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• Editor’s Pick: Five Highlights From This Week’s ArtsJournal

  10-04-2016 23:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What business success in theatre looks like, our over-obsession with creativity as a catch-all answer to success, how the art markets really work, how taste gets confused with pretension, and machines’ inroads to art.
  
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• Object lessons: from a pint-sized El Greco to a Turkish bokche

  10-04-2016 23:00
  
  El Greco, The Entombment of Christ (1570s)Old Master Paintings, Part I, Christie’s, New York, 14 April
  Est $4m-$6m
  Traditionally held in January, Christie’s Old Master sales in New York now form part of the auction house’s first springtime Classic Art Week (12-14 April). Among the highlights is this diminutive depiction of the entombment of Christ by Domenikos Theotokopoulos, better known as El Greco (1541-1614), which has been consigned from a London collection. The oil on pa
  
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• Is the British Museum heading east to London's Olympic park?

  10-04-2016 23:00
  
  The Smithsonian Institution is facing a crucial decision on whether to proceed with its first location outside the US. The satellite, on the former Olympic site in East London, would present highlights from its 19 constituent museums in Washington, DC, and New York.
  Even if the Smithsonian pulls out of the project, another museum is waiting in the wings. The British Museum is now considering taking up space at Olympicopolis. The £850m cultural hub will also include a branch of the Victori
  
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• Brazilians put a brake on art buying at SP Arte

  10-04-2016 23:00
  
  The moderate sales seen at this year’s São Paulo art fair SP Arte do not bode well for the country’s art market, as it heads into a deep recession that shows no sign of ending soon. More has been written about the Brazilian political crisis than has been written about its economic sitatution, but the country’s GDP shrank 3.8% in 2015, its worst drop in 25 years. The effects of this have yet to be seen but at the end of February, Moody’s cut the country’s sov
  
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• The Pritzker Prize Winner Gives Us A New Blueprint For Cities

  10-04-2016 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The most significant project, as the one most likely to justify the Pritzker committee’s hope that Aravena is offering new ways forward, is his role in the reconstruction of the Chilean city of Constitución after the earthquake and tsunami of 2010.”
  
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• How Do TV Shows Destroy Themselves?

  10-04-2016 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This deconstruction of Sleepy Hollow’s fast descent could be a primer for what other TV shows should avoid.
  
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• The United States’ Great State Universities Are Being Pillaged And Dismantled

  10-04-2016 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Between 2008 and 2013 states reduced financial support to top public research universities by close to 30 percent. At the same time, these states increased support of prisons by more than 130 percent.”
  
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• Can The San Antonio Symphony Save Itself?

  10-04-2016 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “David Gross is the President of the San Antonio Symphony, and he says the problem isn’t a new one. The deficit has been growing since 2008. Fundraising, ticket sales and grants just haven’t paid the bills and Gross says he asked everyone involved to help find a solution.”
  
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• The Other Problem With Gay Talese

  10-04-2016 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The 84-year-old journalist ventured out to Boston University last week, and made a series of simultaneously inane and offensive comments about female writers. Since that time, Talese has been the unsurprising object of mockery and scorn on Twitter and elsewhere. But within the same week, to less fanfare, Talese revealed an even darker side of himself via a massively long piece in the current issue of the New Yorker, titled ‘The Voyeur’s Motel.'”
  
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• No One Living Has Ever Heard The Most Famous Violin In The World

  10-04-2016 17:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The violin world is a world based on lineage, secrecy, and the ‘war’ between authenticity and deception inside an elite group. It consists of a cloister of craftspeople, dealers, and ‘experts’ passing very specific knowledge down to the very few willing to take the time to learn this time-intensive skill that for centuries has been based on copying old fiddles.”
  
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• Miami City Ballet Gets Its Groove Back

  10-04-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Several dancers noted that under Ms. Lopez’s direction, the company is starting to feel more connected to the culture of Miami, rather than like an outpost of New York City Ballet. This is also reflected in its roster, which includes a higher-than-average number of Latin Americans, including a large contingent from Brazil.”
  
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• John Cage Turned Black Mountain Into A Performance Center

  10-04-2016 16:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Cage wanted a contemporary art that reflects life as it was led. To the Black Mountain traditional modernists, and especially for the émigrés, memory must always be honored, one must never forget.”
  
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• What The Movie Biz Did To The Director Of ‘Girlfight’

  10-04-2016 16:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The arc of her life and career easily reflects the trials faced by so many other female filmmakers. But it is also the singular story of an (at times) painfully solitary artist, someone whose temperament has put her at odds with the lopsided demands of her chosen profession — and, ultimately, allowed her to survive it.”
  
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• The Man Who Turned The Organ, And Bach, Into Serious Study

  10-04-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Unlike scholars in the Bach field who have often succumbed to a bland attitude of continuous adulation towards the master, [Peter] Williams, who has died aged 78, never shirked from showing where Bach fell short of his own astonishing standards, observing, for instance, that certain of his pieces show ‘teeth-gritting dogma’ and that there is something alienating in the thoroughness of the Well-Tempered Clavier’s progress through all the major and minor keys twice over.&r
  
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• We’re Obsessed With Innovation, But What We Actually Need Is Maintenance

  10-04-2016 15:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In formal economic terms, ‘innovation’ involves the diffusion of new things and practices. The term is completely agnostic about whether these things and practices are good. Crack cocaine, for example, was a highly innovative product in the 1980s, which involved a great deal of entrepreneurship (called ‘dealing’) and generated lots of revenue.”
  
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• This Is The Woman Who Brought The Original Paddington Bear To Life On The Page

  10-04-2016 15:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “After photographing Malayan bears at the London Zoo, [Peggy Fortnum] depicted, in black and white with pen and ink, an endearingly frumpy refugee with a floppy hat and duffel coat — ignoring her London art tutor’s advice that she never draw animals that talked and wore clothes.”
  
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• How Did Architecture – And Development – Pass East New York By?

  10-04-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An account of a tour though East New York reads like a Dickens parody. Walk the streets and you’ll pass scrapyards; junkyards; auto dismantlers; methadone clinics; prostitution motels that charge by the hour; seventeen mental health facilities; fifteen drug-treatment facilities; twelve homeless shelters; half-way houses and three-quarter houses.”
  
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• An Explicitly Sexual And Explicitly Violent Lucia Draws Boos In London

  10-04-2016 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The extra scenes include a passionate sex sequence and, after the audience are led to understand Lucia was pregnant, a miscarriage on stage.”
  
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• When Museum Protesters Take Over The Museum’s Walls

  10-04-2016 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “An artist from Bushwick, Sarah Quinter, wrote an open letter to the museum, saying the conference participants engaged in speculation and were part of an ‘epidemic of gentrification’ that endangered the stability of neighborhoods.”
  
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• What Happens After A Town Dies?

  10-04-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “‘They’re haunting places,’ says Nick Trujillo, a New Mexico resident who that has made a hobby of exploring the lonesome ghost towns in the eastern part of his state. ‘There is something deeply personal about entering someone’s house, even if they have been gone for decades.'”
  
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• One Of Broadway’s Ensemble Stalwarts Is Walking Away

  10-04-2016 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Armed with what she refers to as ‘pedestrian singing’ abilities and ‘passable acting,’ she loved working in the ensemble — standing out in the group as much as possible, but also being protected by the group just the same.”
  
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• Gaza Residents, After Decades, Finally Get A To Watch Movies In Public

  10-04-2016 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “As there are no movie theatres in Gaza, the screenings are held at a rented hall at the Red Crescent Society building.”
  
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• Glasgow International review – irrepressible vitality everywhere

  10-04-2016 09:00
  
  Glasgow itself is the focus of its 2016 festival of contemporary art, with 220 artists from around the world jostling for space – and plywood – and everything from the Panama Papers to velvet lobstersIf you want to see the world-famous Glasgow art scene in action right now, a painter told me last week, look no further than the city’s hardware shops. There you will find artists of all ages hurrying in for masking tape, screws and picture wire. Some have been known to converge on
  
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