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• UK Regional Theatre Box Office Up 18 Percent In Three Years

  01-12-2017 23:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Data from industry body UK Theatre has revealed that total box office income for member venues in 2016 was £470 million, up from £397 million in 2013. This was due to a 10% rise in average ticket price paid over the period, equivalent to a £2.15 increase per ticket, as well as improved ticket sales, fuller theatres and more productions."
  
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• Restoring The Longest Painting In America

  01-12-2017 23:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The quarter-mile-long (0.4-kilometer-long) panorama toured the U.S. after it was completed in 1848. A section was featured at the 1964 New York World's Fair. But the panorama deteriorated after so much traveling on wagons and trains, rolling and unrolling. Paint dried up and flaked off, and the panorama was put into storage."
  
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• This Is What Happens When You Put A Price On Everything

  01-12-2017 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Arguments from economic rationality can obscure as much as they reveal. For if capitalism meant the transformation of land and lives into units of wealth-producing human capital, it also meant the transformation of sickness and death into a currency of wealth-reducing decapitalization. And this poses a question: wealth for whom?"
  
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• Twisties and TV Hits: artist pays homage to the Australian milk bar in painstaking recreation

  01-12-2017 22:24
  The suburban milk bar is a uniquely Australian experience, and holds a particular kind of nostalgia for Melbourne’s Callum PrestonOnce a week, when Callum Preston was 13, he would put on an extra-large snow jacket and stand in a walk-in fridge. The fridge belonged to a milk bar in the Melbourne suburb of Westmeadows, and for a flat fee of $5 – and a promise that he could eat anything he wanted – Preston got to rotate its contents after school.Continue reading...
  
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• The News Business Is Collapsing In Front Of Us

  01-12-2017 22:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Virtually every news organization in America has seen its audience decline (and in some cases crater) since the record numbers of last winter. Some blame the Google and Facebook algorithms (could real news getting caught up in the fight against the fake stuff?). Others speculate that readers and viewers are simply tiring of the 24/7 onslaught of crazy. Either way, declining audience equals declining advertising revenue, and we know what that means."
  
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• ‘What’s Up Doc?’ at New Galerie, Paris

  01-12-2017 21:51 via artnews.com
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• Research: What Makes A Poem Stick Out?

  01-12-2017 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Researchers speculate that evoking strong imagery may make the content of a poem easier to mentally process, and thus make the experience of reading it more enjoyable. Alternately, "readers might pay closer attention to poems that are vivid," the researchers write.
  
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• Robert Colescott Estate Heads to Blum & Poe

  01-12-2017 21:21 via artnews.com
  The gallery will host a solo show at its Los Angeles branch in March. Read More
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• Why Does The Art Of Criticism Seem So Far Removed From The Judgments Everyone Makes Daily?

  01-12-2017 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  What is it that makes the artfulness of critical writing illegible to so many? Why do so many self-identified artists imagine that the creative practice of critical writing is so far removed from their own? The cliché “everyone’s a critic” is a truism. There is criticism — judgment — implicit in every decision we make.
  
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• Arts Organizations Are Being Priced Out Of The Bay Area. Here's How Some Are Trying To Help

  01-12-2017 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The model in question finds CAST working with real estate developers, city government, local arts commissions and other stakeholders to help arts nonprofits navigate an out-of-control real estate market. Solutions include acquiring properties for lease/buyback by arts organizations, master leasing to sustain affordable rents, and building the capacity of nonprofits to afford them a permanent asset without jeopardizing their core operations.
  
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• What Exactly Are The Ballets Trockadero Parodying?

  01-12-2017 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "New Yorker critic Arlene Croce [once] asserted that the Trocks weren't addressing gender roles, but ballet roles, an altogether different topic: 'a ballerina isn't a woman but an abstraction of one.' This distinction is politically and analytically useful: It aligns the Trocks squarely with high art, and makes clear that they aren't - as some critics have said drag does - making fun of women. But it's also wishfully tidy."
  
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• Boston Globe Ends Use Of Freelance Critics

  01-12-2017 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Think about it for a moment. Will there ever be an editorial fiat decreeing one person write all of the newspaper’s political commentary? A demand from the newspaper’s publisher (and Red Sox owner) John Henry that the Globe’s sports chat be limited to the speculations of one man or woman? Somehow, when it comes to the stage, and to the arts in general for that matter, decades of tradition are being obliterated as if there was no reason for criticism in the first place. Wh
  
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• John Waters Gave A Commencement Speech That Went Viral And Became A Book - Then What Happened?

  01-12-2017 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I thought I could get in this racket. I thought I'd be turning down three and four speeches a year. Not one other school has asked me to do it! I was just amazed. I thought that I would have a whole other career here doing them and, come May, I would be working for two weeks straight. But not a one asked me, not even a prison school."
  
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• Criticism In The Age Of Crowdsourced Opinion

  01-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The predominance of singular authority has diminished. Wikipedia has replaced Encyclopedia Britannica. With rising healthcare costs, many only consult a doctor after they’ve tried to diagnose and treat themselves via WebMD. And when we have a question, all we need to do is ask the Facebook hive mind. For better or worse, technology has given everyone the opportunity to amplify their own voice, and even the most powerful individual will not be able to compete with the shouting of the masse
  
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• From the Archives: Stephen Shore Raises ‘Serious Question for Modern Photography’ at MoMA, in 1977

  01-12-2017 18:06 via artnews.com
  Stephen Shore’s current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art is his most comprehensive survey to date, but it’s not his first major show at the New York institution. The first MoMA outing came in 1976, when the museum put … Read More
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• Cured, Hung And Strung: Check Out How Catgut Strings Are Made

  01-12-2017 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The video above traces the strings' journey from the butcher to the sound bridge. Fair warning: if you're not a fan of watching the proverbial sausage get made, maybe give this one a pass - or at least skip the front end, which deals with a lot of raw intestines."
  
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• What can we learn from an orchestra of broken instruments?

  01-12-2017 17:58
  Grammy award-winning composer David Lang assembled a unique symphony to showcase damaging cuts in funding to a Philadelphia school districtWhen Grammy award-winning composer David Lang was 10 years old, he tapped his music teacher on the shoulder and said: “I want to play in the school band.”The teacher handed him a trombone and that became the musical instrument he played all the way through graduate school. Related: David Lang: anthems for doomed youthRelated: Trump's proposal to e
  
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• Is The Arts' Business Model Squeezing The Art Out Of It?

  01-12-2017 17:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "How much longer will it be before our arts companies are no longer run by artists? Unless we are all vigilant on this score, I believe it will be not too long at all and I further believe this would be the end of theatre as a true art form, in this country."
  
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• If Theatres Are Publicly Funded, They Should Be Open To The Entire Public

  01-12-2017 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lyn Gardner: "Just as the window displays of Topshop may deliberately scream that their wares are not for me - a middle-aged woman - many venues unwittingly send out the signal that theatre is not for everyone. ... If the public has paid for these buildings then they truly must be places available to the public - and artists - all day long, to do what they want, not what they are directed to do. They shouldn't feel the need to be invited in, but they should be made to feel welcome whatever their
  
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• Just How Many Damn Contemporary Art Museums Can Miami Take?

  01-12-2017 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "More, more, more. Here, hardly a season goes by without the announcement of yet another new art museum or expansion - all fueled by the homegrown excitement and international attention surrounding the Art Basel Miami Beach fair each December, and all primarily focused on Basel-style contemporary art at the expense of virtually every other artistic milieu. Left behind is the math underlying this increasingly crowded landscape: Can Miami afford all of these art museums?"
  
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• The Arc of Justice: Kerry James Marshall Honors Pioneering Black Lawyers in New Monument in Des Moines

  01-12-2017 16:14 via artnews.com
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• Yinka Shonibare to Install 23-Foot-Tall ‘Wind Sculpture’ Near Central Park in New York

  01-12-2017 16:06 via artnews.com
  The new work is based on the look of batik prints. Read More
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• Dictionary.com's Word Of The Year For 2017 Is 'Complicit'

  01-12-2017 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Searches for the word spiked three times during the past year, two of them after incidents involving Ivanka Trump and the third after the angry speech in which Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) announced his retirement.
  
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• Audience Member Screams During Stravinsky, And Of Course It Goes Viral

  01-12-2017 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The North State Symphony was performing Firebird in Redding, California, and at one point where there's a big, sudden crescendo, one Stephanie Evans screamed. Alas for her, the moment was caught on video. Here's how the conductor and orchestra handled it, and how Evans explains it.
  
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• A New Rural-Urban Dance Pipeline With A Terminus In Brooklyn

  01-12-2017 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Back when Lumberyard was known as the American Dance Institute and operated out of a strip mall in Rockville, Maryland, it pioneered its Incubator program to whip new pieces into shape, kind of like the "out-of-town" tryout model for theater. Several of the artists it supported ultimately brought their shows to the Brooklyn Academy of Music." Now that the ADI has relocated to the Catskills as Lumberyard, "the partnership is official."
  
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• Dancer Who Went Into Cardiac Arrest In Rehearsal Writes About Her Recovery

  01-12-2017 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Ashley Newman: "On May 5, 2016, I was dancing with some of my best friends in rehearsal for The Chase Brock Experience, where I'm a founding company member. I was thrilled to be back doing a show after taking some time off for graduate school. My next memory is waking up in the hospital with a ventilator tube down my throat."
  
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• Morning Links: Lightning Strikes the Uffizi Edition

  01-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
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• Louvre In Talks To Show Leonardo's 'Salvator Mundi'

  01-12-2017 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Louvre President and Director Jean-Luc Martinez said that he hopes to secure a loan of the most expensive artwork ever sold for a blockbuster Leonardo show the museum is planning to mark the 30th anniversary of its 'Grand Louvre' renovation and expansion in late 2018."
  
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• $450M Leonardo 'Salvator Mundi' May Have Had 'Double-Bind Guarantee' (What's That?)

  01-12-2017 14:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "To minimise its risk, the auction house found a third party willing to 'guarantee' the work. In other words, the painting was pre-sold to an undisclosed buyer for an undisclosed sum." That third party was, according to one rumor, the owners of another work on sale at the same auction, Warhol's Sixty Last Suppers - which was, in turn, guaranteed byDmitry Rybolovlev, seller of Salvator Mundi. Hence the "double-bind."
  
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• Jim Nabors, TV's Gomer Pyle, Dead At 87

  01-12-2017 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Gomer was a recognizable kind of American hero: a good-hearted, gentle, unsophisticated sort (not unlike Forrest Gump of a later era) who encounters a harder, more cynical modern world - in this case embodied by Southern California - and helps redeem it. ... To fans who knew him only as Gomer, his full-throated, almost operatic baritone was surprisingly striking, if strangely incongruous."
  
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• Description Of Male Organs As 'Billiard Rack' Wins Bad Sex In Fiction Award

  01-12-2017 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says the citation for Christopher Bollen's The Destroyers, "The judges felt that there are parts in the book where Bollen goes overboard in his attempts to describe the familiar in new terms, leading occasionally to confusion. In the line quoted ... they were left unsure as to how many testicles the character in question has."
  
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• Sydney Morning Herald Theatre Critic Fired After Launching New Arts Website

  01-12-2017 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Blake, chief theatre critic for the Herald since 2010, and his wife Elissa, a freelance arts journalist for that paper and its Sunday tabloid, The Sun-Herald, opened the Sydney-focused website Audrey Journal in November to help make up for reduced arts coverage in the print newspapers. Now the SMH has told the Blakes that their new venture, which is supported financially by several Sydney arts institutions, is a conflict of interest.
  
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• Brazil's Famous Hotbed Of Countercultural Theatre Now Under Threat By Real Estate Development

  01-12-2017 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Teatro Oficina, part of the tropicalismo movement of the 1960s and '70s and notorious for performances filled with nudity and onstage drug consumption, is headquartered in a unique, landmarked São Paulo building by architect Lina Bo Bardi with a huge window and retractable ceiling. Mogul and TV personality Silvio Santos owns the land around Teatro Oficina and wants to build three skyscrapers which would block the theatre's light, and the country's artistic community is rallying to fight S
  
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• Scottish pop stars, Egyptian surrealists and pastiche from Obama's painter: the week in art

  01-12-2017 13:06
  Modern art takes the high road, the desert Dalís cringe before Paris, and Barack Obama’s portraitist puts black fishermen centre stage – all in your weekly dispatchCharles II: Art and Power
  The Restoration in 1660 saw a rapid return of royal finery after the republican rule of Oliver Cromwell. Even the crown jewels needed remaking. Yet far from a frozen mask of reimposed regal authority, the new king, who had picked up some dissipated ways in his years of exile, created a libe
  
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• Arthur Jafa’s Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death: a story of black American struggle

  01-12-2017 11:51
  Amid this film of found footage – featuring Barack Obama, Beyoncé, Martin Luther King and the Notorious BIG – there’s a baseline of institutionalised racismWhen Jafa’s seven-minute montage film set to Kanye West’s Ultralight Beam debuted in New York last year as Trump became president, its power was immediately recognised. Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Tim Burton trio and A New Era

  01-12-2017 10:00
  Celebrated the wild-haired director by taking in this triple bill, then get the skinny on the best Scottish art from the early 20th centuryHaunted
  Presented by broadcaster and journalist Danny Robins, this podcast explores the presence of ghosts and ghouls, sensitively investigating real people’s experiences of the afterlife. In one episode, Robins visits a house haunted by a racist ex-tenant.
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• Butt Naked Salon: art, music and nudity collide in moving performance

  01-12-2017 01:56
  A string quartet plays and a nude model poses as an artist paints the walls, in an ephemeral happening in Sydney inspired by the Parisian Belle ÉpoqueAlan Jones – the artist, not the shock jock – squeezes paint out of a tube, mixes it with water, and lifts a fat, unwieldy brush to the wall. We are in Potts Point, Sydney, and Jones is making a mural inside the hallowed Yellow House. He is not alone. Generating music that feeds his rhythm is a live quartet; watching him is a sma
  
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• Belgian artist rescued from installation representing 'inescapable burden of history'

  01-12-2017 01:41
  Man chained to block of marble had to be cut free after he failed to liberate himself by chiselling away at the stoneA Belgian man who chained himself to a block of marble to show the “burden of history” from which artists cannot escape, was unable to free himself and had to be cut loose after 19 days. In a performance that lasted 438 hours, Mikes Poppe attached himself to a three-metre (10ft) chain buried in the middle of a block of marble in the courthouse of the Belgian coastal ci
  
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