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• Seven Architecture Firms Are On The Shortlist To Design The Obama Presidential Library

  21-12-2015 23:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The dearth of Chicago finalists will likely be something of a blow to the city, which takes great pride in the pioneering role it played in the development of modern architecture and in such contemporary projects as Millennium Park.”
  
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• Saving Broadway’s Best Choreography For A New Generation

  21-12-2015 22:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘When shows close, the book remains, the score remains, but there’s really no notation for choreography,’ said Nikki Feirt Atkins, the producing artistic director of Dance Machine, which is committed to passing on musical-theater dances from one performer to the next. She gestured toward Ms. de Lappe, who was showing some young men how to rein in their imaginary horses. ‘This is the living mission statement of the company.'”
  
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• When Actors Run Away To Join Circus Theatre

  21-12-2015 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People have muscle memory from years of play and putting their butt over their head. … The play and the sense of adventure and creating a character hits on a deep childhood thing—everyone has an aspiration to be a famous performer. Doing something like circus speaks to that.”
  
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• Can We Even Call This Thing ‘Television’ Anymore?

  21-12-2015 21:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The soul of television has escaped the box, and is now flowing and taking on a whole range of different shapes, each with its own unique characteristics.”
  
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• ‘Gina Beavers: Popography’ at Michael Benevento

  21-12-2015 21:00 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Gina Beavers: Popography” is currently on view at Michael Benevento in Los Angeles. The exhibition, on view until January 9, 2016, appropriates photographs of makeup tutorials from Instagram and investigates … Read More
  
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• A 21st Century Version Of A Blockbuster 18th Century Shakespeare Museum

  21-12-2015 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The three-room Shakespeare Gallery, opened by the publisher John Boydell in 1789 on the fashionable Pall Mall in London, closed in 1805. In its day, it was a sensation, attracting emotional crowds who came to gawk at enormous canvases depicting scenes from Shakespeare’s tragedies, comedies and history plays, commissioned from Britain’s leading painters and hung cheek by jowl on the pale blue walls. ‘It was the Georgian equivalent of binge-watching Shakespeare,’ sai
  
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• 2015’s Best Conceptual Artwork Is a TV Show on Comedy Central

  21-12-2015 20:00 via artnews.com
  Over the course of its three season run (it was just renewed for a fourth), the Comedy Central show Nathan For You has established itself as not just one of the most interesting shows on television, but also as a … Read More
  
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• Congress Is Investigating Private ‘Museums’ That Get Tax Breaks But – Sometimes – Don’t Actually Let The Public In

  21-12-2015 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Museum lovers rely on the benevolence of elite collectors who give their artworks and collections up for public consumption. The law encourages collectors to give to museums. What concerns Congress is the prospect of tax shelters that do little more than flatter wealthy collectors.”
  
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• Dancing petals and a Banksy spectacular: readers' favourite art shows of 2015

  21-12-2015 18:45
  
  Ai Weiwei enthralled you, the Victorians made you weep, and the Eameses took the chair. You read our critics’ top picks of 2015, and now here are your best-loved exhibitions of the yearClick here for Adrian Searle’s top 10 art exhibitions of 2015Click here for Jonathan Jones’s top 10 art shows Click here for Oliver Wainwright’s top 10 architectureA wonderful collection of the best of Victorian art, brought over from the US and staged in the home of one of the best of Vict
  
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• Detours: Glen Fogel on Martin Gustavsson and Stanley Love’s Shows at Participant Inc.

  21-12-2015 18:15 via artnews.com
  Detours is an ongoing series in which a New York–based artist gives us a tour of a show of his or her choosing Read More
  
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• A Modern Issue, Unfortunately: Archiving Public Grief

  21-12-2015 18:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘We need to leave some of the objects, and at the same time, we need to make room for the sidewalk, sometimes even the road, so that life can go on,’ said Guillaume Nahon, director of the Paris archives. ‘It’s a day-to-day process, and a contradictory one too, because these memorials are supposed to be ephemeral, but people still need a place to mourn for now.'”
  
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• The Australian Ballet’s Director Talks About The Hidden Side Of Sydney

  21-12-2015 17:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When you go up Argyle Street and there’s that big arch, you feel like you’re taking a step back in time. There’s a real sense of history there. I like when you’re off the tourist path and there are these beautiful old terrace houses.”
  
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• The sadness of Winter Wonderland

  21-12-2015 17:11
  
  'Mum, this place isn't very wintery or wondery.'
  
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• Bardo National Museum Enters Into Cultural Exchange With Italian Institutions

  21-12-2015 16:29 via artnews.com
  Following the terrorist attack at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis last March, Seifallah Lasram, the city’s mayor, has entered into a cross-cultural partnership with the mayor of Turin, Italy, effective October 2016, according to a report in The Art Newspaper. … Read More
  
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• Should Legacy Groups Like The Hartford Symphony Learn To Innovate?

  21-12-2015 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Is this folly as Rome burns? The symphony is bleeding $1.3 million a year and nearing the end of its cash reserves. It’s asking for pay concessions from the musicians’ union, which is, to say the least, not thrilled with this new digital scheme, as some musicians fear it could divert money or devalue their skills.”
  
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• Wall Talk: Do We Even Need Museum Wall Labels?

  21-12-2015 15:30 via artnews.com
  There was a time when the labels and texts in museum shows were matter-of-fact explanations—the artist, title, date, medium, and then a few informative words from the curator. But as exhibitions have become more extravagant, provocative, and controversial, attended by … Read More
  
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• A Tale Of Two Sculpture Groups, And Two Public Art Fates, From Philadelphia

  21-12-2015 15:11 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Both sets were fabricated from terra cotta, so this becomes a tale of two castings: one set preserved and cared for, the other ignored and lost until found in the most unlikely circumstances.”
  
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• Morning Links: Post-Attacks Parisian Art World Edition

  21-12-2015 14:39 via artnews.com
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• New Winnie the Pooh illustrations celebrate Christmas traditions including carol singing and playing charades

  21-12-2015 14:24
  
  The drawings were released alongside a survey showing that Britons feel spending time with the family is the most important part of Christmas
  
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• ‘Harry Potter’ Sequel Play Has A Cast, And A Surprise To Some

  21-12-2015 14:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In the films, Hermione was played by Emma Watson, a white woman, but [Noma] Dumezweni’s casting continues a tradition of imagining the character as a woman of color — her race isn’t specified in the novels and her status as ‘Mudblood’ in the wizarding world puts her in a similar position to many marginalized people in white institutions today.”
  
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• Detroit Is An Underappreciated Theatre Town

  21-12-2015 07:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I have found an artistic home in Detroit as it has launched my professional theatre career in many ways. It is the first place I was paid to act, direct, and write. Without Detroit, I would probably still be in SoCal working at the YMCA, and hoping for a big break … or any break.”
  
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• Top Posts For AJBlogs From 12.20.15

  21-12-2015 07:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Bringing the World’s Most Difficult Quartet to Life
  The intrepid Kepler Quartet is trying to finish their recording of the complete string quartets of Ben Johnston. Ben’s health is failing rapidly, it seems, and the project has taken on a race-against-time quality. This… … read more
  AJBlog: PostClassicPublished 2015-12-20Visit to the High Museum of ArtOver the weekend I made my first visit to Atlanta’s High Museum of Art. I didn’t have time to chec
  
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• The Tension Between French Literature And Real Life In The Arabic World

  21-12-2015 06:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Well before tensions between France’s Muslim and non-Muslim populations rose in response to the terrorist attacks last month, the Islamic world had been looming large in French literature this season — a sign of the powerful influence the Middle East and North Africa play in the nation’s cultural imagination.”
  
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• Can New York’s Art Scene Be Saved From Gentrification?

  21-12-2015 05:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There’s been a bohemian class in New York that’s been sustained basically since the 1950s. It’s one of the attractions of New York. So the New-York-as-creative-hub mythology is actually not that mythical. People really are attracted to the city for that reason. But New York has also become a commercial hub in terms of advertising and publishing and TV production, film production, all of these different things, and for that reason, you could be kind of an everyday artist,
  
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• Disney Scores Big With ‘Star Wars,’ But Sees Its Stock Fall Anyway

  21-12-2015 04:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The problem is ESPN: “Richard Greenfield, media analyst with BTIG Research, said in a report released Friday that Disney has overpaid for sports rights ‘based on overly aggressive multichannel video subscriber projections.'”
  
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• One Principal At The Bolshoi: ‘We Still Don’t Know The Truth’

  21-12-2015 04:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In Russian ballet, there are no easy people. We’re all difficult characters. Some are more intelligent and some are less intelligent, but you don’t have any people in Russian ballet who are angelic with easy characters. We live in a difficult country; we work in a difficult theater; we depend only on ourselves.”
  
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• The Numbers That Make Something – A Vine, An Instagram Post, A Broadway Show – A Hit

  21-12-2015 03:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Identifying a hit movie, record or book is easy, because it follows well established criteria. But what about a hit tweet? Or a hit podcast? When it comes to other creative works, defining a blockbuster is not so simple.”
  
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