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• The National Youth Ballet Is Trying To Help Get Women Choreographers In The Ballet Pipeline [VIDEO]

  27-08-2017 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Young British choreographer Ruth Brill: "It's made me more want to strive and achieve, and if I can help redress that balance by doing what I want to do, then brilliant."
  
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• São Paulo gallerist Luciana Brito is the latest Brazilian to launch a New York space

  27-08-2017 23:00
  The So Paulo-based gallerist Luciana Brito launches her New York project spacea collaboration with the design firm Espaoon 6 September, with Ruptura, a group show of modernist Brazilian artists relatively little known in North America. Britos expansion follows that of fellow Brazilian galleries Nara Roesler and Mendes Wood DM, both of which have opened outposts in Manhattan in the past two years.
  While Brito acknowledges that the political and economic crises in Brazil have pushed galleries to
  
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• Jenny Holzer: Words of Conflict

  27-08-2017 23:00
  Jenny Holzer has put words in unexpected places for nearly 40 years. Her texts have been flyposted across buses and boats, flashed across electronic billboards and, when she was the first woman to represent the US at the Venice Biennale in 1990, engraved into the US Pavilions marble floor. The Ohio-born artist has projected verses of poetry onto the banks of the Tiber, inscribed accounts of sex crimes in ink onto human skin and engraved them into silver bands attached to human bones. In recent y
  
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• Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 08.27.17

  27-08-2017 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yaël break
  You’d know a Yaël Farber production at 100 paces. The air sweetly smoked and full of noises. The lighting crepuscular but sharded with moonlight. The movement deliberate, registering the actors’ full body weight. And ... read more
  AJBlog: Performance MonkeyPublished 2017-08-27
  Weekend Extra: Art Farmer And Sweden
  The most recent visit to Sweden stays with me more than three weeks after my return. In great part, that is because music I heard at the Ystad
  
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• Now You Can Buy One Of Voyager's 'Golden Records' (On Vinyl)

  27-08-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  OK, this is just cool, especially if you're mature enough to remember the launch of Voyager in 1977: "Using audio from the original tapes from the 1970s, a small team in California has put the Golden Record on vinyl for the first time. The set contains three LPs and a book of the photos that were encoded in the original record."
  
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• Is The Podcast Score A New Art Form?

  27-08-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The makers of "Serial" and "S-Town" want you to think so. "As podcasts grow in popularity and ambition, they’re proving an exciting laboratory for original music, essentially creating a new art form."
  
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• Looking For A Book That Explains The United States? Here Are Three For Each State To Get You Started

  27-08-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hey, it's the end of the summer, and people are traveling (if they're not already back in school): "Whenever I’m visiting a new place, and particularly if I’m going to spend a good deal of time there, I like to find my way in with a book—either a book about the history of the area or one that’s simply set there, so that I can get a feel for its rhythms, the cadences and locations that will soon become familiar to me. That is, I’m looking for a kind of recognition. A
  
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• The First Job As Artistic Director Of A Nonprofit: Listening To The Stressed-Out Staff Complain

  27-08-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Christopher Morgan's second job as new artistic director of the beloved Dance Place: "zeroing in on how to make his studios available to local choreographers. He’d like to develop 'space grants.'"
  
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• How Did This Berlin Underpass Become One Of The Biggest Action Stars Of The Past Decade?

  27-08-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This place has a great IMDb page: "Since doubling as the exterior of a Moscow airport in 2004’s The Bourne Supremacy, the distinctive orange-tiled walls and pillars of the Messedamm underpass have been seen in Joe Wright’s Hanna in 2011, 2015’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, last year’s Captain America: Civil War and Charlize Theron spy thriller Atomic Blonde, released earlier this month."
  
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• Tobe Hooper, Director Of 'Texas Chain Saw Massacre' And 'Poltergeist,' Has Died At 74

  27-08-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The director became a legend of horror with the 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which was shot for less than $300,000, was banned in several countries for its violence, and then became one of the most profitable indie movies of the decade.
  
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• Netflix Capitalizes On Our Emotions, Including, Especially, Anticipation

  27-08-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's science! "Netflix’s deluge of announcements is, for the most part, a welcomed high at a time that has taken us to new lows—often with no roadmap to find our way back. What’s not as obvious is the camouflaged science behind these announcements: Netflix’s long game."
  
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• Canon Bill Hall obituary

  27-08-2017 19:15
  My friend and colleague Bill Hall, who has died aged 77, was the first arts and recreation chaplain in the north-east of England, chaplain to the Showmen’s Guild, senior chaplain to the Actors’ Church Union charity and chaplain to several cabaret clubs on Teesside and to Middlesbrough FC.He inspired and was responsible for the installation in 1996 at Durham Cathedral, where he was honorary canon, of Bill Viola’s artwork The Messenger, a looped video in which a naked man underwa
  
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• As Harvey Hits Texas, Art Museums Shutter

  27-08-2017 19:11 via artnews.com
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• 'Gone With The Wind' Is No Longer Going To Be An Annual Tradition At This Memphis Theatre

  27-08-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Orpheum Theatre screened the film on August 11, the same day of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville - and commenters weren't shy about connecting the two. The president of the Orpheum Theatre Group says the decision was made before Charlottesville, but: "As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves,’ the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population."
  
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• Artist Ron Athey, Who Left The Country After The NEA Backlash To His 'Solar Anus' In The 1990s, Is Back

  27-08-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Athey says, "Being contextualized in art history for your asshole alone is a feat." But he adds that if he hadn't become a performance artist, he would have been a landscaper rescuing Los Angeles from its raggedy lawns. "I’d rather see a nice xeriscaped garden than some poor lawn. I love the garden. I would have a botanical garden — the botanical garden with all the special poison and psychedelic plants."
  
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• In 10,000 Rediscovered Somali Recordings, Remembering A Very Different Mogadishu

  27-08-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, Somalia was under military rule, but it was a military rule that supported the arts and music. One singer from the time:"We had bars in Mogadishu and five nightclubs. We travelled from city to city and performed in hotels and bars. Those were the golden years."
  
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• Films Catch Up With 2014 Or So

  27-08-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The films, exploring police brutality against African Americans and a lot more, are mostly, but not entirely, documentaries. The director of the Ferguson documentary Whose Streets says, "It sometimes seems like all of our political actions are exhausted or have been compromised, and there’s a real pressing sense of the magnitude of the issues, with no clear path forward. ... I think the way out of that is for us to look around, and in our backyard, and tackle problems in front of us, rathe
  
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• Is A Theatre MFA Worth Anything At All?

  27-08-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  People are going into debt up to $130,000, and Harvard's ART is shutting down its MFA program for three years to re-evaluate before it gets shut down. "While a theatre education is valuable, it ought to be cheaper. In an industry currently in the throes of an ongoing conversation about equity, diversity, and inclusion, lowering the cost of education is one way to attract individuals from more socioeconomic backgrounds. Otherwise, according to O’Malley, 'What’s going to happen is the
  
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• The Syrian Guy Who Tattooed 'Dance Or Die' On His Neck Where ISIS Chops Off Heads Has Landed In Amsterdam

  27-08-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The managing director of the Dutch National Ballet: "I was surprised by what he had been able to achieve with the patchiness of the training he had. ... It’s a bit late for him to be a classical [ballet dancer] but that doesn’t mean he can’t be an artist, a dancer."
  
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• This New Interpretation Of An Ancient Clay Tablet Says Babylonians May Have Invented Trigonometry

  27-08-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Thanks a lot, ancient Babylonians. If the claims are correct, the tablet would "not only be the oldest known trigonometric table, but it would also be the 'world’s only completely accurate trigonometric table.'"
  
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• Netflix, But For Movie Theatres

  27-08-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  365 days of movies for $9.95 a month? What? AMC is not OK with this, arguing that it will hurt movie theatres, movie studios, and even, perhaps, MoviePass itself. AMC: "From what we can tell, by definition and absent some other form of other compensation, MoviePass will be losing money on every subscriber seeing two movies or more in a month." (But will subscribers, who are signing up in droves, care?)
  
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• Netflix, But For Live Theatre

  27-08-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Pay $20 a month, and get unlimited access to any offerings from a theatre? Um, OK. And if youliked a play, you could see it more than once. (Maybe.) "Unlike a yearly subscription, which includes one showing of each play, a B-Flex pass could be used unlimited times – the incentive being that it gains value the more it’s used. B-Flex members do not have guaranteed seats, so its use would be contingent on availability."
  
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• How To Make Anti-Western Propaganda Using That Most Western Of Tools, The Rap Video

  27-08-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Death to American" chants aren't working, so it's time for "Rapping with Sailors." Seriously. "Iranian clerics have long insisted that rap music is the devil’s work, but they had no complaints when Amir Tataloo, a rapper with a hard-partying, gangster-style reputation, turned into a nationalistic admirer of Iran’s military effort in the Persian Gulf."
  
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• Can Wales Figure Out How To Fund Its Arts (And Artists)?

  27-08-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The country would like to figure out how to raise more private funds - and how to help arts organizations do the same.
  
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• Bill Nye Files 37 Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Disney For Those 'The Science Guy' Videos

  27-08-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Disney did what? Nye says "he was deprived of $9 million in profits from his show, 'Bill Nye the Science Guy,' which originally ran from 1993 to 1998 on PBS." Disney, of course, says that's malarkey.
  
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• Artists’ Film International review – intense impressions from elsewhere

  27-08-2017 08:00
  Whitechapel Gallery, LondonA pair of films on the theme of collaboration will set you adrift on a sea of hypnotic imageryA decade ago, in September 2007, the Whitechapel Gallery closed its doors for two years to expand and renovate its exhibition space. While its physical walls were stripped bare, however, the gallery persisted in spirit by embarking on a unique collaborative programme to establish Artists’ Film International, with partners in cities in 15 countries, from Kabul to Troms&os
  
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