This Week In Audience

How Are Audiences Getting Their Arts?

• When the Danish Chamber Orchestra got itself into a funding crisis it threw a Hail Mary and launched a Kickstarter campaign. Guess what? Improbably, it worked…
•  The celebrity gossip website TMZ turned itself into a media powerhouse by crowdsourcing.  “TMZ resembles an intelligence agency as much as a news organization, and it has turned its domain, Los Angeles, into a city of stool pigeons.”
• City light festivals are lighting up the globe. “Many of these free light festivals include interactive displays that turn spectators into participants who can change colors or patterns by moving or playing a game.”