So What Exactly Is A “Quantitative” Measure Of The Arts? Arts Council England says it will use a standardized assessment system called Quality Metrics in evaluating the arts it it considers funding. The system has been developed over several years and is an attempt to create … read more
AJBlog: diacritical/Douglas McLennan Published 2016-09-18
Weekend Extra: Three Views Of Thelonious Monk In the early 70s when I was anchoring at Channel 11 in New York, I took a film crew (remember film?) to Lincoln Center to do a feature about the Giants Of Jazz, the group … read more
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2016-09-18
Understanding The New Audience: Five Stories From This Week’s AJ – Attention Span Theatre This Week: How free museum admission changes audience and behavior… Legislation to battle the ticket bots… Is YouTube making it tougher for live performers?… Detroit Symphony starts an amateur orchestra to get closer to … read more
AJBlog: AJ Arts AudiencePublished 2016-09-18
Across the Water, into the Past Colleen Thomas Dance performs a site-specific work on Governors Island, September 16-18. Colleen Thomas (green skirt) and her family on Governors Island in the 1970s Visiting Governors Island for the first time (yes, really), I … read more
AJBlog: Dancebeat Published 2016-09-18
Madhouse/playhouse When the great Victorian actor Ellen Terry was preparing to play Ophelia, she visited a London asylum to observe young women who might unlock the character. However, the madwomen were, she wrote, useless for … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2016-09-18