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• Dance Isn't For Everyone?

  27-10-2017 23:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  This may as well be a mantra in the dance world. We have become entrenched in the Darwinian notion that the emotionally weak will be weeded out. There is no room for them anyway.
  
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• Mark Twain Always Wanted To Be Rich. By The Time He Was 50, He Was

  27-10-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By the age of fifty, Mark Twain had achieved something he had dreamed of and worked for his entire life: he was rich. Raised in genteel poverty in small towns in Missouri (when Missouri was still the West), Twain as a grown man, had rubbed elbows with the greatest business tycoons of the time. And now, as head of his own publishing firm, making money for other authors, he felt like a great philanthropist. He could see himself as one of the true benefactors of the age. And it was an age he had na
  
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• Gwenneth Boelens at Klemm’s, Berlin

  27-10-2017 22:58 via artnews.com
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• Why Writing A Book Is Very Different Than Writing For TV

  27-10-2017 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Prior to my book I had, at least in some small measure, learned how to generate ideas by myself. But there was always the instant feedback of the audience to tell me where I’d misstepped, and I’ve never created a show without a co-creator, because it’s how I (and my co-creators) like to work. So the book was a new animal."
  
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• Why Are Werewolves Almost Never Female?

  27-10-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Their near absence in literature and film is explained away by various fancies: they're sterile, an aberration, or - most galling of all - they don't even exist. Their omission from popular culture does one thing very effectively: It prevents us, and men especially, from being confronted by hairy, ugly, uncontrollable women."
  
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• The Fascinating History Of The Metronome

  27-10-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The tenacious timepiece seems to have ticked through time immemorial, but its form and application to musical life were hundreds of years in the making, beginning with the 16th-century scientist Galileo’s discovery of the pendulum’s isochromism: regardless of amplitude, the pendulum will take about the same amount of time to complete one period, or back-and-forth swing. This discovery could be applied to timekeeping, Galileo realized."
  
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• From the Archives: Anita Brenner on the Mexican Art Scene, in 1951

  27-10-2017 21:23 via artnews.com
  The scholar occasionally contributed articles about Mexico to ARTnews during the 1950s. Read More
  
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• When You Interview Svetlana Alexievich, She'll Start Interviewing You

  27-10-2017 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A journalist meets the 2015 Nobel Prize winner at the Louisiana Literature festival: "She was reluctant, when asked, to describe the evolution of her style. ('Must I explain everything?') ... 'When I walk my dog in Minsk, I go past a church,' she told the festival audience, 'I see the youth with their new cars. The priest comes out to see them. They want their cars to be blessed.' This is how she prefers to answer questions - through details. ... When the interview ended, after forty minutes, I
  
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• Protesters Deface Theodore Roosevelt Statue, Calling It A Symbol Of White Supremacy

  27-10-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Protesters splattered red liquid onto the base of the bronze statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and later published a statement on the internet calling for its removal as an emblem of “patriarchy, white supremacy and settler-colonialism.”
  
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• Seven Minutes With The Very Opinionated Ned Rorem

  27-10-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In honor of American composer Ned Rorem's ...94th birthday on October 23, spend seven minutes with the very opinionated Mr. R. This piece was originally made for Studio 360 as part of a Fishko Files-curated series on living composers' connections to music history." (audio)
  
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• The Final Days Of Oliver Sacks

  27-10-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  On that long August afternoon a little more than two years ago, Oliver completed his notes for the book he knew he would not see. He titled it “The River of Consciousness” — the title of one of the 10 essays — and dedicated it to his longtime friend and editor at The New York Review of Books, Bob Silvers. He wrote a letter to Mr. Silvers to share this news, and within days, he received a tender letter back. (Mr. Silvers died this year.) With that, I think he felt he
  
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• Newly-Revealed Letters Provide Inside View Of Harper Lee

  27-10-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Thirty-eight letters, written between 2005 and 2010 by the To Kill a Mockingbird author to her friend Felice Itzkoff, are up for auction this week. Addressed affectionately to 'Clipper', Lee's nickname for Itzkoff, the letters span Lee's memories of her father, her apparent atheism and her friendship with Hollywood figures. ... [There's also] a suggestion made by American president Lyndon B Johnson to the actor Gregory Peck that the US would one day have a black, female president."
  
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• Research: Arts Attendance Is Primarily Linked To Its Location

  27-10-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Our research reveals that the arts are radically local.  We expected distance to play a role as a cost in the value calculus, but we underestimated just how much location weighs in the decision to act or not to act.  Based on an exploration of related research in retail settings, we initially estimated that a person living roughly 7 miles (12 kilometers) from an arts and cultural organization would be 80% less likely to attend than a person living in the organization’s immediate
  
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• Why We Keep Finding Great Artists' 'Lost' Works On Display Right Under Our Noses

  27-10-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Several Old Master paintings have turned up just this year. In July, two frescoes in the Vatican thought to be the work of Raphael's students were determined be by the master himself. In October, a New Jersey town announced that a bust of Napoleon Bonaparte, on display for over 80 years in the council chambers of a local borough hall, was actually a long-lost work by Auguste Rodin." Why are we only discovering them now? Partly, it's because of newly-available technology, and partly it's - well,
  
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• Study: Musicians Have Better Memories Than We Do

  27-10-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A new meta-study concludes musicians tend to have stronger short-term and working-memory skills than their non-musical counterparts. The research, published in the online journal PLoS One, finds they also appear to have a small advantage in terms of long-term memory.
  
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• Suzan-Lori Parks Wrote A Play Every Single One Of Trump's First 100 Days

  27-10-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I didn't know what else to do. So I do what I always do, I wrote something. ... I didn't know what it was gonna be like until I had to type them up and corrected them and read them through. And it was very - I can't explain it, but it was like reading a tragedy, and the cathartic effect that that has, and the healing effect that offers." A Q&A with American Theatre's Diep Tran.
  
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• 'Dance Isn't For Everyone' - Mental Health And The Profession

  27-10-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Kathleen McGuire: "When I wrote about my struggle with depression, and eventual departure from dance because of it, I expected criticism. I was prepared to be challenged. But much to my relief, and horror, dancers from all over the world responded with support and stories of solidarity. The most critical response I saw was this one: 'Dance isn't for everyone.' This may as well be a mantra in the dance world. We have become entrenched in the Darwinian notion that the emotionally weak will be weed
  
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• Do You Have A 'Creative' Job? That's Actually Up To You (Partly)

  27-10-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The common perception is that a lucky few hundred arts graduates get to truly flex their creative muscles, while the rest are condemned to creativity atrophy in 9-to-5 desk jobs. But it's not that simple. Whether you see your profession as creative depends not solely on the job description or workplace environment, but rather on how you define creativity, and how you view yourself. That preliminary finding comes from a study published in American Behavioral Scientist earlier this month, titled
  
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• A Design Dilemma: How To Visualize The Trauma Of Slavery

  27-10-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Landscape designer Walter Hood talks about his vision for the International African American Museum, which is scheduled to open in Charleston, South Carolina next year."
  
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• Opera In The Living Room: An Old Tradition Reappears In Italy

  27-10-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Such private concerts were common in the 1750s ... They started in France when musicians began to host events to show off their work - and their new status. The practice expanded to Austria, Germany, England, and Italy. It was also the way friends and families simply spent time together - as any Jane Austen book illustrates - before the onset of radios, televisions, and iPhones." Now the Festival Verdi in Parma is trying out the practice anew.
  
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• Ten Ballet Stars Tell What 'The Red Shoes' Meant To Them

  27-10-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It turns out it wasn't easy to find dancers in their 20s (or even a decade older) who were moved by it or who had even seen it: They came of age with Center Stage and Black Swan. ... But for an older generation, and for some just discovering it, the film is a touchstone."
  
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• Works hoarded by son of Nazi art dealer to go on public display

  27-10-2017 15:00
  Joint exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland displaying hundreds of works found in homes of Cornelius Gurlitt will open next weekHundreds of works of art that were hoarded by the son of a Nazi art dealer will go on public display for the first time in decades in joint exhibitions in Germany and Switzerland opening next week. Kunstmuseum Bern and the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn will present the works found in the homes of Cornelius Gurlitt in two parallel shows called Gurlitt Status Report that are
  
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• Morning Links: Artwork in the Office Edition

  27-10-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  European HappeningsBloomberg has just opened a new headquarters in London, and the Art Newspaper took a look at the works of art installed throughout the offices, as well as in the building’s gallery, Bloomberg Space. There are seven works now installed, … Read More
  
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• Keep it simple! Art goes monochrome, plus London's impressionist past – the week in art

  27-10-2017 14:54
  London’s National Gallery is colour ground zero, the excellent Susan Philipsz tells stories in Edinburgh and Marcel Broodthaers gets bizarre – all in your weekly despatchImpressionists in London
  The first modern art movement had a special connection with London, where its founders took refuge during the Franco-Prussian war. Monet would later return to paint the greatest canvases of the capital.
  • Tate Britain, London, 2 November to 7 May. Continue reading...
  
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• A Stolen Caravaggio And A Sicilian Town That's 'Wall-To-Wall Gangsters'

  27-10-2017 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Meet Charley Hill, the legendary bloodhound who has retrieved stolen masterpieces the world over. Most notably, Edvard Munch's The Scream, taken from the National Gallery of Norway in 1994 and rescued by Charley from the basement of a summer house in Oslo Fjord. ... Here, Charley takes us on the trail of his latest lead."
  
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• How Much Do Chicago Actors Get Paid? Less If You're Not A White Guy, Finds Equity Study

  27-10-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The majority of Equity acting jobs across Chicago theaters are going to men, white performers are often paid higher salaries than performers of color, and women are paid less than men on comparable contracts, according to a study from the Actors' Equity Association."
  
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• Second Lawsuit Filed To Stop Berkshire Museum's Sale Of Art

  27-10-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Less than a week after the sons of Norman Rockwell filed suit against the Berkshire Museum, attempting to prevent it from selling art from its collection, another lawsuit has been lodged against the Pittsfield, Massachusetts institution."
  
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• Four Million People Visited Hamburg's New Elbphilharmonie In Its First Year

  27-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The highly-praised, wildly-over-budget venue "has taken in up to 17,000 guests a day, with people from all over the world streaming in to attend concerts or just have a look around the distinctive building. In total, more than 62,000 people have thus far taken a tour of the building and 660,000 people have attended the concerts held there."
  
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• Stratford Festival Gets Largest Donation In Its History: $10 Million

  27-10-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The gift by board chair Dan Bernstein and his wife, Claire Foerster, will go toward the construction of a new $60 million performance space to replace the Ontario festival's Tom Patterson Theatre Center, built in 1971.
  
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• Gods among men: how religious art grapples with depicting the divine

  27-10-2017 13:32
  To mark the opening of two major shows – Imagining the Divine at the Ashmolean and Living with Gods at the British Museum – six experts pick a work of religious art that resonates with themThe Hinton St Mary floor mosaic (from Imagining the Divine) Continue reading...
  
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• Funders Join Forces to Aid Puerto Rico's Beleaguered Arts Community

  27-10-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Roughly a month after the hurricane made landfall, the Andy Warhol Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Lin-Manuel Miranda announced they would each provide $100,000 in emergency grants to a hurricane relief fund focused on the island's arts community, run by Beta-Local."
  
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• Tracey Emin’s My Bed: a violent mess of sex and death

  27-10-2017 11:00
  Beds tend to have supporting roles in art, but not here. In this confessional work, Emin doesn’t shy away from bringing theatre to one of her lowest pointsWith My Bed, Tracey Emin turned one of her life’s great low points, a bedbound drinking spree, into a theatrical arrangement worthy of Jacobean tragedy: a violent mess of sex and death. Amid the yellowing sheets there are condoms, a tampon, a pregnancy test, discarded knickers and a lot of vodka bottles. It’s also very kitche
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 10.26.17

  27-10-2017 09:06 via feedproxy.google.com
  Music Lessons for Museums
  Over the past year or so, I have had the pleasure of working with the Wallace Foundation on its Building Audiences for Sustainability program, which has been funding initiatives at performing arts organizations for ... read more
  AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-10-26Parsing the Arguments: Second Lawsuit and Reply Brief Filed Today on Berkshire Museum’s Art Sales
  In the continuing saga of Berkshire Museum’s planned art sales through
  
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• Secret portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots lost for centuries goes on display

  27-10-2017 07:00
  Likeness of executed queen painted over most likely as too dangerous to have on show to be exhibited in ScotlandA ghostly image of Mary, Queen of Scots has been found under a portrait of a Tudor aristocrat that has been hanging on the wall of a historic house in outer London. Her portrait may have been considered dangerous, left unfinished and then overpainted by the nervous artist, in the political turmoil after she was executed in 1587.Her blurry image, recovered through an x-ray, will be on d
  
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• Elif Shafak joins Future Library, writing piece to be unveiled in 2114

  27-10-2017 07:00
  The Turkish novelist follows Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sjón in creating work for publishing project that will only be printed 97 years from nowThe Turkish novelist Elif Shafak is to follow Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell and Sjón as one of the 100 contributors to the Future Library, an art project that will only be seen by readers in 2114, when the spruce trees to make its paper have been fully grown.Dreamed up by the Scottish artist Katie Paterson, the Future Library is,
  
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• Rome's Trevi fountain turns red after activist uses dye to protest 'corruption'

  27-10-2017 03:13
  Graziano Cecchini, who pulled a similar stunt 10 years ago, was escorted from the scene by policeAn Italian activist has poured red dye into the Trevi Fountain 10 years after he pulled the same stunt.Graziano Cecchini insisted that the dye wouldn’t harm the fountain and was intended as a protest against Rome’s corruption and filth. Related: The terrible truth about your tin of Italian tomatoesContinue reading...
  
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• Artforum Editor-in-Chief Michelle Kuo on Why She Resigned

  27-10-2017 00:43 via artnews.com
  She had been the magazine's editor for more than seven years. Read More
  
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• An Online Reader Community Of 60 Million Is Revealing Fascinating Insights On Readers

  27-10-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "With some 60 million monthly users—90% of whom are Millennials and Gen Z—spending more than 15 billion minutes per month reading content on Wattpad, the Canadian-based storytelling platform is a goldmine of information about what’s most popular with young readers around the world. What’s unique about Wattpad is that fanfic is treated like any other genre, living alongside other forms of fiction. This makes it more fluid for readers of an original fiction to discover a ne
  
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