Arts news

• "Hamilton" Tries New Plan To Fight Bots, Scalpers

  15-08-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “This is a new effort to put tickets into the hands of theatergoers at regular prices,” said Jeffrey Seller, the lead producer of “Hamilton.” “We’ll always be fighting the resellers because their incentive to keep trying is so powerful. Are we making progress? Yes. But is it foolproof? Not at all.”
  
  Read more

• Canadians Are Still Ditching Cable TV - Only In Smaller Numbers

  15-08-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Canada's biggest TV providers lost almost a quarter fewer customers in the first half of 2017 as they did the same time last year, a new report shows.
  
  Read more

• Athena (Theresa May) turns Ajax (Michael Gove) mad and he starts slaughtering sheep

  15-08-2017 23:00
  Brexit is infiltrating all aspects of life in the UK. At Hanbury Hall in Worcestershire, the National Trust have commissioned a garden pavilion. Nothing less provocative than that, you might say, but its ironwork is actually a satirical look at Brexit through Greek myth. Blacksmith Agnes Jones explains, I saw the early 18th-century paintings by James Thornhill in the great hall of the house, in which he depicted various contemporary politicians in scenes from the life of Achilles. In my version
  
  Read more

• Museums In Talks To Return Benin Bronzes To Africa

  15-08-2017 22:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The British Museum will take part in a European summit to discuss the return of art seized from the Benin kingdom, now part of southern Nigeria, by a British punitive expedition in 1897 as “reparations” after it defied the British empire by imposing customs duties.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Karaoke, And The Technology That Makes It Possible: A History

  15-08-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The phenomenon dates all the way back to the 1970s and 8-track tape players, and initially people did it at home as well as at bars.
  
  Read more

• How The California Symphony Blew Up Its Business Model And Remade Its Audience

  15-08-2017 21:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  To give away the end of this story, over the last three years, after a calculated change in approach to audience development strategy, the California Symphony has seen profoundly different results from the national trends for orchestras
  
  Read more

• We May Be On The Verge Of Having Real Sex Robots - And That Could Be Fantastic Or, Well, Problematic

  15-08-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There are a lot of sweeping statements about the idea that having robots available could mitigate human trafficking, or exploitation of children by pedophiles. ... But how do you prove it? How are you going to run tests, which heads of child trafficking operations are we going to have fill in a questionnaire for us on whether or not use of a robot would help them?" Aimee van Wynsberghe, co-founder of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics, talks with Quartz.
  
  Read more

• ‘The Making of Modern Art’ at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands

  15-08-2017 20:55 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Piano Teacher Daisy Sweeney, 97 - Credited With Teaching Oscar Peterson To Play

  15-08-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “What she tried to do was to look at the children around her and have them see the potential in themselves. She was always the one they all remembered because she took it beyond the piano bench, it was right into their lives, into their school, into their social (life).”
  
  Read more

• 'Imagine If Antonin Artaud, William S. Burroughs And David Lynch Decided To Open An Industrial Nightclub'

  15-08-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That's what the lead singer says about David T. Little's next opera, Artaud in the Black Lodge (yes, it's a Twin Peaks reference), whose first part is getting a concert premiere in Los Angeles. (By the way, David Lynch has, in fact, opened a nightclub.)
  
  Read more

• A Tale Of Two Languages

  15-08-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To us French people, American English has this beautiful casualness about it that translates into the way we picture Americans themselves—a cliché of self-possession and comfortable-in-their-own-shoesness. A jealous French person would say “cockiness.” I for one like this ability Americans have to say big things very casually. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I find that some things in French just have too much weight, and that the American way is enviable.
  
  Read more

• Surveying The State Of Russian Theatre At The Country's National Performing Arts Festival/Competition

  15-08-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "That fearlessness on the part of Russian theatre artists has led to an increase in audiences, including that most coveted of demographics: the under-40 set. One had only to look at the audience at Gogol Center, where I saw Kafka on a Saturday night." Diep Tran visits the Golden Mask Festival, where Russia's top companies present their best work of the season over two months, at the end of which a jury awards a Russian national equivalent of the Tonys or Oliviers.
  
  Read more

• They Know Why You Fly: Martha Rosler on Her Airport Photographs

  15-08-2017 19:00 via artnews.com
  Since the early 1970s, the artist has explored what mass-media images and public spaces reveal about power and persuasion in late capitalist society. Read More
  
  Read more

• MoMA Will Remain Open Until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays Through Year End [Updated]

  15-08-2017 18:55 via artnews.com
  Many museums in the United States lag behind their international peers in offering generous evening hours. Read More
  
  Read more

• MoMA Will Remain Open Until 9 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays Through Year End

  15-08-2017 18:55 via artnews.com
  Many museums in the United States lag behind their international peers in offering generous evening hours. Read More
  
  Read more

• The Same but Different: Patricia Treib’s Paintings Empower the Spaces in Between

  15-08-2017 18:53 via artnews.com
  May 3–June 18, at Bureau, New York Read More
  
  Read more

• A Rejuvenated Salzburg Festival?

  15-08-2017 18:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In recent years, this most sumptuous of classical-music gatherings has reverted to its default identity as a parade of musical celebrities with no clear artistic destination in sight. Last year, though, the progressive-minded Austrian pianist and impresario Markus Hinterhäuser took over as Salzburg’s artistic director, and he is stirring memories of the festival’s most vital period—that of the nineteen-nineties, when Gerard Mortier presided over a superb array of provocat
  
  Read more

• Meeting The Real-Life Diplomat At The Heart Of The 'M. Butterfly' Story

  15-08-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stage director Vincent Lancisi and his wife were vacationing in France a couple months before he was to begin work on a revival of David Henry Hwang's Pulitzer-Prize winning play. One day, their guide/driver casually said, "I was a driver for a famous man. There is a movie about him with Jeremy Irons, called M. Butterfly." Within an hour, Lancisi was on the phone with Bernard Boursicot; within a month, he and his lead actor were visiting Boursicot at his nursing home in Brittany."
  
  Read more

• Indianapolis Museum of Art Rechristens Campus as ‘Newfields, a Place for Nature and the Arts’

  15-08-2017 18:01 via artnews.com
  New additions to the campus include a Beer Garden, as well as new programming for the campus. Read More
  
  Read more

• Shonda Rhimes Departure From ABC Illustrates Bleak Prospects For Traditional Network TV

  15-08-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Shonda Rhimes’s just-announced decision to sign with Netflix and leave ABC/Disney points to a bleak new reality for old-school broadcasters trying to hold on to big names. For some Hollywood creatives, particularly those at the peak of their careers, offers of big bucks and promises of creative autonomy aren’t enough to overcome the view that network television is now the least attractive medium in which to work. Rhimes didn’t leave just leave ABC. She left network TV.
  
  Read more

• Here's The World's Blackest Pigment That Working Artists Can Actually Buy And Use

  15-08-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Singularity Black absorbs just a bit less light than Vantablack, whose creation was announced last year. But the makers of Vantablack (notoriously) sold exclusive rights to its use to sculptor Anish Kapoor, and it's not even in a fully usable form yet, while Singularity Black is already available for purchase by any interested customer.
  
  Read more

• The Jookin' Swan: A Street-Dance Take On Pavlova's Legendary Ballet Solo

  15-08-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gia Kourlas offers a step-by-step analysis (with plenty of GIFs) of Lil uck's revamp of The Dying Swan: "This eloquent combination of jookin' - a Memphis-born style that relies heavily on footwork and comes from the Gangsta Walk - and Camille Saint-Saëns's wistful strings gives the sensation that Buck is levitating."
  
  Read more

• Philadelphia's Most Problematic Major Performance Venue To Get Major Revamp (With 32-Story Tower On Top)

  15-08-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The century-old Merriam Theater, which the Kimmel Center acquired last fall, has a handsome old interior - as well as painfully cramped seats (which some patrons have to walk through offices to reach), poor acoustics, outdated sound and light equipment, and dressing rooms that literally used to be stables. The new plan is for the Kimmel to partner with a developer to tear down the seven-story building currently housing the Merriam and completely revamp the place (saving the auditorium's architec
  
  Read more

• Lost Giacometti Sketches Turn Up In Antiques Shop

  15-08-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The pencil drawings were among the effects of the famously crusty London dealer Eila Grahame, who died in 2010.
  
  Read more

• Santa Fe Opera Boss To Step Down After Ten Years

  15-08-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charles MacKay, a local boy who started at the company as a teenaged parking lot attendant, departs after next summer's season.
  
  Read more

• Morning Links: Official Prince Color Edition

  15-08-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
  Read more

• London's Garden Bridge Officially Killed

  15-08-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than £37 million of public money has already been spent on what was supposed to be a privately funded £200 million project, which was conceived by the actress Joanna Lumley and designed by Thomas Heatherwick. Private fundraising for the bridge stalled last year after London's new mayor, Sadiq Khan, joined many city residents in opposing it and refused to commit any funding for its maintenance.
  
  Read more

• We May Not Know How New York's 'The Shed' Will Turn Out Or What'll Be Shown There, But Seeing Its Enormous Shell Glide On Rails Is Pretty Cool

  15-08-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The gossamer-looking but gigantic structure [designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro] still weighs in at 8 million pounds but glides on a half-dozen exposed steel 'bogies,' or wheels, six-feet in diameter, with tapered bearings so meticulously engineered that the system requires just six 15-horsepower motors - in effect, a Toyota Prius engine moving a behemoth as finely-tuned as a Formula One car."
  
  Read more

• Moving stuff at the Roundhouse: Wayne McGregor & Random International

  15-08-2017 14:28
  A flock of seven white spheres powered by tiny propellers performed without a collision, or other hitch, at north Londons Roundhouse at the weekend. The inflatables took to the air and completed a mesmerising aerial display while dancers from the Royal Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor performed below. The human-meets-machine performance piece called  +/-Human is the latest collaboration by the London- and Berlin-based artists Random International and McGregor, the resident
  
  Read more

• Actor/Playwright/Screenwriter Joseph Bologna, 82

  15-08-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  He was best kown for his role as TV host King Kaiser in My Favorite Year and his Oscar-nominated script for the play-turned-film Lovers and Other Strangers, part of his half-century-long collaboration with his wife, Renée Taylor.
  
  Read more

• Controversial Director Of Bolshoi's Banned 'Nureyev' Is Trapped In Russia, His Passport Confiscated

  15-08-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kirill Serebrennikov, artistic director of the cutting-edge theatre The Gogol Centre, saw his travel documents seized when he was detained and his apartment was raided in May in what authorities said was an investigation into embezzlement of state funds. Last month, his staging for the Bolshoi ballet of a full-length work about the life of Rudolf Nureyev was abruptly cancelled a few days before opening night.
  
  Read more

• SoundCloud Saved By Last-Minute $170M Investment

  15-08-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rumors of the site's imminent collapse had been floating for weeks, and 40% of its staffers were laid off in early July. "The [new] funding comes from two firms, The Raine Group - which also holds stakes in Vice Media and C3 Presents, the owner of Lollapalooza - and Temesek Holdings, a state-run Singaporean holding company with interests in several state-run Chinese companies. In addition, co-founder Alex Ljung will be stepping down as CEO, but remaining chairman."
  
  Read more

• Louisville Mayor Orders Review Of City's Public Art For Racist Works

  15-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mayor Greg Fischer announced today that he’s directing the Louisville Commission on Public Art to review its catalogue of public art to develop a list of pieces that can be interpreted to be honoring bigotry, racism and/or slavery. This is in preparation for a community conversation about their display.
  
  Read more

• Tate paid Herzog & de Meuron reduced fee for Switch House extension

  15-08-2017 12:40
  Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architecture firm behind the ambitious Tate Modern extension, took a reduced fee for work on the building project after costs went 45m over budget. According to documents obtained by the Architects Journal under the Freedom of Information act, Herzog & de Meuron was asked not to take its full fee for extra work on the 10-storey building, which went from costing 215m in 2012 to 260m in 2015. Conversation at a senior level indicates that [Herzog &am
  
  Read more

• David Roberts to close London space and open sculpture park in Somerset

  15-08-2017 11:46
  The Scottish collector David Roberts is closing his gallery in London and plans to open a publicly-accessible 20-acre sculpture park in Somerset, west England. The move is the first in a series of regional initiatives, says Roberts, that will take his collection to new audiences. 
   
  Roberts, who runs a property development company in London, opened his Camden-based gallery, the David Roberts Art Foundation (Draf), in 2012. A former furniture factory built in the 19th century, it was e
  
  Read more

• Head of Learning and Research

  15-08-2017 11:38
  Head of Learning and Research
  We are excited to be running a search for a candidate to fill the position of Head of Learning and Research. This new senior role provides an exceptional opportunity for an ambitious, visionary, experienced leader from the worlds of international arts, higher education, community engagement or any combination of these.
  We are looking for a leader to develop and expand upon the learning strategy and deliver an ambitious internationally-recognised local, national
  
  Read more

• Top Posts From AJBlogs 08.14.17

  15-08-2017 08:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Respect
  I co-led an hour-long seminar this summer on the business side of being a composer.  We covered a lot of topics: commissions, publication, recordings - the works. At one point, I mentioned ... read more
  AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-08-14
   
  
  Read more

• Barbra Streisand: On the Couch

  15-08-2017 06:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Look inside the heart and soul of Barbra Streisand. Read Psychoanalyst Alma Bond's historic novel revealing the hidden depths of Barbra's character as no one but a psychoanalyst could do.
  See the origin of her misery and her genius.
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUKnews on Twitter!