Arts news

• South Africa Is Struggling, Like The US, With Diversity Issues In Film And TV

  20-03-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Discontent has been growing, and South Africa has faced an unprecedented moral reckoning in the past year. Triggered by a wave of student protests that have often mirrored — and been inspired by — the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S., the country is in the midst of a roiling debate over race and privilege that has put to the test the enduring myth of a ‘Rainbow Nation.'”
  
  Read more

• Federal Raids On Manhattan Galleries Just Keep Piling Up

  20-03-2016 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a transnational crime but also a boutique crime, and that makes for very complex investigations.”
  
  Read more

• Making Radio’s Sound Effects Was Weird, Inventive, And Vital

  20-03-2016 18:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The creation of live sound effects is often referred to as Foley, after the Hollywood sound recordist who pioneered the techniques in the 1920s. Without it, the clean audio of voices would be a boring world for the listener, and Foley devices continue to be used in radio drama today.”
  
  Read more

• As Spanish Officially Evolves, It’s More Latin American – And More English

  20-03-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The last time the Diccionario was published, it contained more than 28,000 words of American origin — double the amount it contained in the previous edition.”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The Violin Thief Who Stole A Strad And Got Away With It

  20-03-2016 17:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The fact that Johnson could play the instrument publicly is less a show of daring than a symbol of how far he had fallen. The hotshot violinist, once a standout, was so anonymous that he could play a stolen Stradivarius – and no one noticed.”
  
  Read more

• This Is Uber-Stereotypical, But Apparently It Works For Boys And Ballet

  20-03-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Instead of classes based on the classical repertoire, with its emphasis on fairytales, princesses, tiaras and tutus – seen as more appealing to little girls than their male counterparts – the boys are encouraged to adopt the personae of superheroes and characters from films and video games such as Angry Birds, Optimus Prime, Minecraft, Star Wars, Lego and Toy Story.”
  
  Read more

• How Do You Dance When We’re Running Out Of Time?

  20-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The first dance, focused on water conservation, will be performed by our junior company, who will make their own costumes out of recycled materials. The audience will visit a second site under a tree and our company dancers will give them a vision of what life might look like without water, using imagery of dehydration, cracked earth and disappearing plants.”
  
  Read more

• Kathryn Reed Altman Kept The Archives, And The Flame Of Her Husband’s Artistic Legacy, Alive

  20-03-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Altman became her husband’s indispensable amanuensis, uncredited on the screen but indelibly helpful on the set, where she was a smoother of feathers, a personal connector among the various layers of personnel, a social director at gatherings that followed the viewing of dailies. She was also a keeper of the Altman history.”
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• The medium is the message – the power of public poetry

  20-03-2016 16:00
  
  From empty swimming pools to old vans, Robert Montgomery takes the written word to the most physical of spaces. People like it so much, they’ve taken to getting tattoos of his workPay with a poem: cafes around the world to exchange coffee for poetryHe has been called a vandal, a street artist, a post-Situationist, a punk artist and the text-art Banksy. Scottish poet Robert Montgomery has consciously made an “awkward space” for himself in between artistic categories – and
  
  Read more

• Is ‘To Tate Modern’ A Real Verb Now, And Can The New Design Museum Do It?

  20-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Before Tate Modern was built there was a sense that contemporary art was at the periphery of things, on the edge and even seen as not relevant to British life. It has changed so much. We can do that with design as well.”
  
  Read more

• You Think Boulez And Harnoncourt Were Opposites? Let’s Take A Closer Look

  20-03-2016 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each gleefully took sides. Each sought to kill off suffocating traditions. Each confronted a conservative establishment and created new ensembles in response. Each advocated repertoire that was formerly marginal and later became central. Each yoked the once-growing power of the recording industry to his own purposes.”
  
  Read more

• You Think Boulez And Harnancourt Were Opposites? Let’s Take A Closer Look

  20-03-2016 15:42 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Each gleefully took sides. Each sought to kill off suffocating traditions. Each confronted a conservative establishment and created new ensembles in response. Each advocated repertoire that was formerly marginal and later became central. Each yoked the once-growing power of the recording industry to his own purposes.”
  
  Read more

• A New Movie Brings Nora Ephron’s Hilarity And Toughness Briefly Back To Life

  20-03-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “At the screening I attended, Jacob Bernstein said the thing that surprised him, going back through his mother’s work, was ‘how many people she whacked.’ I have wondered, reading and re-reading Ephron, if she always knew she was whacking them.”
  
  Read more

• How Do Museums Attract New (And Younger) Audiences?

  20-03-2016 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With events, says Cleveland: “For a museum trying to lure in a younger crowd, MIX provides the perfect atmosphere: Millennials mingling, DJs spinning, cocktails swirling. In the museum’s dimmed atrium, for example, visitors chat over drinks and dance in the roaming colored spotlights.”
  
  Read more

• Budapest Festival Orchestra founder Ivan Fischer on the ensemble's love of song

  20-03-2016 14:38
  
  The orchestra will present Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) semi-staged at the Royal Festival Hall this May
  
  Read more

• How Glasgow became an art capital

  20-03-2016 14:25
  
  In recent years, the Scottish city has become a cultural powerhouse. On the eve of its biennial art festival, Hettie Judah travels there to find out why
  
  Read more

• Turkey Has Gotten So Terrifying For Journalists That Diplomats Had To Escort This One To The Airport As He Fled

  20-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When I moved to Turkey three years ago — full of curiosity and interest — I could never have imagined that I would be forced to leave the country in such a fashion. Prior to my posting in Istanbul, I had reported for Der Spiegel and Spiegel Online from Pakistan. We thought Istanbul would be quieter than Islamabad, without the terrorism and with greater press freedoms. How wrong we were.”
  
  Read more

• This Poet Laureate Appointment Made Scotland Practically Giddy

  20-03-2016 13:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘Her poetry achieves that joyful and rare thing,’ one literary commentator said last week. ‘It is of high literary merit and also accessible.'”
  
  Read more

• Paul Strand: V&A exhibition shows how photograper captured hitherto hidden aspects of Britain and Europe

  20-03-2016 13:32
  
  In Strange and Familiar at the Barbican, Strand's vision of South Uist has a kind of outlier status
  
  Read more

• Is Baltimore Now The Most Fashion-Forward Orchestra?

  20-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “These people are like athletes. … The clothes that they had, the men especially, were too hot and too restrictive. The shirt plackets and jacket lapels, for example, can really get in the way of someone playing a string instrument.”
  
  Read more

• Even Passion Plays, With An Almost Guaranteed Religious Audience, Are Facing Shrinking Crowds

  20-03-2016 13:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As Fox aims for a ratings bonanza from Sunday’s live telecast of ‘The Passion’ — a modern-dress musical production featuring pop stars Trisha Yearwood, Seal and Chris Daughtry — staged Passion plays across the country say they are facing dwindling audiences and a challenging financial environment.”
  
  Read more

• Davies/BBC Singers/BBCSO/Knussen, Barbican, review: A charmed concert under Oliver Knussen's magic wand

  20-03-2016 12:59
  
  Knussen's conducting was wonderfully clean and detailed throughout
  
  Read more

• Arts Organizations Can’t Toss Out The Past If They Want To Succeed In The Future

  20-03-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The tricky part of this equation is that it is difficult (some would say impossible) to reinvent yourself while maintaining a structure that allows you to hold on to that existing well of loyalty.”
  
  Read more

• A New Media Company Just Lost A $115 Million Lawsuit About Privacy

  20-03-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The meaning of the verdict will not be clear for some time. But the perception that a Manhattan media company, noted for its wry tone and its insistence that nearly any topic is fair game, was brought low by a celebrity fighting for privacy is most likely to resonate widely across the industry.”
  
  Read more

• Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky review – not to be missed

  20-03-2016 09:00
  
  National Portrait Gallery, London
  This once-in-a-lifetime show of portraits on loan from Moscow is like seeing Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Tolstoy et al for the first timeIn the spring of 1881, the composer Mussorgsky sat for his portrait in the St Petersburg hospital where he was being treated for chronic alcoholism. He came before the painter Ilya Repin in dressing gown, peasant smock and tousled hair. They talked about the assassination of Alexander II the previous day and read the newspapers toget
  
  Read more

• Cara, Nicole & Malala in a Danish castle courtesy of Jonathan Yeo

  20-03-2016 03:12
  
  Model Cara Delevingne (she has famous eyebrows) takes centre stage at a Renaissance castle outside Copenhagen thanks to Jonathan Yeo. Nine new portraits of the 21st-century muse go on show from today in a 60-piece retrospective dedicated to the UK artist (20 March-30 June) at the Museum of National History housed at the spectacular Frederiksborg Castle.Yeo makes lots of pithy points about the status of portraiture today, saying that Delevingne is synonymous with selfies. “The way we manip
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!