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• Why A Woman Will Play Othello In This New Production

  10-11-2017 23:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "There have been no major productions with female Othellos in recent times, but they were not unknown in the 19th Century. At the Queen's Theatre in London in 1833, a Mrs Selby "enacted the part of the valiant Moor to the satisfaction of a numerous audience", according to the London Courier and Evening Gazette."
  
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• Why It's Difficult To Assess Elliott Carter's Lasting Impact

  10-11-2017 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The case of Elliott Carter stands apart from the usual pattern of posthumous appraisals, not least because Carter lived to within a few weeks of his 104th birthday, and kept composing almost to the end. He may be the only composer in the history of Western music to have done so. Rather than leaving us just a handful of unusual works that slot neatly into the dotage thought inevitable before the Romantics or the transcendence Adorno heard in late Beethoven, Carter wrote dozens of pieces in a wid
  
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• How Should Hollywood Stop Abusers And The Culture Of Abuse?

  10-11-2017 22:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Judd Apatow: "How are we going to decide who we shouldn’t work with? But in the most extreme cases, it seems pretty clear. We shouldn’t be making TV shows with Bill Cosby. We shouldn’t be putting on new shows with Bill O’Reilly. We shouldn’t be starring in movies produced by Harvey Weinstein. There are cases which are also complicated, and everybody has their own set of ethics about it, and those debates will continue. But there are very clear cases where people are
  
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• Participant Inc Adds Seven Members to Its Board

  10-11-2017 22:18 via artnews.com
  The new members include Justin Vivian Bond, Derrick Adams, and Elisabeth Sussman. Read More
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• Why Did Crime Decrease In America's Cities? The Rise Of Nonprofits, Arts, Research...

  10-11-2017 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nonprofits were more likely to form in the communities with the gravest problems. But they also sprang up for reasons that had little to do with local crime trends, such as an expansion in philanthropic funding. A spike in nonprofits addressing subjects like the arts and medical research occurred in this same era. Comparing the growth of other kinds of nonprofits, the researchers believe they were able to identify the causal effect of these community groups: Every 10 additional organizations in
  
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• Are We Supporting Awful People If We Watch Their Movies?

  10-11-2017 21:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Either everything’s dirty or everything’s clean. Caravaggio was a murderer but his paintings are sublime. David Bowie slept with underage girls. Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were both antisemites. Does admiring their poems make us condoners of hate-speech? Or do we cut this Gordian knot and view the work in isolation?"
  
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• Stand up and be counted: New York remembers its radical past

  10-11-2017 21:16
  From Amiri Baraka, to Aids activism and the evolution of feminism, a clutch of exhibitions in the city are reanalyzing the impact of radical thoughtAs a headline it was strange but memorable: The Spirit of the People Will Be Stronger than the Pig’s Technology. These words adorned the splash of an underground newspaper from 1967, Guerrilla: Free Newspaper of the Streets. A sister publication of The Black Panther newspaper – one of the key publications which fueled America’s poli
  
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• Survey: Half Of Workers In Book Trades Report Being Sexually Harassed

  10-11-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Many of those surveyed reported incidents where younger, more junior colleagues were harassed by men in more senior roles. Sixty-six percent of publicists, who often work closely with authors outside the office while on promotional tours, reported harassment, with 61% of booksellers reporting abusive behaviour from customers, colleagues or visiting authors."
  
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• A Successful Amateur Theatre? It's All About Motivating The Volunteers

  10-11-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a recent survey we carried out, 74% of people who said they were interested in volunteering would do it to have fun; 56% to spend time with like-minded people; 52% to give back to their community; and 48% to feel useful. Volunteers clearly want more out of their experience than just freebies. In fact, for an organisation like LTO, free tickets would probably lead to a financial crisis if we gave them away to all our volunteers."
  
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• That Time John Philip Sousa Raged Against The Scourge Of Mechanical Music (Long Before Computers. Or Recordings)

  10-11-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  His 1906 essay warns that mechanical music is “sweeping across the country with the speed of a transient fashion in slang or Panama hats, political war cries or popular novels” and was becoming a “substitute for human skill, intelligence and soul.” Sousa was referring in this essay to recorded music, but also to mechanical instruments that played themselves–such as the player piano.
  
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• Bringing The Audience Inside The Orchestra

  10-11-2017 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Adding dozens of chairs, the orchestra lets ticket-holders sit among the musicians, following underneath Bernard's baton instead of staring at his back. "There's a lot of talk about how classical music is stuffy and there are a lot of rules. And that's kind of a deterrent to enjoying classical music. The question is - how do you turn classical music performance into more of an experience?"
  
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• Massachusetts Attorney General Appeals Berkshire Museum Ruling, Auction Set for Monday

  10-11-2017 19:27 via artnews.com
  The first pieces are set to be sold at Sotheby's on Monday. Read More
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• Massachusetts Appeals Court Pauses Berkshire Sale [Updated]

  10-11-2017 19:27 via artnews.com
  The first pieces had been set to be sold at Sotheby's on Monday. Read More
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• Massachusetts Appeals Court Pauses Berkshire Museum Sale [Updated]

  10-11-2017 19:27 via artnews.com
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• Does Interactive Art Make For A Richer Experience?

  10-11-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Poor interactive shows come across like a desperate plea for attention from Generation iPad. But this doesn’t have to be the case. We’re just scratching the surface of the technological possibilities. And as for the interactivity haters there will always be shows hat expect you to sit down and shut up rather than asking if you want Hamlet to a) be or b) not be."
  
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• NY Court Rules Developer Violated Graffiti Artists' Rights

  10-11-2017 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "5Pointz, a former factory owned by Jerry Wolkoff, was a haven for graffiti artists from around the world and became a prominent tourist attraction. Wolkoff had given the artists permission to use the building as a canvas for “aerosol art” and the building was covered in multicolored murals and tags. But in 2013, when Wolkoff decided to demolish the building and replace it with apartments, he whitewashed the graffiti art in the dead of night. On Wednesday the jury decided that the ar
  
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• L.A. Phil Has Enormous Plans For Its Centennial: 50 Commissions And A New Gehry Building

  10-11-2017 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For the year leading up to the 100th anniversary of its first concert on Oct. 24, 1919, the [Los Angeles Philharmonic] has hired Frank Gehry to design a permanent home for music director Gustavo Dudamel's YOLA youth education project. The L.A. Phil also will premiere an unheard-of 50 new works that it has commissioned. It will reach out to community groups to distribute 10,000 free tickets to concerts and events, and it will partner with dozens of local and international arts organizations, fro
  
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• Here is the Exhibitor List for the Second Edition of the Untitled San Francisco Art Fair

  10-11-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  The fair will take over the city's Palace of Fine Arts from January 12 to 14.Read More
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• Rap's TV And Movie Revolution

  10-11-2017 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From “Empire” to ”Atlanta” to “The Get Down,” hip-hop has been the subject of some of the most inventive television of the last few years. Documentaries have been preserving the music through a historical lens, but it’s also being celebrated — and reimagined — through an artistic one.
  
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• Museum Director Doubles Attendance, Events, And Donations Within A Year - And Board Fires Her

  10-11-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres took over the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum from its founder last year and racked up success after success. Then she was sacked by the board, whose attorney says, "She was fired because she was a destructive, uncaring insensitive employee who has retaliated with false allegations against the longtime management of the museum." Beres maintains that she was fired for blowing the whistle on several unethical practices by the board, and she's suing.
  
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• Russia's graphic revolution, a new Louvre and Van Gogh's insect invasion – the week in art

  10-11-2017 16:48
  John Piper captures 1940s Britain on land and sea, Egyptian surrealists hit Merseyside and the Russian revolution delivers a lesson in graphics – all in your weekly dispatchJohn Piper
  This romantic landscape artist’s paintings of wartime ruins and storm-tossed ships are moving memorials to 1940s Britain.
  • Tate Liverpool, 17 November to 18 March. Continue reading...
  
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• The Book That May Bring Down South Africa's President And Bring Up Its Book Market

  10-11-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What's Zulu for the Streisand Effect? "South Africa’s small literary market has been lifted by one of the country’s largest political scandals. A new book detailing the “cancerous cabal” that has bankrolled Jacob Zuma's presidency was bound to cause a sensation, but attempts to have the book banned have made it a rapid best-seller and possibly the country’s most bootlegged book."
  
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• 'Call Me By Your Name' Is A Love Story Between A 17- And A 24-Year-Old. Should We Be Skeeved Out?

  10-11-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "For fans of the book and the film, it may feel self-evident that Call Me by Your Name is not a story of predation: It's a story of first love and lust told from the perspective of a particularly mature teenager on the cusp of adulthood; the relationship is consensual; even Elio's parents seem to approve; and, in any case, this is a fictional depiction, not an ethical endorsement. But the age gap will give pause to more people than right-wing trolls - it did to my progressive companion at an ear
  
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• 'Call Me By Your Name' And The 'Straightwashing' Of Gay Movies

  10-11-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Just after the new movie's British release, Sony UK tweeted a promo making the film look like a heterosexual teen romance. (After a proper roasting on social media, it was deleted.) "The tweet served as a reminder of an awkwardness that lingers in mainstream spaces. In trying to position the film as a romance intended for a wide audience, Sony believed that fooling straight viewers was the way to go." And this was hardly the first time.
  
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• 2017 Preis der Nationalgalerie Finalists Speak Out Against Award’s Practices

  10-11-2017 15:32 via artnews.com
  Agnieszka Polska was named the winner of this year's award in October. Read More
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• Storied Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art Heads to Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers

  10-11-2017 15:20 via artnews.com
  Valued at $43 million, the donation is believed to be the single largest history of the university. Read More
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• How Philly Became A Hotbed Of Experimental Music

  10-11-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yes, staid old Philadelphia - where just 12 years ago poor Michael Hersch had a major premiere booed; where, as recently as 1986, fully half the audience walked out of Pelléas et Mélisande, for Pete's sake - has started embracing contemporary classical. There's Opera Philly's O17 festival, the new October Revolution fest, a daring series at the Barnes Foundation, plus now-established outfits like The Crossing and FringeArts; next spring there's even going to be Stockhausen's 14-hou
  
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• Morning Links: Hippopotamus Cocktail Edition

  10-11-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• World's Greatest Collection Of Soviet Dissident Art Gets New Home In New Jersey

  10-11-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well over 17,000 works from the USSR's artistic underground, collected by the late economist Norton Dodge and his wife, Nancy, are going to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. The trove, worth an estimated $34 million and accompanied by $10 million to support maintenance, is the largest gift of any kind in the university's history.
  
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• Court Orders Release Of Art Collection 'Held Hostage' By Storage Company

  10-11-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Mana Fine Arts, an art storage complex in New Jersey, has been ordered by a New York judge to turn over the Mugrabi family's entire 1,400-piece art collection, including works by Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Tom Wesselmann and Damien Hirst." The Mugrabis say Mana "is holding the collection hostage over disputed back storage fees, bringing their business to a standstill and preventing them from either selling or showing the art."
  
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• So my younger self was right: colouring in is the key to a happy life | Nell Frizzell

  10-11-2017 14:17
  Researchers have found that just 10 minutes a day in the company of crayons can give adults a mental lift. It’s been keeping me on the right lines for yearsAs a small, Meatloaf-looking girl, often to be found wearing an unlikely collection of bottle-green leggings, DM boots and silk waistcoats (imagine a radical feminist Status Quo), I absolutely loved colouring in. I would spend ages on the sort of intricate geometric patterns that would have been perfect training for a career in carpet d
  
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• Louis C.K. Accused By Five Women Of Sexual Misbehavior Unfit For Headlines (Ick)

  10-11-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Now, after years of unsubstantiated rumors about [the star comedian]masturbating in front of associates, women are coming forward to describe what they experienced. Even amid the current burst of sexual misconduct accusations against powerful men, the stories about Louis C.K. stand out because he has so few equals in comedy. ... And [he] built a reputation as the unlikely conscience of the comedy scene, by making audiences laugh about hypocrisy - especially male hypocrisy."
  
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• Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Hollywood Africans: a complex history lesson

  10-11-2017 14:00
  Through a mix of street art and ab-ex stylistic tics – and references to slavery and Hattie McDaniel – the late artist attacks the lack of film roles for black talentJean-Michel Basquiat’s painting is both an indictment and a statement of intent. Against shouty yellow, words scratched in his blocky, spiky writing denote racial stereotypes. “Paw paw”, painted across an image of the artist’s hand, is a particularly sharp verbal/visual pun. It seems to point up t
  
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• Ballet Company Director In France Sentenced To Prison For Job Discrimination And Harassment

  10-11-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yorgos Loukos, artistic director of the ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon was given six months in prison and ordered to pay €25,000 in damages for refusing to renew the contract of a dancer returning from maternity leave. (in French; Google Translate version here)
  
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• On Tour With The Muslim World's Number-One Teen Idol Pop Star

  10-11-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  From Lebanon to Sweden to England to Indonesia to Turkey (President Erdoğan is a fan), 36-year-old Maher Zain draws enormous, cheering crowds and 100 million YouTube views every month. All this with music that's as wholesome, in its Muslim way, as Donny Osmond or Amy Grant. "I don't want to live this life, basically. I really don't," he says. "I believe I'm on a mission and you cannot turn it down, you know what I mean? I've been chosen."
  
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• China's Terracotta Warrior Museum Takes A U.S. Partner

  10-11-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi'an has signed a formal partnership agreement with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, where an exhibition of the terracotta figures is currently running. The director of the Xi'an museum and colleagues were especially impressed with the Institute's educational programs and its focus on culture and technology.
  
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• Tattoos, satin heels and pet snakes: the men redefining masculinity in the Middle East

  10-11-2017 12:57
  After the Arab spring, photographer Scarlett Coten set out on a four-year journey around the Middle East, searching for a new generation of liberated men‘We all have a feminine and a masculine side,” says French photographer Scarlett Coten. “Why would sensuality or tenderness be especially feminine?” Her series of portraits of young men from Middle Eastern countries, entitled Mectoub, asks this very question – not just of her subjects, but also of their viewers.
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 11.09.17

  10-11-2017 09:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  Arts Funding, US vs. UK, and Chamber Music
  One of the key issues which underlies this blog and the book which inspired it is the role of public funding in the arts. I hate to give the end away, but ... read more
  AJBlog: CultureCrash Published 2017-11-09Who is the greatest living publisher of cookery books? Read on
  As I am a regular contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,and still earn a bit of my keep by writing obituaries for the British national newspapers, i
  
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• Lin Manuel Miranda To Return To His "Hamilton" Role

  10-11-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Bringing [Hamilton] to Puerto Rico is a dream that I’ve had since we first opened at The Public Theater in 2015,” said Miranda in a statement. “When I last visited the island, a few weeks before Hurricane Maria, I had made a commitment to not only bring the show to Puerto Rico, but also return again to the title role. In the aftermath of Maria we decided to expedite the announcement of the project to send a bold message that Puerto Rico will recover and be back in busine
  
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