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• How Ticket Reselling Is Killing Live Music (And There’s Nothing We Can Do About It)

  28-06-2015 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Defenders of the ticket resale market will tell you ticket resale is a simple extension of the free market; that the resale market is the best way to learn the true value of a ticket (as opposed to the perceived one asked by promoters, venues and artists); and that if artists don’t like resale (and […]
  
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• Why Are Movies Having Such A Blockbuster Year?

  28-06-2015 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It’s been a phenomenal six months for blockbusters, with Avengers; Age of Ultron and Fast and Furious 7 also breaking the $1bn barrier – an achievement that was almost unheard of until a few years ago.”
  
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• A Five-Hour Dance Performance Becomes An Endurance Test

  28-06-2015 19:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even watching ‘Still Life’ is an act of endurance. Without a narrative arc or the traditional performance signals of beginning, middle and end, the experience of being in the audience demands a particular focus and attention.”
  
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• International Tourists Love ‘Friends,’ And Warner Bros Wants Them On Set

  28-06-2015 19:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Once an afterthought, the two-hour studio tour has become a significant and increasingly fast-growing business for Warner Bros. The tour employs about 200 tour guides and support staff, up from a handful a decade ago.”
  
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• Asian Americans, Playing Roles Well Beyond Maid, Nurse Or Grocer

  28-06-2015 18:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When the actress Mia Katigbak was a student at Barnard College in the 1970s, she was the only Asian-American studying theater and mostly got to play ‘maids and hookers,’ she said. One day the department head asked her to join a Molière comedy. She would play the harpsichord from behind a screen, Ms. Katigbak recalls […]
  
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• Richmond Symphony And Its (Literal) Big Tent

  28-06-2015 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘The reason we’re excited about the big tent is because it allows us to go out into the community for audiences that may not traditionally go downtown for concerts,’ Dodson said. ‘We wanted to make this as much of a community project as possible.'”
  
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• James Malpas obituary

  28-06-2015 18:00
  
  Art historian and lecturer keen to make his subject accessible through his witty writings and radio broadcastsJames Malpas, who has died of a cerebral haemorrhage aged 56, was an art historian with a broad knowledge of western art, literature, history, music, eastern arts and spirituality. He was a virtuoso lecturer and educator at galleries including the Tate, Victoria & Albert and Hayward, for the National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies and the National Art Collections
  
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• The Self Of A Memoir Is Just As Fictional As Any Character In A Novel

  28-06-2015 17:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jill Talbot: “I worry I already live in a perpetual state of detachment from the world, from experiences, from people — I see the essay in everything. So when I begin to think about how to shape an experience via formal experimentation or point of view or metaphor, the experience dissolves and the essay emerges.”
  
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• Happy Pride, And Here’s Some History Of Censorship Of LGBTQ Art

  28-06-2015 17:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The artist’s digital print was included in the 2001 show ‘CyberArte: Tradition Meets Technology’ at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, but religious activists fervently called for its removal. The print, which visually referenced queer Chicana culture, was also censored in exhibitions in Cork, Ireland, and Oakland.”
  
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• In-Between: A disaster zone in London strikes poetic notes after concerning itself with doom

  28-06-2015 17:03
  
  “Destruction is difficult,” wrote the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci in his prison cell in 1932. “Indeed, it is as difficult as creation.” Gramsci had been sentenced for his political activities in 1926 by Mussolini’s fascist police. The prosecutor at his trial famously said: “For 20 years, we must stop this brain from functioning.” They did not manage it.
  
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• What We Can Learn From The Greeks About Violence Onstage

  28-06-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The violence in Greek tragedies is a form of therapy and education for the audiences both then and now, Doerries argues, a communal response to suffering. The violence in many of the contemporary American plays I’ve been seeing, by contrast, is intended as a form of entertainment, a thrill ride.”
  
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• Why A Massive Trade Partnership Could Endanger Culture In Europe

  28-06-2015 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “European artists are concerned that a model like the one that exists in the US — with artists catering to the market, taking second jobs, and relying on grants from private foundations — could become the standard across all TTIP countries, while the inverse transmission of cultural funding models — with the US adopting a […]
  
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• The Japanese Photographer Who Spent Decades Taking Pictures Of The Navajo Code Talkers

  28-06-2015 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘My father said the war ended early so he could come home,’ Mr. Kawano recalled. ‘That’s why I was born and I came to America, taking pictures of the former enemy.'”
  
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• ‘Glastonbury is a work of art. It is a masterpiece’

  28-06-2015 14:31
  
  The Guardian’s art critic goes to Glastonbury for the first time since 1984 and finds Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has come to life. Did the festival free his mind – or make him lose it?It was the night the music died. I was 19 and had come to the Glastonbury festival with my girlfriend. We were looking forward to 1984’s headline act the Smiths. But then it rained. Quite a lot.The sky was thunderous, the lanes turning to rivers of mud. We hiked miles into the campsite, i
  
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• Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for the Modern World review – designed to diminish

  28-06-2015 11:15
  
  Tate Britain, London
  Cramped, bereft of natural light and undermined by rivals, Hepworth suffers from the Tate’s bid to reposition her as an international giantThe art of Barbara Hepworth (1903-75) needs no introduction – or so you might think. Standing stones, carved totems, hollows, holes and polished eggs, white marble ovoids, their scooped-out interiors sometimes strung like musical instruments: these are so ubiquitous as to be almost a cliche of modernist sculpture.Single Form, the garg
  
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• Toy Soldiers by Simon Brann Thorpe review – a powerful meditation on war

  28-06-2015 11:00
  
  These images in which troops pose as their model counterparts show the absurdity of military conflict – and the plight of individuals locked in itWar photography might seem the least inappropriate genre to lend itself to a conceptual treatment, but artists as diverse as Sophie Ristelhueber and Broomberg and Chanarin have ruptured the traditional narrative of reportage in surprising ways. Ristelhueber’s series Fait, made in 1991, presents monochrome images of the scarred surface of the Kuwait
  
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• Serpentine pavilion 2015: So where’s the function?

  28-06-2015 10:45
  
  This year’s Serpentine pavilion, by Spain’s José Selgas and Lucía Cano, is as playful a work of art as you could wish to hold a sponsor’s party in – but as architecture it misses an important pointOn the edge of a field in Somerset, with a view of a cricket pitch and in an ambience of all-round rural Englishness, is an object on which so many metaphors have been expended that it needs no more now. Just the facts: this is the 2014 edition in the Serpentine Gallery’s series of annual t
  
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• Station to Station review – new musical express

  28-06-2015 09:00
  
  A trans-American rail journey, picking up musicians en route, forms the basis for an engaging sound and light showIn 2013, artist Doug Aitken’s “kinetic light sculpture” (a train with brilliantly illuminated side panels) travelled from New York to San Francisco, stopping at 10 stations, picking up artists and musicians en route. This film, comprising 62 minute-long-shorts, provides an engaging snapshot of the project, blending footage of “happenings” with on-board conversations and per
  
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• Behind the scenes of the world's most experimental science labs

  28-06-2015 00:00
  
  Daniel Stier spent four years travelling the world to photograph some rather striking scientific experiments – but don't expect him to be able to throw any light on what is going on in any of them. "I honestly don't always know what they are doing," he says of the shots he has compiled in a new book, Ways of Knowing.
  
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