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• How TV/Movie Costumes Shape Our Perceptions Of Royalty

  18-05-2021 23:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In film and TV dramatisations of familiar royal tales, the audience is presented with a romanticised and glamorised vision of royal history. Sumptuous silks and gilded homes make up the lush material world on screen. In reality, they are far removed from the bed bugs, tedious political documents and the stench of recently used chamber pots. – The Conversation
  
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• What The Pandemic Has Cost The Arts

  18-05-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There is another thing the rest of us, the audience, do not fully appreciate: the crisis is rooted in the destruction that was visited upon the arts even before the pandemic—that is, in the scandal of free content, which has been going on for more than twenty years and which implicates us all.” – Harper’s
  
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• V&A Museum Union Warns Job Cuts Would Cost “1,000 Years Of Expertise”

  18-05-2021 22:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  The museum, which plans to reopen only five days a week at first, is looking to save £10 million a year after its visitor numbers collapsed in lockdown. – Evening Standard
  
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• Using Public Domain Songs As Fodder For Something New

  18-05-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  With support from a wide cast of collaborators, Angry and Katherine McMahon are taking songs from the public domain — a class of creative works whose copyright protections have expired or been otherwise forfeited, making them freely available for public use — and reimagining them for the present moment. – The New York Times
  
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• Regulators Eye Warner/Discovery Merger With Skepticism

  18-05-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “That deal was sold to the Department of Justice and to the public on the basis of an efficiencies claim, which apparently has not panned out,” said Diana Moss, president of the American Antitrust Institute. “Now there’s even more reason to cast a very skeptical eye.” – Variety
  
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• Dick Van Dyke Is 95, And He Really Wants To Get Back On Stage

  18-05-2021 21:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  “His last singing gig took place on a Saturday night 15 months ago at the Catalina Jazz Club. He packed the house. They even had to cram in extra tables. … ‘Oh, God, I knew I liked it, but I didn’t know how much I would miss it,’ he says of performing. ‘I really miss getting up in front of an audience.'” – The Washington Post
  
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• Newark’s Old Works Offloaded: NJ’s Most Prominent Art Museum Sells “Outdated” Outcasts Tomorrow

  18-05-2021 20:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  As part of her reinvention and rebranding of the Newark Museum (which, in 2019, added “of Art” to its name, even though it also includes science exhibits and a planetarium), its current director, Linda Harrison, less than three years into her tenure, appears to be running roughshod over its own policies, not to mention the AAMD’s deaccession guidelines. – Lee Rosenbaum
  
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• Words to live by: Don’t shoehorn grand opera

  18-05-2021 20:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  The return to the stage (though not their own) of the Met and of Opera Philadelphia, along with a streamed Aïda from the Paris Opera, have a few lessons for us. – David Patrick Stearns
  
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• The Year Of Singing Dangerously

  18-05-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  The wildfire-like spread of the coronavirus over a couple of hours of choral singing inside a Washington church was enough to send shockwaves throughout the singing community in California. – KQED
  
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• What James Whiteside Has Been Doing With (Or To?) Dance Through The Lockdown

  18-05-2021 20:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “As theaters went dark during the pandemic, the New York-based Whiteside” — best known as a prinmcipal at ABT — “began putting out a flood of original content on Instagram and YouTube: going behind the scenes of his workouts and rehearsals, offering live dance classes, creating comedic skits, and debuting inventive music videos … [all featuring] bombastic online alter egos, such as a singer named JbDubs, drag artist Ühu Betch, and a turkey-baster-wieldi
  
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• Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser review – a wonderful tumble down the rabbit hole

  18-05-2021 19:44
  
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  Inspiring everything from Jefferson Airplane’s White Rabbit to Heston Blumenthal’s mock turtle soup, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland continues to feel delightfully modern
  To get into the V&A’s blockbuster about the influence of Alice, I had to stand at a security gate for ages, waiting to be called forward into the silent museum. It was a tiny bit Kafkaesque. Then I remembered Kafka was probably influenced by Carroll so it was in fa
  
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• Jeopardy Contestant’s Innocent Hand Gesture Sends Conspiracists Wild

  18-05-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  Kelly Donohue’s three fingers, Snopes pointed out, symbolize the number “three.” After his first victory, he waved one finger. After his second victory, he raised two. And after his third, he showed three fingers. He awkwardly folded his index and forefingers into something that looks as if it could be some kind of sign, but doesn’t resemble the “OK” signal that white supremacists have sought to appropriate. – The New York Times
  
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• ‘It’s chaos for a lot of people’: what is the future of NFTs in Australian art?

  18-05-2021 19:30
  
  While many players in more traditional fine art circles feel ill-equipped to deal with the digital art trend, some contemporary art enthusiasts are going all inIn 1962, the French neo-avant-garde artist Yves Klein began dealing in what he declared to be Zones of Immaterial Pictorial Sensibility. In exchange for a sum of solid gold, Klein would imbue a patch of thin air with his artistic aura and provide a receipt. One such “zone” was bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  
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• The north-east is no cultural wasteland

  18-05-2021 19:13
  
  Alien status | Arts coverage | Austerity | Children in pubs | Identity cardsMy mother, British born and bred, became an alien in 1944 when she married my father, a Belgian citizen then serving in the Royal Air Force (Letters, 17 May). The day after the wedding, she had to report to the local police station. She only regained her full British citizenship in 1949 when the British Nationality Act 1948 “allowed” British women married to foreigners to retain their nationality. And they wo
  
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• London’s West End Reopens Yet Again, Hoping This Time Will Stick

  18-05-2021 19:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  There were two attempts in the second half of 2020 to start British theatres up after the pandemic lockdown, and both were quickly ended as COVID cases rose. “Monday’s comeback felt like it was actually permanent, 15 audience members said in interviews, many highlighting Britain’s speedy vaccination campaign as the reason for their optimism. (Over 55 percent of the British population has received at least one dose, a higher proportion than in the United States.)” –
  
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• Britain’s Stages Are Not Reopening With Theatrical Comfort Food

  18-05-2021 19:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  “There has been a fear that the large-scale redundancies during the pandemic – an estimated 40% of theatre workers lost their jobs – could be followed by a reopening packed with ‘safe’ work. Instead, ‘bold’ is the adjective being used to describe much of what is to come. … The National Theatre’s deputy artistic director … says the public want challenging art rather than ‘comforting’ work.” – The Guardian
  
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• ‘Some people feel threatened’: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist

  18-05-2021 15:09
  
  Self-portraits by ultra-realistic android go on show at Design Museum in LondonShe, if it can be called a she, began her career with abstract art but has now moved to self, if they can be called self, portraits and they are alarmingly good.“She is getting better all of the time,” said Aidan Meller, the force behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, who is the subject of a new display at the Design Museum in London. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I can now do it in less than two minutes’: a Rubik’s cube and nine other objects readers relied on in lockdown

  18-05-2021 12:30
  
  From a paintbrush to a Stratocaster and a stained glass panel, some unexpected items took on huge new importance in a world of coronavirus restrictions Continue reading...
  
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• Redoubt review – Matthew Barney’s mysterious, mythical movie-ballet

  18-05-2021 12:00
  
  The artist casts himself alongside a real-life NRA sharpshooter in this wordless exploration of wildernessRedoubt is a wordless outdoor movie-ballet inspired by the huntress myth of Diana, set in the forested wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains and brought to us by artist and film-maker Matthew Barney, whose most famous work is probably his colossal five-film sequence, the Cremaster Cycle.Cremaster was a headspinningly gigantic folie de grandeur spanning six hours in total, inspired b
  
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• Redoubt review – a mysterious, mythical movie-ballet

  18-05-2021 12:00
  
  Artist Matthew Barney casts himself alongside a real-life NRA sharpshooter in this wordless exploration of wildernessRedoubt is a wordless outdoor movie-ballet inspired by the huntress myth of Diana, set in the forested wilderness of Idaho’s Sawtooth mountains and brought to us by artist and film-maker Matthew Barney, whose most famous work is probably his colossal five-film sequence, the Cremaster Cycle.Cremaster was a headspinningly gigantic folie de grandeur spanning six hours in total,
  
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