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• Right, Let’s Do Talk About Why There Aren’t Any Great Women Composers

  20-09-2015 23:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Clara Wieck was already thirteen years old when she started writing her piano concerto, and all of the composers on the aforementioned goodness scale wrote their masterpieces by the age of ten. Little-known fact: Strauss called the Four Last Songs that because he wrote them on the eve of his fifth birthday.”
  
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• Maybe Theatres That Mess Up Diversity Are Simply Scared Of Getting It Wrong

  20-09-2015 23:52 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even the most art-forward of theatre’s institutional leaders are beholden to demanding boards, disapproving patrons, an often hostile press, and a dwindling pool of single ticket buyers. We live in a tough moment to produce theatre—a moment which has maybe lasted about four hundred years, but still. The desire to produce a bulletproof season is, in that context, understandable. And the fear of doing otherwise is significant.”
  
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• A New Artistic Director For A Formerly Modest Company In The Midst Of Transformation

  20-09-2015 23:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Smith is now two days away from the opening of the first show of his first season at the Flea, Thomas Bradshaw’s ‘Fulfillment,’ a comic drama about New York strivers and a supposedly perfect downtown apartment. The season also happens to be one of the last before the Flea — founded in 1996 by Mr. Simpson and others, to raise ‘joyful hell in a small space’ — itself trades up to a new $21 million home. It’s tempting to spot a sly metaphor.&rdq
  
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• How Many People Need To Buy A Book To Make It A ‘Success’ In The U.S.?

  20-09-2015 22:12 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Three thousand’s not bad.”
  
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• What Are The Limits Of Culture When Hedda Gabler Starts Tweeting?

  20-09-2015 21:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The internet is clearly changing ideas around different art forms and how they are delivered and experienced – and where they are experienced – including pressing issues such as: how do you clap on Twitter?”
  
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• That Other Museum (Re)Opening This Weekend

  20-09-2015 21:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The earliest Beaux-Arts building in the United States, the Morgan Memorial was conceived and largely paid for by the financier J. Pierpont Morgan, a Hartford native who named it in honor of his father. In 1915, it opened to the public, 73 years after the museum itself was founded by Daniel Wadsworth. (The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest continuously open art museum in the country.)”
  
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• This Woman Has Sung For Actresses In More Than 1,000 Movies

  20-09-2015 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is there anyone you’d like to duet with?”
  “Barbara Streisand – I’d love to sing with her.”
  
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• As The Broad Museum Opens, Teachers Gather To Protest Eli Broad

  20-09-2015 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Protesters are expected to gather outside Eli Broad’s new $140 million museum that houses his 2,000-piece contemporary art collection Sunday, to call on the billionaire to halt plans to back a charter school plan that could enroll half of the students in the Los Angeles Unified School District.”
  
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• What Will, Or Maybe Should, Happen At The Emmys, After A Rule Change

  20-09-2015 19:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I’m prepared to be exasperated Sunday night when the Emmys are awarded. That said, here are my ironclad predictions.”
  
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• New World Symphony Executive Assistant

  20-09-2015 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Assistant to the Executive Vice President will not only be the right arm of the Senior Vice President for Development (SVPD), but will also facilitate communication with high-profile contacts and prospects, drafting correspondence, fielding phone calls, etc. Anticipating needs of the SVPD will be a critical skill. This position also participates in department budgeting and oversees implementation of office policies and procedures. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to hone sk
  
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• Women Are Everywhere In Ballet. Except This One Thing…

  20-09-2015 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Boston’s was one of eight ballet companies started in cities across the U.S. — including Philadelphia, Houston and Washington D.C. — that were launched with a $7.7 million Ford Foundation grant in 1963. Created and nurtured by strong female artistic directors, these companies grew in size and stature, and all are thriving today. But the women leaders are gone; all of these troupes are headed by men.”
  
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• Why Are Media Moguls Suddenly Interested In A 50-Year-Old Teen Pop Star Magazine?

  20-09-2015 18:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Look, you can’t tell kids something is cool. No one’s really been able to reach teen girls,’ Patricof says.’“My kids are addicted to Snapchat, but it’s a tool.'”
  
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• The Sculptor Who Wrote A Graphic Novel Exposing The London Tourists Never See

  20-09-2015 17:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Pokryszka, 38, is a poet, painter, cartoonist and ceramicist. She also has a degree in sculpting. At home in Poland, she ran her own gallery, taught art and her work sold well. In 2008, aged 31, she moved to London, she says, to broaden her horizons and develop her art. But she also needed to earn a living. She had no relevant references, no English, ‘Just “hi” and “bye”,’ she smiles. ‘I was very happy I found a job.'”
  
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• Brian Sewell, Cantankerous (And Controversial) Art Critic, Dies At 84

  20-09-2015 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “His sharp wit could be cruel, but he was a television natural, a hugely readable television columnist, and an insightful – if sometimes harsh – critic.”
  
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• Native Artists From The U.S. And Mexico To Create A Border Fence – Made Of Air

  20-09-2015 16:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Titled ‘Repellent Fence,’ the piece will run for four days and will consist of 28 balloons — each 10 feet in diameter — flying at a height of 75 feet at staggered points in Douglas, Ariz., and Agua Prieta, Sonora, in Mexico.”
  
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• Julian Cope on Celts: my wild romance

  20-09-2015 16:00
  
  Pictish stones, Viking ring brooches and the Celtic football strip … a new show at the British Museum ranges from the Norse world to the faux ancient rites of 18th-century England by way of today’s superheroes. What does Britain’s leading punk antiquarian make of it?Back in 1992, in a fit of neo-Celtic fervour, I set off for a tour of prehistoric Ireland armed with a hickory-handled wood-axe on which I had carved my name in rudimentary sub-rune style letters. Ten days later, t
  
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• You’re Way More Likely To At Least *Open* A Book You Bought If It Was Expensive

  20-09-2015 15:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And much more ebook data, including: “Some books glue readers to the page with completion rates at 70 to 90 percent—well above the norm — whereas, for other books, it might be 20 to 40 percent. Readers are generally more likely to finish a plot-driven genre novel than they are a literary one.”
  
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• Ai Weiwei review – the manifesto is in the medium

  20-09-2015 09:00
  
  Royal Academy, London
  In his first major show in Britain, Ai Weiwei’s reconfigured everyday objects illuminate the trials of Chinese life on a grand, dramatic scaleAi Weiwei is the world’s most famous living artist, but is this entirely because of his art? More people know of him as a fearless scourge of the Chinese government than have ever seen a single one of his works. So the very least achievement of the Royal Academy (which has had to watch in horror as Ai managed to get a visa
  
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• Jackie Collins, Writer Of Sexy Hollywood Novels, Dies At 77

  20-09-2015 07:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Long before the emergence of the ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ franchise, Ms. Collins dominated the publishing industry’s more lascivious corners. She wrote more than 30 books, many of them filled with explicit, unrestrained sexuality, and sold more than 500 million copies worldwide.”
  
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• The Face of Britain: The Nation Through Its Portraits review – a perfect vehicle for Simon Schama’s detailed imagination

  20-09-2015 07:30
  
  The historian brings the past to life in his insightful and gossipy accounts of the portraits that shaped BritainSimon Schama opens his vivid and intimate history of the nation’s portraits with one that got away. In 1954, for the occasion of Winston Churchill’s 80th birthday, Graham Sutherland was called upon to create an image of the great man that would be housed in parliament and live down the ages. It was a commission the war artist could not refuse; but he approached it with tre
  
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• Arts group Metal host modern take on pagan harvest festival

  20-09-2015 04:45
  
  A group of 500 Peterborough locals will break bread in a modern version of a pagan harvest festival. What they may not realise, as they tuck into fare that includes cakes baked by inmates at the city’s prison, is that they have become living sculptures.
  
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• Tate’s Constable masterpiece, once Nazi loot, now set to leave UK

  20-09-2015 01:05
  
  Painting’s story involves a clever black market operator, the aftermath of war in Hungary and a vital licence applicationShe is an enigma in a real-life art mystery that dates back almost three-quarters of a century and involves one of Britain’s most loved painters. What little is known of her emerges from the pages of an official report that is now the talk of the art world. She was called Karola Fabri, and she knew some dodgy types.Fabri was an art dealer in postwar Hungary who, ac
  
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