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• Can Danny Feldman Save The Pasadena Playhouse?

  07-07-2017 23:57 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Pasadena Playhouse, which holds the designation of the State Theater of California, marks its centennial this summer. And while that’s reason to celebrate, the theater continues to struggle for survival amid serious financial challenges. Now, eight months into the job, Feldman has his work cut out for him."
  
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• Venice Has Been Crumbling For Centuries. But Why Is Its Crumbliness So Appealing?

  07-07-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When did this love for 'crumbling Venice' begin, and why has it taken hold with such tenacity? By the time Victorian historian and art critic John Ruskin encountered the city in the 1840s, he thought Venice was so neglected that she might melt into the lagoon 'like a lump of sugar in hot tea.' It’s true that Ruskin feared any further deterioration, but what appalled him to an even greater extent was any attempt to modernize the city."
  
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• The Women Who Built New York's Art World

  07-07-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "During this period, other women—like Peggy Guggenheim, Grace Nail Johnson, and Florine Stettheimer—also helped carve out the New York art landscape by establishing influential galleries and salons that fostered avant-garde art. Rarely, however, are these women heralded as the pioneers they were."
  
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• The Ideal EU City Of Culture (According To The EU)

  07-07-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A new index by the EU Joint Research Centre published Thursday measures 168 cities in 30 European countries and ranks how they perform in 29 areas of culture and creativity. The ideal city would have the cultural venues of Cork, the cultural attractiveness and knowledge-based jobs of Paris, the innovation of Eindhoven, the new creative jobs of Umeå, the education system of Leuven, the openness, tolerance and trust of Glasgow, the connectedness of Utrecht and the good governance of Copenha
  
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• An Expedition To Spiral Jetty

  07-07-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The road conditions near the jetty were highly variable, which was to say not always roads. The lake’s water levels, too, needed to be below 4,195 feet for us to see it, and those levels were partly dependent on snowfall (this winter there was lots) and how much of that snow, by the time we arrived, had melted and sluiced down the mountains — water that also, en route to the lake, could turn the 16 miles of unpaved roads into impassable mush."
  
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• Time To Do Away With Long Plays And Intermissions?

  07-07-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Ask me while stuck in traffic on my way to the Mark Taper Forum or the Geffen Playhouse what my favorite dramatic genre is and I’ll likely say, '90 minutes, no intermission.' Don’t judge me. The stretching out of plays by intermissions might make sense for producers worried about the sales revenue of overpriced food and drink. But the practice is a holdout from an era when people had discrete work hours, less harried commutes and minds that were free of Facebook, Twitter and em
  
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• Director of Development, Djerassi Resident Artists Program

  07-07-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Djerassi Resident Artists Program seeks a development professional with a dual commitment to the work of individual artists and demonstrated development experience and success in the Bay Area to fill the position of Director of Development (DofD).
  The successful candidate will work from our office in San Francisco with regular in-person and electronic communication with Woodside-based staff and Bay Area board members. The successful candidate will manage most administrative details (travel, appo
  
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• Turning The Famous Psychology Experiments Of History Into A Theatre Piece

  07-07-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eric Grode talks to members of the company Improbable about how they put together Opening Skinner's Box, an adaptation of the controversial book by Lauren Slater about studies such as Stanley Milgram's infamous experiment with obedience (where subjects were told to administer electric shocks) and Elizabeth Loftus's work on how memories can be shaped and altered.
  
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• Report: Vast Majority Of Pre-Columbian Art In San Francisco's Mexican Museum Is Not Museum Quality

  07-07-2017 20:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "According to the report, only 83 of 2,000 artifacts from the pre-Hispanic, or pre-Columbian, era could be certified as museum-quality by an independent team of museum curators who came from Mexico City to conduct the test. The other 1,917 are considered “decorative,” and will probably be given to schools or smaller museums before the museum moves from its temporary Fort Mason site to a permanent home in a luxury condo tower being constructed near SFMOMA."
  
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• The Finn Who Shaped American Midcentury Modernism

  07-07-2017 20:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, it was a Saarinen, but probably not the one you're thinking of - and his influence was less through his own design than through the educational institution he founded.
  
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• 11 Insights About How Creativity Works

  07-07-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "We like to think of inspiration 'striking' us at unlikely moments — and it does. (We’ve all had that shower moment, right?) The problem is, we attribute that moment to some mystical magic coming out of the air. However, research has shown that it’s not magic at all, but rather our brains making connections behind the scenes."
  
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• The Architecture Of Stages: A History That's More Like A Spiral Than An Arrow

  07-07-2017 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Joshua Dachs: "What at first looks like evolution - from campfires to hillsides to amphitheatres to courtyards to playhouses and onward into the future - is really the recapitulation of another kind of trajectory, from improvisation to formalization. As each new theatrical practice is improvised by a new culture or by restless, visionary (or hungry) artists using the materials at hand, its successes are repeated; standardized practices emerge, traditions and expectations are established."
  
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• Michael Krebber at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

  07-07-2017 18:51 via artnews.com
  Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.Today’s show: “Michael Krebber: Cartouche paintings” is on view at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris through Saturday, July 8. The solo exhibition, which presents a new series of work, … Read More
  
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• Then and Now: Untitled (After Rauschenberg)

  07-07-2017 18:46 via artnews.com
  The retrospective “Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends” that appeared earlier this year at Tate Modern, in London, and is now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York through September 17 led us to explore in the pages of ARTnews … Read More
  
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• Have Journalists Forgotten How To Write For Regular People?

  07-07-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Despite the increasingly complex and crucial stories dotting the national landscape—health insurance policy, North Korea, immigration, Syria—many daily newspapers and wire services are failing to include even a sentence of background early in their stories to give readers the tools to slide further into a complicated issue... I’m not talking about “dumbing down” the news as much as making it more user-friendly, and journalists who fail to do the latt
  
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• How The World's Greatest Performance-Capture Actor Creates His Roles

  07-07-2017 18:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reporter Roslyn Sulcas talks to Andy Serkis, whose performances as (among others) Gollum in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Caesar in the current Planet of the Apes series are so widely admired that fans have been agitating for him to be nominated for an Oscar.
  
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• Jewellery worth up to £3m stolen from London's Masterpiece fair

  07-07-2017 17:44
  
  Londons Metropolitan Police are investigating a major theft from the Masterpiece art fair (29 June-5 July) in Chelsea, west London. The items stolen from the stand of Swiss jewellers Boghossian, based in Geneva and London, are estimated to be worth up to 3m, according to the Evening Standard newspaper. There were reportedly no witnesses to the theft, which is thought to have taken place between 5pm on 4 July and 9.30am on 5 July, the fairs final day. The security presence at the venue, in
  
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• At Sprüth Magers in Los Angeles, a Necessary—and Immensely Flawed—Exhibition Showcased Black Women Artists

  07-07-2017 17:44 via artnews.com
  March 29–June 10, at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles Read More
  
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• Sata: The Shocking Gender Imbalance In London's West End Theatre

  07-07-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Research by The Stage reveals nearly nine out of 10 musicals had a book written entirely by men, with women credited for the script of just 12% of productions. The figures represent any time a woman was credited for either the book, music or lyrics of a show, and have been described as "shocking" by industry figures."
  
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• We Know That Smell Can Trigger Emotions And Bring Back Old Memories, But How Does It Work?

  07-07-2017 17:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Katherine Whitcroft examines the history of what's now called the "Proustian effect."
  
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• Claude Grunitzky Named First President of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation

  07-07-2017 16:45 via artnews.com
  Claude Grunitzky has been named president of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation, to work in a newly created position alongside founder and artistic director Robert Wilson. The foundation and its Watermill Center in the Hamptons on Long Island in … Read More
  
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• The First-Ever Perfume Concert (It Was A Stinker)

  07-07-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "On a New York stage in 1902, a poet and art critic named Sadakichi Hartmann attempted the first perfume concert, and it was a disaster. Intended to last 16 minutes and transport the audience to Japan through a series of smells, it was cut short at four by the jeers of the crowd."
  
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• The Six Things Dancers Should Do If They Get Fired

  07-07-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  An artistic director, a dance-career-transition counselor, and a ballerina who's been fired and rebounded offer advice on "how to part ways like a professional, regain your confidence and have greater success in your next gig."
  
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• The Arab States Blockading Qatar Are Demanding It Shut Down Al Jazeera - Here's Why

  07-07-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt have actually hated the news channel for its entire two-decade history - and now they think it's finally in a vulnerable position. (includes audio report)
  
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• 'Blurred Boundaries' - 'Gramophone' Looks At Contemporary Classical Music's Genre Fluidity

  07-07-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "'Classical' and 'contemporary' are old-school binary. They are market-driven categorisations that have become less and less applicable since musique concrète, since the AACM, since the cassette tape, since the internet, since globalisation. Now is the age of cross-pollination. Maybe now is the age of no terms at all."
  
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• In a Phone Booth in Times Square: Immigration Stories Come to Life in Aman Mojadidi’s ‘Once Upon a Place’

  07-07-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  When Aman Mojadidi came up with the idea for his big public installation piece in the heart of New York City, he never thought it would be so relevant to the current political climate. But now his three phone booths … Read More
  
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• Why Is A=440Hz The Tuning Standard For Modern Orchestras?

  07-07-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "How did they choose that particular pitch? Was there some kind of mega-music conference where the powers that be decided that A440 was to be the tuning standard? Yes. Yes there was. Several, in fact."
  
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• Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair does a U-ey to Vauxhall

  07-07-2017 15:14
  
  The annual Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair takes place in its namesake location this Sunday (6 July), eschewing its usual east London stomping ground. This years sale is popping up at The Workshop in Vauxhall, south London, around the corner from Damien Hirsts Newport Street Gallery and Beaconsfield Gallery, both of which will have a presence at the car boot fair. Well-known artists will be on hand to sell their wares at knock-down prices, giving punters a chance to acquire their very own Gavin Turk
  
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• Thomas Campbell Gives An Interview About His Departure From The Met Museum (And What He Says Is - Well ...)

  07-07-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Q: Why did you decide to step down?A: I think I've moved the museum forward in many respects. We've really modernised and come into the 21st century. ...Q: Was the speculation about your relationships with staff ... the worse [sic] thing you've had to deal with as a director?A: It goes with the territory. ... There are charges of favouritism but quite frankly that is what leadership is all about. It's about making decisions."
  
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• Morning Links: Come to the Gallery to Steal a Beer Edition

  07-07-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Cirque Du Soleil Buys Blue Man Group, Plans To Take It Global

  07-07-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After the acquisition, Blue Man will be able to tap into Cirque's worldwide access to theaters and marketers. In particular, both organizations have their eye on China, home to one of the most powerful and quickly growing entertainment industries in the world."
  
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• How To Keep Your Body Going Through A 20-Year-Ballet Career: Half A Dozen Tips From Someone Who's Done It

  07-07-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The luminous principal dancer Xiao Nan Yu, who just marked two decades with National Ballet of Canada, shares how she's kept her body strong for long-term success." (For one thing, never blow off morning class.)
  
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• José Luis Cuevas, 83, Bad Boy Of Mexican Modern Art

  07-07-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[His] brooding figures graced exhibits from Paris to New York during a career as a painter, sculptor, writer, draftsman and engraver that spanned more than seven decades. Cultivating the image of a philandering 'tomcat'" - he claimed to have had hundreds of partners, once included his semen in an exhibition, and offered to impregnate any woman who wanted to have his baby - "Cuevas drew on the work of Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso, and his depictions of dark, deformed, animal-like figures
  
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• Pierre Henry, Pioneer Of Musique Concrète And 'Grandfather Of Techno,' Dead At 89

  07-07-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Henry, a trained composer who studied with ... Olivier Messiaen, is known for establishing the GRMC (Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète) ... along with his early colleague and radio professional Pierre Schaeffe. ... Henry composed the first work of musique concrète to be used in a commercial film, his 1952 work Astrologie ou le miroir de la vie. Later, Henry would establish the first private electronic music studio in France, the Apsone-Cabasse Studio."
  
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• The First-Ever Edinburgh Festival Was Saved By Ration Cards

  07-07-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A new archive created to mark the 70th anniversary of the Edinburgh International Festival has revealed how the city's residents were initially divided about the first event - but ended up ensuring it went ahead by donating rations."
  
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• Denys Johnson-Davies, 94, Pioneer In Translating Modern Arabic Literature

  07-07-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In 1967, the term 'Arabic literature,' for most Western readers, meant two books, the Quran and The Arabian Nights. But that year, readers were handed a full menu of contemporary fiction in Arabic with the publication of Modern Arabic Short Stories, an anthology that showcased the work of 20 writers, including Yusuf Idris, Tayeb Salih, Zakaria Tamer and Naguib Mahfouz, who would go on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988."
  
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• Wyndham Lewis’s TS Eliot: a jigsaw puzzle of rebellion and radicalism

  07-07-2017 13:00
  
  History remembers the artist as a Hitler sympathiser, but his guiding principle – as illustrated by this portrait, which the RA rejected – was a passion to agitateModernist poetry’s lanky luminary TS Eliot looks serious and far from comfortable in Wyndham Lewis’s famed portrait. His face is a jigsaw puzzle of shadowy half-moons and sharp planes. The hands droop from the oversized suit, suggesting the subtle creepiness of a limp handshake. Continue reading...
  
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• Women’s art occupying public spaces in New York City – in pictures

  07-07-2017 13:00
  
  SaveArtSpace is a Brooklyn-based not-for-profit group with a mission to transform advertisement space into public art installations, by and for the local community. Its latest initiative is SaveArtSpace: the Future Is Female, an all-female gallery & public art exhibition in New York City using billboards, phone booths and advertising hoardings Continue reading...
  
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• Portrait power, black power and flower power – the week in art

  07-07-2017 12:13
  
  Old masters spill their secrets, America makes a fist of its history and New Order say it with roses – all in your weekly dispatchThe Encounter
  This exhibition of portrait drawings made from life by the likes of Holbein, Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt is a chance to get close to the creative processes of some of the greatest artists in history. It homes in on the magical way great portraits preserve people who lived long ago.• National Portrait Gallery, London, 13 July – 22 Oct
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 07.06.17

  07-07-2017 11:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  Janacek’s Vixen is re-thought and hunted down in the backstreets of London
  The title, simply, is Vixen. It’s not The Cunning Little Vixen or Russ Meyer’s Vixen!, though it was closer to the former than the latter. And true to the foxiness of the title, you had to hunt it down. ... read more
  AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2017-07-06Recent Listening: Kurt Rosenwinkel, Fanny Gunnarsson
  Kurt Rosenwinkel, Caipi (RAZDAZ Records)From his emerge
  
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• Maria Balshaw, the first woman at the top of the Tate: 'We need to speak to the whole of society'

  07-07-2017 11:35
  
  The terror attacks, Grenfell Tower, the election: the Tate’s new boss has not had a quiet easing-in period. But she’s determined to make the galleries central to these tumultuous timesMaria Balshaw, newly appointed director of Tate, has been in post for just three and a half weeks when we meet. Despite nursing an ill-timed broken arm, a yoga injury (“someone was doing a handstand and they fell on top of me”), Balshaw is on fine form. Reflective and precise, she wears her
  
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• Whales at the Natural History Museum: this week’s best UK exhibitions

  07-07-2017 10:30
  
  Skeletons and skulls reveal the secret lives of the biggest animals on Earth. Plus: the influence of surrealism and the legacy of Bonnie Prince CharlieNothing gets you closer to an artist than the intimacy of a drawing. To look at one by Da Vinci is to see his mind and hand at work. This exhibition of portrait drawings by some of the greatest ever artists is an encounter both with genius and the faces of people who lived up to 500 years ago. Hans Holbein’s drawings of Tudor Britons ar
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Lovebox and Painting Pop

  07-07-2017 10:00
  
  Frank Ocean tops the bill at the east London festival, while Abbot Hall in Cumbria celebrates Blake, Hockney, Boty and moreDog-friendly screening
  Dog lovers and fans of stop-motion animation rejoice! London’s Picturehouse Central is hosting a special dog-friendly (well-behaved canines only, please) screening of My Life As a Courgette on 9 July. Water bowls and blankets will be provided (for the dogs, obvs).
  At Picturehouse Central, W1, 9 July Continue reading...
  
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• Painting worth $200,000 stolen from Sydney house while owner was moving

  07-07-2017 08:34
  
  Police say Comet (F13) by New Zealand’s most influential modernist artist, Colin John McCahon, stolen from inside owner’s homeA $200,000 modernist painting has been stolen from a Sydney house while its owner was in the middle of moving out, according to police.The painting, called Comet (F13), by the renowned New Zealand artist Colin John McCahon, was reported missing on Sunday, with police saying the thief had stolen it from inside the owner’s Balmain home.Related: New Zealand
  
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• Does Diversity Really Improve Creativity?

  07-07-2017 00:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Most studies assume that the relationship between diversity and creativity is linear, but recent evidence suggests that a moderate degree of diversity is more beneficial than a higher dose. This finding is consistent with the too-much-of-a-good-thing paradigm in management science, which provides compelling evidence for the idea that even the most desirable qualities have a dark side if taken to the extreme. In other words, all things are good in moderation (except moderation)."
  
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• What Philosophy Can Learn From Film

  07-07-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to Stephen Mulhall and Robert Sinnerbrink, an argument has been made that film can be philosophy. Indeed, that cinema can serve philosophy not in some ancillary role – for example, by providing ‘illustrations’ of philosophical problems in classroom settings – but in its own right, with its own means, and in a manner irreducible to the methods of traditional philosophy.
  
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