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• Re-Entering Community Life In Person — But I Have Stage Fright

  03-05-2021 23:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  “In my official capacity as theater critic, I’m prepared to make a cultural diagnosis. As the pandemic shows signs of coming under control in the U.S., an epidemic of stage fright is exploding.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• NYC To Lift COVID Capacity Restrictions May 19. Broadway Back?

  03-05-2021 21:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday that one capacity restriction that will remain in place, with limits still being mandated on the number of people who can attend events at large outdoor stadiums. Those will remain at 33% capacity. Even though the rules have been loosened, Broadway isn’t expected to welcome guests back for several weeks, even months. – Variety
  
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• Eli Broad, Philanthropic Cautionary Tale

  03-05-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Broad’s style — his power plays, his demands for control and fealty, and his determination to go it alone — meant that controversy and ill-feeling dogged many of his big projects. He fell out with the architects; he crossed swords with directors such as Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Michael Govan; and his behavior stirred up resentments among fellow cultural philanthropists, many of whom refused to give to projects that had Broad’s name on them. – Washin
  
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• Lynda Hartigan, Peabody Essex Museum’s Passed-Over Deputy Director, Belatedly Gets the Top Spot

  03-05-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two years ago, when the Salem, Mass. museum named Brian Kennedy, then director of the Toledo Museum, to succeed longtime director Dan Monroe, I wondered why Lynda Hartigan hadn’t gotten the nod. Now, after a brief detour to Toronto as deputy director at the Royal Ontario Museum, Lynda is returning to direct the museum that she so ably served, beginning as chief curator in 2003. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Charles Grode Shares the Impact of Collaboration

  03-05-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The President & Executive Director of the Merit School of Music shares about the importance and impact of collaboration between arts organizations. – Aaron Dworkin
  
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• Music Is The Universal Language? Let’s Reconsider

  03-05-2021 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like a battle of the bands among scientists. The stage has expanded from musicology to evolutionary biology to cultural anthropology. – Nautilus
  
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• Beleaguered StubHub Ticket Service Will Now Offer Refunds For Canceled Events

  03-05-2021 19:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  Customers complained to the press and filed lawsuits. In an interview, StubHub customer experience vice president Daron Fowlks declined to comment on litigation but said that customers who bought tickets to events in the U.S. or Canada on or before March 25, 2020, and were issued credits for cancellations, will now get refunds. Those will be paid out by the end of May. – Seattle Times
  
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• Book Publishing Is About Free Speech? Ideas? Well That Myth Is Gone

  03-05-2021 18:44 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There may be an ideological component to publishing Pence and Conway, but it has nothing to do with ideas. It has to do with fetishizing ideological diversity, in which publishing garbage books from prominent Republicans is an end in and of itself. These deals only underline what’s been increasingly obvious for decades now: The commitment to free speech and intellectual diversity is a fig leaf, held up to defend often dubious decisions that are rooted in financial concerns, rather
  
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• Actor Timothy Spall gets first solo show of his paintings

  03-05-2021 18:11
  
  Star of Mr Turner created 20 works over six-month period after gallery owner saw his talentHe is one of Britain’s most revered actors and has portrayed JMW Turner and LS Lowry on screen – and now Timothy Spall is having his own paintings hung in a solo show at a London gallery.The gallery owner Domenic Pontone asked Spall to create a show after seeing his work at the Lowry Gallery in Salford, where 14 of Spall’s paintings were displayed in an exhibition to celebrate the release
  
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• Head Or Heart? How You Listen To Music

  03-05-2021 18:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  When you listen to music, do you tend to analyze and think critically about what you are hearing (head)? Or is music listening pretty much an emotional experience for you—something that can tingle your spine or make you cry (heart)? – NightingaleSonata
  
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• And The Oscar Goes To South Dakota

  03-05-2021 17:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  South Dakota’s tourist attractions featured heavily in parts of Best Picture winner Nomadland, and now the (iconic to some) Wall Drug and Reptile Gardens are seeing an uptick in tourism. – Rapid City Journal
  
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• Blaming Liam Scarlett’s Death On Cancel Culture Is Just Another Way To Shut Victims Up

  03-05-2021 17:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Reactions such as choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s social media post that claimed “Cancel culture is killing” are deeply harmful – they place “a burden of guilt on victims who may have come forward during the investigations, at a time when the ballet world is finally reckoning with the way it has normalized abuse over time.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association Vowed To Change

  03-05-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  From there? Things have been falling apart. NBC’s contingency plans if the group that runs the Golden Globes doesn’t get it together by their self-imposed deadline of May 6. “Among the more drastic options that could be considered: putting the Globes on hiatus, keeping the show but jettisoning the HFPA, or scrapping the awards altogether.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• What It Feels Like To Finish A Project During The Pandemic

  03-05-2021 16:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just ask novelist Ali Smith, who finished the last of a four-book sprint during the first lockdown: “I felt the usual failure …Knackered. Curious as to whether the book would hold water, and as for the series: no idea. Hope, despair. All these feelings passed in the 30 seconds it takes to toast something that’s done with a single measure of single malt, then I emerged from my room into the very real, visceral confluence of hope and despair happening to us all in life in Covid
  
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• Will LA MOCA Recover Its Footing?

  03-05-2021 15:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Yes, LA MOCA is having trouble again. “MOCA’s current trials have come just as the museum was hoping to emerge from a tumultuous history that has included two short-term directors, a raid on its endowment to pay the bills and a proposed merger with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.” – The New York Times
  
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• The Great Mural Wall Of Los Angeles Gets An Extension

  03-05-2021 15:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Judy Baca’s 2,700-foot mural Great Wall shows the history of the city, from pre-historic California through the 1950s. But the 1950s were a long time ago – and now a grant means the mural can stretch to a mile, bringing it up to the 2020s. – Hyperallergic
  
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• Fred Jordan, Who Defied Censorship And Published The Avant Garde, 95

  03-05-2021 15:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  At Grove Press, Jordan and Barney Rosset led the charge to publish as they wished. “Grove’s lawyers were instrumental in overturning anti-pornography court rulings against D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer in 1959, William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch in the early 1960s and the Swedish erotic film I Am Curious (Yellow) in the late ’60s.” – The New York Times
  
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• Can This Modernist Gem Be Saved?

  03-05-2021 15:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The planned demolition of the Derby Assembly Rooms, product of a 1970 architectural competition and former host to big acts from The Clash to Elton John, has the city divided and architecture preservation societies infuriated. – The Observer (UK)
  
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• A California Appeals Court Holds Amazon Responsible In Third-Party Sales

  03-05-2021 14:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  A hoverboard burst into flames, harming the person who bought it from a third-party seller on Amazon Marketplace and leading to a court case in which a California appeals court said Amazon can’t duck out on this one. “Bottom line: Amazon — and by extension other online retailers — isn’t just a bystander when someone purchases a third-party product. It’s a key part of the transaction. And it can be held accountable if that product turns out to be harmful.&rdqu
  
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• Music Festivals In The UK Say They’ll Have To Cancel Without Government Help

  03-05-2021 14:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  The main problem is an inability to get coronavirus cancellation insurance (perhaps understandable at this point). – BBC
  
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• Disney Apparently Decided Not To Pay Some Authors Their Royalties

  03-05-2021 14:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  And now there’s a task force trying to get the authors of novels in the Indiana Jones, Buffy, and Star Wars universes the royalties for recent sales of their books. Disney, according to author Alan Dean Foster, told him that when they bought Lucasfilm and the rights to Foster’s novelization of Star Wars: A New Hope, first published in 1976, that didn’t mean he would continue to earn royalties from the still in-print, still selling book. The Mouse “argued that it had purc
  
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• Returning Moviegoers Are Ready For More

  03-05-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  After being stuck at home, without movie cinemas, for well over a year, it’s time to break out the big bucks for all of the extras. “The expanding appetite for an enhanced theatrical experience has given the film and exhibition business a shot of confidence and a weapon against streamers amid devastation caused by the pandemic. Yet it also means theaters that don’t offer upscale sight and sound, plush seats and other amenities might struggle to lure customers.” – T
  
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• James Prigoff, Who Documented And Championed Street Art, 93

  03-05-2021 13:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  Prigoff was a the co-author, with Henry Chalfant, of Spraycan Art, “a foundational book in the street-art field that featured more than 200 photographs of colorful, intricate artworks in rail tunnels, on buildings and elsewhere — not only in New York, then considered by many to be the epicenter of graffiti art, but also in Chicago, Los Angeles, Barcelona, London, Vienna and other cities. It included interviews with many of the artists and even captured some of them in the act of cre
  
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• Seven Stories Press Runs Indie Risks, Reaps A Nobel Prize Winner

  03-05-2021 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Running an independent press isn’t easy in an era of consolidation – and in a pandemic. Seven Stories’ editor-in-chief: “As a business the time of greatest risk—and very possibly also of greatest reward—is right now, this year, next year. We’re on a growth curve, which has not always been the case. The marketplace for books actually grew in America last year, but at the same time it is much harder today for independent publishers to break out a book tha
  
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• A Humble Alley Boasts Hollywood History

  03-05-2021 13:15 via feedproxy.google.com
  Can tourists gain more appreciation of the real Hollywood – could the city do more (a lot more) to help them leave invigorated, and not disappointed? Check out the alley: “So many visitors to Hollywood would love to know about this unnamed space — where, in the early, exhilarating, madcap days of moviemaking, three of the greatest Hollywood stars of all time shot parts of three of their greatest films.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• The Colosseum Is Getting A High-Tech Arena Floor

  03-05-2021 13:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  The project, in which a structural engineering firm will install a retractable floor, is supposed to take two years to complete – and so, says culture minister Dario Franceschini, “in 2023, we will have the splendour of the Colosseum with its arena again.” – The Guardian (UK)
  
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• It’s a hard sell but Africa must invest in art and imagination

  03-05-2021 08:15
  
  Building an arts centre in Uganda, in a pandemic, was never going to be easy but it’s crucial to our post-Covid future
  I’ve been raising funds for a building project: not a hospital, not a school, but an arts centre.It’s not an easy sell at the best of times but add in a pandemic and the fact that I’m in Africa and, according to the current rules of financial engagement, art is the verylowest of priorities. Related: If Britain looked anew, it could learn so much about the
  
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• The Great British Art Tour: Gladstone’s fallen woman gives life to Dante’s muse

  03-05-2021 07:00
  
  With public art collections closed we are bringing the art to you, exploring highlights from across the country in partnership with Art UK. Today: William Dyce’s Beatrice, in AberdeenDante Alighieri is an Italian poet whose allegory The Divine Comedy, written between 1308 and the year of his death in 1321, has had a profound influence on western thought and literature. The Beatrice of his poetry is generally identified with Beatrice Portinari, a Florentine contemporary first glimpsed by th
  
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• Crude, obscene and extraordinary: Jean Dubuffet’s war against good taste

  03-05-2021 07:00
  
  He was the inventor of ‘art brut’ who rebelled against his parents, his teachers and then art itself. Yet the impact of his wild provocative paintings, often culled from graffiti, can still be seen todayWhich great artist of the 20th century has been most influential on the 21st? Neither Picasso nor Matisse, as they have no heirs. And not Marcel Duchamp, however much we genuflect before his urinal. No, the artist of the last century whose ideas are everywhere today was a wine merchan
  
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