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• The True Value Of Contemporary Music

  31-08-2015 23:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Musical performances are among the few that demand you sit still and turn off your phone, and in the realm of the avant-garde, where there is rarely a narrative structure or a song, those can sometimes seem long. But art that forces you to sit and experience something, even if it makes you impatient, can be valuable in the same way that meditation and quiet spaces (churches, libraries) are valuable, in the same way that any inactivity is valuable.”
  
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• ‘Hamilton’ Is Not Only A Great Musical But Also A Theatrical Game-Changer

  31-08-2015 22:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Within the Broadway spectrum, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop historical musical has less in common with recent smashes than with shows that radically expanded audiences’ perceptions of the kind of stories musicals could tell, and the language and form they could use to tell them.”
  
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• Broad Art Museum’s Min Jung Kim Will Lead New Britain Museum of American Art

  31-08-2015 21:55 via artnews.com
  The New Britain Museum of American Art, which is located in that eponymous Connecticut city, has hired Min Jung Kim, the deputy director for external relations at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, as its … Read More
  
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• Troll-Impostor and his collection of colour videos

  31-08-2015 21:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  Weird story happened recently. During my usual surf – i’ve found another channel of Kyle Kallgren. And I’m a big fan of his orks and it was really strange to find a channel full of nonsensical monotonous videos. And i wrote a post here. And then i received a comment from the real Kyle Kallgren – and it turned out that this channel  is not his – but a troll-impostor.
  The question is – why should anyone do such embarrassing and disgraceful thing?
  
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• Netflix Film Premieres At Venice Film Festival

  31-08-2015 21:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When it is commercially released in October, Beasts of No Nation will be immediately available to see not only in selected cinemas but also to subscribers to the Netflix home entertainment service – which now boasts more than 50 million international subscribers.”
  
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• Collector’s Corner: Francis Greenburger

  31-08-2015 21:10 via artnews.com
  The New York real-estate developer bought his first work when he was 14. Read More
  
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• A New Ballet Explores The Real, Complex, Dark Relationships Behind Picasso’s ‘Three Dancers’

  31-08-2015 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Working for the ballet had been a good career move for Picasso, augmenting his income and introducing him to an audience of rich, cultured patrons. It had also pleased Olga who, while retiring from the stage, remained deeply attached to her old profession.”
  
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• Celebrity curators: Good for publicity, but what does it say about art?

  31-08-2015 20:30
  
  A few decades ago, the word "curator" summoned up… well, not much in truth. Perhaps, if anything, a kind of lonely, almost janitorial figure in a museum's basement, making sure the Sumerian cuneiforms were dusted and that the numismatic department remained un-plundered.
  
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• How Art Helps New Orleans Students Deal With Their Post-Katrina PTSD

  31-08-2015 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Trauma is all about details. Trauma renders itself in certain songs, in the quality of the air against the sky, in colors of socks, in flavors of alcohol. When the human brain encounters a trauma, it makes quick decisions about what to remember, and it often remembers otherwise mundane details: the timbre of birdsong, or the specific shake of a tree’s shoulders. Sometimes the brain gets kind of obsessive about trauma.”
  
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• What British Dramaturgs Do

  31-08-2015 19:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While every major theatre in Germany has a whole department devoted to the function and a practitioner assigned to every production, in British theatre the dramaturg has been a comparatively rare beast. Until recently.”
  
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• Is The Symphony Over?

  31-08-2015 18:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A genre once aimed at vast crowds—Mahler imagined his symphonies being played in stadiums, for tens of thousands of people—now leads a more subdued, solitary existence. Much of its legacy is ignored in concert halls and can be encountered only on recordings.”
  
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• Wes Craven, The Mainstream Horror Maestro With A Debt To Ingmar Bergman

  31-08-2015 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Wes Craven’s career is a startling link between the European arthouse and Hollywood exploitation horror.”
  
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• ‘Can’t Reach Me There’ at Midway Contemporary Art

  31-08-2015 18:26 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Can’t Reach Me There” is currently on view at Midway Contemporary Art. The group exhibition, curated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, showcases works by nine artists and is on view until … Read More
  
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• Some Oliver Sacks Reading Lists

  31-08-2015 18:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Over the course of his life’s work, Sacks approached his many questions with rigorous intellect and, above all, empathy. The best word for this, maybe, is grace. And it’s everywhere in the elegant body of work he left behind—his many books, but also his shorter essays and interviews.”
  (Also, here’s a link to all of Sacks’ work for the New Yorker.)
  
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• Apparently, European Cinema Is About To Be Destroyed

  31-08-2015 17:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First, there’s Netflix (and HBO, Amazon, iTunes, etc.); and now “this sense of threat has been made more urgent by the proposals tabled by the European Union’s executive branch, the European Commission, to sweep away territorial copyright barriers in the movie and TV business in order to create a single European market.”
  
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• Target Shooters Are Destroying Ancient Petroglyphs In Utah Parks

  31-08-2015 17:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Spattered paint and bullet holes are erasing an archaeological record dating back thousands of years on public lands south of this growing enclave of subdivisions in Utah County.”
  
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• One Of China’s Biggest Peking Opera Stars Makes Her U.S. Debut At The Met

  31-08-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Ms. Zhang, a lithe, delicate woman of 44, is a megastar in Beijing. She has performed for sold-out crowds here and in Shanghai, captivating audiences, including legions of young fans, with her sorrowful eyes, deep vocal intonations and graceful displays of martial arts. In 2007, she was the first star of the Peking Opera genre to perform solo at the Great Hall of the People, the seat of China’s central government.”
  
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• Fast-Rising Artist Noah Davis Dies (Far Too Young) The Same Day His MOCA Installation Opens

  31-08-2015 16:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  MOCA chief curator: “Noah is an important artist because he occupies the term ‘artist’ in the largest possible way: an incredibly accomplished painter, he is also a profound visionary — dreaming up the idea of the Underground Museum and then physically enacting that dream against all odds.”
  
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• Social Media: To Blame For Literary Mediocrity?

  31-08-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A middlebrow cult of the popular is holding literature to ransom. Thus, if you judge by the emotional outpourings over their deaths, the greatest writers of recent times were Pratchett and Ray Bradbury. There was far less of an internet splurge when Gabriel García Márquez died in 2014 and Günter Grass this spring. Yet they were true titans of the novel.”
  
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• Morning Links: Medical Examiner’s Office Edition

  31-08-2015 14:53 via artnews.com
  On Sunday, citizens of St. Petersburg gathered to protest the destruction of a sculpture of Mephistopheles taken from a historic, Alexander Lishnevsky-designed 1910 building. [The New York Times]Casa Vicens, the Antoni Gaudí-designed house and UNESCO World Heritage building, will publicly reopen as … Read More
  
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• Conductor George Cleve, 79, Helped Interpret Mozart For The Summer Festival Crowd

  31-08-2015 13:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Renowned as a Mozart interpreter, Mr. Cleve spent his career primarily on the West Coast. He was the music director of the San Jose Symphony from 1972 to 1992 and in 1974 founded the Midsummer Mozart Festival, an annual concert series in the Bay Area that he directed to the end of his life.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs For 08.30.15

  31-08-2015 07:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What I Learned This Summer: Philadelphia
  AJBlog: Real Clear ArtsPublished 2015-08-30‘Plato’s Frogs’: A Long Way from ‘Saturday Night Live’
  AJBlog: Straight|UpPublished 2015-08-30Dirges and Dances
  AJBlog: Infinite CurvesPublished 2015-08-28
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• First picture drawn in space to appear in cosmonauts show in London

  31-08-2015 07:00
  
  Sunrise sketch by Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space, is part of ‘once-in-a-lifetime’ Science Museum exhibition on Russian space programmeThe first artwork created in space, a small yet remarkable view of a sunrise drawn as Alexei Leonov was hurtled around Earth on board a tiny Voskhod 2 spacecraft, is to leave Russia for the first time.Leonov’s coloured pencil drawing will be among 150 artefacts going on display at the Science Museum in London when it opens a major
  
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• Johan Renvall, Former Principal At American Ballet Theatre, Dead At 55

  31-08-2015 02:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As a temple statue come to life and near-naked in gold body paint, he erupted into sensational airborne bravura with perfect form. Yet as critics across the country noted, Mr. Renvall’s gifts went far beyond pyrotechnics.”
  
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• The Dissident Artist Who Was Detained For Eight Months In Cuba Speaks

  31-08-2015 00:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Until the last minute they want to mess with your head. They want to make you paranoid. At one point he said, ‘Someone close to you works for us.’ I said, ‘You’re not going to make me a paranoiac. I’ve been here for eight months and I am not a paranoiac.’ I understood they were watching me. But I would not let them make me a paranoiac. That’s what they do, they make you paranoid, they isolate you.”
  
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