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• Italian Court Throws Out Plan For Coliseum Archeological Park

  09-06-2017 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The judges ruled that creating an independent archaeological park would disturb the unity of Rome’s Unesco-protected historic centre and deprive the city of the proceeds from ticket sales to the monuments."
  
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• How Oskar Eustis Fell In Love With Theatre

  09-06-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The counterculture of the early 1970s, when I was forging my independence, was a strange and often incoherent brew of politics, self-expression, spiritual seeking, gender fluidity and art-making. It was a heady time, and while it wasn’t exactly bliss to be alive, it was a time of remarkable possibility. It was also the time when I fell in love with the avant-garde theater."
  
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• Here's What's In The Library Of Magic In New York

  09-06-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The not-for-profit organization was established in 2003, “dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of magic and its allied arts.” It was started by William Kalush, who developed a love of magic from the card tricks shown to him by his father, a Marine wounded in World War II. This love of card magic turned to a love of collecting magic books, which now form a wondrous collection of over 15,000 books—some dating to over 600 years old—housed in this hidden location.
  
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• Bestselling Authors Who Are Thriving WIthout Ever Being On The Bestseller Lists

  09-06-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A handful of writers who top the Kindle charts, including LJ Ross and Rachel Abbott, have defied rejections from publishers and agents to knock out seven-figure sales for their brand of crime and thriller writing. This, in a market where it only takes around 3,000 sales to top the hardback charts.
  
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• How The Oregon Shakespeare Festival Is Catching The Attention Of America's Theatre World Elite

  09-06-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Among the 600 professionals annually employed by OSF are the 100 actors who make up its repertory acting company — the largest repertory troupe in the country, ranging from new faces to actors who are 20-year veterans. (Among its alumni: Denis Arndt, nominated for a Tony this year for “Heisenberg.”) With diversity a major concern for Broadway and the theater industry at large, 61% of this year’s OSF ensemble are actors of color."
  
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• How Watching Congressional Hearings Became An American Pastime

  09-06-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Turning on the television to follow the action is a relatively new practice. It dates back to a set of dramatic crime syndicate investigations in the 1950s that became a televised political theater triumph - and set the stage for what has become a uniquely American pastime."
  
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• The Legendary Strand Bookstore At 90

  09-06-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Now the shop boasts an advertised "18 miles" of new, used and rare books, many of which Fred Bass himself has procured through private estates and overseas sales. "Part of my job is going out to look at estates — it’s a treasure hunt," Bass told NY Mag in 2014, describing New York as "an incredible source — a highly educated group of people in a concentrated area, with universities and Wall Street wealth. The libraries are here."
  
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• Roger Kausch and Margarita Sánchez Urdaneta at Slag Gallery, Brooklyn

  09-06-2017 20:07 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• 'Wonder Woman' Barred From Screens In Tunisia (And Not Because Of Skimpy Costumes)

  09-06-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tunisia, in fact, is relatively relaxed by Arab standards about female dress. The reason for the ban does, however, have to do with star Gal Gadot (and it will probably make you mutter, "Gawd, not that again").
  
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• Can A Podcast Save A Near-Extinct Native Alaskan Language?

  09-06-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Recently, advocates who have been establishing means of revitalizing Alaska Native languages have created new opportunities for the preservation of Tlingit. Perhaps the most creative effort has been that of the Sealaska Heritage Institute, a non-profit based in Juneau that promotes understanding of Southeastern Alaska Native cultures. In late 2016, it produced two phone applications and a podcast that aim to teach users the Tlingit language."
  
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• How An Obscure Eastern European Symphony Sold A Million Copies And Changed The Classical Record Industry

  09-06-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  William Robin traces the history of Henryk Górecki's Symphony No. 3, from its unhappy premiere at a French avant-garde festival 40 years ago (allegedly, Pierre Boulez shouted "Merde!), through the release, 25 years ago, of the surprise hit recording by conductor David Zinman and soprano Dawn Upshaw, to the major labels' attempts to repeat the work's success.
  
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• From the Archives: Takashi Murakami on His Fantastically Colored World, in 2001

  09-06-2017 18:36 via artnews.com
  Takashi Murakami, one of the best-known artists in the world, is the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago that opened this week. With that show in mind, reprinted below is Kay Itoi’s profile of the … Read More
  
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• Big Aztec Temple Found Under Downtown Mexico City Streets

  09-06-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The discoveries were made on a nondescript side street just behind the city's colonial-era Roman Catholic cathedral off the main Zocalo plaza on the grounds of a 1950s-era hotel. The underground excavations reveal a section of what was the foundation of a massive, circular-shaped temple dedicated to the Aztec wind god Ehecatl and a smaller part of a ritual ball court, confirming accounts of the first Spanish chroniclers to visit the Aztec imperial capital, Tenochtitlan."
  
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• Uptalk May Be Annoying, But It Serves A Real Purpose

  09-06-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nick Douglas explains why the seemingly unserious speech tic can be crucial for keeping a listener's attention.
  
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• A sci-fi odyssey, subversive curiosities and a medieval genius – the week in art

  09-06-2017 18:01
  
  Benedict Drew explodes free-market ideas via Hollywood and Max Ernst, while Arthur Jafa meditates on black lives in the US – all in your weekly dispatchGiovanni da Rimini
  This close look at the art of a forgotten master is a trip to the very birth of the Renaissance. Giovanni da Rimini’s masterpiece Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints (1300-05) is a window on the moment when Italian artists rejected the stiffness of Byzantine painting and started to look at reality w
  
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• ‘It Was Very Clear I Was Possessed’: New Books Reveal Leonora Carrington’s Surreal Voice in Memoir and Fiction

  09-06-2017 17:50 via artnews.com
  One of the most intriguing features of Surrealism is that it plays havoc with time and place. The paintings of Leonora Carrington, who counted among the movement’s ranks before she died in 2011, could have been conceived in almost any historic … Read More
  
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• How You Know You're Probably Being Fired As Artistic Director

  09-06-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Greg Miller, who has worked at the theater for 27 years, said he was blindsided by the decision. But in retrospect, he should have have predicted changes were afoot — especially after he was told he no longer had to attend the annual board retreat. "I found it that odd since I'm the head artistic officer in an arts organization [and] I was no longer required to come speak at board meetings when my job description states that that's required of me."
  
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• Houston Artadia Awards Go to Regina Agu and Kaneem Smith

  09-06-2017 17:19 via artnews.com
  Artadia has announced the winners of its 2017 Houston Artadia awards: Regina Agu and Kaneem Smith. The artists, both of them based in Houston, will receive $10,000 in unrestricted funds. Agu and Smith were selected from five finalists also including … Read More
  
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• The Ten Things Drama Schools Ought To Be Teaching Actors (Per One Experienced Director)

  09-06-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's probably not a realistic or even practical list, but let's indulge in a little blue-sky thinking." Tim Wilmott's list includes the obvious (physical and vocal training), the practical (balance film and stage training), the controversial (drop improv and Meisner), the dubious (political radicalisation), and, possibly, the hopeless (we'll let you guess which one that is).
  
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• The Many and Meaningful Libraries of Documenta 14

  09-06-2017 17:01 via artnews.com
  The world of books is on display in artworks of different varieties. Read More
  
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• Patti LuPone Is Doing Her Last Musical

  09-06-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a War Paint backstage interview in which she talks about plenty else as well, the Broadway diva tells Jackson McHenry, "I don't know how long my voice will last. By the time another one comes along I may not have a voice. I don't want to have be character woman and be put in a box [on the side of a poster]. I can't be a leading lady forever, so why not go out in a blaze of glory as Helena Rubinstein?"
  
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• How Dance Partners Create Chemistry Onstage

  09-06-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Three pairs of dancers, two in New York and one in India, share their experiences finding mutual balance in a physically challenging medium."
  
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• Italian politicians clash over management of Colosseum

  09-06-2017 16:04
  
  The same Italian regional court that recently ousted five directors of Italys top national museums has thrown out the governments plan to create a new archaeological park for the Colosseum and the surrounding area in Rome. The decision, announced by the Lazio regional administrative tribunal (TAR) on 7 June, voids the international recruitment process for a new director to oversee ancient monuments including the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Palatine Hill and Domus Aurea, which was due to conclu
  
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• Rei Hotoda Named Music Director Of Fresno Philharmonic

  09-06-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A former concert pianist, Hotoda has been assistant conductor at the Dallas and Winnipeg Symphonies and is finishing up a stint as associate conductor of the Utah Symphony. She was the unanimous choice of the board and musicians.
  
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• Once-a-Decade Skulptur Projekte Münster Opens With Loose, Breezy Press Conference

  09-06-2017 15:41 via artnews.com
  Opening remarks were registered and bikes were boarded to go see sculpture. Read More
  
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• Watch a Short Film About Theaster Gates and His Curious Collections of Forsaken Things

  09-06-2017 15:40 via artnews.com
  The latest offering in ART21’s “Summer of Shorts,” a series of online films about an intriguing array of artists from all over, features Theaster Gates among his many mind-boggling collections in Chicago. You can watch it early by way of ARTnews … Read More
  
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• Five Moments When Classical Music Met Geopolitics

  09-06-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Under the headings "A Cold War Coup," "A Postwar Requiem," "A Fallen Wall," "A Mideast Conflagration," and "A Diverse Ensemble," Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim introduces video clips of the occasions.
  
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• Lisson Gallery announces representation of Leon Polk Smith foundation

  09-06-2017 15:28
  
  Lisson Gallery has announced its representation of the foundation of the painter Leon Polk Smith, who was a pioneer of the hard-edge style of Minimalist art. The New York branch of the gallery is planning an exhibition in September of paintings and works on paper from the 1960s and early 1970s, most of which have never been on show before.Smith rose to fame in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his Correspondences series, large-scale, brightly coloured canvases featuring simple undulating shap
  
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• The World's Most-Visited Museum Is No Longer The Louvre

  09-06-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In fact, in 2016, Paris's flagship museum was in third place. The leader in visitor traffic may surprise you - until you think about it for a sec.
  
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• Please keep the flames to six feet! The wild and wonderful world of Walthamstow art school

  09-06-2017 15:13
  
  In the early 1960s, the old guard running Walthamstow art school quit – and a riotous spirit took hold, galvanising students from Ian Dury to Peter Blake. Now a new show, Be Magnificent, is celebrating the glory daysTerry Day’s eyes widen as he remembers arriving at the Walthamstow School of Art in March 1962. A small, wiry 76-year- old, his voice a mix of Dagenham roots and a lifetime spent as a British free jazz hepcat and pioneer, he sums it up quite simply: “The students we
  
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• The New York Times Talks To 67 Tony Voters And Makes Its Predictions

  09-06-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Here's what we learned: There is an apparent consensus about the season's four best performances ... as well as the season's best revivals ... But Tony voters are deeply divided about the season's new work, with the race for best new play, as well as the one for best new musical, far too close to call."
  
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• Morning Links: Insect Wings (and Many Other Things!) Edition

  09-06-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• Roman Polanski's 1977 Rape Victim To Ask Court To End Case Against Him

  09-06-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Samantha Geimer was 13 years old when Polanski assaulted her in Los Angeles in 1977. In recent years, she has said repeatedly that she has forgiven Polanski, now 83, but Friday's appearance would make the first time Geimer has appeared publicly at a court hearing in the case."
  
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• Sculpture Stolen From Truck Just After Sculptor Finished It

  09-06-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Paul Villinski had created Flower Bomber, a replica of a B-25 military plane made from recycled wood and fiberglass, especially for the atrium of the Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia, and the piece was taken the night before he was going to drive it there.
  
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• LACMA Starts Its First-Ever Kickstarter Campaign

  09-06-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What's more, it's for a little egg-shaped structure from Guatemala. Carolina Miranda explains.
  
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• For First Time, Baileys Prize For Women's Fiction Goes To Sci-Fi Title

  09-06-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Naomi Alderman's The Power, ... set in a dystopian future where women and girls can kill men with a single touch, was the favourite on a shortlist that included former winner Linda Grant and Man Booker-shortlisted Madeleine Thien."
  
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• Shout out on social media enables Syrian refugee artist’s bronze to reach London

  09-06-2017 14:00
  
  A Syrian-born artist who is now a refugee in France has been made a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (RBS). A bronze by Alice Al Khatib, who was born in 1982 and is a graduate of the fine arts college at the University of Damascus, went on show in the societys international, open-submission group show of young and emerging sculptors. Getting it to London from Beirut, where it is in a private collection, required ingenuity and social media, led by the president of the RBS, the sc
  
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• Pennsylvania Ballet Names Interim Executive Director From National Symphony And Curtis Institute

  09-06-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[Elizabeth] Warshawer's most recent high-profile role was as executive vice president, chief operating officer, and chief financial officer of the Curtis Institute of Music. She held the post until 2015, overseeing such major initiatives as the development of strategic plans, the launch of major online initiatives, and construction of a new building with dorms and rehearsal spaces. She is currently interim executive director of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington." Current executive d
  
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• How Times Square Was Reinvented

  09-06-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In today’s America of drastically reduced civic expectations, Snøhetta’s quietly brilliant reconfiguration of Times Square is an exemplar of how much can be achieved in city planning without the gigantic financial outlays and dire social displacements that typified American postwar urban renewal projects."
  
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• Lisa Yuskavage’s Déjà Vu: supernatural satire

  09-06-2017 13:00
  
  The New Yorker has turned old-master techniques on their head here by applying them to the trashy and kitschThe woman at the centre of Lisa Yuskavage’s Déjà Vu is one of the leading New York painter’s typical weird babes, mixing the girly cuteness of 1970s Sarah Kay illustrations with a voluptuous body to rival the Paleolithic-era figurine Venus of Willendorf. Continue reading...
  
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• UK election upset leaves prime minister’s Brexit strategy in disarray

  09-06-2017 12:55
  
  The UK prime minster Theresa Mays disastrous election result is casting doubt on the UKs Brexit negotiations. This morning, after the general election count, the Conservative Party looked like they would end up with 319 seats (down 13 on 2015) and Labour 261 (up 29 seats), resulting in a hung Parliament. May will lead a minority government. May called the snap election saying that she needed a strong majority to put her in a powerful position over negotiating Britains departure from the Eu
  
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• Artist Eileen Cooper to step down as Keeper of Royal Academy Schools

  09-06-2017 12:43
  
  The painter and Royal Academician, Eileen Cooper, has perhaps been the busiest artist in London this spring. The Keeper of the Royal Academy Schools, the first woman to fill that role, also co-ordinated the eight-strong hanging committee of the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, which opens to the public on 13 June (until 20 August) and features around 1,000 works of art selected from the thousands submitted by professional and amateur artists as well as drawings by leading archite
  
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• Raphael and Balenciaga: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  09-06-2017 10:30
  
  Passion and sensitivity shine through in the Ashmolean’s celebration of the Italian Renaissance, while surreal art meets high fashion at the V&AIn 1920, the surrealist photographer Man Ray took a picture of a huge piece of glass lying on the floor of his friend Marcel Duchamp’s studio, covered in dust. The glass panel was in fact part of Duchamp’s masterpiece-in-progress The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even, deliberately left to gather dust as part of Duchamp&rsqu
  
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• Racial Stereotypes Disturb in Remnants of Historical Lore at Documenta

  09-06-2017 00:30 via artnews.com
  The Neue Galerie plays home to disquieting artifacts from the past. Read More
  
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• Venice's Guggenheim Collection Appoints New Director (With Personal Ties)

  09-06-2017 00:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Not only is Karole Vail a Guggenheim stalwart — she has been on staff since 1997 and organized the sweeping retrospective “Moholy-Nagy: Future Present” last year — but she also has personal ties to the institution: Peggy Guggenheim was her grandmother.
  
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