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• The Truth About The Cost Of Opera Tickets

  03-11-2015 23:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the Royal Opera, 44% of tickets in the 2014-15 season cost £50 or less; 33% of the tickets for Welsh National Opera’s The Marriage of Figaro cost £25 or less; and 500 English National Opera tickets are available at £20 or less for every performance – and with various schemes that ENO offer, these £20 tickets can be for some of the best seats in the theatre.”
  
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• A First: UK Theatres Sell £1 Billion In Tickets

  03-11-2015 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UK Theatre member venues – predominantly theatres outside London – recorded £429 million at the box office in 2014. When added to the box office for theatres that are members of the Society of London Theatre in 2014 (£624 million), it reveals that theatre across the whole of the UK recorded a total box office of £1.05 billion.
  
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• How Our Technology Is Changing Us

  03-11-2015 21:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The existence of the medium has created an unremitting low-intensity neural disquiet that we somehow feel only the medium can allay. We are on the run from the anxious vibration of our living.”
  
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• ‘William Anastasi: Continuum’ at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris

  03-11-2015 20:52 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “William Anastasi: Continuum” is on view at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff in Paris. The exhibition features twelve photographs, each image showing the viewer the space directly behind them, and is on … Read More
  
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• Kim Conaty Named Curator of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum

  03-11-2015 20:27 via artnews.com
  Kim Conaty has been appointed curator of Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum, effective December 2015. Conaty previously served as assistant curator of drawings and prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.Christopher Bedford, the Rose’s director, said in … Read More
  
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• Electronic musician Matthew Herbert explains why his new work will feature imagined sounds, recorded on paper

  03-11-2015 18:13
  
  Much of music is so busy soundtracking the status quo that it has lost its evolutionary urge
  
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• Bret Easton Ellis is in the Salon Program at Art Basel Miami Beach

  03-11-2015 17:53 via artnews.com
  The list for the Conversations and Salon sectors of Art Basel Miami Beach was released today, and while there are plenty of scintillating panels on the docket, one will offer decidedly more than zero: a chat between the novelist Bret Easton Ellis … Read More
  
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• ‘Desire, Drive, and Delirium’: Maggie Lee and Asher Penn on Lee’s New Film, ‘Mommy’

  03-11-2015 17:22 via artnews.com
  This Thursday marks the Los Angeles premiere of Mommy, the debut film from the New York–based artist and photographer Maggie Lee, at the Boyle Heights space 356 Mission. Using a good deal of archival footage, the film, which first appeared … Read More
  
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• Christie’s Is Selling Property From the Collection of Margaret Thatcher

  03-11-2015 17:07 via artnews.com
  In December, Christie’s in London will hold two auctions–a flagship, 150-lot sale on December 15, and an online-only sale that will run from December 3 to 16–consisting of property once owned by the Iron Lady herself, under the umbrella “Mrs … Read More
  
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• Giraffemania! The live diplomatic gift that started a Georgian craze

  03-11-2015 16:25
  
  With the opening of a new exhibition on Georgian exotic creatures at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, its curator reveals the story of the first giraffe in BritainName: George IV’s giraffe
  Species: Giraffa camelopardalis
  Dates: ~1825–1829
  Claim to fame: First giraffe in Britain
  Where now: UnknownMohammed Ali had a thing for giraffes. Related: Galapagos gets a new species of giant tortoiseContinue reading...
  
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• Jeffrey Lewis: 'Seeing these sketches should be like listening to rehearsal tapes'

  03-11-2015 15:58
  
  The anti-folk survivor explains why Manhattan still trumps Brooklyn and how he brought his DIY approach to his debut art show Landfill Indie and latest albumIn an era of music venues changing their names to reflect their corporate sponsors and musicians hiring assistants to run their social media accounts, singer-songwriter Jeffrey Lewis is refreshingly accessible – he runs his own merchandise stand, sleeps in fans’ houses during tours, and replies personally to his social media and
  
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• Morning Links: Excessivism Edition

  03-11-2015 14:31 via artnews.com
  What is new global art movement “Excessivism”? [California Newswire]Amalia Ulman has a real-life counterpart. An 18-year old Australian Instagram model (600,000 followers +), Essena O’Neill, has renounced her social media fame and recaptioned all of her photos honestly, saying, “Social media is not … Read More
  
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• Martha Argerich/Stephen Kovacevich, Wigmore Hall, London, review: Age yields to youth in pianist's 75th birthday recital

  03-11-2015 13:41
  
  Sometimes Kovacevich’s brain moved faster than his fingers, but Schubert’s D960 sonata sang as it needed to
  
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• Offer to display Margaret Thatcher's clothing rejected by the V&A

  03-11-2015 10:54
  
  The museum's spokesperson said it 'tends to focus on acquiring examples of outstanding aesthetic or technical quality'
  
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• Judy Cassab, Australian artist and Holocaust survivor, dies aged 95

  03-11-2015 09:11
  
  The first woman to win the Archibald prize twice led a celebrated art career in which she painted some of Australia’s biggest names in media and the artsJudy Cassab, the Australian painter, two time winner of the Archibald portrait prize and Holocaust survivor has died in Sydney at the age of 95.Cassab was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents and met her future husband estate manager Jancsi Kampfner in 1938. In a 2009 interview with Fairfax, Cassab’s son John Seed said although his fa
  
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• Nativity scenes to feature on Royal Mail Christmas stamps

  03-11-2015 07:00
  
  Stamps illustrated by London-born artist David Homes will depict scenes from the Annunciation and birth of ChristScenes from the traditional nativity story will be depicted on this year’s Christmas stamps.Royal Mail said the six stamps feature scenes from the biblical story from the Annunciation and the birth of Christ. The stamps were illustrated by London-born artist David Holmes. Continue reading...
  
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