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• The Opera World's Sexual Abuse Problem

  13-10-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It’s time for the opera world to also look at its own epidemic of sexual harassment and assault. As much as there is to say about what women go through, I’m starting from the gay perspective because it’s what I know."
  
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• Catty: What Artists Say About Other Artists When The Microphone Is Switched Off

  13-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While artists are rather more circumspect about each other’s work when speaking on the record in today’s ultra-professional market, the gloves often come off as soon as the Dictaphone stops recording. I’ve lost count of the confidential insults I’ve heard contemporary artists sling at their peers
  
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• José Leonilson at Americas Society, New York

  13-10-2017 22:49 via artnews.com
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• The Art Of Sitting In A Museum To Look At Art: The Ten Best Places In DC

  13-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sitting down, in a museum, can be an almost radical act: a refusal to flow along with the distracted crowd, idly passing by art as if it was just one more stream of visual enticement in a visually saturated world. A good sit is all about committing to the depth, not the breadth, of the art itself, seeing more by deciding to see less.
  
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• Kennedy Center Extends Mason Bates' Term As Composer In Residence (He's Reinvented The Role)

  13-10-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Many composer in residence posts involve a behind-the-scenes presence, helping read through submitted scores, writing new work, and emerging to do some community events. Bates, however, has become a key part of the Kennedy Center’s programming team. His KC Jukebox is one of the center’s marquee new series, spotlighting contemporary music and a wide range of performers, from Chanticleer to the Thievery Corporation, in always-unexpected combinations.
  
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• El Museo del Barrio Adds Six Board Members

  13-10-2017 21:48 via artnews.com
  They are the first major appointments made by the museum’s new director, Patrick Charpenel. Read More
  
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• Why Making It Easy For Contrarians Is Good For All Of Us

  13-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Making it cheap to express unpopular opinions makes it easier for outsiders to gauge what the average viewpoint of a group of scholars might be. And when an article causes a controversy, calls to uphold a field’s standards should be met with some skepticism, especially when those standards would prohibit the publication of the unpopular opinion in the first instance. After all, if academic freedom doesn’t mean the protection of unpopular and disruptive minority views, what coul
  
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• Meet Pro Wrestling's Hot New Villain, 'The Progressive Liberal'

  13-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Matt Taibbi: "[Daniel] Richards is pitch-perfect. He enters wrestling halls in small towns in states like Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky to boos and jeers, dressed in a horrific shirt emblazoned all over with Hillary Clinton's face. The 6-foot-5, 37-year-old then harangues crowds with choice barbs culled from the fairly tepid liberalism that courses through his veins as an ordinary sane person. In Trump country, particularly in coal regions, even kindly telling people you hope they get jobs in
  
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• Dozens Of Prominent Writers Defend Author Accused Of Plagiarism

  13-10-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  More than 70 authors, including Pulitzer prize winners Jennifer Egan and Louise Glück, have come to the defence of the editor and poet Jill Bialosky after she was accused of plagiarism, saying that Bialosky’s “inadvertent repetition of biographical boilerplate was not an egregious theft intentionally performed”.
  
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• The Sculpture Has Landed! R. M. Fischer Cruises from Los Angeles Plaza to New Rochelle Park

  13-10-2017 20:23 via artnews.com
  The piece will soon be added to the city's stationery. Read More
  
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• 'The High Priest Of Bebop': Thelonious Monk At 100

  13-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With his goatee, dark sunglasses and exotic hats, Thelonious Monk was the quintessential hepcat. He patted his feet in mad rhythm while he was playing - and when his sidemen soloed, he got up and danced in circles. Monk, who was born 100 years ago today, was also one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. The late pianist wrote about 70 songs during his career - many of which have became standards, including the most recorded jazz composition of all time, 'Round Midnight'." (includes vi
  
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• Inside Cincinnati's Remade Music Hall

  13-10-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Overhead, the new glass 'acoustical clouds' reflect sound back to the stage and into the hall, a distinct visual upgrade from old shell’s look. The stage is lower to the ground, coming only to the knees of front row attendees, and musicians behind the string sections are elevated on a set of terraced risers which should’ve been implemented years ago. Perhaps most importantly, the acoustics—which many voiced as the primary concern about the venue’s reconfiguration—a
  
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• Scorsese Is Wrong: Rotten Tomatoes Isn't Ruining Movies, And Film Criticism Is 'Better Than Ever'

  13-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Richard Brody, responding to the great director's dyspeptic guest column in The Hollywood Reporter, argues that the Internet has made criticism more democratic and often better-informed, that the aggregated critical scores on Roitten Tomatoes really do help identify good new films, the best of which rival anything from Scorsese's heyday, and that Scorsese's unhappiness arises from a major generational shift.
  
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• Fifty Years Ago A Magazine Published A Casting Couch Expose. It Didn't Really Change Things

  13-10-2017 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If there was any fallout from Picturegoer series, it didn’t make the papers. Nobody got fired, nobody was disgraced, nobody followed up. Nearly 20 years later, on May 21, 1975—so around the time producer Sam Spiegel was allegedly trying to force himself on Theresa Russell, but a few years before Roman Polanski was arrested for sexually assaulting a 13-year-old—Variety, reporting on a new committee the Screen Actors Guild was establishing to investigate
  
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• The Women Now Leading British Theatres

  13-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Susan Jonas: "The presence of women [in top theatre jobs] is typically inversely proportionate to resources. So it does indeed matter when women are leaders of not one but six of the biggest theatres in Britain and Ireland. I recently interviewed five of these groundbreakers ... Each is a unique visionary, but I learned that they do share certain elements beyond gender."
  
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• Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald to Paint Portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama

  13-10-2017 17:37 via artnews.com
  They will be unveiled next year when they are added to the National Portrait Gallery's collection. Read More
  
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• From the Archives: Ad Reinhardt Interviews Himself, in 1965

  13-10-2017 17:29 via artnews.com
  The article appeared as part of the magazine's "Paints a Picture" series. Read More
  
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• University Free Speech Is Being Tested On US Campuses. It Should Be

  13-10-2017 17:27 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The current campus disruptions over what is and isn’t acceptable speech cannot be judged a blessing in disguise—they are far too illiberal and misguided for that. But by interfering with business as usual, perhaps they will also make it harder for the purported leaders of U.S. higher education to speak in lofty clichés while selling their birthright to deep-pocketed authoritarian sponsors."
  
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• What A Difference It Makes When A Woman Director Films A Sex Scene

  13-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Uta Briesewitz, who was David Simon's director of photography on The Wire and is now directing episodes of his current series, The Deuce, talks about filming a masturbation scene with Maggie Gyllenhaal and explains how she can tell just by watching whether a sex scene was directed by a man or a woman.
  
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• At 88, André Previn Is Composing More Than Ever

  13-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, as he explains, his arthritis won't let him conduct, so what's he going to do? With Renée Fleming about to premiere his new song cycle, and with a monodrama written for her in the works, Previn talks to David Patrick Stearns on his career as he heads toward 90.
  
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• Jazz Drummer And Vocalist Grady Tate Dead At 85

  13-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  During the 1960s and '70s, he was one of the busiest jazz drummers in America, playing with a range of stars from Quincy Jones to Stan Getz to Ella Fitzgerald to Peggy Lee to Roberta Flack to Doc Severinsen on Johnny Carson's The Tonight Show to Simon and Garfunkel's 1981 concert in Central Park to Angelo Badalamenti's band for the original Twin Peaks. As a singer, he scored his first hit with "Windmills of My Mind", but his voice is in the heads of an entire generation because of his work on Sc
  
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• Weeks After Hurricane Harvey, Surveying The Damage To Houston's Wortham Theater Center

  13-10-2017 15:48 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Long air ducts - large plastic tubes or funnels - run everywhere, even to the upstairs foyers. An indoor lake consumed the carpet at the front of the main theater's auditorium (now covered in plastic sheets); fortunately the orchestra pit was sealed off. ... The waters covered the focal point of any theater - the stage, not yet completely dry. An entirely new stage may be required. The full havoc that descended on the Wortham, however, becomes evident only on a visit to the corridors beneath th
  
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• 'A paradise inside hell' … the amazing Kabakovs on how art became a weapon in Soviet times

  13-10-2017 15:36
  From a man launched through a ceiling to a train vanishing through a wall, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov make breathtaking installations that speak of life, death and disappearance under Soviet rule. As the Tate shows their great works, we meet the husband and wife artistsHusband and wife Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, two of the most celebrated conceptual artists in the world, work as a team, in conversation as in their art. Gathered around their kitchen table in Long Island, New York, the scent of roast d
  
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• Hachette Kills Weinstein Books Imprint Following Harvey Weinstein's Assault Scandal

  13-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a statement to staff issued on Thursday, Hachette Book Group said it had 'terminated' the imprint. A joint venture between the Weinstein Company and the Hachette-owned publisher Perseus, Weinstein Books released around 10 books a year, with titles ranging from books by media personalities to film tie-ins. It was run by two women: editorial director Amanda Murray and publishing director Georgina Levitt."
  
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• Eli Broad, The Medici Of Los Angeles, Is Retiring From His Philanthropy

  13-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I am retiring. Now. Right now. I am just tired," said the 84-year-old billionaire, who has done more than any other single person to shape L.A.'s current cultural scene. Even so, report Adam Nagourney and Adam Popescu, "the practical ramifications of Mr. Broad’s decision may be limited; the announcement in many ways marks the end of what has been a slow-motion fade."
  
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• Now That Atlanta's New Ballet Company Has Gotten Off The Ground, What Next?

  13-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, launched this past spring by five dancers who left Atlanta Ballet following the arrival of a new artistic director last year, has its organizational structure and early donors lined up, its first performances this month and next, and home venues secured in downtown Atlanta and the suburbs. Where to now? "As the group coalesces," reports Candice Thompson, "[de facto leader John] Welker expects it will remain a company of five core dancers, performing in-house chore
  
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• Morning Links: Flashing Lights Edition

  13-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Venezuelan Gov't Cancels Dudamel's Asian Tour

  13-10-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Only a week before departure, Nicolás Maduro's regime has called off the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra's tour to Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Taipei under conductor Gustavo Dudamel. This is the second time an overseas tour by Dudamel and a Venezuelan ensemble has been cancelled since the conductor, one of the country's biggest international celebrities, began criticizing the Maduro government's violent crackdowns on protesters earlier this year.
  
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• London Venue Cancels Opera Production Accused Of 'Yellowface'

  13-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Music Theatre Wales has been catching fire for its current touring production of Peter Eötvös's opera The Golden Dragon, which uses an all-white cast in a work set in a Chinese restaurant and featuring Chinese characters. Now the London venue for the tour, the Hackney Empire, has cancelled its scheduled performance (October 31) and disavowed all connection with the production.
  
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• New Internationally-Focused MFA Program in Dance

  13-10-2017 14:20 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS | SCHOOL OF DANCEPHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA USA
  www.uarts.edu/mfadance
  new internationally-focused mfa programincluding both year and low residency cohortssummer 2018 :: residencies will be held in France including Paris and Montpelliercontact: [email protected]
  The University of the Arts in Philadelphia sets in motion a new Master of Fine Arts (MFA) program in Dance that extends the context of learning from the studio, theater and classroom to the international fes
  
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• Vincent La Selva, Who Staged Operas In Central Park For 38 Years, Dead At 88

  13-10-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] exuberantly weathered thunderstorms, flimsy sets, crackling audio, frayed costumes and sometimes inexpert performers so that his spare but enormously popular company, the New York Grand Opera, might live up to its lofty name."
  
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• Scotland's Arts Funder Says Its Income Is Down, So Cuts Are Coming

  13-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A reduction in National Lottery money, as well as an expected standstill or reduced grant from the Scottish Government, has led to Iain Munro, deputy chief executive of Creative Scotland, to warn arts, theatre, dance, literature and music companies that some will lose out in looming spending round."
  
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• Expanded Tate Gallery St. Ives Says It Will Add Millions To Cornwall's Economy

  13-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The newly refurbished Tate St Ives - which reopens this week (14 October) following an ambitious four-year building project - should draw an extra 50,000 visitors and raise an extra £10.5m annually for the local economy, says the executive director, Mark Osterfield. The waterfront venue, nestled into the rock face, has enlarged its exhibition spaces, adding almost 600 sq. m of new galleries. Tate St Ives opened in 1993 and draws around 250,000 visitors each year."
  
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• Trump Pulls US Out Of UNESCO

  13-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization known for its designation of world heritage sites, is a global development agency with missions that include promoting sex education, literacy, clean water and equality for women. In a lengthy written statement, Irina Bokova, UNESCO's director-general, expressed regret at the American withdrawal and said that the American people shared the organization’s goals."
  
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• Opera in space, Russia after the revolution and Wim Wenders' snaps – the week in art

  13-10-2017 12:56
  Wenders bears all via Polaroid, Susan Philipsz strands some astronauts, and Rebecca Warren puts the quirk in Cornwall – all in your weekly dispatchIlya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the FutureThe aftermath of Russia’s October 1917 revolution is explored in some of the most haunting installations ever created.• Tate Modern, London, 18 October-28 January.Continue reading...
  
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• Degas’ Combing the Hair (Le Coiffure): a glimpse behind the curtain

  13-10-2017 10:59
  Degas takes his viewers into the 19th century’s hidden worlds and private passions, as the intimate eroticism of this painting showsEdgar Degas was a chronicler of the metropolis, from its public hurly burly to what went on behind closed doors. Ballet dancers, racehorses and prostitutes rank among his subjects. This painting represents one of his later passions: human hair. Continue reading...
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.12.17

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  Sovereignty or service
  We often talk about an organization having a mission, as if the organization exists as some separate entity with its own individual will. But increasingly I’m wondering if that attribution hasn't always been upside-down. ... read more
  AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-10-12A Shroom With a View
  “Sex” in a headline could once skew a reader’s attention, but I risk vanilla using it here. Grade-schoolers of all nations do porn homework
  
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• Armada portrait of Elizabeth I returns after 'spectacular' restoration

  13-10-2017 08:00
  Historic work commemorating victory over Spanish Armada goes on display in London after dramatic cleaning projectOne of the most recognisable portraits in British history is returning to public view transformed after a six-month restoration project to remove centuries of retouching, grime and varnish.The Armada portrait of Elizabeth I was owned by Sir Francis Drake and passed down through his family before it was acquired for the nation last year following a £10.3m fundraising campaign. It
  
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• Beautiful places to visit in Cornwall – chosen by local artists

  13-10-2017 07:30
  As Tate St Ives reopens with a £20m extension, six of Cornwall’s leading artists describe the spectacular and atmospheric landscapes that inspire them
  The Island at St Ives is my place to go for contemplation. It’s the big hill overlooking the town, west of the Tate. In my pottery I like to explore new techniques a lot and things do go wrong. If you go for a walk, you can think – how do I solve that one?Related: Tate St Ives: a stunning new gallery, bullied into hidingCon
  
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• ‘We were the REAL cowboys’: Indigenous spaghetti western premieres at Tarnanthi

  13-10-2017 01:13
  Shot over one day in the APY lands, Never Stop Riding has everything you’d want in a western – including a dance numberIt has all the ingredients of a classic western: a dastardly gold heist; the villain’s face on a wanted poster; three shootouts; and two mobility scooters. The mobility scooters are a necessary addition. Many of the stars of Never Stop Riding, a 10-minute spaghetti western shot over one day at Wellborn Station near Indulkana – an Indigenous community in t
  
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• Who Cares If Languages Become Extinct?

  13-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Tales of language extinction are invariably tragic. But why, exactly? Aka-Bo, like many other extinct languages, did not make a difference to the lives of the vast majority of people. Yet the sense that we lose something valuable when languages die is familiar. Just as familiar, though, is the view that preserving minority languages is a waste of time and resources. I want to attempt to make sense of these conflicting attitudes."
  
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