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• The Director Of The Harry Potter Play In London Wants British People Taking To The Streets For Art

  29-10-2017 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  John Tiffany "argued that it is a 'social crime' to deny children the arts, as this prevents them from reaching their full potential."
  
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• Galleries Transform As Fairs Take Over The Art World

  29-10-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, galleries are becoming more like happenings, or "pop-up restaurants," just to deal with a world that's filled with high rents and art fairs. "The idea is to create a model that is more affordable and flexible and allows galleries to come and occupy a space for a designated period of time."
  
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• How Joan Didion Escaped The Writer Publicity Grind (And Sure As Heck Isn't On Twitter)

  29-10-2017 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Despite two highly autobiographical books and a new movie about her, Didio "isn’t fully a celebrity. She isn’t fully an author, in the modern way of it. To be an author, today, is generally to be required, repeatedly, to acquiesce: to give in to demands of omnipresence, of performative relatability. To live-tweet The Bachelor. To write op-eds in the Times. To accept that being part of the zeitgeist requires that one first accept the terms of geistiness: disembodied, environmental, mi
  
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• Top AJBlogs For The Weekend 10.29.17

  29-10-2017 20:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Tea for Three? Take a Seat
  Simone Forti, Steve Paxton, and Yvonne Rainer get together at Saint Mark’s Church. (L to R): Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton rehearsing. Photo: Ian Douglas “It is better to have loved and lost ... read more
  AJBlog: DancebeatPublished 2017-10-28
  A Turning of The Tide?
  SINCE I turned my book Culture Crash in four years ago, a few things I described have proven me a bit pessimistic. (Visual art may be healthier than I predicte
  
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• Linda Nochlin, Trailblazing Feminist Art Historian, Dies at 86

  29-10-2017 20:32 via artnews.com
  The writer is best known for her 1971 essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" Read More
  
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• A Timely Movie About Making Art - In Complete Anonymity - Under Dictatorship

  29-10-2017 20:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The film's director, Paula Markovitch: "My parents were artists and they were intelligent at a terrible time. The dictatorship not only persecutedacademics, it persecuted anyone intelligent. In that sense they were internal exiles. Exile are those who fled, those who escaped the dictatorship going to other countries. And the internal exiles were those who hid within the same territory."
  
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• A New Theatre In London Is Making Bank As It Steps Away From Government Funding

  29-10-2017 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ironically, the first show of The Bridge Theatre, a venture from former National Theatre head Nicholas Hytner and his former executive director, Nick Starr, is about Marx.
  
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• Theatre Director Who Has Voiced Opposition To Putin's Policies Put Under House Arrest

  29-10-2017 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The decision is supposedly about fraud involving another theatre and film director, who's also been placed under house arrest: "Investigators claimed in a statement that Apfelbaum helped Serebrennikov’s dramatic collective, Seventh Studio, obtain 214 million rubles ($3.7 million) in state funding by providing falsified documents."
  
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• The Sexy-Gross History, Involving The French Revolution, Of The Color Puce

  29-10-2017 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, pre-Revolution, really: "Puce is a color that’s been around for as long as we’ve been spilling blood and watching it dry, but it didn’t get a name until the summer of 1775 when French dressmaker Rose Bertin made Marie-Antoinette a gown in a color that blurred the lines between brown and maroon with only a hint of pinkish-gray."
  
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• Fay Chiang, A Poet Who Fought Racism And Championed Asian-American Culture, Has Died At 65

  29-10-2017 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Chiang was an educator, an activist, and a poet. "Chiang’s poetry — sometimes serene, sometimes angry and sometimes written in all lowercase letters — reflected her anxieties as a first-generation Chinese-American, her desire to etch Asian culture into American society, her involvement with organizations in Chinatown and on the Lower East Side, and her multiple reckonings with breast cancer over nearly a quarter-century."
  
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• The President And Michael Moore Go At Each Other On Twitter Over A Broadway Show

  29-10-2017 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Moore's show had a 12-week run and was always scheduled to close, but the president tweeted, "While not at all presidential I must point out that the Sloppy Michael Moore Show on Broadway was a TOTAL BOMB and was forced to close. Sad!"
  
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• Alejandro Inarritu Gets Awarded A Rare 'Special Oscar' For His Installation Carne Y Arena

  29-10-2017 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Carne y Arena is Iñárritu's immersive work that places viewers in a six and a half-minute virtual reality walk "alone and barefoot across sand, joined by virtual migrants hoping to reach America, while border guards patrol the area."
  
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• Now That An Accused Harasser Isn't Running Amazon Studios, It's Time To Reassess 'Good Girls Revolt'

  29-10-2017 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the actors from the show, which is about workplace sexual harassment (and more): "I know we’re talking about TV, but it was sort of a microcosm of what was going on. ... We thought we had it in the bag. There’s no way [Trump's] going to win. There’s no way we’re getting canceled. That happened, and that happened, and it was like ... we’re really operating against some crazy forces right now."
  
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• Telling The The Oral History Of A Community Through Dance In Apartments And Hair Salons

  29-10-2017 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  That's right, a dance of oral history: "'Sit, Eat, Chew' also staged performances in a private apartment, a restaurant, a public park, and a museum. The stories — told in Mandarin, Cantonese, English, and through movement — were culled from interviews with senior citizens and local youth. The project, born out of a desire to share oral histories from Manhattan’s Chinatown residents with the public in an engaging way, was funded through a Kickstarter campaign as well as several
  
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• Well, This Is Interesting: Yves Bouvier Sells Off His Geneva-Based Art Storage Company

  29-10-2017 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Bouvier, who is Swiss, made his reputation as a businessman involved with freeports, the largely tax-free storage depots where wealthy collectors now store so many of their treasures." But he's battling in courtrooms across the world, including against a Russian billionaire who claims Bouvier committed fraud.
  
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• Wizarding: It's Not Just For White People, Say These Young London Actors And Activists

  29-10-2017 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The campaign puts Black Londoners into famous movie posters, including Harry Potter. The recast posters will be going up in London's Brixton neighborhood. "Black kids can be wizards too," says the young woman playing Hermione in the posters.
  
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• Hollywood Is A Little - Read, A Lot - Behind On Welcoming Deaf Actors

  29-10-2017 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Or Deaf audiences, for that matter - though next year, all theatres using digital projection must comply with closed captioning rules. Things were better before movies became "talkies": "Deaf and hearing audiences could delight equally in silent films. What’s more, deaf actors appeared frequently."
  
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• First, Write A Bestselling, Critically Acclaimed Debut Novel. Then, Figure It All Out Again.

  29-10-2017 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yaa Gyasi, author of Homegoing, says it's not easy to recreate the feel of writing her first novel, which she wrote in a dank little apartment in Iowa City. "Every day I would wake up in the dungeon, head to my nook, sit at my desk and feel proud and productive and contented. I’m trying to recapture that feeling."
  
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• The Motion Picture Academy (Finally?) Adds A Code Of Conduct

  29-10-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hmmm. "Although we have no intention of functioning as an investigative body or moral court, we do have a right and duty as a voluntary association to maintain clear standards of workplace behavior for those we accept as members."(So are Roman Polanski and Bill Cosby the next to go?)
  
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• In Los Angeles, Artists Are Being Rent-Hiked And Flat-Out Evicted From The Arts District

  29-10-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Make that "The Arts District," since the artists are getting booted.
  
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• Art for eats' sake: four recipes from the new kitchen at the ICA

  29-10-2017 11:00
  Resolving to treat art lovers to their particular take on simple British fare, east London’s Rochelle Canteen has just opened its second outlet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Here are four of its masterfully unfussy classicsServes 4
  6 white onions, thinly sliced
  2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
  2 bay leaves
  2 tbsp thyme, finely chopped300ml cider (preferably Breton)
  100ml double cream
  Salt and black pepper Related: Rochelle Canteen, London E2: ‘It wears its fabulousness light
  
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• Cézanne Portraits; Soutine’s Portraits: Cooks, Waiters & Bellboys – review

  29-10-2017 08:00
  National Portrait Gallery; Courtauld Gallery, London
  Bringing more than 50 of Cézanne’s portraits together underlines their unyielding quality. Plus, the wildly original Chaïm SoutinePaul Cézanne’s first portrait is thought to have been a painting of a man in his early 20s: a brooding, liverish fellow straight out of the Grand Guignol, or a novel by Mary Shelley. Dressed in a coat of blood-red velvet, his skin is tinged with green, his lips with a peculiar shade of
  
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