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• What Broadway Theatres Are Doing About Security

  25-03-2016 22:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There are no metal detectors or security wands on Broadway. Instead, the most visible signs of safety come in the security guards who check all theatergoers’ bags manually. In recent months, bomb-sniffing dogs have occasionally joined them. But compared to the kind of measures in place at stadium music events (think Madison Square Garden) or even some Manhattan multiplexes on a crowded Saturday night, these measures can come off as relaxed.”
  
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• JK Rowling Posts Her Rejection Letters As “Inspiration” For Others

  25-03-2016 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When she pitched under the name Galbraith without revealing her true identity, she faced many more snubs. Since then, Galbraith has published three successful novels but the first was rejected by several publishers, and Rowling was even advised to take a writing course.”
  
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• Claim: Dressing Formally For Opera Is A Plus, Not A Minus

  25-03-2016 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People like to dress up. My grandfather started that off because he thought the audience ought to show respect for the artists on the stage, and that’s a nice reason to do it. People like to dress up, they like to make an effort and they don’t have to do it very often these days.”
  
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• Eugene von Bruenchenhein at Delmes & Zander, Berlin

  25-03-2016 20:47 via artnews.com
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• Study: Concert Halls In Shoebox Design Provoke Greater Emotional Response

  25-03-2016 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The results revealed an identical performance of the music evoked stronger impact when presented in the acoustics of shoebox type concert halls, such as Vienna Musikverein or Berlin Konzerthaus.”
  
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• Karen Kilimnik at 303, New York

  25-03-2016 20:29 via artnews.com
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• New Biopics Of Jesus Use Artistic License To Fill Gaps – Just As Gospels Did

  25-03-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Though the idea might seem heretical to some, modern film-makers are doing what the Gospel writers did: showing and telling. By filling in the gaps, they are inventing their own non-canonical Gospels, in which they ask Jesus who he might be, and whether he thinks he is who some say he is.”
  
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• Rapper Phife Dawg, 45

  25-03-2016 19:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Malik Taylor, the rapper known as Phife Dawg whose nimble, clever rhymes helped launch A Tribe Called Quest to both commercial and critical success, died Tuesday at the age of 45 from complications resulting from diabetes. Rolling Stone has confirmed the rapper’s death.”
  
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• Funny Press Releases I Have Received: Wacky Ol’ Hans Ulrich Obrist Is Doing Something Wacky In China

  25-03-2016 19:55 via artnews.com
  Yongwoo Lee and Hans Ulrich Obrist have been announced as the co-artistic directors of the inaugural Shanghai Project, which sounds pretty kooky! My press release—a strange enough document that it seems to have given my godless existence some semblance of meaning … Read More
  
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• Walk among Olympic gods—in New York

  25-03-2016 19:40
  
  New Yorkers can be transported to the foothills of Mt Olympus at the Onassis Cultural Center, where a major loan show of artefacts fr om the Greek archaeological site of Dion opened on Thursday and runs until 18 June. More than 90 objects are on view, many for the first time in the US, from the city wh ere the Macedonian kings, including Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, celebrated Olympic Zeus.
  “It is important for us to show that all these pieces came out of systematic excav
  
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• Artist Strips Detroit House, Moves It To Europe, Leaves Big Mess Behind

  25-03-2016 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Six months after artist Ryan Mendoza’s team finished stripping the facade off a two-story house near Eight Mile and Livernois— and assured neighbors the rest of it would be demolished immediately — the naked shell of the home still stands in the middle of a healthy block. It’s a nightmare of urban decay, rubble, debris, exposed beams, falling plaster and broken promises.”
  
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• L.A. Habitat: Henry Taylor

  25-03-2016 18:23 via artnews.com
  L.A. Habitat is a weekly series that visits with 16 artists in their workspaces around the city Read More
  
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• Sir Peter Moores, Arts Philanthropist Who Funded Opera In English, Dead At 83

  25-03-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There was nothing dilettantish about Moores’s commitment. His tastes were discriminating and his knowledge extensive – particularly in the field of opera – and he was personally involved in every funding decision.”
  
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• Betty Tompkins, famous for her Fuck Paintings, now represented by PPOW

  25-03-2016 18:00
  
  Chelsea’s PPOW Gallery now represents Betty Tompkins, the painter whose large format, up-close deceptions of sex acts have recently been having something of a moment. “It’s true,” Tomkins told The Art Newspaper, “I’m 70 years old and I’m finally pulling it together.”
  Tompkins has been without New York representation since parting ways with Mitchell Algus in 2011, though she shows with Rodolphe Janssen in Brussels and Gavlak Gallery in California a
  
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• In the Mix: Quintessa Matranga and Rafael Delacruz on ‘Dizzy World,’ Their Show at Kimberly Klark in Queens

  25-03-2016 17:36 via artnews.com
  Quintessa Matranga and Rafael Delacruz made most of the work for “Dizzy World,” their collaborative show at Kimberly Klark in Ridgewood, Queens, just feet from their bedroom. “[The studio is] this downstairs living room that we share with the whole house, … Read More
  
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• Drama Teacher Leaves £3 Million In Her Will To Fund Edinburgh Festival

  25-03-2016 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ms Rankin’s published will has shown that she has asked for the bulk of her £2,848,368 estate to be set aside for the trust, which was created to help fund productions during the event, which currently relies on around £5m of public funding.
  
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• London’s Royal Court Theatre At 60

  25-03-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “London’s powerhouse of new writing is celebrating its 60th birthday. Explore some of the Sloane Square theatre’s key productions through extracts from the Guardian and Observer archive, alongside new recollections from Wole Soyinka, Ann Jellicoe, Amanda Redman, Sally Hawkins and others.”
  
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• Does Language Create Ideas Or Merely Describe Them?

  25-03-2016 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Language, like everything else that matters to human beings, cannot be understood as a kind of semantic Lego, where we acquire individual words with firm, clear shapes and string them together to form sentences, paragraphs, essays and books. Language is shaped by the culture that has produced it, which means that it, in turn, shapes those who go on to use it.”
  
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• ‘He Produced Masterpiece After Masterpiece’: Max Weber Remembers Henri Rousseau, in 1942

  25-03-2016 16:24 via artnews.com
  With the Musée d’Orsay’s exhibition “Le Douanier Rousseau: Archaic Candor” having opened this week, we turn back to the February 15, 1942 issue of ARTnews, in which the American Cubist painter Max Weber remembered his friend Henri Rousseau. (The French … Read More
  
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• Wadsworth Atheneum Appoints Anne Butler Rice Director of Education

  25-03-2016 16:23 via artnews.com
  The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, has named Anne Butler Rice the next Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education, a role in which Rice will be heading public and community programs, educational programs, and visitor services.Rice joined … Read More
  
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• Frick expansion, take two

  25-03-2016 16:12
  
  The Frick Collection announced today that it will resume its plans for expansion and renovation, following an aborted and widely criticised proposal in 2014 that would have eliminated the museum’s much-loved gated garden.
  The new plan follows a “subsequent period of extensive study” but is still in its early stages. The museum is issuing a “request for qualifications” from among 20 different architects in the hopes that new designs will be unveiled by 2017.The Fric
  
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• Charity Bookstores Beg: Please Stop Bringing Us ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey’!

  25-03-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With almost enough copies of Fifty Shades of Grey to build its own sex dungeon, a branch of Oxfam in Swansea has asked people to stop donating the erotic novel or any of its sequels.”
  
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• Theatre Today Is Too Safe And Too Middle-Aged, Says David Hare

  25-03-2016 15:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The idea of a pioneering, cutting-edge avant-garde, I am afraid, has more or less completely disappeared from the British theatre, and now you just have every artistic director with his or her eye on the box office, because that is the mood of the times.”
  
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• The Political Novel For The Age Of Trump

  25-03-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terry Teachout: “When you consider how completely the pundit class failed to get the primaries right, I’d be more inclined to seek political wisdom in the pages of a novel written by a poet-professor who looked 70 years into the future and foretold the coming of a populist demagogue who spoke the language of the plain people.”
  
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• Modernism, Da Vinci, junkies and Bagpuss – the week in art

  25-03-2016 14:36
  
  The V&A’s retrospective of the great US photographer Paul Strand opens this week, while the Science Museum has the perfect Easter treat – all in your weekly art dispatchPaul Strand
  This great American photographer not only portrays his times, but in such works as his 1915 masterpiece Wall Street, sees an abstract grandeur that makes him a true modernist.
  • V&A, London, until 3 July. Continue reading...
  
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• The Secret, Hidden Bedrooms In Berlin’s Subways

  25-03-2016 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Checked wallpaper decorated with a Matisse poster and a miniature portrait of the Virgin Mary. A black leather sofa. A single bed with electric-blue sheets. … At first, the underground workers who stumbled upon this scene in a disused U-Bahn tunnel in Berlin’s Reinickendorf district in mid-January assumed they had encountered an abandoned film set.”
  
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• Shandaken Project at Storm King Announces Residencies for 2016

  25-03-2016 14:30 via artnews.com
  In January, the Shandaken Project announced that it would once again host a residency program at the Storm King Art Center after the program’s first run last fall. Between June and October, 15 artists will spend up to six weeks on … Read More
  
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• NPR Sends Reporters To ‘Trump Training,’ Because Trump Rallies Can Be Dangerous

  25-03-2016 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “[The radio network] has sent its political reporters to 90-minute hostile-environment awareness training, which in its typical form lasts a few days and prepares journalists for covering war zones or regions where terrorists are active.”
  
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• Morning Links: The Odeon Edition

  25-03-2016 14:02 via artnews.com
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• Is The Divide Between Fiction And Nonfiction Just An English-Language Quirk?

  25-03-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What we see as the clear-cut dichotomy between “the writing of imagination and the writing of fact” doesn’t exist in many languages, and in others the equivalent distinction is drawn along somewhat different lines.
  
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• San Antonio Symphony Musicians Accept Three-Week Furlough

  25-03-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Facing a funding shortfall and mounting debt, the San Antonio Symphony reached an agreement with its 72-member orchestra for a temporary layoff during the 2016-17 season to help the organization shore up its finances.”
  
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• Multimedia, $5 Seats, Free-Form Season – PONY Is Upending The Way Orchestras Operate

  25-03-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  New York’s newest orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York (PONY), is commissioning new films to accompany its music, using drone cameras to show the audience the musicians in action, keeping ticket prices low ($5 to $40), and working from project to project without a season announced in advance. Can they make it work? (first four paragraphs, then scroll to 23rd paragraph)
  
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• Joe Garagiola, Sportscaster And TV Host, Dead At 90

  25-03-2016 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After a mediocre career as a Major League Baseball player, “Garagiola called games at NBC for a quarter-century and served as a host on the Today show from 1967-73 and 1991-92. The likable St. Louis native sat in at times for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show and hosted a number of game shows, including Joe Garagiola’s Memory Game, Sale of the Century, To Tell the Truth and Strike It Rich.”
  
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• ‘Women Who Move Us’: Dance Theater Of Harlem Launches Female Choreographers Project

  25-03-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Lately, the world of ballet has been scrutinized and criticized for two things: its lack of diversity and the paucity of female choreographers. Dance Theater of Harlem has the first one covered. This season, it will do something about the second.”
  
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• New York City Ballet Finally Commissions Some Dances From Women

  25-03-2016 12:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “New York City Ballet announced Thursday that it would focus on new and recent works next season, with a spring festival dedicated to dances it has commissioned in recent decades, world premieres by Alexei Ratmansky and Justin Peck, and, after a notable absence of new works by women in recent seasons, premieres by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Lauren Lovette.”
  
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• Congresswoman To U.S. Air Force: Disband The Bands!

  25-03-2016 12:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Martha McSally (R-Ariz.): “We have hundreds of people playing the tuba and clarinet. … If we really had a manning crisis, from my perspective, we would really tell people to put down the tuba and pick up a wrench or a gun.”
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 03.24.16

  25-03-2016 08:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Max Facts: How Hollein Straddles the Divides Between Contemporary/Historic, Tech/Traditional
  When I interviewed him more than a year ago over lunch in New York, Frankfurt museum director Max Hollein and I were obsessed with technology. I was then working on this Wall Street Journal article … … read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-03-24Nuzzling Brussels: The Musical Instruments Museum Tweets Through the Tears
  Horrified, as we all were, by the news from Brussels, I surfed yes
  
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• The usual suspects

  25-03-2016 03:03
  
  Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, known more for his ideology than his cultural expertise, has long been the punching bag of the country’s liberal intelligentsia. The latter have let it rip since one of Medinsky’s deputy was arrested last week on embezzlement charges. Criticism has started to come from the Kremlin as well now. Vladimir Tolstoy, the great-great grandson of the Russian novelist Leo, and cultural adviser to President Vladimir Putin, said on Wednesday that if
  
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• Executive Director for Marathon Center for the Performing Arts

  25-03-2016 02:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  The Marathon Center for the Performing Arts , inaugurated on December 18, 2015, is poised to become Northwest Ohio’s premier destination for diverse arts programming, education, and entertainment. The Executive Director will have the unique and rewarding opportunity to join MCPA while the organization initiates strategic programming and planning as part of its vision to create greater availability and visibility for the performing arts in the community. Along with a keen business sense and
  
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