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• Will The Arizona Theatre Company Pair Up With A University In Order To Survive?

  10-07-2016 23:19 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I do not see a clear future for the theater, considering the fundraising difficulties, without something like this.”
  
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• Parviz Tanavoli on weaving together art and craft to make his woolen rugs

  10-07-2016 23:00
  The Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who was last week banned by Iranian authorities from travelling to London for a talk at the British Museum, speaks about his work from the 1960s and 1970s during a visit to London last year. The pieces were included in Tate Moderns The World Goes Pop (17 September 2015-24 January 2016) exhibition.     
  For more on Parviz Tanavoli, see Leading Iranian artist accused by authorities of disturbing the peace
  
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• Helena Newman named chairman of Sotheby’s Europe in staff restructure

  10-07-2016 23:00
  The staff reshuffle at Sothebys continues with the announcement that Helena Newman, the auction houses worldwide co-head of Impressionist and Modern, will also assume the role of chairman of Sothebys Europe, joining fellow chairmen Oliver Barker, Mario Tavella and Philipp Wrttemberg. Newman conducted the Impressionist and Modern sale at Sothebys London on 21 June; she is only the second woman ever to take an evening sale, the first one being Melanie Clore, also at Sothebys, in 1990. 
  
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• Frida Kahlo’s potent portrait on US-Mexico border heads to Philadelphia

  10-07-2016 23:00
  
  Less than two weeks before the US presidential election in November, a powerful self-portrait by Frida Kahlo standing astride the US-Mexico border will go on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Part of the exhibition Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism 1910-1950 (25 October-8 January 2017), co-organised with the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, the work could be seen as a timely witness to the anti-immigration rhetoric of politicians such as Donald Trump, who said durin
  
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• This Week In Audience: What Audiences Want (And How They Want It) Edition

  10-07-2016 20:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week: How do you keep the immersive experience “art”?… Screens are killing dance (unless they’re not)… A Music store that’s figured out community… The Louisville Symphony tries a new community model… Now audio is beating video – who knew?
  
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• Five Highlights From Last Week’s AJ: Ethics, Success, And Documentation Edition

  10-07-2016 19:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This week: What ethical responsibilities do funders and funded have to one another?… The gatekeeper problem is still a thing in the internet age… What should the measure of success be in opera?… Historians are going to have a real problem documenting today’s artists… Our all-image culture suggests the place of images in art may be changing.
  
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• What’s Going To Happen To The Twin Cities’ Floating Theatre Boat?

  10-07-2016 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In an arrangement with more twists than the melodramas U students stage on the showboat each summer, the 225-seat theater is owned by the U, attached to a dock and walkway owned by the city of St. Paul and managed by Padelford Riverboats, which operates tourist excursion boats nearby.”
  
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• How John Hughes Faked Us Into Thinking His Movies (And The Women In Them) Were Progressive

  10-07-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Thirty years on, however, we’ve dropped the rose-coloured glasses, and our response to realizing he sold us out to suburbia echoes Molly Ringwald’s response in Vanity Fair when he dropped her once she grew out of it. ‘It was very hurtful and it still hurts.'”
  
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• Twyla Tharp And Her Dancers, Looking Back And Planning For The Future

  10-07-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What’s interesting about this piece more than anything for me has been — obviously, I’m not at the beginning of my career, I’m at the end of it. I’m looking at this more as an actor discovering something. It’s an amalgamation of 20 years of dancing.”
  
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• Prizewinning Writer Says African Authors Must Diversify – And Publish Their Own Journals – To Survive

  10-07-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We have to be persistent even with little resources because there are so many stories to tell and no one else to tell them.”
  
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• A Violinist In Exile, In Germany [VIDEO]

  10-07-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music was renowned throughout the Middle East. But when war broke out many of its members had to flee.”
  
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• Keeping Low-Income Students In College Requires More Than Just Financial Aid

  10-07-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “While nearly 75 percent of respondents said their school had some sort of emergency-aid program, most also said that need outpaces resources, and few actually use data to figure out which students are most at risk of quitting, in part because they’re already overwhelmed by requests.”
  
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• Robert Lang: Camden girls of the naughty 00s

  10-07-2016 11:00
  
  The South African-born photographer revisits his younger, wilder self, partying with riotous female friends in London’s Camden TownCamden Town has long been a hotbed of music and hedonism. Jimi Hendrix and the Doors played here in the 60s; the Sex Pistols and the Clash in the 70s; Blur and Oasis are rumoured to have begun their rivalry in the Good Mixer pub in the 90s. And in the early to mid-00s the north London neighbourhood became something of an indie rock hub. Regulars and staff from
  
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• After Brexit will the loss of EU funds pose a threat to UK arts?

  10-07-2016 01:05
  
  The UK creative world is warning of the damage Brexit could have on the arts – at a time when they are more economically vital than everAs Britain grapples with the behemoth that is Brexit, culture and the arts face a much bigger job than simply keeping their many fans happy: the most varied and productive sector of national life now needs to somehow keep driving the British economy.Up until last month, thanks to the dominance of English-language films and television, as well as the wide i
  
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