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• The Rapid Decline Of Americans Who Like To Cook (What's That About?)

  28-09-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Although many people don’t realize it yet, grocery shopping and cooking are in a long-term decline. They are shifting from a mass category, based on a daily activity, to a niche activity that a few people do only some of the time. Only 10% of consumers now love to cook, while 45% hate it and 45% are lukewarm about it. That means that the percentage of Americans who really love to cook has dropped by about one-third in a fairly short period of ti
  
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• Theatre Talkbacks - Popular With Audiences, Not Always With Playwrights

  28-09-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For theaters, the talkback can connect the venue to its audience, deepen understanding of the work and make the audience feel more like a participant and not merely an observer. Skeptics, however, fear that talkbacks can oversimplify the art onstage or discourage personal interpretation — the stage equivalent of didactic wall text telling museum visitors what to think about a painting."
  
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• Linda Blumberg to Step Down as Executive Director of ADAA

  28-09-2017 23:02 via artnews.com
  After 11 years at the helm of the Art Dealers Association of America, executive director Linda Blumberg will step down from her position effective December 31, the organization announced in a press release.“The time is right for me to move … Read More
  
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• A Framework For A New Cultural Policy In Canada

  28-09-2017 22:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Policy governing Canadian culture – the government considers everything from movies and television to virtual reality under this umbrella – is wide-ranging and the broadcasting, media and cultural industries are worth nearly $50-billion. Changes this broad haven't been seen in more than a quarter-century.
  
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• Vito Schnabel Arrested at Burning Man on ‘Magic Mushrooms’ Charges

  28-09-2017 22:11 via artnews.com
  The art dealer has pleaded not guilty. Read More
  
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• Vito Schnabel Arrested at Burning Man for Possessing ‘Magic Mushrooms’

  28-09-2017 22:11 via artnews.com
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• Meet New York City Ballet's Youngest Choreographer in History

  28-09-2017 22:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "School of American Ballet graduate and Ballet Semperoper Dresden apprentice Gianna Reisen" - age 18 - "makes her first-ever work for New York City Ballet this season. Reisen began studying at SAB in 2010 and first participated in SAB's Student Choreography Workshop as a choreographer in 2015. She also choreographed for the New York Choreographic Institute, an affiliate of NYCB, during the fall 2016 working session."
  
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• How Brands Are Museumifying Experiences

  28-09-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The popularity of large-scale, shareable installations on social media has inspired a number brands to move past product-focused marketing and offer consumers new immersive experiences with their brand, taking inspiration from the museum and gallery format.
  
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• Toyin Ojih Odutola Named Artist-in-Residence at Barnard College

  28-09-2017 21:22 via artnews.com
  She will have a Whitney Museum solo show next month. Read More
  
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• An Artist Whose Medium Is Sandcastles

  28-09-2017 21:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter visits Rockaway Beach in Queens to meet Calvin Seibert, who creates his modernist edifices on New York City's beaches and displays them on a popular Instagram account.
  
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• Keeping Count: What Plays (And By Whom) Are Being Produced

  28-09-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "These last stats can be spun positively: In the new-play world, male playwrights are down to just nearly half of all production credits, with women slowly but surely catching up. The glass-half-empty take, though, is that at this rate we won’t see gender parity (or women cracking the 50-percent ceiling, at least) in the new-play sector until roughly 2021."
  
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• Legendary Samurai 'Macbeth' Production Returns After More Than Three Decades

  28-09-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "When it visited the Edinburgh Festival in 1985, this Macbeth" - staged by the revered Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa with his company, Saitama Arts Theater - "was declared an 'overnight legend', with critics praising its bold gestures and painterly beauty." Saitama has now prepared a touring revival, which is coming to Britain next month, and, writes Andrew Dickson, it "still makes much homegrown Shakespeare look pallid."
  
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• Newcastle's Hatton Gallery to reopen after £3.8m refurbishment

  28-09-2017 19:27
  Pioneers of Pop exhibition will explore importance of city in birth of pop art movementA gallery that contains what for some is the most thrilling, important and influential piece of postwar modernist art ever made in Britain, is about to reopen after nearly two years of closure.The Hatton Gallery, founded in 1925 and part of Newcastle University, has undergone a £3.8m refurbishment ushering in what should be a new era. While the gallery is internationally important, it has for decades bee
  
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• Study: Singing In A Choir Boosts Mindfulness

  28-09-2017 19:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The call for attention to numerous details such as watching the conductor, listening to the other voices in harmony, reading the music and/or remembering the words all contribute to reaching this attentive, aware, and accepting state."
  
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• Anthony Caro at Skulpturenhalle, Neuss, Germany

  28-09-2017 19:03 via artnews.com
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• At The International Championship Of A Cappella

  28-09-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jon Caramanca checks out the finals at Carnegie Hall: "There were groups striving to make a cappella their lives, groups that formed as passion projects and groups that seemed intent on dismantling the a cappella establishment from within by taking advantage of the competition’s open format to import styles of singing you won't see at most college pre-frosh weekends. At times, and especially during the awards portion of the evening, that made for a confusing mandate, with global folk songs
  
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• MoMA Associate Director Kathy Halbreich To Lead The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

  28-09-2017 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In addition to promoting the works of Robert Rauschenberg, who died in 2008, the foundation supports artists in the many fields in which he worked — painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking and performance. (It also runs a residency program in Rauschenberg’s former home on Captiva Island, Fla., but because the house was damaged by Hurricane Irma, the program was postponed this year.)
  
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• America's Great Dictionary Of Regional Dialects To Shut Down

  28-09-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The six-volume-plus-online-updates Dictionary of American Regional English, the only project of its type based on in-person field research, was supported largely by grants from the likes of the NEH and the National Science Foundation. "The institutional donors pretty much felt that they did their job to get the dictionary to 'Z.' The publicity from the completion of the main text led to an influx of enough money to finish Volume VI, which included maps and indices, but that was it. In the last f
  
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• The Declining Powers Of Orchestra Music Directors: Exhibit One - Simon Rattle

  28-09-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In an ideal world, Rattle would tour the LSO around its own country, instead of everywhere abroad, with a rallying cry to raise standards. That won’t happen either, because the Arts Council won’t fund anything that treads on the toes of regional clients. All of which leaves Rattle with a job title that has less clout than a viscountcy, an honorific to deceive the media into believing in miracles. These inhibitions may help explain why the incoming music director has set such store o
  
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• Colin B. Bailey Joins Board of Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

  28-09-2017 17:29 via artnews.com
  He oversaw a Diebenkorn survey show in 2013. Read More
  
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• Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites review – not worth a look

  28-09-2017 17:07
  National Gallery, London
  This is a sham of a show comparing the clumsy daubs of a group of mediocre pseudo-intellectuals against great artists such as Van Eyck and VelázquezThe Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood are the most successful frauds in art history. These mediocre Victorian painters knitted together a pseudo-intellectual style from bits of John Ruskin’s theories, quotations of popular poems and pretentious artistic references. Their very name reveals their heavy handed historicism,
  
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• Zuzana Růžičková, Harpsichordist Who Survived Three Nazi Camps, Dead At 90

  28-09-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite suffering damage to her hands during her Nazi ordeal as well as discrimination from Czech Communist authorities who considered her instrument a feudal and bourgeois relic, she went on to become a celebrated international soloist and the first musician to record J.S. Bach's complete keyboard music on harpsichord.
  
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• Art of the dealmaker: Trump's doodle of Empire State Building up for sale

  28-09-2017 16:44
  A black marker depiction of the iconic New York City skyscraper Trump made in 1995 and sold for less than $100 is estimated to fetch $8,000 to $12,000A sketch of the Empire State Building drawn by Donald Trump is going up for bid at a Los Angeles auction house.Julien’s Auctions says the 12in by 9in black marker depiction of the iconic New York City skyscraper was created by Trump for a charity auction in Florida during the time he opened his Mar-a-Lago estate as a private club in 1995. Con
  
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• Letter That Inspired Kerouac's 'On The Road' Reaches Its Final Destination

  28-09-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 16,000-word, 19-page (single-spaced!) letter that Neal Cassady sent to Jack Kerouac in 1950 - and which, as reporter Jennifer Schuessler puts it, was "(allegedly) dropped off a houseboat, misfiled at a small Bay Area publisher, nearly tossed out with the trash, and then fought over by two literary estates' - has ended up in Emory University Library's Beat collection.
  
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• How Philadelphia's Best Theatre Company Helped Turn Around The City's Oldest Neighborhood

  28-09-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Arden Theatre Company, launched 30 years ago by a couple of young Northwestern grads, started out in the little upstairs space at America's oldest theatre (the Walnut Street). In 1994 they bought a 50,000-square-foot building a couple of blocks from the old waterfront, more or less under the Ben Franklin Bridge. Subscribers started going there - and eating dinner beforehand. Now the Old City neighborhood is Philly's nightlife capital, and Arden has three stages and an apprentice program, and
  
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• A Visit To Yayoi Kusama's New Museum In Tokyo

  28-09-2017 15:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Even the restrooms are covered in polka dots." Motoko Rich meets the artist and tours the five-story museum, which opens October 1. (Timed tickets are already sold out through November.)
  
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• Latest List Of America's Most Banned Books Is Dominated By Picture Books

  28-09-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some things will always remain the same - some books will always be challenged, and libraries and schools will always fight to keep books available and preserve peoples' freedom to read. But this year's Banned Books Week features a striking new trend: Half of the top 10 challenged books of 2016 were illustrated narratives, more than ever before. And this year, the main reason for objection to books was sex and gender issues."
  
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• Acquiring Minds: Top 200 Collectors Reveal Their Mentors and Inspirations

  28-09-2017 15:30 via artnews.com
  Who influenced the connoisseurs on the list? Read More
  
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• Like It Or Not, ArtPrize Is Now Political

  28-09-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The competition was founded by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's son and is heavily funded by her family, the leading philanthropists in ArtPrize's location, Grand Rapids, Mich. While the event's officials say that the family's influence on operations and choice of participants is minimal, "'Any artwork put into ArtPrize is going to be about ArtPrize, the DeVoses and Trump,' said Eric Millikin, an artist in Detroit whose entry, Made of Money, used a weave of actual dollar bills and digital manip
  
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• New York Film Festival Releases James N. Kienitz Wilkins–Directed Trailer for Experimental Section

  28-09-2017 15:05 via artnews.com
  The series kicks off on September 28. Read More
  
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• 'Still Powerful, Still Relevant' - The Guardian Publishes An Editorial On Opera

  28-09-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opera, so often derided as elitist, has played an active role in society and politics throughout its life - sometimes as a direct conductor of political ideas, invariably as a mirror of the power structures that produced it. ... And opera in Britain has a vivid life outside the famous houses. Young artists still want to sing it; young composers still want to write it; it still has things to say."
  
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• Morning Links: Crass Absurdity Edition

  28-09-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Albert Innaurato, Playwright And Opera Maven, Dead At 70

  28-09-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His biggest hit, the 1976-77 play Gemini, is still one of the longest-running straight plays ever to have appeared on Broadway, where it played for more than four years. He was also well-known, or perhaps notorious, as an extremely knowledgeable and often ferocious critic of opera, under both his own byline and the screenname of Mrs. John Claggart.
  
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• Rauschenberg Foundation Taps MoMA’s Kathy Halbreich to Be Director

  28-09-2017 14:42 via artnews.com
  She will see through a planned Bruce Nauman retrospective at the museum to completion. Read More
  
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• Ayad Akhtar And Lucas Hnath Win $50K Steinberg Playwright Awards

  28-09-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Akhtar, whose work largely centers around the Muslim-American experience, earned a 2013 Pulitzer Prize for his drama Disgraced, which came to Broadway in 2014 and earned a 2015 Tony nomination for Best Play. Akhtar's other plays include The Who & the What, The Invisible Hand, and Junk, coming to Broadway [next month]. ... Hnath made his Broadway debut last season with A Doll's House, Part 2, earning a 2017 Tony nomination for Best Play. His other work includes Hillary and Clinton, Red Speed
  
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• Hugh Hefner, 91, Once Called 'The Most Famous Magazine Editor In The History Of The World'

  28-09-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "From the first issue of Playboy in 1953, which featured a photograph of a nude Marilyn Monroe lounging on a red sheet, Mr. Hefner sought to overturn what he considered the puritanical moral code of Middle America. His magazine was shocking at the time, but it quickly found a large and receptive audience and was a principal force behind the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Mr. Hefner brought nudity out from under the counter, but he was more than the emperor of a land with no clothes. From the be
  
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• Composer Arvo Pärt Wins Theology Prize From Vatican

  28-09-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 81-year-old Estonian, who is the world's most-performed living classical composer (and who is not himself Roman Catholic), is one of three recipients of this year's Ratzinger Prize, named for Pope Benedict XVI (né Joseph Ratzinger) and given to "people who answered to the challenge of fostering a deep dialogue among science, theology and philosophy."
  
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• A living goddess and a giant plant pot: Thursday's photo highlights

  28-09-2017 13:57
  The best photographs from around the world including a living goddess in Nepal and demonic pumpkins in Chennai, India Continue reading...
  
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• Improving Schools Is Not The Key To Upward Mobility For Poor Children, Finds New Research

  28-09-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  UC Berkeley economist Jesse Rothstein "found that differences in local labor markets - for example, how similar industries can vary across different communities - and marriage patterns, such as higher concentrations of single-parent households, seemed to make much more of a difference than school quality. For Rothstein, there's no reason to assume that improving schools will be necessary or sufficient for improving someone's economic prospects. 'We can't educate people out of this problem,' he s
  
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• Why Book Cover Designs Are So Different In The UK From What They Are In The US

  28-09-2017 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Traditionally, US design tended towards literal interpretation, driven... by the complexity of the US market: the image that motivates readers in southern California to pick up a copy of a book is likely to be different to what appeals to readers in South Carolina. As a result, US jackets have tended to appeal to the lowest common denominator, and that does not make for good design."
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 09.27.17

  28-09-2017 09:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  CultureGrrl Video: My Opinionated Tour of the Embattled Berkshire Museum
  Having written extensively and critically about the Berkshire Museum’s deaccession plans, I thought I ought to revisit that embattled institution in person. I’d been there twice before, decades ago, before ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2017-09-27
   
  
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