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• Producing Fringe Theatre Is Expensive. Is There A Better Way?

  06-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  There’s been a lot of talk about money lately – the gender pay gap, surcharges, escalating ticket prices and funding issues. The fringe theatre pricing model is just another topic that rears its head once a year. Some fringe boards have tried to address the problem, with free performances (Brighton and Edinburgh), incorporating venue hire costs into the participation fee (Reading Fringe) and including performer support resources in the submission fee (Brighton).
  
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• Sotheby’s Releases Prices for Controversial Sale of Works from Berkshire Museum, Rockwell Estimated at $20 M. to $30 M.

  06-09-2017 23:26 via artnews.com
  The pieces will be put up at auction over the coming months and into the new year. Read More
  
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• Ken Burns' Big Tent Theory Of History

  06-09-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To the satisfaction of many viewers, and the dismay of some historians, Burns seemed to have shaped American history into the form of a modern popular memoir: a tale of wounding and healing, shame and redemption."
  
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• The Art Of Social Practice (Or Is It The Social Practice Of Art?)

  06-09-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Social practice art is seen as the antithesis of the art market because it cannot be owned, preserved, or exhibited easily. Located somewhere between activism and performance, the tangible and the ephemeral, social practice is linked to relational aesthetics and other community-based work since it’s often action oriented and site specific, requiring some sort of audience engagement."
  
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• Island In The Seine: A New Performance Space That Aims To Mix Things Up

  06-09-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was the architect Jean Nouvel of France who conceived of a plan for the island in the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt that would allow a natural flow between indoor and outdoor space. Then Shigeru Ban, the Pritzker-Prize winning Japanese architect, teamed up with the architect Jean de Gastines of France to create the project that cost 170 million euros (about $203 million).
  
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• Hassan Sharif at GB Agency, Paris

  06-09-2017 21:51 via artnews.com
  See images from one notable show every weekday. Read More
  
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• Martine Syms Is Now Represented by Sadie Coles HQ

  06-09-2017 21:47 via artnews.com
  The artist's work was recently on view at the Museum of Modern Art. Read More
  
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• Out Of Nowhere? London's Royal Opera Gets A New Director

  06-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The appointment of Oliver Mears, who previously ran the Northern Ireland Opera, founded in 2010, “was a surprise, and I don’t mean that negatively,” said John Allison, editor of Opera Magazine. “He has a reputation as being a nice guy and a talented director, but he has no real international profile.”
  
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• Is Japanese Culture Traumatized By Centuries Of Natural Disaster?

  06-09-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As bad as they were, the 2011 earthquake and tsunami were just the latest chapter in a long, tragic narrative. The Japanese archipelago sits at the nexus of four tectonic plates, subjecting the region to more than 1,500 seismic events each year, including at least two 5.0 magnitude or higher earthquakes. As a result, Tokyo has been destroyed and rebuilt on average, from 1608 to 1945, once every five years. ... The effects of centuries of natural disaster may be most obvious, though, in Japanese
  
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• Berklee College To Take Over Historic NY Recording Studio

  06-09-2017 20:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Berklee College of Music will try to revive one of New York City’s most storied recording studios, where artists from Bruce Springsteen to Lady Gaga and the cast of the Broadway show “Hamilton” have produced hit albums."
  
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• What It's Like To Write A Book When You've Had A Traumatic Brain Injury

  06-09-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In the back corner of the shed were two big X [Google: 'the thing you bang on in a band to make the beat' :::: drums] full of what looked like broken-up pieces of metal about the size of cheese snack X [Google: 'cheese square snack' :::: crackers]."
  
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• A Rose Is a Rose . . . or What?: Guggenheim’s Symbolist Art Show Focuses on ‘Spiritual Abstract Religiosity’

  06-09-2017 19:46 via artnews.com
  Through October 4, in New York Read More
  
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• Why Doesn't More Arts Philanthropy Go To Rural Areas?

  06-09-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many large grant entities, both foundations and government agencies, seem to prefer to fund urban areas for clear reasons. Many urban areas have significant needs and funding in urban areas can have a positive impact on more people. Funders, quite understandably, want the most bang for their buck, and more people live in urban areas. It all makes for a reasonable piece of conventional wisdom, but is it accurate? Does an urban-centric strategy truly generate the most bang for the buck?
  
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• Trove of rare Monet artefacts to be sold at auction

  06-09-2017 19:06
  Objects and artworks including artist’s spectacles, correspondence and a terracotta pot to be auctioned by Christie’sPreviously unknown objects and artworks from the personal collection of Claude Monet, which have remained with the artist’s family, are to be sold at auction.The trove of objects includes artworks by Monet himself and his friends such as Édouard Manet, Auguste Rodin and Paul Signac; Japanese prints that he owned and that inspired him; and more personal ite
  
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• If A Critic Gets Free Tickets, Is She Obligated To Review The Play?

  06-09-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner explains why a critic might not be able to publish a review - or might not, under certain circumstances, want to - and what good might come from those free tickets even if there's no review.
  
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• Berlin's Staatsoper Reopens After Renovation

  06-09-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When the city committed itself in 2008 to renovating the Staatsoper, which needed to be reinforced from groundwater leaks, the conductor Daniel Barenboim insisted that the acoustics also be improved. While he and Stefan Rosinski, the former Berlin Opera Foundation general director, advocated a full modernization of the interior, the mayor at the time, Klaus Wowereit, favored a historic preservation in keeping with German laws about cultural heritage."
  
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• Was 1876 The Most Important Year In Classical Music's History?

  06-09-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mike Ashman looks at the extraordinary number of key events that happened that year - events whose effects we still feel today.
  
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• Arts Institutions Brace for Hurricane Irma Impact

  06-09-2017 17:43 via artnews.com
  The Category 5 storm is barreling across the Atlantic Ocean. Read More
  
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• Glen Luchford's best photograph: Amber Valletta modelling Prada in a sinking boat

  06-09-2017 17:32
  ‘The owner of Prada was standing on the riverbank shouting at everyone. When he asked me if I’d got the shot I said, “No!” and stormed off in a huff’ We had to shut the river Tiber in Rome for this picture. It’s expensive to shut down a whole river, but this was for the Prada 1997 autumn/winter campaign, so we had the budget for it. You can’t see them, but there are about 10 people in the water, setting fire to bales of hay covered in kerosene to try and
  
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• Thomas Campbell Opens Up About His Time Leading The Met Museum

  06-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Audiences are changing, behavior is changing, scholarship is changing, and I think I’ve helped move the museum in the direction that it needs to be moved in to be successful in the future. It required making some fundamental decisions, and now I’ve played the part I can play there, and I’m looking forward to moving on and thinking about the cultural sector in a broader way."
  
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• She Gave Up A Starring Gig With Cirque Du Soleil To Master The Classical Dance Forms Of Central Asia

  06-09-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tara Pandeya writes about how she came to study the rigorous, highly developed styles of the Tajik and Uyghur traditions, and how she traveled to Tajikistan to study and ended up a member of the national dance ensemble and winning a televised national competition.
  
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• Lévy Gorvy to Open Office in Shanghai, Names Danqing Li Senior Director, Asia

  06-09-2017 16:36 via artnews.com
  Lévy Gorvy will expand to Asia with a new office in Shanghai, the gallery announced in a press release. The space will be run by new Senior Director, Asia Danqing Li, who comes from Christie’s, where she worked in the … Read More
  
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• Keeping Alive The Sacred Royal Dance Of Cambodia

  06-09-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Princess Norodom Buppha Devi, granddaughter of the late King Sihanouk and half-sister of the current king, toured the world in the 1950s and '60s as one of the leading dancers of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. In the 1990s, after the years of the Khmer Rouge and the later Vietnamese invasion, she located surviving dancers and musicians and refounded the company, and she's now training a new generation.
  
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• Police Recover $3 Million Worth Of Georg Baselitz's Stolen Art

  06-09-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The boisterous sculptures and strident upside-down paintings of the Neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz are known the world over. But when more than $3 million worth of works from his personal collection, including some he had created, disappeared from a German storage depot, it took months before anyone noticed. Prosecutors have [now] arrested three suspects, all of whom worked in the shipping industry."
  
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• Janine Charrat, Ballerina And Choreographer Who Survived Burns, Dead At 93

  06-09-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[She] stood apart from her generation in being both the only female ballet choreographer in France and the only leading French ballet choreographer not to have emerged from the Paris Opera academy. Jean Cocteau called her a 'solitary wanderer who goes beyond the stars'." Yet she was best known for the 1961 incident when, during a television taping, her costume caught fire and she was severely burned. She was back at work in four months.
  
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• NYC's Big Cultural Institutions Still Depend On Telemarketing

  06-09-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the advent of do-not-call lists and cell phones, concentrated marketing by telephone may seem like a thing of the past. But the likes of Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Ballet, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music continue to do it, and they say that it still pays off. Michael Cooper and Sophie Haigney look at the numbers and talk to some of the workers who've made the phone calls.
  
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• Matthew Ronay Is Now Represented by Casey Kaplan

  06-09-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  The artist had previously been represented in New York by Andrea Rosen Gallery. Read More
  
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• Orlando Ballet, Finally Stabilized, Is Ready To Move Ahead

  06-09-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Two years after headlines screamed 'Ballet in crisis' - and the company was a hair's-breadth from shutting its doors for good - the troupe has received coaching from arts turnaround expert Michael Kaiser, hired an executive director and rebuilt its board of directors. And after four years of travails that began when a mold infestation cost the ballet its longtime home, officials say it's finally time to start moving forward."
  
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• Morning Links: Epicurean Edition [Updated]

  06-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
  
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• And Broadway's Next Dolly Levi Will Be -

  06-09-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bernadette Peters. She and Victor Garber, who's replacing David Hyde Pierce in the role of Horace Vandergelder, begin performances on Jan. 20, a week after Bette Midler and Pierce leave the production.
  
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• New York Daily News Sold To Tronc For $1

  06-09-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Tronc, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune, announced on Monday that it had acquired The Daily News, the nearly 100-year-old tabloid that for decades set the city’s agenda with its gossip, sports and city coverage."
  
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• Louvre Abu Dhabi Has (At Last!) An Official Opening Date

  06-09-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The opening festivities, from 11 to 15 November, will be marked by cultural events and visits from museum directors from around the world. The café and the children's museum will also be opened, but it will still take months before all the site's facilities, which include a scientific center, are fully functional. The first exhibition, entitled 'From One Louvre To Another' and curated by Jean-Luc Martinez, will open on 22 December and will deal with the history of the Louvre in Paris."
  
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• Big-Band Leader Larry Elgart Dead At 95

  06-09-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "He played alto sax in orchestras led by Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Red Norvo and Charlie Spivak, some of the biggest-name outfits of the day, and was an adventurous-minded player who also helped compose ballet scores and musical tone poems. ... [He later] formed a popular big band with his older brother, Les, co-wrote the theme song to American Bandstand, and had his biggest hit album in 1982, a disco-pulsing medley of 1940s standards called Hooked on Swing."
  
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• European Museum Chiefs To Discuss Returning West African Art Looted In 1897

  06-09-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The artworks were taken by British soldiers who were sacking the capital of the Kingdom of Benin; the art was then auctioned off to pay for the costs of the invasion in which they were taken, and most of the pieces ended up in museums in Berlin and London, where they gave European viewers their first glimpse of African art.
  
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• Salzburg And The Transformative Effect Of Festivals

  06-09-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Salzburg maintains that the $75 million spent on the festival generates four times as much in revenue for the city. The final report of this summer’s six-week festival, which ended Wednesday, said 97% of all tickets were sold. Attendance was 261,500, more than double the capacity of the Coachella music festival.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.05.17

  06-09-2017 09:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  How to Save the Berkshire Museum: A Roadmap Provided by the Endangered Danforth Art Museum
  Could Williams College come to the rescue of the foundering Berkshire Museum and its endangered collection? The financially challenged Danforth Art Museum|School has shown how this might be done, ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-09-05Chicago Jazz Fest expanded review & Deutsch photos
  My DownBeat review of the 39th annual Chicago Jazz Festival held
  
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• A brief history of protest art from the 1940s until now - in pictures

  06-09-2017 08:00
  The role of art in confronting important political and social issues is brought to the forefront at a new exhibition at the Whitney in New York. An Incomplete History of Protest examines who artists have become activists in order to help create a batter future. Continue reading...
  
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• Knocking on Devon's doors: an art-inspired break around Dartmoor

  06-09-2017 07:30
  This month’s Devon Open Studios event sees artists across the county invite the public into their galleries. Our writer heads to the west of the county for a preview Silhouettes were replacing Dartmoor’s details; its heather, ferns and grasslands were fading from view, the last rays of an orange sun departing a late-summer sky stippled with clouds. I watched, remembered to take a photograph, and soaked up one of those moments of stillness that make walking such an uplifting experienc
  
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• The New Historicism Of Vagueness (Or Some Such)

  06-09-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Greenblatt and company treated “culture as text”; they challenged such concepts as originality, genius, aesthetic merit, “the classics,” the canon, and “major works” vs. “minor works”; and even as they sought to upend conventional approaches to literary criticism, they sought, too, to overturn what they saw as old-fashioned approaches to the telling of history, producing “counterhistories” that would amount to “assaults on the&nbs
  
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