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• “Star Wars” Passes The Billion-Dollar Box-Office Mark (Faster Than Any Other Movie)

  27-12-2015 23:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s becoming old hat to recount the various ways that the seventh film in the science-fiction fantasy is vaporizing records, but, familiar or not, “The Force Awakens” once again ground down high-water marks over the holidays, racking up $153.5 million domestically.
  
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• August Wilson’s Dilapidated Home In Danger (What To Do?)

  27-12-2015 23:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A decade after Wilson’s death, the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s plays continued to tell the story of the Hill District whenever they’re performed. But the home he grew up in is in terrible shape.”
  
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• Report: Arts Education Increasing In NYC Schools

  27-12-2015 22:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This growth is partly thanks to a new $5.3 million staffing program called Arts Matter, which allows middle and high schools to share dance, music, art, and theater teachers. The program brought art instruction to some 22,000 new students this year.”
  
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• Greece Gambles On Rebuilding The Ancient Colossus Of Rhodes (And Supersizing It)

  27-12-2015 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The cost is estimated at €250m. It would be an astonishingly ambitious project for any country – but for Greece, which has suffered so much in recent years, is it foolhardy? When Greek people are hungry, surely €250m could cover a lot of meals for children and supplies for hospitals.”
  
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• The Problem With Colorblind Casting

  27-12-2015 20:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Colorblind casting might land a few promising actors prestigious roles, but it isn’t a sustainable strategy: It neither addresses the systemic problems that exists behind the camera nor does it compel Hollywood to tell more racially aware stories.”
  
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• Choir Tops UK Pop Charts With Christmas Album (Beats Bieber Even)

  27-12-2015 20:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Choir’s A Bridge Over You, a mash-up of songs by Coldplay and Simon and Garfunkel, soared to the top of the festive charts, selling more than 127,000 copies.”
  
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• The Big Threat To Opera: Lack Of Courage

  27-12-2015 19:53 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We live in a time where we’re all so focused on success, short-term success. And actually there are so many masterworks that wouldn’t exist if theatres hadn’t taken a risk on them.”
  
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• A Major New Museum For Hong Kong (But Fears For Its Independence)

  27-12-2015 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In recent years, both M+ and the larger project have been troubled by delays and the departures of high-level staff members. More worrying now are concerns that M+ may not be able to maintain the curatorial independence and distance from politics necessary for a world-class museum to thrive.”
  
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• Study: Data On Arts Impact On Cities

  27-12-2015 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The study finds substantial evidence that performing arts organizations add to both the growth of the knowledge class and to urban economies broadly.”
  
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• Claim: Geological Evidence That The Great Sphinx Is 800,000 Years Old

  27-12-2015 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Some might say that the theory proposed by Manichev and Parkhomenko is very extreme because it places the Great Sphinx in an era where there were no humans, according to currently accepted evolutionary patterns.”
  
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• Eight Things We Learned In 2015 About How The Brain Works

  27-12-2015 16:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Studies published this year shed light on the mysteries of the brain and human behavior, and began paving the way for new treatments to mental and neurological health problems, ranging from addiction to autism to Alzheimer’s disease.”
  
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• This Is How Precarious Public Art Is

  27-12-2015 15:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What do you do if, in a city of high-profile collectors of multimillion dollar art, your treasure is too precious to neglect, but not valued enough to attract the support needed to maintain it?”
  
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• Darcey Bussell: Gender Balance In Dance Is Changing

  27-12-2015 14:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s certain is that ballet is changing. Little girls also now dream of playing football and fighting fires and little boys can now dance the lead in Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. And just in time, as far as Bussell is concerned.”
  
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• Maggi Hambling interview: Celebrated artist on how she discovered her talent for painting – and the sting of criticism

  27-12-2015 00:08
  
  For many years an outspoken public artist on the television and radio, she also makes art that moves people deeply
  
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