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• Think Accommodating The Arts To Audiences With Disabilities Is Simply About Building Ramps? Here’s A Little Imagination

  14-08-2015 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In disability circles, we are reminded to always lead with the person first — it’s better to say “a person who uses a wheelchair” vs. “a wheelchair user.” (The only exception is in the deaf community, where many want to be referred to as a “deaf person.”) With artists, I am reminded to always lead […]
  
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• Research: Five Popular Education Reforms That Don’t Work

  14-08-2015 22:22 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a new paper, “What Doesn’t Work In Education: The Politics Of Distraction,” published by Pearson Education, Hattie takes on some of the most popular approaches to reform. Small classes. High standards. More money. These popular and oft-prescribed remedies from both the right and the left, he argues, haven’t been shown to work as well […]
  
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• Run Out Of Money? This City Just Spent £188 Million On New Library. Now It’s Asking The Public To Donate Books

  14-08-2015 21:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Libraries in Birmingham have posted notices requesting members donate their new and recently-released books, saying they would be “gratefully received”.
  
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• Audience Engagement? Everyone’s Talking, But What Does It Mean?

  14-08-2015 21:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As ongoing technological and demographic changes have altered the relationship between arts organizations and that of artists and the audiences for their work, the value proposition offered during the latter half of the 20th century is in many cases changed and less relevant. Many arts groups therefore struggle with diminishing audiences and instability as the […]
  
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• Fringe Festivals Are A Lot Of Work. Are They Worth It?

  14-08-2015 20:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On the eve of FringeNYC, which runs Friday to Aug. 30, we asked representatives from some shows presented last year whether the overall effort — the cost, the frantic pace, the heat and the need to compete for audiences with almost 200 other shows — is ultimately worth it.
  
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• ‘Hiromi Tango: Fluorescence’ at Sullivan+Strumpf

  14-08-2015 20:43 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Hiromi Tango: FLUORESCENCE” is on view at Sullivan+Strumpf in Sydney until Saturday, August 22. The exhibition presents new works by the artist that are an attempt to … Read More
  
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• What HBO Acquiring “Sesame Street” Means For The Future Of TV

  14-08-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Sesame Street will still air on PBS—after a nine-month delay—so it’s not as if the program is vanishing entirely behind a paywall. But today’s announcement is a harbinger. The streaming model won’t just be for re-runs and specialized content. It’s coming for all of us.”
  
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• ‘The Laptop Is Going to Replace the Velvet Rope': Invaluable CEO on Partnering With Sotheby’s

  14-08-2015 19:08 via artnews.com
  After five months and 113 sales, Sotheby’s and eBay.com/Sotheby’s announced the results of their partnership with Invaluable, a company specializing in online-auction technology, reporting an almost 55 percent increase in the number of collectors bidding online, as well as a 35 … Read More
  
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• Special Kind Of Crazy – How Classical Music Is Portrayed In Popular Movies

  14-08-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche. There is little evidence of such a predilection among real-life serial killers, who seem to prefer Black Sabbath, AC/DC, REO Speedwagon, and, of course, the Beatles. So where does the trope come from?”
  
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• Dana Gioia: Poetry As Appeal To The Senses

  14-08-2015 18:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In poetry, intellectual-ity without physicality becomes dull and barren, just as intuition untethered by intellect quickly becomes sloppy and subjective. We need to augment methodology with magic.”
  
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• Research: Children’s Educational TV Doesn’t Reduce Prejudice

  14-08-2015 18:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Despite our vigorous attempts to unearth associations between children’s racial attitudes and their exposure to these types of programs, there were no significant direct effects of exposure to intergroup friendship shows such as Sesame Street, and minority hero shows such as Dora the Explorer,” the researchers write in the journal American Behavioral Scientist.
  
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• Dear Music Streamers: Your Service Sucks For Classical Music

  14-08-2015 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An easy fix would be to get an actual human expert to curate this stuff. Maybe even someone who enjoys classical music and actually knows what they’re talking about!
  
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• At East Hampton’s Guild Hall, Roy Lichtenstein of the Great Outdoors

  14-08-2015 17:11 via artnews.com
  “Roy Lichtenstein: Between Sea and Sky” at Guild Hall in East Hampton, New York, celebrates in 31 works a subject that was dear to the Pop artist. Associated with romance- and war-themed comic book imagery that he began painting in … Read More
  
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• ‘Basically It Becomes This Love Story’: Jamie Warren’s Bed-Stuy Tribute to Freddy Mercury

  14-08-2015 16:05 via artnews.com
  Last Sunday night, an overflowing crowd packed tightly into the small front room of American Medium in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, the space bordering on mosh pit levels of density. Everyone was there to witness a performance by the artist Jamie … Read More
  
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• ‘Basically It Becomes This Love Story’: Jamie Warren’s Bed-Stuy Tribute to Freddie Mercury

  14-08-2015 16:05 via artnews.com
  Last Sunday night, an overflowing crowd packed tightly into the small front room of American Medium in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, the space bordering on mosh pit levels of density. Everyone was there to witness a performance by the artist Jamie … Read More
  
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• ‘Basically It Becomes This Love Story’: Jaimie Warren’s Bed-Stuy Tribute to Freddie Mercury

  14-08-2015 16:05 via artnews.com
  Last Sunday night, an overflowing crowd packed tightly into the small front room of American Medium in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood, the space bordering on mosh pit levels of density. Everyone was there to witness a performance by the artist Jaimie … Read More
  
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• Morning Links: ‘Celebrating Failure Since 1993′ Edition

  14-08-2015 15:01 via artnews.com
  Linda Yablonsky reports on Havana’s rich art scene. [W Magazine]The Museum of Bad Art is celebrating its 21st birthday. [The Creator’s Project]The $16 million SeaGlass carousel, funded by the Battery Conservatory, will open next Thursday in Lower Manhattan. The three-and-a-half … Read More
  
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• 'He loved weightlifting and buying jewels': Andy Warhol's friends reveal all

  14-08-2015 14:00
  He worked out all the time, loved sex (contrary to popular belief), was a father figure to rejects – and would chat on the phone for hours. The people closest to Andy Warhol uncover his hidden sideWe all know Andy, the alien in the fright wig with his Marilyns and Elvises, who died at the age of 58 from complications to gall-bladder surgery. Most artists are referred to by their proper but distancing surnames – Constable, Matisse – but he’s one of very few to achieve the ultimate si
  
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• Art exhibition On Their Own shows the heartbreaking history of British child migration

  14-08-2015 11:09
  
  You could easily mistake the photograph of four young British children carrying massive suitcases that are almost as big as they are for a happy holiday snap. But these are children from deprived homes in the UK who in 1938 are being shipped off to Australia, to Fairbridge Farm School in Molong, New South Wales, to be used as child labour.
  
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• History Has No Place: Pico Iyer On Japan’s Unsentimental Attitude Toward Its Modernist Architecture

  14-08-2015 10:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The answer is simple: The Japanese are different from you and me. They don’t confuse books with their covers. … The motto guiding Japan’s way of being might be: New is the new old. For proof, you need only look at three recent high-profile and much-debated demolition jobs in Tokyo.”
  
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• Ann McGovern, Author Of ‘Stone Soup’ And Other Children’s Books, Dead At 85

  14-08-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For decades, Ms. McGovern’s books were mainstays of public libraries, classroom book nooks, bedroom shelves and children’s treasure piles.”
  
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• ‘Sesame Street’ Goes To HBO And Makes Clear Why We Should Fund The Arts

  14-08-2015 10:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new agreement “simultaneously demonstrates, once again, that the show is a valuable commodity, and makes one of the best, most underlooked arguments for public arts funding. It’s not … about whether art exists or not. It’s about whether people who don’t live in areas with museums, or who can’t afford cable, much less premium […]
  
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• Rupert Pennefather Leaves Royal Ballet, Effective Immediately

  14-08-2015 10:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Neither the company nor Pennefather gave any reason for the departure. He had danced with the company for 16 years and was named a principal in 2008.
  
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• The Worst Best Picture Decade: How ‘Crash’ Capped Off The Strange Crossover Years When The Academy Lost Its Collective Mind

  14-08-2015 10:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scott Timberg: “The Oscars have never had a perfect batting average, but go back 20 years to the 1995 Oscars and work your way up through 2005 – the era in which the independent film movement crossed over into the mainstream – and time and again, the Academy it failed to acknowledge the best films […]
  
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• Bayreuth Festival Starts Loosening Up (A Bit)

  14-08-2015 09:56 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, the programming is still restricted to ten operas, the theater seats are still hot and uncomfortable, you can still wait years for the privilege of buying tickets, and a Wagner descendant is still in charge, public funding or no. But the Richard Wagner museum is now far more forthcoming about the unsavory parts of […]
  
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• Columbia House, The Eight-Records-For-A-Penny Mail-Order Club, Goes Bankrupt (Wait, Columbia House Still Exists?)

  14-08-2015 09:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Since peaking in 1996 at about $1.4 billion, revenue has declined almost every year since.” Now the company has $2 million in assets, $63 million in liabilities, and no employees.
  
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• Russian Publisher Puts Western Authors’ Names On Books They Say They Never Wrote

  14-08-2015 09:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Journalists Luke Harding and Edward Lucas and U.S.-based Russia expert Donald Jensen confirmed to The Moscow Times that they did not know anything about Russian-language books allegedly written by them and produced by Moscow publishing house Algoritm.”
  
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• Reverse Graffiti? Making A Public Artwork By (Selectively) Washing Off Grime

  14-08-2015 09:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Poland’s Solina dam, completed in 1969 and the tallest dam in Poland, has been collecting dirt and grime on its walls for decades. But when it came time for the 269-foot dam to get a good powerwash, the energy company Polska Grupa Energetyczna had an idea.”
  
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• Morris Dancers In Mass Bar Brawl With Blind Soccer Team

  14-08-2015 09:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The footballers were enjoying a match on the village green at Rattlesden, near Stowmarket, using a ball with a bell in it so they could keep up with play. … A player kicked the ball off the pitch towards the Brewers Arms, and then mistook the morris dancers’ uniform bells for the one in the […]
  
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• It Can Pay For Itself : Arts Council England Defends Decision Not To Fund Comedy

  14-08-2015 08:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An open letter written by the producers of the London Sketch Comedy Festival criticised ACE’s policy not to financially support the art form, claiming it is ‘negligent and dismissive’. A spokeswoman for ACE said the main reason it does not fund comedy directly is that it ‘tends to be a commercially self-sustaining performance form’.”
  
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• The Street Dance Of The Favelas Becomes A Hit – And Reclaims Brazil’s African Heritage

  14-08-2015 08:50 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The spirit of danças da rua (street dances) – whose fusion of hip-hop, samba and the Afro-Brazilian martial art of capoeira are most at home in gritty neighbourhoods – led to the formation of Balé de Rua, which now dazzles audiences in 13 countries.”
  
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• Finally, A Non-Embarrassing Classical-Music Scene In A Blockbuster Movie! Sighs Alex Ross

  14-08-2015 08:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The tendency to associate classical music with murderous insanity is a curious neurosis of the American pop-cultural psyche. … Given all that history, I was happily shocked by an extended opera scene in the new Tom Cruise thriller, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.13.15

  14-08-2015 06:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reading the Tea Leaves: What is Ai Weiwei Thinking? AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2015-08-13 Weekend Listening Tip: Jazz Port Townsend All-Stars AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-12 So you want to see a show? AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-13 [ssba_hide]
  
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• Work by late Steven Campbell donated to Glasgow School of Art

  14-08-2015 01:01
  Film director Bill Forsyth gives Fake Ophelia to art school’s collection of works by graduatesThe award-winning film director Bill Forsyth and his partner, Moira Wylie, have donated an artwork by the late Steven Campbell to the Glasgow School of Art.Continue reading...
  
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• US returns $15m Picasso painting to France after thwarting black market sale

  14-08-2015 00:52
  Formal ceremony comes after La Coiffeuse was realised to be missing from Paris’ Museum of Modern Art in 2001 and seized in Newark, New Jersey last yearThe US government has formally returned a painting by Pablo Picasso, valued at $15m (£9.6m), which had been stolen more than a decade ago from a Paris museum and seized by immigration officials late last year in New Jersey.During a ceremony at the French embassy, Sarah Saldaña, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),
  
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