This Week: Systematically learning to love classical music... Where people going into the subway just to see the art... The down sides of TV binge-watching... I fought the ticket boys and the bots totally won... A budding romance between classical music and movies. Conquering Everest - How I Learned To Love Classical Music: When you don't know anything about an art form, … [Read more...]
This Week in Audience: The Arts As A Lens On The World
This Week: A philanthropic model might make more sense for your audience... Should you feel guilty watching big-screen movies on your phone?... Seeing your art as a lens on the world... Does putting opera on Stephen Colbert's show do any good?... Some questions about the arts' role as a "social good." A Dance Company Rethinks Its Model For Support: If most of your funding … [Read more...]
Dear White Orchestras – A Challenge To “Universality”
"A universalist ethic inclines us to believe that orchestral music is, itself, a universal thing and our place in the arts ecosystem is related to that. It leads us to focus on how this music is True in some larger sense of the word. With that in mind we see our lack of diversity (our whiteness) as an injustice. Everyone should have access to this Truth. On the other hand, the … [Read more...]
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 than they were... What have we learned about translating live musical theatre to TV? The Arts, Business Models, And What Are The Arts For: The arts sector … [Read more...]
What We Learned In Audience This Week: How We Define “Audience”
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 filming a show. Defining an "Audience?" A report on Washington DC theatre audiences has lots of great news. Of the area's seven major professional theatres, attendance has increased over ten years … [Read more...]