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• Classical Music's "Crossover" Problem

  05-01-2018 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "As classical music searches for a wider audience, classical crossover poses an increasing conundrum — not least because it’s attracting exactly the audience that “straight” classical claims to be seeking. The mass audience is generally put off by classical music, which seems, to many outsiders, to present a facade of unwelcoming elitism. The crossover genre, however, offers the same kinds of mellow tonal sounds and rich buttery voices — music to relax to, if you wi
  
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• Museum Groups Slam La Salle University’s Plan to Sell Works

  05-01-2018 23:27 via artnews.com
  The 46 pieces could net the school more than $7 million. Read More
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• Genesis P-Orridge at Invisible-Exports, New York

  05-01-2018 22:46 via artnews.com
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• Violinist Robert Mann Was A Music Revolutionary

  05-01-2018 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Mark Swed: "Robert Mann was one of a handful of transformative American musicians who in the years after World War II forever changed the way we think about and make music, who gave it a new meaning and a new necessity for a new age. The others were John Cage, Leonard Bernstein (whom you will be hearing plenty about in this, his centenary, year) and Maria Callas (whose music education may have been in Athens, but who was born and grew up in New York). The Canadian Glenn Gould, as a North America
  
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• Regulate Artificial Intelligence? It's Not Time Yet

  05-01-2018 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The challenges created by this novelty should not obscure the fact that A.I. itself is not one technology, or even one singular development. Regulating an assemblage of technology we can’t clearly define is a recipe for poor laws and even worse technology.
  
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• Arts Leaders Warn Brexit Contraction Could "Devastate" The Arts In The UK

  05-01-2018 21:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conducted by think tank Global Future, it also found that more than 90% believe the free movement of people from Europe will be critical or important to the UK’s creative industries in the future. More than 70% claim allowing freedom of movement of creative talent from Europe is the most important thing the government could do to “ensure the growth and vibrancy of Britain’s creative industries”. This was seen as more important than providing greater funding to the creativ
  
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• Melbourne's Federation Square Has Become Iconic Public Space. Will An Apple Store Kill It?

  05-01-2018 21:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a single stroke, the state government proclaimed its intent to both interrupt the cohesive design vision of Federation Square and undermine the civic mission that made it central to Melbourne. The proposal raises a question for this city, and for many other cities as well: Can anybody stop the relentless push to corporatize public space?
  
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• 'Institutional' male bias in government's art collection, says Labour

  05-01-2018 20:36
  Shadow arts minister says only a quarter of works acquired by the government in recent years are by female artistsThe government’s art collection has been accused of “institutional bias” against female artists, after research from Labour showed about three-quarters of works acquired in recent years were created by men.Figures collected by the shadow culture team show that around 265 works by men and just 80 by women were collected over the last five years for which data is avai
  
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• Dance Companies Are Exploring New Sources Of Income

  05-01-2018 20:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "L.A. Dance Project recently launched the subscription-based ladanceworkout.com, offering streaming workout videos led by company members. Groups of all sizes and even some individual dancers have launched merchandise lines bearing their logos. And, of course, there's the perpetually innovative Pilobolus, which has been in the creative-revenue game for years, with books, advertisements, corporate appearances and more."
  
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• What The Resistance Can Learn From The Campaign To Save The New York Public Library

  05-01-2018 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In September, with no shortage of Trumpian Goliaths rising up to threaten ever more of the institutions we rely on, we checked back in with a number of the activists whose work [Scott Sherman's book Patience and Fortitude] documents. How, we asked, does the movement to save the NYPL look with a few years' hindsight? What lessons might their experiences offer to activists taking stands against the powerful today? The answers we got back amounted to a crash course in effective resistance."
  
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• Indianapolis Museum Of Art Director Defends New Vision For The Institution

  05-01-2018 19:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Newfields is a new brand for a new type of an organization. Our mission is to create exceptional experiences with art and nature and the nature part is all of a sudden being revealed in pretty serious and very positive, successful ways. "I still think we've got a little ways to go before more people understand that we're all of these things and that we still are a great art museum doing programs and hiring curators and acquiring art, but some people are caught off guard, like, 'Well, what
  
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• How YouTube And Vimeo Have Transformed The Dance World

  05-01-2018 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Today, choreography once considered sacred and only transferred person-to-person is now self-taught, edited and remixed in bedrooms and basements, across the U.S. and beyond. No aspect of the dance industry, however commercial or 'purely artistic,' remains untouched by the explosion of video around the internet over the past decade. It's made a profound impact on everything from how students learn to what audiences want, when choreographers succeed and which artists win support from donors, fun
  
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• Met Museum's New Admissions Policy Marks A Retreat From Being A National Museum

  05-01-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  Phil Kennicott: "It will say to donors — who should take note and respond appropriately — that the Met no longer intends to be the country’s de facto national art museum. By sheer size and visitor numbers, it may remain the most prominent art museum in the country. But it now distinguishes between a local public — those who live in New York — and the rest of the country, which it treats merely as clients. It cannot reasonably approach major donors, those with art th
  
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• Met Museum's New Admission Policy Speaks To Much Bigger Problems

  05-01-2018 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jerry Saltz: "I do not begrudge the Met for trying to do whatever it can to maintain its preeminence. Yet this first-time attempt to raise admission before its new director arrives — intended to raise $6 million to $10 million annually — doesn’t entirely pass the smell test. It has an air of expediency, nervousness, an idea drought, of managers rather than art being in charge. Especially since the museum just spent more than $65 million on the space-eating, flow-disrupting, pat
  
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• From the Archives: Tim Rollins Goes From Dead End to Avant-Garde, in 1988

  05-01-2018 18:10 via artnews.com
  "We're going to make a painting—and we're going to make history." Read More
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• Meet America's Most-Produced Playwright: She's A 35-Year-Old Atlantan In San Francisco

  05-01-2018 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Lauren Gunderson: "I have come along at a very open time. In my career, if there has been massive sexism against me, I haven't felt it much or perhaps I've been too busy to notice or something! So I have great hope for the future and we're already seeing it."
  
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• The Year in Participation: Hands-on Art

  05-01-2018 17:58 via artnews.com
  Ten immersive art pieces that allowed people past the looking glass, giving them a hands-on experience. Read More
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• Daring Jewel Heist At Venice's Ducal Palace In Broad Daylight

  05-01-2018 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Venice Police Chief Vito Danilo Gagliardi said that the stolen items were a pair of earrings and a brooch made of diamonds, gold and platinum. The pieces -- owned by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani -- were snatched in the bold daytime robbery on the last day of the exhibit. A preliminary investigation revealed that the pair were able to delay the alarm system for one minute so it wasn't triggered until the thieves were making their escape, Gagliardi said. He described the culprits as "skilled
  
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• Japanese Comedian Uses Blackface To Dress Up As Eddie Murphy; US Twitter Erupts, Japanese Twitterverse Isn't So Sure

  05-01-2018 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "In a show that aired on New Year's Eve, the Japanese comedian Masatoshi Hamada appeared in a Detroit Lions football jacket, a curly wig and dark makeup, an attempt at imitating the actor Eddie Murphy's character from the 1984 movie Beverly Hills Cop." The initial social media reaction, started (in English and Japanese) by a bilingual African-American columnist in Japan, was #StopBlackfaceJapan. But some local fans insist that the practice doesn't and shouldn't have stigma attached to it there.
  
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• Arts minister places UK export bar on £26.2m Francesco Guardi painting

  05-01-2018 16:53
  Huge painting of Rialto Bridge was sold at auction last summer to an overseas buyer but committee says it would be ‘regrettable loss’ for the UKA huge painting of Venice’s Grand Canal by Francesco Guardi has had a temporary export bar placed on it by ministers in an attempt to prevent it leaving the UK.‘Rialto Bridge with the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi’ was owned by successive generations of the Guinness family before it was sold last summer to an overseas buyer at a C
  
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• The 'Death Effect' On Artists' Prices Actually Happens Before They're Dead (If They Live Long Enough)

  05-01-2018 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[A pair of research economists] say the death effect - traditionally conceived of as the price bump an artist gets after her death - is actually only observable for living artists, and only in the five years leading up to an artist's death. In redefining the 'death effect,' their research helps explain rising prices for a large cohort of prominent artists reaching advanced ages."
  
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• Angels In America's Original Prior Walter Will Now Play Roy Cohn

  05-01-2018 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stephen Spinella originated the role of the young AIDS patient at the center of Tony Kushner's drama in its 1991 world premiere, and he won back-to-back Tony Awards for it in 1993 and '94. This spring, in a revival at Berkeley Repertory Theater in California, Spinella will play the part farthest from Prior's type (and, arguably, Spinella's own): the furious, ailing, closeted and desperate lawyer who made his name as an anti-Communist hatchet man for Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
  
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• Yorkshire revolts and Doig paints a cracking Caribbean dreamworld – the week in art

  05-01-2018 15:58
  Tracey Emin’s My Bed is down to its last weeks in Margate, Peter Doig is on great form and Yorkshire Sculpture Park mans the barricades – all in your weekly dispatchRevolt and Revolution
  Protest art from the Arts Council collection brings a radical start to the year on the rolling dales of Britain’s grandest sculpture park.
  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park from 6 January until 15 April. Continue reading...
  
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• A.O. Scott On How A Critic Evaluates The Work Of Harvey Weinstein And Woody Allen After #MeToo

  05-01-2018 15:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "I still don't have a programmatic answer about that. I feel like everybody, critics or fans or whatever, figures out where to draw their own lines and how to deal with every case. ... I think there is a rush to disown a lot these guys, to make them disappear, and I think that that is certainly warranted morally in a lot of ways, but I think it lets other people off the hook." (podcast with transcript)
  
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• Showing Business Execs What They Can Learn From Orchestras And Conductors

  05-01-2018 15:17 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  PBS NewsHour goes to visit a session of the Music Paradigm, conductor Roger Nierenberg's seminar where corporate folks, high-powered doctors and the like study the examples of preparation and teamwork that an orchestra can offer. (video and transcript)
  
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• Director Of Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre Resigns In Wake Of Harassment/Assault Lawsuit

  05-01-2018 15:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In a statement issued Thursday evening, Albert Schultz said, "While I will continue to vigorously defend myself against the allegations that are being made, I have made this decision in the interest of the future of the company into which I poured the last 20 years of my life, and in the interest of the aspirations of the artists and administrators of the company." The board immediately accepted the resignation.
  
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• Morning Links: Scary Google Earth Edition

  05-01-2018 15:00 via artnews.com
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• 'No Meaningful Or Sustained Change In 2017' - Things Are Getting No Better For Women And Nonwhite Directors In Hollywood

  05-01-2018 14:46 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "The report, commissioned by the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, surveyed 1,100 films made in the last 11 years, and found that just 4% were directed by women - which equates to 22 male directors hired for every woman. ... Furthermore, just 5.2% of all directors - male and female - were black or African American, and 3.2% were Asian."
  
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• Here’s the Exhibitor List for NADA New York 2018

  05-01-2018 14:30 via artnews.com
  The fair will return to Skylight Clarkson Square in West SoHo for the second year.Read More
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• Maurice Peress, Conductor Who Worked With Bernstein And Ellington, Dead At 87

  05-01-2018 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "[He] spent the last 33 years conducting the student orchestra at the Queens College Aaron Copland School of Music, where he established a master's degree in conducting. But before settling into that role he led major orchestras, conducted the premieres of important works by Bernstein and others, and helped Ellington orchestrate some of his signature compositions."
  
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• New Director Of Shakespeare's Globe To Let Cast Pick Roles And Audiences Choose Plays

  05-01-2018 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Saying she wants to dismantle theatre hierarchies, Michelle Terry announced [that] ... none of the actors turning up for rehearsals [for Hamlet and As You Like It] will know which role they are taking, with the whole ensemble choosing who plays whom. In a similar vein, when the plays The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew and Twelfth Night go on tour, some audiences will be able to choose which one they want to see that night."
  
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• Saudi Arabia's Entry In The Gulf Mega-Museum Contest Is On Its Way

  05-01-2018 13:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "After years of delays and a dearth of information, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (known as Ithra) in the eastern city of Dhahran is finally getting off the ground. The long-awaited culture hub, which is funded by the Aramco oil conglomerate, should be fully open and operational by the summer."
  
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• Aharon Appelfeld, 85, Acclaimed Israeli Novelist

  05-01-2018 13:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  "Nearly all of his novels, stories and essays concerned the Holocaust, although Mr. Appelfeld preferred to say that his focus was far broader: Jewish loneliness, immigration and - as he once joked to the New York Times - 'trivialities,' the depiction of 'small, ordinary, unheroic people.' Unlike Primo Levi or Elie Wiesel, fellow chroniclers of the Holocaust, Mr. Appelfeld rarely ventured into historical analysis or first-person anecdote."
  
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• Michael Armitage’s Conjestina: a trippy evocation of Kenyan exoticism

  05-01-2018 11:32
  This tragic depiction of a female boxing champion recalls Gauguin’s compact nudes and Watteau’s PierrotThe young Kenya-born, London-based painter Michael Armitage often makes beautiful images inspired by terrible things. Rendered on traditional bark cloth, his layers of paint fade trippily from one lush colour to another, from tangerine to purple, with the occasional jolt of green. The fluid figures gently shape-shift within his birth country’s twisting trees and melting hills.
  
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• Top Posts From AJBlogs 01.04.18

  05-01-2018 10:36 via feedproxy.google.com
  Admission Revision: Metropolitan Museum Raises Eyebrows with Mandatory Fees for Non-New YorkersWere it not for my free-admission press pass, I’d be personally affected and affronted by the Metropolitan Museum’s new admissions policy. I’d feel as if a longtime lover had jilted me. ... read moreAJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2018-01-04Artichokes, HeartsA while back I read that some folks were plucking artichokes from farm borders off the roads in California, apparen
  
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• The 10 best things to do this week: Paramore, Terry Pratchett: HisWorld and Amadeus

  05-01-2018 10:00
  A last chance to see the DiscWorld author’s artefacts including his first typewriter, plus Lucian Msamati returns as SalieriTerry Pratchett: HisWorld
  Your last chance to see this exhibition dedicated to the beloved DiscWorld writer. On display are a selection of his possessions (including his first typewriter) as well as more than 40 original illustrations from his favourite artist, Paul Kidby. At Salisbury Museum until 14 January. Continue reading...
  
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• Chief Financial Officer - Kansas City Symphony

  05-01-2018 01:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Bronfenbrenner Consulting Group is pleased to collaborate with the Kansas City Symphony in the search for a new Chief Financial Officer, available June 1, 2018.
  Position Summary
  The CFO will fill a leadership role in the organization, building on the accomplishments and success of the current twenty-one-year incumbent. Core responsibilities encompass managing the Symphony’s financial and accounting functions, planning and budgeting, human resources, information technology, and office admin
  
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