This Week's Insights: Franchise movies are crowding out everything else... Big Data is changing what music is making it... Are music genres disappearing?... Why bands are ditching encores. Big Movies Squash The Rest: Hollywood is having an inequality moment. The middle class movies are disappearing, and big franchise movies have squeezed out everything else. "This year, a … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: The arts help you live longer?... Best-selling books need movies to become best-selling... Why Broadway curtain calls are getting more elaborate... Paris tries to diversify with the arts... Does virtual reality improve the museum experience? The Arts Help You Live Longer? There are now endless studies that purport to show that participating in the arts … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: The next phase of ticket scalping... When popularity doesn't define a good art experience... Why are museums turning to performance?... When artists end and brand begin... Philadelphia offers a culture pass to library users. Scalping's Scary New Phase: Scalpers have been a fact of life since there were first tickets. The internet only made it worse, and … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Do we need to rethink what is "traditional?"... MoCA goes free, but it's not so easy... Cultural globalism has diversified... How Disney has repeatedly fumbled the internet... Small theatres make amazing economic impact. When The Audience Says "Traditional," What Does That Mean? An observation about fans of opera in Ireland: “Over the years I’ve had … [Read more...]

This Week's Insights: Streaming wars will fragment audiences and end pop culture... Should the arts be gathering data on audiences' social class?... A 'decade of reckoning" for classical music... Where theatre is winning over screens. Will Streaming Wars End Pop Culture? Our larger culture is defined by common pop culture, the culture we all see and debate and talk about. TV … [Read more...]