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• It Costs $100,000 To Train A Ballerina

  20-08-2015 23:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To understand what it takes to become a professional ballerina, I wanted to find out how much the required ballet training really costs. There are many factors that go into the cost of training, and when I totaled the core expenses, I found that a pre-professional ballet education for girls can easily amount to a total of more than a hundred thousand dollars.”
  
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• Former National Theatre Bosses Nicholas Hytner And Nick Starr To Open London’s First New Theatre In 20 Years

  20-08-2015 23:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While there are 17 other theatres of comparable size (800-1,099 seats) in greater London, with 15 of those in inner London, the new building would be the first large-scale theatre in the heart of the capital since the erection of Shakespeare’s Globe in 1997, and the first large-scale commercial playhouse to be built since the New London was created in Drury Lane in 1973.”
  
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• Police Search for Men Who Stole Auguste Rodin Bust From Glyptotek in Copenhagen

  20-08-2015 21:17 via artnews.com
  In what is being described as one of the biggest art thefts in Denmark in the past few years, two men stole a bust by the French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, in Copenhagen, last month. According … Read More
  
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• Readers recommend: songs about mood-changing music | Peter Kimpton

  20-08-2015 21:00
  A rush of joy? Or moved to tears? Suggest songs with lyrics that refer to other songs or music that can bring about a change in state of mind or emotion“As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me,” said Brian Eno. As an artist who works in many forms, including an endlessly shifting visual project created with designer Nick Robertson, 77 Million Paintings, he is an experimentalist fascinated by constantly shifting nuances and states of mind. But all music changes mood
  
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• Art knows no national borders | Letters

  20-08-2015 20:13
  Jonathan Jones is right about marginalising Scottish artists (Bus Gallery may get tangled in the Highland wool of nationalism, 19 August). The same applies to England. Drawing such boundaries is like herding cats – look what has happened to the Tate at Millbank, revised as Tate Britain. A lovely building now cut adrift from the rest of the world. Art doesn’t work like that.
  Humphrey Ocean RA
  London• I am envious of the north of England. The reason for this is that they have a no
  
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• Something to sing about: 'worst art restoration ever' inspires an opera

  20-08-2015 20:04
  Cecilia Giménez was scorned after her amateur efforts to repair a faded painting of Christ – but in the years since, the disaster has been transformed into a windfallWith just a few strokes of a paintbrush, Cecilia Giménez unwittingly became one of Spain’s best-known living painters.
  The honour was dubious, with Giménez famous for all the wrong reasons after her attempt at restoring a painting of Christ in her local church in 2012. Related: Life after a viral nig
  
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• ‘Is That My Arm?': Matthew Stone on His Cover Art for FKA Twigs’s New EP

  20-08-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  On the cover of FKA twigs’s new EP M3LLI55X (pronounced “Melissa”) is a photograph of the British pop singer with a hand pushing through her face. The artist behind it is Matthew Stone, whose performances have been seen at Performa … Read More
  
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• ‘Is That My Arm?’: Matthew Stone on His Cover Art for FKA Twigs’s New EP

  20-08-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  On the cover of FKA twigs’s new EP M3LLI55X (pronounced “Melissa”) is a photograph of the British pop singer with a hand pushing through her face. The artist behind it is Matthew Stone, whose performances have been seen at Performa … Read More
  
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• ‘Tala Madani: Smiley Has No Nose’ at David Kordansky

  20-08-2015 19:38 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Tala Maldani: Smiley Has No Nose” is currently on view at David Kordansky Gallery is Los Angeles through Saturday, August 29. The exhibition takes the unassuming signifier of the Smiley face … Read More
  
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• London to open first major theatre in 20 years

  20-08-2015 19:37
  
  The former artistic director of the National Theatre, Nicholas Hytner, has announced plans for London’s first new playhouse in 20 years, in a move that will see the centre of the capital’s theatreland shift east along the Thames.
  
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• Habitat: Sara Cwynar

  20-08-2015 18:38 via artnews.com
  Habitat is a weekly series that visits with artists in their workspaces.This week’s studio: Sara Cwynar; Sunset Park, Brooklyn. I met Sara Cwynar on a humid day in July at her studio on the third floor of a warehouse building near the Gowanus … Read More
  
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• Mystery of Mona Lisa's smile 'solved' as experts say Da Vinci used the same illusion years before

  20-08-2015 17:42
  
  Scientists may have discovered the secret behind one of the most famous mysteries in the history of art – the Mona Lisa’s smile.
  
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• London 'Draw Mohamed' exhibition cancelled due to 'real possibility people could be killed'

  20-08-2015 17:26
  
  A planned 'Draw Mohamed' exhibition has been cancelled in London after counter-terrorism police warned that people could be killed if it went ahead.
  
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• National Gallery of Australia Removes $11 M. Collection Acquired From Dealer Subhash Kapoor

  20-08-2015 16:58 via artnews.com
  The Australian reported that the National Gallery of Australia has taken down a collection of 13 deity sculptures purchased from Indian-born art dealer Subhash Kapoor estimated to be worth $11 million. As a reminder, Kapoor is accused of orchestrating a … Read More
  
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• Banksy's Dismaland: 'a theme park unsuitable for children' – in pictures

  20-08-2015 16:16
  The castle’s derelict, Cinderella’s pumpkin has crashed, and the seagulls are on the attack ... Banksy has opened a theme park called Dismaland at a disused lido in Weston-super-Mare. The show has been shrouded in secrecy for weeks, and locals had been led to believe it was a film set for a Hollywood thriller. Take the first look inside• Banksy’s Dismaland: ‘amusements and anarchism’ in artist’s biggest projectContinue reading...
  
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• Andreas Golder, painter: 'I call sculpture my hobby. I do it when I am bored'

  20-08-2015 16:00
  
  Andreas Golder has been working in this building in the Weissensee sector of Berlin for five years. He is one of three permanent residents, while other studios are for those staying temporarily. In the walkway outside, a small swimming pool with a few bedraggled palm trees adds a touch of faded, Hollywood-style glamour to the entrance.
  
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• Royal Opera House unveils colourful hand-painted silk installation telling its story

  20-08-2015 15:47
  
  London’s Royal Opera House has unveiled the huge hand-painted silk installation that will hang in the Paul Hamlyn Hall next month.
  
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• Banksy's Dismaland: 'amusements and anarchism' in artist’s biggest project yet

  20-08-2015 15:09
  Art show on 2.5-acre seafront site in Weston-super-Mare features Cinderella crash scene, post-riot model village and cardboard airport securityHe describes it as a “family theme park unsuitable for small children” – and with the Grim Reaper whooping it up on the dodgems and Cinderella horribly mangled in a pumpkin carriage crash, it is easy to see why.But Banksy’s new show Dismaland, which opened on Thursday on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, is sometimes hilarious, somet
  
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• Morning Links: Winged Monster Edition

  20-08-2015 14:48 via artnews.com
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• Jurassic Park: artwork revealed for animated TV series that never got made

  20-08-2015 14:12
  US fantasy illustrator William Stout is auctioning off concept art for an abandoned TV animation based on Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur theme-park yarnWhen it was released in 1993, Steven Spielberg’s adventure film Jurassic Park swiftly became a monster hit, big enough to give rise to all manner of spinoffs, including three sequels, a series of video games, and a sea of tie-in merchandise. However, one idea that never came to fruition was that of a Jurassic Park animated series, which
  
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• Banksy launches Disney inspired theme park in Weston-super-Mare for first UK show in 6 years

  20-08-2015 10:54
  
  After days of mounting speculation, Banksy has unveiled his new UK show based in Weston-super-Mare’s derelict Tropicana building.
  
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• Crisis At The Coliseum: The Tribulations – And Triumphs – Of English National Opera

  20-08-2015 10:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Fairman looks at the management battles, senior staff departures, struggles with funding bodies, and artistic successes (“standards have arguably never been higher”) at London’s number-two company.
  
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• A Grammy-Nominated Tenor On Raising An Autistic Child While Traveling Nine Months A Year

  20-08-2015 10:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lawrence Brownlee: “I talk to my agent to schedule as much time as I can at home without hurting my career. But if you’re in this business, you have to be out and about so people will see you. I do hate leaving my wife and kids. I’ve missed so many milestones, especially my son with his special needs. I’ll come home and I’m amazed at some of the things he can do.”
  
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• What Is This Big-Spending, High-Powered, Tight-Lipped Group Of Donors Around The Librarian Of Congress?

  20-08-2015 10:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “But like its 86-year-old leader” – outgoing Librarian James Billington – “the James Madison Council is a throwback to a different time. Although its mission is outreach, the group is insular and exclusive. Membership is by invitation and individual donations go undisclosed. … Although they’ve raised millions, they’ve spent almost half of their recorded contributions on private parties, exhibition receptions, travel and employees and consultants,
  
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• Bestselling New Adaptation Of ‘Don Quixote’ Called ‘Crime Against Literature’ By (Some) Spanish Academics

  20-08-2015 10:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spanish writer Andres Trapiello spent nearly 14 years adapting Cervantes’s masterpiece for contemporary readers. According to Trapiello, it is impossible to understand Don Quixote without reading the footnotes. The new edition includes a comprehensive set of changes to make it more comprehensible.”
  
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• Why Pablo Neruda Is So Very Hard To Translate – And Why That’s Okay

  20-08-2015 10:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “All translators create their own reality, which may or may not reflect the intentions of the writer. After all, if you make the decision to cut out six cantos in a 12-canto series (as my edition did), to what extent are you even trying to keep faith with with the original work? I found some sort of an answer in Neruda’s own argument for’ an impure poetry’.”
  
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• ISIS Beheads 82-Year-Old Scholar Who Refused To Lead Them To Antiquities

  20-08-2015 10:09 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.”
  
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• Muslim Drag Queen Featured In Documentary Faces Death Threats

  20-08-2015 10:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Asif Quaraishi, an activist for the so-called ‘Gaysian’ community who performs in clubs as the glamorous Asifa Lahore, has received death threats in the past and is concerned about the public reaction to Muslim Drag Queens when it airs [on Britain’s Channel Four] on Monday night.” (includes video)
  
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• Out Of Bethlehem: The Radicalization Of Joan Didion

  20-08-2015 10:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Louis Menand looks at how a young and eager Goldwater Republican, the descendant of California pioneers, became the sharpest-eyed of social critics.
  
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• Kansas City Art Institute Receives Record $25 Million Donation

  20-08-2015 10:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The gift to KCAI is critical to increasing need-based and merit scholarship funds, Jones said. Six million dollars of the gift, in the form of a two-for-one challenge grant, will be used for student scholarships, endowed professorships and visiting professors.”
  
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• Sculptures By ‘Soviet Henry Moore’ Smashed By Orthodox Zealots For Being ‘Blasphemous’

  20-08-2015 09:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The exhibition, called ‘Sculptures that We Don’t See,’ showed works by Soviet sculptors that did not see the light of day during the Soviet period because they were non-conformist. The show … included some works with religious themes including a crucifixion bas-relief” by Vadim Sidur which was a target of the vandals.
  
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• Artist Lets Tiger Loose In Detroit’s Old Packard Plant

  20-08-2015 09:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “British photographer David Yarrow booked a two-day photo shoot at [the famously ruined venue]. Only problem was, he apparently didn’t tell anyone at the plant that he was bringing a tiger, two wolves and a bobcat with him. … The animals, trainers and photographers were given the boot about an hour later. But not before the tiger got loose and holed itself up on a fourth-story staircase.” (includes video)
  
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• The Neuroscience Of Being A Selfish Jerk

  20-08-2015 09:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A team of Hungarian researchers scanned the brains of people who got high scores on a test for Machiavellianism (yes, this is a clinical term for a personality trait) while they played a game of trust. “They found that Machiavellians’ brains went into overdrive when they encountered a partner who exhibited signs of being fair and cooperative. Why? … Because the Machiavellians are immediately figuring out how to exploit the situation for their own gain.”
  
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• Two Drunken Audience Members Come Backstage During Show, Asking For Ladies’ Room

  20-08-2015 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And one of them walked onstage to get there. Said one cast member, “As soon as I got back offstage, I asked my crew member, ‘Did that really happen? Did someone really come back here and ask me where the bathroom was?'”
  
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• Ballet Life, Unfiltered And Uploaded To Instagram

  20-08-2015 09:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ballet is, in many ways, a superhuman art form, but it’s important to remember that dancers are still human. … With Instagram, dancers have found a way to break through the tulle and tiaras by presenting backstage life on their terms.”
  
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• Best Groomsmen’s Dance Ever Goes Viral (The Happy Couple Are, Of Course, Ballet Dancers)

  20-08-2015 09:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richmond Ballet member Kirk Henning gave his company colleague and bride, Valerie Tellmann-Henning, a big, wonderful surprise – a surprise that’s been viewed more than 165,000 times. (includes video)
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.19.15

  20-08-2015 08:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lessons from a Grocery Chain
  AJBlog: Engaging Matters Published 2015-08-18
  Desmond’s Later Years RevisitedAJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-08-19
  Snapshot: Dana Andrews sings a song by Aaron Copland and Ira GershwinAJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-08-19
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