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• TV Ratings Take Big Hit In First Week Of The Season

  04-10-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The number of people using television in prime time has declined steadily in prime time over the last five years with the emergence of streaming video, especially among viewers under 35 years old. Among 18 to 49 age group, prime time viewing dropped 8% compared to premiere week last year."
  
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• Six Rules For Writing A Blockbuster That Appeals To The Chinese Market

  04-10-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For example, No. 6: “China has all sorts of prohibitions related to superstitions. To Westerners, the gradations might seem ridiculous, but they’re real. They’re really superstitious about ghosts, so you can’t make a ghost movie. A monster is fine, though.”
  
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• Big Sales at Frieze Preview—$2.75 M. Koons, $2.5 M. Polke—Point to Continued Strength in London Market

  04-10-2017 22:32 via artnews.com
  The fair opened today to VIPs, who included many well-heeled collectors. Read More
  
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• The Indomitable Peter Brook

  04-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Brook understands what divides cultures. As he says in his book, “if in English we speak words, the French speak thoughts”. Yet he also sees common factors, especially in the universal search in actors for ever greater self-disclosure. “If we were transported back to the Elizabethan theatre,” he says, “I think we’d be shocked by the crudity and coarseness of what we saw.
  
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• Ana Segovia at Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City

  04-10-2017 22:13 via artnews.com
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• Basquiat - From MoMA Reject To Artworld Superstar

  04-10-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One thing that is now universally appreciated is Basquiat’s importance as an artist. Institutions were slow to understand his work and he is woefully under-represented in museum collections. In his recent monograph, The Art of Jean-Michel Basquiat (published by Enrico Navarra Gallery, New York), Fred Hoffman writes that in the year following Basquiat’s death, Herbert and Lenore Schorr offered the Museum of Modern Art in New York the opportunity to choose a painting from their collect
  
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• Ryan Heffington's Unlikely Injections Of Dance

  04-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The OA" is just one of several unlikely projects from Heffington, who has emerged as one of the most in-demand choreographers in Hollywood. His eclectic resumé includes hit feature films, like this summer's stylized action flick Baby Driver, elegantly wacky perfume ads and collaborations with numerous musicians, most notably the pop star Sia. His work on her 2014 music video "Chandelier"—one of YouTube's most-watched videos—propelled him into a realm of visibility few da
  
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• Tony Lewis Selected for Rose Art Museum Artist-in-Residence Award

  04-10-2017 21:07 via artnews.com
  The artist will have his first solo museum presentation in the Northeast at the Rose Art Museum.Read More
  
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• How The Proposed Trump Tax Cut Would Favor Collectors

  04-10-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Eliminating the estate tax—an especially onerous burden where bequeathing art is concerned—would undoubtedly be cause for rejoicing among the wealthiest buyers. “That would be very good for art collectors because art is one of the most difficult assets to plan with for estate-planning purposes. It’s the asset that, in many estates, has appreciated very much in value.”
  
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• Fake museums and human teapots: Frieze 2017 – in pictures

  04-10-2017 20:39
  From Gillian Wearing’s face mask to Edvard Munch’s nudes and Sarah Lucas’s musclebound hunks, here’s a gallery of what’s on offer at this year’s art extravaganza Continue reading...
  
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• Want Your Own Fans? Cultivate Someone Else's

  04-10-2017 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Opera North is great at delivering obscure fan references, classical music in-jokes and offering a creative approach to backstage insight. In recent years its online and offline communications have captured the spirit of life behind the curtain. When we work in the arts it’s easy to forget how special the view from the wings can be, and its campaigns for Kiss Me Kate, Eight Little Greats (which tours this autumn) and its season guides feature artistic photography opening up what’s u
  
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• Frieze Masters 2017 review: 'You want sex? We've got sex – and smoking skeletons too!'

  04-10-2017 20:05
  There’s lots of Basquiat, plenty of Baselitz and oodles of Brancusi – and that’s just the Bs. Our critics revels in the frazzled juxtapositions of Frieze MastersI can’t use the word masterpiece except in a spooky Darth Vader voice. Nevertheless, there are always great things at Frieze Masters, an offshoot that is a great deal more navigable than the main show’s overcrowded aisles and stands. Every few feet, there is something to arrest you, by both the living and th
  
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• Frieze Masters 2017 review – 'You want sex? We've got sex – and smoking skeletons too!'

  04-10-2017 20:05
  There’s lots of Basquiat, plenty of Baselitz and oodles of Brancusi – and that’s just the Bs. Our critic revels in the frazzled juxtapositions of Frieze MastersI can’t use the word masterpiece except in a spooky Darth Vader voice. Nevertheless, there are always great things at Frieze Masters, an offshoot that is a great deal more navigable than the main show’s overcrowded aisles and stands. Every few feet, there is something to arrest you, by both the living and the
  
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• Publisher Announces It Won't Even Read Submissions Addressed "Dear Sirs"

  04-10-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “We at Tramp experience sexism in lots of ways all the time, being dreaded women. One really annoying way we experience it is when authors send us their manuscripts and do one or both of the following: 1. Addressing us as ‘Dear Sirs’ and 2. Sending us a cover letter in which they declare they do not read books by women.”
  
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• Lawrence Abu Hamdan Wins 2018 Abraaj Group Art Prize

  04-10-2017 19:39 via artnews.com
  The artist will now receive $100,000. Read More
  
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• Think You'd Like To Hear Beethoven's 5th As It Was First Played? Think Again!

  04-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now is a good time for me to rephrase the original question: Do we really want to hear Beethoven’s Fifth as it was heard at its premiere? Do we want to listen to 50 unevenly trained musicians, give or take, playing for four hours on weak instruments that are hard to play, in an unheated concert hall conducted by a deaf man on one rehearsal?"
  
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• Frieze 2017: Judas, Bourgeois and Mary Beard storm the hyper-capitalist hothouse

  04-10-2017 19:19
  Regent’s Park, London
  Jeff Koons rips off Giotto, Mary Beard opens a fake museum and Lucy and Jorge Orta peddle Antarctica passports. But is this Frieze fairground really the best in new art?The kiss of Judas is the first thing you see at Frieze. It is striking, this great image of the betrayer of Christ bringing his lips close to his leader’s as their eyes meet in a devastating moment of truth. But this is not exactly new art, having been painted by Giotto about 700 years ago. Have
  
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• Inside The Mind And Writing Process Of John McPhee (Who Knows Everyone And Everything)

  04-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When reporter Sam Anderson called the New Yorker legend for directions to his Princeton home, McPhee said of Anderson's tiny hometown, "I've been there," and proceeded to recount the story of his mountaintop picnic there decades ago with (of all people) convicted spy Alger Hiss. McPhee remembered the name of the manufacturer of the little incline railway up the mountain (Otis Elevator) and the slope of the incline (60 degrees).
  
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• This Year's National Book Award Finalists

  04-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "One thing you'll notice: A full 75 percent of this year's finalists are women - that's 15 of the 20 final contenders. In fact, in the category for young people's lit, every single finalist is a woman writer. Winners will be named at a ceremony in New York Nov. 15; it'll be livestreamed on Facebook."
  
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• Public Radio Moves Into Podcasts For Kids

  04-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The public radio tradition that's powered the recent podcast boom never invested much in children’s audio. But now that podcasting has allowed for endless shows on demand, audio makers are eager to get their content straight to children's ears. And the technology that made podcasts possible - the smartphone - has also gifted its producers a golden sales pitch: Podcasts are being pushed as a guilt-free alternative to screen time, a more engaging option than zoned-out YouTube binging or hyp
  
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• How San Francisco Lost Its Artists (And What That Means)

  04-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "San Francisco is now bohemian in name only. Anger and the anarchist’s persona have given way, under the weight of postmodernism, to politesse and pragmatism. And now more than ever the artist’s world is less in the hands of artists than arts administrators and boards. The new conviction is in negotiation and community building, and seeing everyone, regardless of occupation, on the same continuum of creativity."
  
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• Roman Polanski Accused Of Another Rape Of Teenager

  04-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Renate Langer, a former child actress from Germany, claims that she travelled to the filmmaker's house in the Swiss resort town of Gstaad in 1972, when she was 15, and that he raped her there.
  
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• What Is The 'Ideal Direction' That The Nobel Literature Judges Look For? ('Ideal Direction'? Blame Alfred Nobel)

  04-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Swedish industrialist said he wanted the prize to recognize 'the person who shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction.'" That direction has changed several times over the past 116 years, having gone to writers as wildly different as Sigmund Freud, Winston Churchill, Pearl S. Buck, Rabindranath Tagore, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Samuel Beckett, Gabriel García Marquez, Doris Lessing, and Bob Dylan. Jim Heintz looks at what directions th
  
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• Orbiting David Bowie Exhibition to Touch Down at the Brooklyn Museum

  04-10-2017 16:09 via artnews.com
  The show has been journeying—and breaking attendance records—around the world since 2013. Read More
  
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• 2,000-Year-Old Statue From Palmyra, Damaged By ISIS, Resurrected in Damascus

  04-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The Lion of al-Lāt, ... which stretches 11 feet high and weighs 15 tons, was moved to Damascus after Syrian forces recaptured Palmyra in March 2016. Polish archaeologist [Bartosz] Markowski was able to restore the Lion of al-Lāt over the course of two months, and says approximately half of the resurrected statue is comprised of the original."
  
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• Ghost Ship Fire Defendants Plead Not Guilty To Manslaughter

  04-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Derick Almena, 47, the lead tenant of the Oakland warehouse and leader of its jury-rigging into an artists' live-work complex, and Max Harris, 27, creative director of the complex and organizer of the party last December where the deadly fire broke out, face 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter. They were arrested in June and remain in jail, with bail at $750,000.
  
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• Ghost Ship Warehouse Owner Avoids Criminal Charges, Gets $3.1M Insurance Payout

  04-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Claims Adjusting Group has reserved $3.1 million to pay Chor Ng, who owns the [Oakland] Fruitvale District warehouse and adjacent properties, to cover her basic property loss and liability policy. ... However, Ng's $6 million liability insurance maximum will likely never make its way to the dozens of victims suing her and other agencies for the deadly fire, one insurance expert says."
  
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• Seattle Symphony Hires Thomas Dausgaard As Next Music Director

  04-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Meet the new boss, same as the old substitute boss: Dausgaard, a 54-year-old Dane who takes over from Ludovic Morlot in 2019, has been the SSO's principal guest conductor since 2014. "It was his 2015 Seattle Symphony Sibelius Festival performances," writes Melinda Bargreen, "that made the tall, silver-haired Dane a popular figure among the city's classical-music lovers, with standing ovations after every performance, and the kind of connection with players and audiences that conductors dream of.
  
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• Morning Links: David Geffen’s Giving Edition

  04-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• New York Philharmonic, Lincoln Center Give Up On $500M Renovation Of Geffen Hall

  04-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Both organizations have new presidents - Debora Spar at Lincoln Center and Deborah Borda at the Phil - who did not like what they saw when they looked at the plan's costs, schedules (which were getting longer), and fundraising prospects. Said Spar, "There was a general sense that the project had just gotten too complicated."
  
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• Supreme Court To Decide If US Terrorism Victims Can Have Antiquities From Iran Seized As Compensation

  04-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The plaintiffs were injured in a 1997 attack by Hamas in Jerusalem and received a federal court ruling that the government of Iran, as a funder of Hamas, was liable for their injuries. In 2003, plaintiffs won a $71 million default judgment against Iran (which refused to participate in the case), and they tried to have seized Persian antiquities on loan to several US museums, including the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. As Martha Lufkin reports, the case now turns on the terrori
  
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• Orlando Ballet Searching For Yet Another Executive Director

  04-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The organization, which has faced significant financial struggles, announced Tuesday it is looking for its eighth leader in six years. The difference this time, officials say, is that the ballet has reached a more stable financial position - thanks in part to work by Caroline Miller, who after 16 months in the top job, resigned for personal reasons." (In this case, that's not a "to spend more time with family" euphemism.)
  
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• Lang Lang Prepares To Give His First Piano-Five-Hands Concert

  04-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For Wednesday night's Carnegie Hall season-opening gala with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chinese superstar was booked to play Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Chick Corea in a seldom-heard two-piano version. Then, this past spring, Lang Lang injured his left arm - he says it was by practicing Ravel's Piano Concerto for the Left Hand too hard. So he's bringing in a 14-year-old protégé to play the left-hand part alongside him.
  
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• Antikythera shipwreck yields new treasures – and hints of priceless classical statues

  04-10-2017 13:56
  Recovered bronze arm points to existence of at least seven statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of most spectacular ancient cargo ever found Marine archaeologists have recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, where the remains of at least seven more priceless statues from the classical world are believed to lie buried.Divers found the right arm, encrusted and stained green, under half a metre of sediment on the boulder-strewn slope where t
  
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• Antikythera shipwreck yields bronze arm – and hints at spectacular haul of statues

  04-10-2017 13:56
  Arm points to existence of at least seven statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of most extensive and exciting ancient cargo ever found Marine archaeologists have recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, where the remains of at least seven more priceless statues from the classical world are believed to lie buried.Divers found the right arm, encrusted and stained green, under half a metre of sediment on the boulder-strewn slope where the shi
  
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• Antikythera shipwreck yields bronze arm – and hints at spectacular haul of classical statues

  04-10-2017 13:56
  Arm points to existence of at least seven statues from Greek shipwreck, already the source of most extensive and exciting ancient cargo ever found Marine archaeologists have recovered a bronze arm from an ancient shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, where the remains of at least seven more priceless statues from the classical world are believed to lie buried.Divers found the right arm, encrusted and stained green, under half a metre of sediment on the boulder-strewn slope where the shi
  
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• The Million-Dollar Prize For Philosophers Has A New Winner

  04-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture, inaugurated last year as a sort of Nobel equivalent, goes this year to University of Cambridge professor Onora O'Neill, known for her work in international justice, human rights, and bioethics.
  
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• The Six Reasons Dance Training Makes You A Better Person

  04-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Steve Zee: "As a dance educator, I also take comfort in the fact that high-quality dance training helps shape students into genuinely good people. ... These are the lessons dance teaches that help make students into better humans."
  
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• Archibald people’s choice award: Anh Do’s portrait of Jack Charles takes prize

  04-10-2017 06:47
  Comedian and author describes Indigenous actor as ‘special human being’ and ‘inspirational’A portrait of the Indigenous actor Jack Charles has taken out the 2017 Archibald prize people’s choice award.Painter, comedian and author Anh Do’s portrait was announced as the winner at the New South Wales Art Gallery on Wednesday. Related: Archibald 2017: objections to winning work are merely whinges over styleContinue reading...
  
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• My three days at Tracey Emin's mountain hideaway on the Cote d’Azur

  04-10-2017 06:00
  Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones has not always been kind about the work of Tracey Emin. So what happened when the artist invited him to stay at her bolthole? And why was she so keen get him in the water?I’m scared of heights. I’m scared of snakes. These were just two of the fears that Tracey Emin challenged when I spent three days alone with her on top of a French mountain. Related: Tracey Emin: 'The stone I married is beautiful and dignified – it will never let me down'Rela
  
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• Today's Pop Music Charts: Completely Transformed (And Largely Without Women Artists)

  04-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The spots on the Hot 100 that aren’t occupied by rappers, DJs, or Imagine Dragons largely belong to interchangeable young men playing R&B for campfires: Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber of course, but also Charlie Puth, Shawn Mendes, and the second wave of One Direction solo efforts—Liam Payne, Niall Horan, Louis Tomlinson. The pose they strike is of the nice-guy seducer, the suave but puppy-eyed everyboy. It’s true that Cardi B and Taylor Swift have broken through lately with
  
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