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• Should Street Art Be Legally Protected? This Case Calls The Issue

  20-12-2017 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The case is being closely watched because Vara gives artists the right to preserve their work only if it is of “recognised stature”. In November, a Brooklyn jury decided in favour of the artists in a verdict, in effect saying street art deserves protection even when, as at 5Pointz, thousands of works were painted over to continually make way for new art. But the jury verdict was only a recommendation.
  
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• Study: Huge Gender Gap At The Top Of British Theatres

  20-12-2017 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The research, which looked at 33 venues, was carried out in response to recent conversations about gender equality, and in light of concerns from some SDUK members that seasons were heavily weighted towards male directors. The research looked only at in-house shows produced by the venues themselves, rather than visiting shows, and included productions staged by artistic directors.
  
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• American University Presidents Believe They're Being Scapegoated

  20-12-2017 20:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "It's not enough anymore to just say, 'trust us,'" Yale President Peter Salovey said. "There is an attempt to build a narrative of colleges and universities as out of touch and not politically diverse, and I think ... we have a responsibility to counter that — both in actions and in how we present ourselves."
  
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• ‘Efrat Natan / Nahum Tevet’ at Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

  20-12-2017 20:22 via artnews.com
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• Here's The Ultimate Scientifically-Determined Playlist For When You're Tripping On Mushrooms (And It Features Classical Music!)

  20-12-2017 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Research psychologist Bill Richards, who works on clinical studies at Johns Hopkins in which patients are given psilocybin as a potential treatment for depression or anxiety or as an aid in quitting smoking, assembled the list, and he avoided trance and techno: "Orchestral music is less distracting and less likely to give room for a person to fall back on normal patterns of thinking."
  
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• Musician Pulled Over For A Traffic Stop Loses His Life Savings

  20-12-2017 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to take and keep cash, cars and other property without ever charging someone with a crime. Before that fateful March day, Phil had never heard of civil forfeiture. He was just a musician driving through Wyoming to a show in Salt Lake City. Phil had big plans for his life savings, which he brought with him for safekeeping.
  
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• J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters To His Children As Father Christmas

  20-12-2017 19:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In December 1920 Father Christmas wrote a letter to a modest house in the Oxford suburbs, enclosing a watercolour sketch of his own rather more exotic domed snow house, approached by a flight of steps lit by ice lanterns. 'I heard you ask Daddy what I was like and where I lived,' he wrote to three-year-old John Tolkien, and as the family grew to four children, he continued to write every Christmas for 23 years, until the youngest, Priscilla, was 14."
  
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• Your Curated Holiday Shopping List for Museum Gift Shops (and One Gallery Shop)

  20-12-2017 18:35 via artnews.com
  The choice selections include Jean Nouvel-Gagosian boots and a Warhol candle. Read More
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• Here's How Challenging It Is To Try To Fund The Arts Equitably

  20-12-2017 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "How can philanthropy be a place where we redesign the way our culture engages the capitalist classes in order to build a system of wealth redistribution that has a goal of justice, rather than the unjust goals we have now?"
  
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• #52PlaysbyWomen - A Post-Mortem On A Social Media Campaign To Promote Female Playwrights

  20-12-2017 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Laura Shamas, who created the #52PlaysbyWomen project in August 2016, considers the results and the responses of participants.
  
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• Here Is the Exhibitor List for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2018

  20-12-2017 18:00 via artnews.com
  The West Coast fair will present its ninth edition.Read More
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• Actors Union Does The Math: New Tax Bill Will Increase Taxes For Working Actors, Writers, Reduce Them For Big Stars

  20-12-2017 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Some working actors would see their taxes almost quadruple, according to an analysis by the stage actors union Actors’ Equity. The new bill appears to be regressive: the poor suffer the worst increases, the middle-class gets hit hard, and the wealthy benefit from tax cuts. The same effect will hit writers, directors and screen and television actors. Producers could be affected too, as well as below-the-line workers with agents or other significant business expenses."
  
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• The Best Of The Best Books Of The Year Lists For 2017

  20-12-2017 17:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Melville House helpfully offers a guide to which of the far-too-many lists are worth paying attention to - among them, The Best List That's Interactive and Lets You Play With Filters to Figure Out What to Read Next, Best List That's Chosen by Actual Readers and Not Critics, Best List That We're Partial to Because There's a Melville House Book On It, and Best List that Features a Book About Sharks.
  
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• 'Art For Not-Rich People' - Making Theater At The Real Grass-Roots Level

  20-12-2017 16:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter visits a conference organized by the Twin Cities company Ten Thousand Things, which performs in prisons, shelters, immigrant centers, rehab facilities, and the like - all without fancy sets and costumes, a proscenium stage, or (crucially) an admission charge.
  
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• Purcell's 'Dido And Aeneas' - The More We Learn About It, The Less We Know

  20-12-2017 16:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Musicologist Ellen T. Harris wrote an authoritative book on this opera three decades ago - a book she has had to completely revise and reissue based on all the info scholars have uncovered over those years. Yet "we know even less [now] than we did then, or at least less than we had imagined. We can no longer say with certainty in what year the opera was written, where it had its premiere, who performed it or even what the original score contained." In this essay for the Times, Harris explains wh
  
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• The Long (And Sometimes Cringeworthy) History Of Jokes About Office Sexual Harassment

  20-12-2017 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Rebecca Onion, Slate's resident history maven, looks at the cartoons and quips that go all the way back to the entry of female secretaries, stenographers and typists into the workforce around the turn of the 20th century.
  
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• Figuring Out How To Evacuate A Museum In A Natural Disaster

  20-12-2017 15:18 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A reporter visits an evacuation drill at the Smithsonian, an exercise by the Heritage Emergency and Response Training program (HEART). Said one participant afterward, "I would do 200 things differently."
  
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• Back to the Future: A Writer Explores His Father’s Past with Geodesic Domes in New York

  20-12-2017 15:15 via artnews.com
  As a kid in the 1980s, I was fascinated by a book that sat on a shelf in the living room of my family’s apartment on the Upper West Side. On its cover was an otherworldly dome set down like … Read More
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• 'Why Not Now?' - Four Veteran Dancers On Working Into Their 70s

  20-12-2017 15:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Gia Kourlas talks with Gus Solomons Jr. (79), Douglas Dunn (75), Eiko Otake (65), and Brenda Bufalino (80) about the losses and gains to their art as they age and their motivation to keep going. As Solomons says, "The reason I've been able to dance for so long is absolute willpower." (includes video)
  
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• Morning Links: Joy Machine Edition

  20-12-2017 15:00 via artnews.com
  Here's what we're reading this morning. Read More
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• Artsy's 20 Most Influential Artists Of 2017

  20-12-2017 14:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The list includes four bona fide celebrities (Yayoi Kusama, Ai Weiwei, David Hockney, and Damien Hirst), several stars within the art world (e.g., Carolee Schneeman, Cindy Sherman, Pope.L), and one veteran artist who's finally getting the recognition she deserves, 2017 Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid.
  
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• Unknown Painting By Artemisia Gentileschi Discovered

  20-12-2017 14:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 11-square-inch canvas, a portrait of the artist as Saint Catherine, sold at auction in Paris on Tuesday for €2.36 million.
  
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• Sydney Opera House's Opera Theatre Reopens After $71M Worth Of Barely Visible Work

  20-12-2017 14:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Well, it's barely visible to the average audience member in her seat at the Joan Sutherland Theatre, but the backstage machinery has been replaced and greatly upgraded, the orchestra pit has been enlarged and enhanced, and acoustics have been improved. Angus McPherson goes backstage for a look.
  
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• U.S. Holocaust Museum Reissues (With Changes) Study On Syria It Withdrew Under Pressure

  20-12-2017 14:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The study, ... on Syria's civil war and American options to mitigate it ..., had been the subject of controversy this fall after the museum briefly published it online and then retracted it in the face of a political backlash. Some groups had balked at the conclusions, which expressed pessimism about American options. Then, after the retraction, academics accused the institution of allowing political pressure to suppress important research."
  
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• Annette Page, Star Of Britain's Royal Ballet, Dead At 84

  20-12-2017 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "A dark-haired beauty with a pure classical technique, ... [she] was one of a golden generation of ballerinas who made the Royal Ballet into a global phenomenon in the mid-20th century."
  
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• Briton criticised over sculpture of 'terrible' Uzbek dictator Karimov

  20-12-2017 13:41
  Paul Day says ‘I go with the flow’ as critics ask if artist’s monument in Moscow square will reflect reality of Karimov’s bloody ruleThe late president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, was widely regarded as one of the most ruthless dictators in recent history. His regime jailed and tortured critics, and massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters in the town of Andijan in 2005.Despite his reputation, a leading British sculptor is working on a memorial in Moscow to Karimov, who
  
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• British sculptor criticised over memorial to 'terrible' Uzbek dictator Karimov

  20-12-2017 13:41
  Paul Day says ‘I go with the flow’ as critics ask if artist’s monument in Moscow square will reflect reality of Karimov’s bloody ruleThe late president of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, was widely regarded as one of the most ruthless dictators in recent history. His regime jailed and tortured critics, and massacred hundreds of unarmed protesters in the town of Andijan in 2005.Despite his reputation, a leading British sculptor is working on a memorial in Moscow to Karimov, who
  
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• How American Ballet Companies Keep Reinventing 'Nutcracker'

  20-12-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "From the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band's Dance-Along Nutcracker to the New Bedford Ballet's historical whaling production, A New England Nutcracker" - not to mention a hip-hop version and a "MeshugaNutcracker" for Chanukah - "the message of 'anyone can watch' is echoed throughout performances that interpret Tchaikovsky's score in new - and distinctly American - ways."
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 12.19.17

  20-12-2017 09:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  A Room in India at Park Avenue Armory: A theater titan stumbles? Or fights back?
  Those who like theater that's epic, brainy and political couldn't have had a more irresistible ticket than A Room in India – no matter how expensive it was. Théâtre du Soleil, the Paris-based crucible headed by director Ariane Mnouchkine, ... read more
  AJBlog: Condemned to Music Published 2017-12-19
   
  
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• Report: Chuck Close Accused of Sexual Misconduct

  20-12-2017 00:07 via artnews.com
  Three women claim that the artist made lewd comments related to modeling in his studio. Read More
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• The Leaders Who Create The Future ("When Is The Last Time You Did Something For The First Time?)

  20-12-2017 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  One of the great satisfactions of being a leader is that you get to be a teacher, sharing the wisdom you’ve acquired over the course of a career with young colleagues hungry for time-tested advice. But when it comes to inventing the future, the most effective leaders are the most insatiable learners. Creative leaders are always asking themselves, “Am I learning as fast as the world is changing?”
  
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