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• Time For Theatres To Ask Hard Questions About Their Audiences

  08-11-2015 23:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “It would be naive to think that seeing a play makes you a better person. If that was true then we critics who go to the theatre almost every night would be paragons of virtue.”
  
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• The Only Serious Path To Work-Life Balance Is Less Work

  08-11-2015 23:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Compared both to full-time and non-employed mothers, “the part-timers seem to be closest to the sweet spot.”
  
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• Winifred Knights: Artistic 'genius' who died in obscurity goes back on show in London

  08-11-2015 23:01
  
  Knights was the first woman to be awarded the scholarship in decorative painting by the British School at Rome
  
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• Chelsea’s Derek Eller Gallery Is Moving to the Lower East Side

  08-11-2015 22:52 via artnews.com
  After nearly two full decades in Chelsea, Derek Eller Gallery is planning to move to the Lower East Side next year, taking a former garage space with tall ceilings at 300 Broome Street. The new space is right across the road … Read More
  
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• Art Critics Need To Chill Out And Understand That The Broad Is A Gateway Museum

  08-11-2015 22:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The art press greeted the first installation/iteration of the permanent collection with a run of unexpectedly hostile skepticism; this results from the fact that, despite an adulation for buzzwords like ‘public engagement,’ ‘appeal to younger audiences,’ ‘cultural tourism,’ and ‘accessibility,’ in contemporary art discourse of late, those in power don’t actually like it all that much when paralegals from Pacoima show up with their kids
  
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• We Need A Far Better Paradigm For Collectors Than The Broads’ Vanity Museum

  08-11-2015 22:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Vogels acquired art not because it was fashionable, part of social and economic aspirations, or because it could guarantee a return on an investment, but because they thought the work to be truly important. The couple built street cred with the artists in their collection because they were there from the beginning, when every artist needs the most support, financially as well as emotionally. … Compare the Vogels’ history with the Broads.”
  
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• Jeopardy’s Famous Champ Says American Theatre Will ‘Soon Be Dead’

  08-11-2015 21:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[Ken] Jennings’ tweets could easily have been explained as a joke that didn’t translate well online, but in his next message, his final one on the subject, Jennings’ doubled down on his animosity towards the theatre and its audience. He wrote, ‘@HESherman @LouisPeitzman ok but they’ll have to turn up their hearing aids.'”
  
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• Behind The Scenes, Off-Broadway Has A Massive Gender Gap

  08-11-2015 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steketee hopes the data will encourage companies to hire more women, and not just those who are already famous.
  
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• Calixto Bieito interview: Opera director on the inspiration behind his bloody new take on Verdi's 'The Force of Destiny'

  08-11-2015 20:10
  
  Bieito has been likened to radical film directors such as Quentin Tarantino or Pedro Almodovar
  
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• The (Badass) Woman Who Revolutionized Food Writing

  08-11-2015 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Paddleford was the first American writer to approach food with as much respect and research as other journalists did with the established serious topics. She used it as a vehicle to talk about the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia and the New York World’s Fair. When Winston Churchill visited Missouri in 1946, most reporters parsed his Iron Curtain speech. Paddleford wrote about the buffet menu.”
  
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• Canada’s Ministry Of Heritage Is About To Change Up A Whole Heck Of A Lot

  08-11-2015 18:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The new Minister is 36-year-old Mélanie Joly, and – aside from the sheer money that the Trudeau campaign promised during elections – she has grand plans: “I want to make sure that the impact of innovation in arts is part of the process of decision-making in cabinet and in different ministries.”
  
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• John Norris Wood obituary

  08-11-2015 17:36
  
  Distinguished natural history illustratorwho taught at the Royal College of ArtHad John Norris Wood, who has died aged 84, painted landscapes or portraits, he would have become one of Britain’s foremost artists. But as an impassioned conservationist with a deep devotion to the English countryside, he dedicated his life, and his art, to nature and wildlife.The accuracy of his work, and its liveliness and beauty, brought him a wide and appreciative audience ranging from children to scientist
  
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• Houston’s Theatre Companies Are In The Middle Of A Building Boom

  08-11-2015 17:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Houstonians will shell out $200 for a touring production of Book of Mormon but would dismiss us based on looks. Or they simply didn’t even know we were here because of the lack of attractiveness factor.”
  
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• Dancing Is The Fastest Way To Make Yourself Happier – It’s Science!

  08-11-2015 16:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Also, it keeps your brain sharp: “‘If you can’t take classes or go out dancing four times a week, then dance as much as you can,’ recommends Stanford researcher Richard Power. ‘It’s essential to start building your cognitive reserve now. Someday you’ll need as many of those stepping stones across the creek as possible.'”
  
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• Ghostly 16th-century portrait of Byron's ancestor rediscovered

  08-11-2015 15:14
  
  Painting of bearded man thought to have haunted poet’s family home of Newstead Abbey found by art sleuth after 160 years of being lostAn extraordinary Tudor painting of a bearded man, which was once owned by Lord Byron and thought to have been lost for over 160 years, has been rediscovered by a leading art specialist.The portrait, painted in 1599, had disappeared without trace after 1851, having hung at Byron’s family home, Newstead Abbey, in Nottinghamshire. Its sitter was one of th
  
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• When Great Writers Get A Number Of Rejections, That’s Actually Data About A Problem In Publishing

  08-11-2015 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While other sectors have certainly overlooked brilliant new ideas and missed opportunities for innovation, this fact isn’t usually romanticized or celebrated. In other sectors this level of oversight would be called ‘a system failure,’ or ‘inefficiency,’ or ‘failure to innovate.’ And policies and practices would be put into place to try to prevent this from happening in the future.”
  
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• Miranda July: 'I'm always disappointing my dad politically'

  08-11-2015 13:00
  
  Artist discusses whether her immersive stage show New Society worked, how it reflected US politics and why she had to be ‘hard-assed’Miranda July has forged a large artistic presence working in small spaces: in other words, in intimate emotional terrain. She does it in her two feature films, which focus on the hermetic zones of romantic and interpersonal relationships, and it happens in her poignant, peculiar novel, The First Bad Man. It’s evident in her uncommonly revealing re
  
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• Ellsworth Kelly: ‘I want to live another 15 years’

  08-11-2015 11:00
  
  At 92, the abstract master has lost none of his zest for life and work. Interviewed in his upstate New York studio, he talks about Paris in the 40s, his friend Alexander Calder – and neighbour Jasper JohnsThink of Ellsworth Kelly, and planet-sized shapes in shades of yellow, red and green may float before your eyes. “To hell with pictures,” as he once put it. “They should be the wall.” But it wasn’t always like this. If he’s any good at all, an artist do
  
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• On my radar: Ben Whishaw’s cultural highlights

  08-11-2015 10:30
  
  The actor on a lost classic by novelist Elizabeth Harrower, Todd Haynes’s Carol, the punk spirit of artist Maria Lassnig and the dirty, energising energy of Captain Beefheart’s Clear SpotBen Whishaw was raised in Clifton, Bedfordshire, and graduated from Rada in 2003. After playing Hamlet in Trevor Nunn’s 2004 Old Vic production, he starred in a number of TV, film and stage roles, including Nathan Barley, Bright Star and Paddington. This year, he has co-starred in new the Bond
  
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• Marcus Barnes: ‘Graffiti art can be a positive force’

  08-11-2015 10:00
  
  Ex-train-tagger Marcus Barnes found himself arrested for ‘encouraging’ crime when he produced a graffiti magazine. Here he tells the story of the three-year nightmare that ensued and examines our contradictory attitudes to the art formOn Monday 12 December 2011 a three-year ordeal, which my barrister later described as an “Orwellian nightmare”, began. I woke up to a text message from my sister: “Marcus your [sic] gonna go mad. The police are here and they’re t
  
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• Chantal Akerman: NOW review – flickering between life and death

  08-11-2015 09:00
  
  Ambika P3, LondonA show of the late Chantal Akerman’s films is beautiful, bleak and at times overwhelmingThe Belgian-born film-maker Chantal Akerman died in Paris last month at the age of 65. According to Le Monde, she took her own life. Shocked obituaries have appeared all over the world, with the result that many more people now know about Akerman’s death than her life’s work, which is extraordinarily diverse, original and inventive. Her filmography includes adaptations of Pr
  
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• Percussionist explains why a huge mallet takes centre stage in Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 6

  08-11-2015 00:38
  
  Making a 'Hammerschlag' (hammer blow) noise is crucial to the final movement of the Austrian composer's work
  
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