people who work in Hollywood lean politically left. More than lean, in many cases. But how much of their politics makes it onto the big screen? Rory Carroll…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2017
This Week: The Trump era is a challenge to America’s arts institutions… Artificial intelligence is teaching us how to better-design concert halls… How originality has faile…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2016
This Week: Mozart outsells every CD this year?… How artificial intelligence is changing thinking… Why should artists be entrepreneurs?… How the West dominated global cultur…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:04PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 13, 2016
This Week: Two stories worth noting – the segregation of DC theatre audiences and what it might tell us… The translation of live theatre to the small screen is more than just fil…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2016
This Week: The next wave of arts journalism layoffs begins… Lots of debate about the role of artists in the Trump era… Prominent Canadian artists petition the government to ̶…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:36PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2016
This Week: Did settling the Pittsburgh Symphony strike just kick the can down the road?… The idea of progress is a fragile (and recent) notion… Why should this arts funding depen…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:36PM[SHARE]Monday, November 21, 2016
This Week: That Mike Pence goes to “Hamilton” story? A textbook protest… Finally – some real data on the health of orchestras… Arts criticism is either being re…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2016
This Week: Hard to imagine there are arts headlines to compete with election news, but here goes: Science tries to explain why we’re ideologically segregated… It’s not just…
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