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• Pope.L gets conceptual with slavery play at Drawing Center

  14-08-2016 23:00
  
  Ahead of his show at New Yorks Drawing Center in 2018, the artist Pope.L held a workshop this summer with writers, curators and others to preview and discuss his staging of a play written by a former slave.The Escape; Or, A Leap to Freedom, which will run continuously for the six weeks the show is open, was written in 1858 by William Wells Brown, a contemporary and rival ofas Pope.L described himFreddy D (aka, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass). The play seems Shakespearean in its treatment o
  
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• Audience Insight: This Week’s AJ Stories About Understanding Audiences

  14-08-2016 21:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Cyber-fan bullying makes us scared about who the audience really might be… It’s not enough to “reflect” diversity of a community to be diverse… If you want to build an audience try investing in your community… Pay-as-you-wish ticket schemes seem straightforward but they’re not… Are the arts failing at delivering the audience experience?
  
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• George Orwell’s gardening garb | Letters

  14-08-2016 20:18
  
  I’ve not said that I will make George Orwell look ragged or scruffy in the statue I am making of him to go outside the BBC (Letters, 11 August). I suggested he wore potting-shed clothes. In the mid 20th century, an employed gardener might habitually have worked in a tweed jacket, a tie, baggy trousers and a comfortable pullover. So he’d have dressed much like his master except with a little less crease in his trousers and a blunter edge to his lapel. This is just how Orwell looks in
  
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• Culture Trends: Five Stories From The Week’s ArtsJournal That You Shouldn’t Miss

  14-08-2016 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This Week: Is the music industry’s piracy war really about higher royalty payments?… There are signs the Golden Age of TV might be ending… Theatre’s emotional toll on actors… LA as the next great center of contemporary music… Europe’s tourist glut is damaging its great cities.
  
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• Digital Reproductions Versus Real Art – Here’s Why This Battle Matters

  14-08-2016 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “A danger arises when amateurs and bogus experts aren’t able to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s reproduced. Worse, they might see the digital copy and decide that it is not worth the effort to see the original. They might not think that the work is better, but it is unarguably more convenient to access.”
  
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• A Display Of Classic War Photography Has Been Vandalized In Leipzig

  14-08-2016 18:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The works, which depict scenes of conflict including the Spanish Civil War, were covered in black paint.”
  
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• Women In The United Arab Emirates Are Taking On That Country’s Sexist Theatre Practices

  14-08-2016 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Male playwrights naturally veer towards telling male-centric ­stories, with women given ­supporting roles. So for women to have the same opportunities, we need to see more women turning to writing and telling stories that expose a woman’s perspective on life and things that matter to them.”
  
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• My best summer photograph: sun, sand and plastic surgery

  14-08-2016 18:00
  
  A cliff plunge, a buried grandad, a Rio carnival queen, nudes in a barn … top photographers, including Nadav Kander and Ellen von Unwerth, pick a hot shotSummer is a time when natural light can lend an otherness to almost any subject. From Ryan McGinley’s playful homage to Renaissance nudes, to Nadav Kander’s eerie inlet at Mont Saint-Michel, these shots by contemporary photographers are testament to that. As the holiday snaps that flood Instagram show, the light can also enha
  
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• When Does Digital Photo Editing Go Too Far?

  14-08-2016 17:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Just as doping in sports has sullied a pursuit where no one is supposed to cheat, editing tools like Photoshop are increasingly casting suspicion over an industry where no picture is supposed to lie.”
  
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• A Star Actor Gets Fired From A Show After Kicking One Of The Show’s Producers

  14-08-2016 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He might sue the show, but “sources close to the show say there have been other incidents of verbal abuse by Gibson, who is said to have a short fuse and a low tolerance for disagreement on the set.”
  
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• How To Survive A Book Emergency (Without An E-reader)

  14-08-2016 17:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “I called AAA and waited for them to arrive and fix my flat tire. I waited. And I waited. And I waited some more. And suddenly I realized, to my horror, that I didn’t have any reading material in the car.”
  
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• The Young Dancer Who Thought He Was In For Something Entirely Different

  14-08-2016 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “When he was in fifth grade, his mom signed him up for what she thought was a summer reading program. It actually turned out to be a hip-hop dance program. He decided to stay and he got hooked.”
  
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• This Singer’s Turn On Broadway Changed The Direction Of Her Music

  14-08-2016 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The pair even discussed doing a jazz album inspired by her role in ‘After Midnight’ and a performance with the National Symphony Orchestra from earlier in the year.”
  
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• Britain Resorts To Crowdfunding To Restore The ‘UK Sistine Chapel’

  14-08-2016 16:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Such is the impact of the 4,200 sq m of decoration, the Painted Hall has been dubbed the UK’s Sistine Chapel. But it was – and remains – so overwhelming that, according to legend, elderly sailors pleaded to be allowed to eat their dinners somewhere less grand.”
  
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• How An Opera Planned For The Met Got Stuck In Italy

  14-08-2016 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “You can thank the impossibility of creating one-size-fits-all sets for the world’s leading opera houses, muddled administrative leadership and a strained friendship. While the opera world is now flatter than ever, because of the growing number of global coproductions, taking shows on the road is rarely simple.”
  
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• The British Actor Who Played Star Wars’ R2D2 Has Died

  14-08-2016 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The film company that made the movies, 20th Century Fox, posted a photograph of C3PO standing next to Baker’s Star Wars character, and wrote: ‘Rest in peace, Kenny Baker, the heart and soul of R2D2.'”
  
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• Why Don’t Nonfiction Books Get More – Or, In Some Cases, Any – Fact-Checking?

  14-08-2016 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “People are often surprised to learn that books, those bulky, fact-rich forever things, frequently receive less scrutiny from an independent fact checker than the stories they skim in magazines before tossing them in the recycling bin.”
  
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• The Artist JR Gets An Olympic Moment

  14-08-2016 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “For the sculptures, JR photographed young athletes who may one day make it to the Games, people who are still ‘working hard for the passion of sport.'”
  
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• London Has Treated Its Novelists Shamefully, And The BBC Makes That Very Clear With Orwell Statue

  14-08-2016 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Even if the Orwell sculpture is counted, it only takes the tally of statues of novelists across the city’s 32 boroughs to two, together with one of Virginia Woolf in Tavistock Square.”
  
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• The Queen Of Beale Street Sang With Everyone, Including BB King And The Four Tops

  14-08-2016 14:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Remember the singer at the top of the Robert Altman movie ‘Cookie’s Fortune’? That was Ruby Wilson.
  
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• Is This European Tour The Final Step In Getting The Minnesota Orchestra Back To Full Health?

  14-08-2016 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “With stops in Finland, Edinburgh, Amsterdam and Copenhagen, the tour could be called ‘the last first’ in the orchestra’s reboot. There was the first concert back, the first full season, the first recording session, the just-released first album from those sessions. Then there was the historic trip to Cuba — the first by a major U.S. orchestra since relations thawed.”
  
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• What Can Inspire Development And Investment In Post-Brexit Britain?

  14-08-2016 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “There is an urgent need to take stock of the planning systems we have now, what they can deliver, and to debate alternative futures for planning that might produce much better results.”
  
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• Snapchat’s Yellowface Feature Isn’t The App’s First Racial Misstep

  14-08-2016 13:40 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “In just the past six months, Snapchat has blundered (twice!) into releasing filters that it’s hard not to read as extremely racist.”
  
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• The Department Of Homeland Security Seems To Have A Problem With The King Of Bollywood

  14-08-2016 13:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “To detain one of India’s biggest celebrities would itself attract international headlines, but this, he said, was the third time that he had been held then released while traveling in the United States.”
  
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• When One Of Kanye West’s Collaborators Makes Remarks That Are ‘Racially Insensitive’

  14-08-2016 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Beecroft became known in the U.S. in the mid-1990s for staging performances that featured monochromatic arrangements of nude or barely clothed models in body paint who often glared at viewers with empty or defiant stares. About a decade ago, she left the art world and began collaborating with West — orchestrating his fashion spectacles, which are held in locations like New York’s Madison Square Garden arena.”
  
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• Making art (in aid of making babies)

  14-08-2016 10:32
  
  Stuart Semple is giving a helping hand to the organisation The Fertility Partnership next month when six public art pieces by the UK artist will go on show in six cities. Semples installationsto be unveiled in Glasgow, London and Nottingham, among other locations  on 1 Septemberwill highlight the work of the partnership (a group of national and international clinics specialising in IVF). Semple will also give away on the day of the launch 1,000 limited edition screenprints on foil balloons
  
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• From midnight road movies to small-hours rave: the best culture for night-owls

  14-08-2016 09:00
  
  Observer film, art, music and literature critics choose their top five night-themed works• Countdown to a non-stop capital: London goes 24-hour
  • With nightclubs in decline, what does modern Britain get up to after dark?Before Sunrise (1995)
  Hopping off a train in Vienna, American Ethan Hawke and Parisian Julie Delpy spend a night-time wondering whether they were made for each other. Along with Before Sunset and Before Midnight, this is part of that rarest of things – the perfect
  
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• Liverpool Biennial 2016 review – it’s not up everyone’s street

  14-08-2016 08:59
  
  Despite the city’s fine locations, the Liverpool Biennial is a bit of a mess – but a few jewels gleam amid the litterFor the edgy 21st-century arts curator, mad for site-specific installations, Liverpool is inordinately blessed with remarkable locations. A 19th-century oratory designed to resemble a Greek-Doric temple; a disused Victorian brewery beneath which there lies a lake some 40ft deep; a long abandoned art deco cinema, its ruby interior frozen in time as if its patrons, dress
  
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