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• The Future Of History Theatre: Many Voices, And A Kaleidoscopic View

  22-10-2017 23:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a new Canadian play by 10 different playwrights, "the result is something altogether its own: A 2 1/2-hour history play that pleases, puzzles and provokes, in a form that keeps shifting wildly from one moment to the next like a bucking bronco. One moment it's a poetic drama, the next a comedy – then cabaret, RCMP musical ride or game show."
  
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• Top AJBlogs For The Weekend Of 10.22.17

  22-10-2017 22:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  How élite does opera get? From the private loo to the movie & the museum – opera’s for all
  Watercolour showing Covent Garden Opera House, The Colonnade, Walter Bayes, about 1940, England. Museum no. E.1762-1949. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Who knew? To the right of the Royal Box at the Royal Opera ... read more
  AJBlog: Plain EnglishPublished 2017-10-21
  Berserk in the Berkshires: Lawsuit Filed Against Berkshire Museum Sales
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• Can Private Entities Censor Speech In The U.S. Without Violating The First Amendment?

  22-10-2017 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A parishioner can flip off a pastor in church, and that's protected free speech. What if you're an employee, though? "In bars and parlors across the country, the issue of the flag and the anthem are being aired—and one massive misconception is that, because the players are private employees performing in a private venue, the First Amendment doesn’t apply to their protest."
  
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• Reports: Looted Antiquities On Sale At London Frieze Art Fair

  22-10-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a tangled web that led to vases - which had been in the possession of dealer Gianfranco Becchina, who was convicted in 2015 - being in London. "The lekythoi were on sale in London on behalf of the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt, which is seeking revenue it is owed after the liquidation of the assets of Becchina, a former resident. The canton says it received permission to sell the items from the carabinieri, who had sent back to Basel more than 1,000 pieces from the original seizure, stating t
  
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• Making Dance In A World Filled With Anguish And Violence

  22-10-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Choreographer Ben Duke on making dance post-Brexit and in a world dramatically changed by terrorism and war: "I think art is the opposite of terrorism. And that means the more frequent and violent the terrorism is, the better the art has to become."
  
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• The Traces Of Cezanne In 'Goodnight Moon'

  22-10-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, Cézanne. Yes, Goodnight Moon. "This little book, which of course can be enjoyed without this sort of deconstructionist analysis, by those with tiny fingers and soft-closing eyelids, is a truly great work of Modernist art, its text as powerful an incantation of Modernist poetry as I know, and its illustrations richly in line with the tradition launched by Cézanne."
  
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• Marian Cannon Schlesinger, Author And Eyewitness To History, Dies At 105

  22-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Schlesinger, who was saw the Kennedy White House up close during her husband Arthur's time as JFK's "resident intellectual," was 8 when women got the vote in the U.S. - and she immediately canvassed, with her mother, for a woman mayoral candidate. She published a memoir in 2011, when she was merely 99.
  
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• The Playwright Tried To Claim Their Play Was 'Too Personal' To Be Reviewed

  22-10-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Is that possible? Especially when the playwright has a PR person? Er, no: "Playwrights should consider these issues before deciding to put their work onstage. There are ways around it: hold private readings; don’t produce the piece; write a different piece; check with those around you first to be sure they don’t mind being included, or make your peace with the idea that they may be unhappy with you; use a pen name; decide whether or not this is the right career for you."
  
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• Looted antiquities allegedly on sale at London Frieze Masters art fair

  22-10-2017 19:03
  Ancient Greek vases identified as having once been in possession of convicted dealer Gianfranco Becchina In January 2015, the art squad of the Italian carabinieri hosted a press conference in Rome at which they proudly displayed more than 5,000 illicit antiquities, with an estimated value of €50m (£45m), that they had repatriated to Italy from a Switzerland-based Sicilian dealer named Gianfranco Becchina. He had been linked to widespread looting networks and his eventual conviction wa
  
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• Allegedly looted antiquities on sale at London Frieze Masters art fair

  22-10-2017 19:03
  Ancient Greek vases identified as having once been in possession of convicted dealer Gianfranco Becchina In January 2015, the art squad of the Italian carabinieri hosted a press conference in Rome at which they proudly displayed more than 5,000 illicit antiquities, with an estimated value of €50m (£45m), that they had repatriated to Italy from a Switzerland-based Sicilian dealer named Gianfranco Becchina. He had been linked to widespread looting networks and his eventual conviction wa
  
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• Want To Vacation In Modernist Houses Built By Famous Architects?

  22-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You know you do - and there's an "AirBnB alternative" that has you covered. No, really: PlansMatter is "a platform for the architecturally inclined traveler to explore new places while staying in modernist homes."
  
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• Stop Being So Negative About Fonts And Find Some To Love

  22-10-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The author of Never Use Future says that we have to change the conversation. "People know not to use Comic Sans and maybe Papyrus ― those are things you just shouldn’t do. But very rarely do people understand why they should use a typeface."
  
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• Tests Confirm It Wasn't Cancer That Killed Pablo Neruda

  22-10-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What was it? That's still unknown - and the tests on a toxin found in his system might take up to a year. But "the experts were '100% convinced' that the death certificate 'does not reflect the reality of the death.'"
  
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• The Chickasaw Nation Takes Representation Into Its Own Hands With Indie Films

  22-10-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With the new film Te Ata, the sovereign nation shows that its film department is Hollywood-ready - or, if history is any guide, better than Hollywood. Actor Gil Birmingham, who is a member of the Comanche Nation and has acted in many movies, including the Twilight series, says, "Hollywood will take its licenses with characters and storylines, but it's so much more encouraging and inspiring to hear the stories told from a tribe that originated the stories from the beginning."
  
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• Moomins and more: UK show to exhibit Tove Jansson's broader work

  22-10-2017 17:02
  Britain’s first major retrospective of Finnish artist, at Dulwich Picture Gallery, aims to enhance her reputation as serious artistHalfway through the first major UK retrospective of paintings by Tove Jansson, which opens this week at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, visitors will recognise some little blobby creatures in a glass case – the Moomins. The stars of some of the most famous children’s books of the 20th century, they have become deeply familiar in their incarnations as f
  
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• A Contest For Poetry Inspired By The (Not Particularly Poetic) Man In The White House

  22-10-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nick Kristof runs a contest, and here's part of one response:"I’ve told myself my voice aloneWon’t make a difference, but that IShould not interpret that: Don’t try."
  
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• Inside The Sprawling, Controversial Museum Of The Bible

  22-10-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's the brainchild of the evangelical Christian who owns Hobby Lobby and whose company paid a $3 million fine for intentionally mislabeling smuggled ancient Iraqi artifacts, and it's opening soon. "Organisers contend that the museum is non-partisan, non-sectarian and educational rather than evangelical, appealing to people of all faiths or no faith. ... But that is not how it began."
  
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• Susan Philipsz: A Single Voice – sci-fi sound and emotional mystery

  22-10-2017 16:00
  Baltic, Gateshead
  The Turner prize-winner’s hypnotic new installation uses a camera, a violinist and a series of speakers to shed a wondrous light on music’s science and sorcery What a miraculous thing art is. Just when you thought you knew what it was, it becomes something else. Perhaps transformation itself is the essence of art – or perhaps it has no essence at all, but is simply a name we give to whatever heightens life and reveals its beauty. Apologies for these wandering
  
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• Beloved, Prolific French Actress Danielle Darrieux Has Died At 100

  22-10-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Danielle Darrieux was only 14 years old "when she made her screen debut, with a supporting role in 1931's Le Bal. With her expressive face, liquid eyes and original, slightly nasal voice, Darrieux quickly became a favorite of French directors, appearing in films by heavyweights Claude Chabrol, Jacques Demy and Andre Techine."
  
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• Trying To Keep Up On A 12-Hour Lunch Date With Joni Mitchell

  22-10-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It was a trip: "As urban centers all over America were banning smoking in public places, life for Joni Mitchell was still a noir film from the 40s, full of nicotine and screwball repartee. She kept smoking in public as long as she could, until she was eventually reduced to e-cigarettes.... She loved to be what she called a 'pot stirrer.' She was trouble—and she was really good at it."
  
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• The Last Gasp Of The 20th-Century Scientific Suffix 'Tron'

  22-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the mid-20th century, "'Stat' signalled something measurable, while 'matic' advertised free labour; but 'tron,' above all, indicated control. To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age."
  
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• The Unsung Heroes Of British (And Other Countries') Theatre

  22-10-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: "The best teachers teach, do and more importantly they enable the future and support and inspire the young. Many have just as much artistic talent as those who appear on our stages and in movies, although they spend more time covered in paint in the school hall than on the red carpet. Their role and dedication is more important than ever at a time when opportunities for the rising generations are drying up, social mobility is stagnant and arts education is under siege in schools bec
  
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• Pacific Standard Time: How The Getty Climbed Down From The Hill

  22-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, with the three (so far) iterations of Pacific Standard Time, the Getty has spread out across the city and, says architecture critic Christopher Knight, "has threaded itself into the contemporary cultural life of Los Angeles and Southern California. The Getty has not only paid for and otherwise supported important scholarship on the cultural history of Los Angeles, helping topple cliches and complicate over-simplified narratives about its art movements in the process. It has also used
  
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• The Painful Secrets Of Harold Pinter

  22-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Harold Woof was childhood buddies with Pinter, and his book"paints a nostalgic but unsentimental picture of his boyhood friendship with Pinter in east London and of the other members of the 'Hackney gang' – a small band of firm friends who met at Hackney grammar school in the early 1940s. As Jews, Woolf and Pinter were sometimes set upon by local fascist thugs, Woolf recounts, but Pinter, who was a talented schoolboy sportsman, gave as good as he got."
  
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• Ilya and Emilia Kabakov review – Russia’s great escape artists

  22-10-2017 09:00
  Tate Modern, London
  The grim realities of life in the USSR become universal nightmare in the compelling, tragicomic work of the KabakovsDown a murky corridor hung with old overcoats is a narrow gap in the wall. You stand sardine-tight with your neighbour to see into the cramped chamber beyond. Here the walls are papered with optimistic posters of Soviet life, but the furnishings are abysmal and the floor thick with old rubble. Whoever lived here has gone, leaving nothing but a strange contraptio
  
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