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• New Deal For Artists: an unearthed film on how arts funding should work

  19-05-2021 20:28
  
  For its 40th anniversary, the Orson Welles-narrated documentary about Franklin D Roosevelt’s post-depression artist program, is getting a vital re-releaseIn America, the culture war over state funding of arts programs never really ends, but rather assumes slightly altered forms over time. The latest battle lines have formed around Broadway, in desperate need of an infusion of cash from the government to survive the pandemic, much to the chagrin of budget-slashing conservatives. Not so long
  
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• The Hidden Treasures Of The St. Louis Central Library

  19-05-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  “First editions of Palladio and Alberti as well as 16th century printings of Vitruvius — oh, and first editions of Piranesi etchings that once belonged to the House of Lords. All of these sit behind glass and wood cabinets in an English country house library hidden within the I-Am-America-Hear-Me-Roar Gilded Age splendor.” – The Daily Beast
  
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• Inside One Texas Museum’s Controversial COVID Response

  19-05-2021 18:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early on, positive press rolled in for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, focusing on the MFAH’s safety precautions for guests, who would be allowed a welcome distraction during the pandemic. But behind the scenes, employees were growing increasingly frustrated with the risks they encountered while working low-wage jobs to keep the museum running; their job duties had been modified so that now they were tasked with scanning temperatures and controlling crowds as COVID-19 cases continued to
  
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• If You’re Incorporating ASL In Your Play, Please, Please Don’t Do These Things

  19-05-2021 18:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  Brian Cheslik, theatre teacher at the Texas School for the Deaf: “Please know that I am writing this from a place of love and support, in hopes of giving guidance for theatre educators and producers nationwide. While I wrote this to focus on theatre education in schools, these tips do apply to the entertainment industry in general, so you can substitute the word student for person, actor, or artist.” – American Theatre
  
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• Garth Drabinsky — Back On Broadway

  19-05-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The show is produced by Garth H. Drabinsky, the Tony-winning producer behind Kiss of the Spider Woman, who was sentenced to seven years in a Canadian prison in 2009 for fraud and forgery. That sentence was reduced on appeal to five years. Drabinsky served 17 months before being released on parole in 2013. Subsequent US charges were dismissed in 2018, clearing the way for Drabinsky to resume work as a theatrical producer south of the border.” – Theatre Mania
  
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• ‘This is the post-lockdown party we all need’ – Grayson’s Art Club review

  19-05-2021 17:22
  
  Manchester Art Gallery
  Grayson Perry challenged ‘any oik, prole or citizen’ to unleash their lockdown creativity. The best of the 10,000 entries, from polished pros to frontline workers, are full of fun, resilience – and cats To give Grayson’s Art Club less than five stars would be to take the artistic aspirations of the UK, screw them up and stomp on them. This exhibition – which unites the lockdown creativity of the public with acclaimed artists and skilful celebr
  
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• Seeing How Musical Instruments Actually Get Made

  19-05-2021 17:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The process of making musical instrument is generally out of the public eye, and there’s often a mystique about how those particular tools-of-the-trade are created. During some idle hours of the long lockdown, I went deep down the YouTube rabbit hole and discovered scores of fascinating videos capturing all manner of fine artisans — luthiers, brass wranglers, wood turners, and more — exploring the alchemy of turning raw materials into the precision instruments musicians
  
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• Help, it’s 1,000 trillion degrees in here! The Big Bang artwork that makes scientists cry

  19-05-2021 16:45
  
  Want would it have been like to be inside the Big Bang? We meet the ultra-hi-tech art duo who are using light, sound and sub-atomic astro data to recreate the biggest explosion ever‘Step into the heart of the Big Bang,” says the advert for Halo, a walk-in, 360-degree, audiovisual installation about to open in Brighton. Come off it, I want to retort. You couldn’t “step” into the Big Bang without first travelling 13.8 billion years back in time and then being extremel
  
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• A Sci-Fi ‘Rite Of Spring’ Set In The Arctic

  19-05-2021 16:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  Choreographer Andrea Schermoly, who created this wintry take on Stravinsky’s modernist classic for Louisville Ballet’s online “Season of Illumination”: “I’d seen a short film … about a stray albino penguin that ad been ousted by its tribe. I remember thinking it was such a strange parallel to Rite, and I liked the starkness of the terrain. … The music is so eerie, huge and violent, and I felt like the tribal sense could still be captured in that
  
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• Art Gensler, Who Founded World’s Largest Architectural Firm, Dead At 85

  19-05-2021 16:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  “Over the decades, Gensler’s firm has designed universities, hotels, sports stadia and universities, touching almost every part of the built environment. It has created corporate headquarters for the likes of Facebook, Burberry and Hyundai, and airports from Detroit, Michigan, to Incheon, South Korea. In the process, the company has grown into giant of global architecture, employing thousands of people at offices in 50 world cities.” – CNN
  
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• Two UK galleries to share portrait of German doctor who resisted Nazis

  19-05-2021 15:52
  
  Lovis Corinth’s portrait of Ferdinand Mainzer is accepted for nation in lieu of an inheritance tax billA portrait of a German-Jewish doctor who became active in a circle of intellectuals secretly resisting the Nazis has been accepted for the nation in lieu of tax.It was announced on Wednesday that Lovis Corinth’s 1899 portrait of Ferdinand Mainzer will be shared in the collections of the National Gallery in London and the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham. Continue reading.
  
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• Asking The Museums That Have Benin Bronzes About Repatriation

  19-05-2021 15:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The contentious objects, known to have been looted from the Benin Royal Palace in 1897, are scattered across some of the most prominent museums the world over. … Artnet News reached out to 30 museums known to hold Benin bronzes to ask for an update on their position on restitution, and the status of objects in their collection.” Here are responses from 14 of them, from Vienna to Vancouver to Washington, DC. – Artnet
  
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• The Amenities This Developer Is Adding To Apartment Buildings Are Theaters And Gallery Spaces

  19-05-2021 15:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  Mind you, this isn’t just any old real estate mogul: it’s Dasha Zhukova, the collector who founded the popular Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Her new U.S. venture, called Ray, is already at work on a New York building that will incorporate the National Black Theatre in Harlem and a development in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood with six street-level art studios. – Artnet
  
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• At Last, Bourse de Commerce—Pinault Collection Opens In Paris

  19-05-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  “The reopening of Paris museums this week finally gives billionaire tycoon François Pinault the chance to showcase his vast contemporary art collection in the French capital, with works ranging from stuffed pigeons to slowly melting chairs. The museum’s launch in a converted 19th-century commodities exchange, blocks away from the Louvre, was put on hold twice due to the coronavirus pandemic after having suffered earlier planning mishaps, with an initial project abandoned in 2
  
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• Actor Charles Grodin, 86

  19-05-2021 14:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  “[He] made his mark in both comedy and drama, onstage and on screen and as a writer and director. He often adopted a quirky style that could be simultaneously self-effacing and self-important. He was a master of the cringeworthy moment, when it wasn’t clear if he was being funny, naive or insulting — or a little of all three.” – The Washington Post
  
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• Why Do Canadians Like American TV More Than Canadian?

  19-05-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  How do you get Canadians to care about the homegrown equivalent of the Emmys or Oscars when they seem more interested in American content? – Toronto Star
  
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