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• Chipping At Classical Music's Glass Ceiling

  21-01-2018 22:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Conductor Suzanne Mälkki: "Women have been conducting for decades. ... They just haven't been welcome. It's as simple as that."
  
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• Right-Wing Protesters Yank Down And Destroy Statue In Athens

  21-01-2018 22:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The statue was red, an angel with wings, but critics thought it was a depiction of Satan. "Protests against the 8-metre high sculpture called Phylax, which in Greek means 'guardian', have ranged from throwing white paint and spitting at it to attempting to exorcise it with a Greek priest sprinkling holy water." Then a group of people decided to drag the entire column and statue down using a truck.
  
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• What Happened To Amazon's Desire To Make Indie Movies?

  21-01-2018 21:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's gone. Now Amazon Studios has complete blockbuster lust, and that could hurt Sundance ... a lot.
  
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• Top AJBlogs Posts From The Weekend Of 01.21.18

  21-01-2018 21:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Exalting Bruckner at Carnegie HallBruckner’s symphonies are communal rites of spiritual passage. For maximum impact, they require a proper hall and appropriate congregants. In New York City, Lincoln Center’s Geffen Hall – formerly Fisher Hall, and Philharmonic Hall before ... read moreAJBlog: Unanswered QuestionPublished 2018-01-19
  What Makes a Body Seem New?The Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series presents two works by Jodi Melnick on January 14th and
  
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• Surely The Academy Will Finally Give Netflix Some Oscars Love

  21-01-2018 21:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's really time, with Dee Rees' Mudbound and a string of longlisted Oscar documentaries. "Netflix’s rival Amazon has previously cracked the Oscar race by playing nice with an old-fashioned cinema-first release for prestige hopefuls such as Manchester by the Sea. How Mudbound performs this week may tell us just how swiftly the goldrush game is about to change."
  
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• What Happens When A Fiercely Bad Review Goes Viral

  21-01-2018 20:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We can easily get addicted to harsh reviews. "The appeal of negativity to the reader, that mysterious quality which makes the pan and the broadside irresistible, should alone warn the cautious critic of indulging in bouts of vitriol too freely, or too frequently. Harsh criticism has an intoxicating effect on writer and reader alike: both ought to be wary of its influence. Like any drug, censure has its benefits, its attractions and its resounding pleasures. But it is also dangerous."
  
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• Surely The Channel Bridge Isn't Serious, But Just In Case It Is, Here Are Some Ideas

  21-01-2018 19:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  We can't top this writing: "The clown king of novelty infrastructure fantasies has once again stolen the limelight with his preposterous plan for a 22-mile bridge across the Channel. As spending priorities go, Boris Johnson’s idea is madness. Most places outside the south-east UK languish with medieval infrastructure – and there’s also the fact that it’s the busiest shipping lane in the world."
  
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• If British School Kids Don't Have Time To Go To The Art, The Art Will Go To Their Schools

  21-01-2018 19:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  And it's not a new initiative, either (but the original was scotched by parents, who didn't like abstract art). "Wakefield's Hepworth Gallery has revived a pioneering scheme from the 1940s to introduce children to the best in contemporary art. It has commissioned several contemporary artists to produce prints of their work especially for local schools."
  
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• Fresh hope for art loan schemes | Letters

  21-01-2018 18:34
  Vivien Lovell recalls a picture loan scheme she introduced in Tower Hamlets in the late 70s, and Ros Napier says her library in Solihull also lent reproductions of famous artProfessor Terry Gifford’s letter (Welcome return of School Prints loans, 18 January) prompted me to remember how, as visual arts officer for the London borough of Tower Hamlets in the late 70s and early 80s, I introduced a picture loan scheme operated through the library service. Original paintings, drawings and prints
  
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• What Happened In Architecture's Big Awards Controversy This Year?

  21-01-2018 18:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Nothing was good enough, apparently, to win the American Institute of Architects' 25 Year Award. Blame post-modernism? "The 1980s and early '90s were a transitional period in architecture and in some ways a fallow one. Post-modernism was enjoying an unsteady reign in those years. Having finally toppled corporate modernism — and thus having been robbed of a villain to help inspire new work — the movement was having trouble figuring out what kinds of landmarks to produce on its own ter
  
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• LA's Sunset Boulevard Lives One Life In Movies, And A Parallel Life In Reality

  21-01-2018 18:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's not just a myth, but a real street. "Drive east to west, from where the street begins downtown to where it ends 22 twisting miles later at the Pacific Ocean, and at any point along the route, you will see the images that movies, TV shows and magazines have implanted in your brain."
  
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• In Children's Books, It's Not Only The Heroes Who Are Mostly Male

  21-01-2018 17:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In the top 100 children's books in the UK in 2017, "the lead characters were 50% more likely to be male than female, and male villains were eight times more likely to appear compared to female villains."
  
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• Dorothy Malone, Academy Award Winner And Star Of 'Peyton Place,' Dies At 93

  21-01-2018 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Malone, who won her Oscar for playing the unapologetically sexy woman in Written on the Wind, was a fighter for her own rights, perhaps to the detriment of her career. After she made a splash on TV's Peyton Place, "She was written out of the show’s final season after she complained that her character’s story lines were lackluster. Ms. Malone sued the producers, and the matter was settled out of court."
  
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• Who Protects The Work Of Directors And Designers?

  21-01-2018 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Their unions, of course, but they often have to track down offenders themselves. "Production photos, fight choreography clips, even bootleg production videos are often just a Google search away. While it’s never been easier to copy someone else’s work, it’s also never been easier for directors and designers to find potential offenders."
  
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• So You Can't Make It To Sundance? Streaming Can Make You Feel Better

  21-01-2018 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Where did Dee Rees, Ava DuVernay, Karyn Kusama and other directors get their big festival breaks? Sundance, of course.
  
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• A Nearly Destroyed Banksy Gets Rescued From The Beach

  21-01-2018 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Banksy piece, which was made to protest pollution, was painted on a container. "The site’s owners, EDF Energy, had reportedly warned locals of their intention to clean up the beach, which would have involved destroying the container – and therefore the Banksy."
  
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• Violin Shred Videos Make The Internet Wonder If Classical Musicians Can Take A Joke

  21-01-2018 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  First there were the parody videos of violinist Daniel Hope. Then there was his annoyance, and then there were the takedown letters from his lawyers. And now one of the parody video creators, "a Berlin-based concert programmer, dramaturge and journalist named Arno Lücker, was then told that a series he has long presented at the prestigious Berlin Konzerthaus, where Mr. Hope frequently plays and programs a series of his own, would not be renewed."
  
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• The Land We Live In – The Land We Left Behind review: Bilbo Baggins with mulch and menace

  21-01-2018 13:25
  Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton
  From grumpy goats to pitchforks … countryside wonders and terrors come to life in this chaotic survey of our relationship with nature
  It is all going down at Durslade Farm, Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset art venture. There will be cheese-making. There will be baking and wood-fired oven demonstrations. Goats shall be milked. Fernando García-Dory’s Goat Pavilion project, devised with Hayatsu Architects, opens The Land We Live In –
  
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• On my radar: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s cultural highlights

  21-01-2018 11:00
  The playwright and actor on the sounds and flavours of Miami, why Claire Foy makes The Crown unmissable, and the peculiar pleasure of tweeting gifs of Yul BrynnerTarell Alvin McCraney was born in Liberty City in Miami, Florida and attended Yale School of Drama, where he received the Cole Porter playwriting award. Between 2008 and 2010 he was international writer in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remains an associate artist. His semi-autobiographical 2003 play, In Moonlight
  
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• Andreas Gursky review – a world in dizzying high definition

  21-01-2018 09:00
  Hayward Gallery, London
  The German photographer’s vast, high-detail images play wonderfully with reality and artifice – though at the expense of human individuality
  • Read Rowan Moore’s review of the new-look Hayward GalleryToo good to be true: that is the art of the German photographer Andreas Gursky. His monumental pictures of our world – magnificently orchestrated, gorgeous in their super-saturated colours – are so improbably detailed you can view the sea fr
  
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• Black Mirror star Aldis Hodge paints a portrait of divided America

  21-01-2018 01:01
  The actor has collaborated with artist Harmonia Rosales to create a series of images of the ‘terrifying’ reality of racism in the USThe Black Mirror actor Aldis Hodge has devoted his Hollywood career – which includes roles in Hidden Figures and Straight Outta Compton – to positive portrayals of African Americans. Now he is using the art world to promote social justice with a series of provocative paintings.The first two, produced in collaboration with acclaimed artist Har
  
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