Arts news

• How Museums Are Responding To Climate Change

  11-08-2021 23:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  After all, museums aren’t much more than glammed-up, oversized attics, right? How high could their carbon footprint really be? – Washington Post
  
  Read more

• A Smaller Edinburgh Fringe Festival — Is It Better?

  11-08-2021 23:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  For some in a city with a population of only around 500,000, a break from the Fringe last year, followed by a much smaller festival this year — one that doesn’t clog up roads and sidewalks, or cause short-term rents to skyrocket — has been welcomed. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Instagram Is Turning Away From Photos To Videos. Artists Are Angry

  11-08-2021 22:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The move has the artistic community seeing Pantone 032. Though there’s no way of knowing how many artists, architects and photographers have left the app, many are at least threatening to. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• What Happens To Pop Music Stars When Recording Labels Lose Confidence

  11-08-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Stats from UK music trade body BPI say that only one in 10 signed artists are expected to succeed commercially,and if the relationship does fall apart, any music an artist has made typically remains owned by the label. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• How Seattle’s Last Remaining Video Rental Store Plans To Go National

  11-08-2021 21:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Scarecrow has approximately 140,000 titles, on physical media. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu — combined — have approximately one-third of that, and the ephemeral nature of streaming rights means that titles on those platforms come and go. – Seattle Times
  
  Read more

• Is Cancel Culture Stifling Comedy? In A Word, No.

  11-08-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “If the ‘wokeism is killing comedy’ crew are motivated by a genuine devotion to great comedy, then they can relax, because it is in rude health when it comes to risk-taking, boundary-pushing content.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• China Will Ban Karaoke Songs With “Illegal” Content

  11-08-2021 20:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  According to one CNN report, a song called “Fart” was blacklisted. The lyrics of the song read: “There are some people in the world who like farting while doing nothing.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Why Bollywood Is Cranking Out The War Movies This Year

  11-08-2021 20:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Basically, it’s because Prime Minister Narendra Modi is pushing the country in a more militaristic direction, especially with regard to Pakistan. And “India’s wars with Pakistan are privileged by Bollywood ‘because we always win.'” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• We’re Being Cajoled To Be Positive. It’s Not Helpful

  11-08-2021 19:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The pressure to try to adopt positivity as a constant state of being has begun to feel exhausting. Some have gone as far as to call it “toxic positivity,” which may seem contradictory. – The Walrus
  
  Read more

• Are We Finally Getting Over The “Show Up For Dance Class, Even If You’re Sick (And If You’re Injured, Sit And Watch)” Rule?

  11-08-2021 19:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Dance psychologist Lucie Clements says we should reassess the value of “pushing past the pain”: “You are risking more harm than good if someone is hurt or sick. … It perpetuates that you are not worth as much as the art.” – Dance Teacher
  
  Read more

• Cautionary Tale For Publishers: Andrew Cuomo’s Book About Dealing With The Pandemic

  11-08-2021 18:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When the manuscript began circulating, several major publishing companies vied for it in a frenzied auction, with bids soaring into the seven figures. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Egypt’s Greatest Living Novelist Explores Why The Tahrir Square Revolution Failed

  11-08-2021 18:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Alaa Al-Aswany on his The Republic of False Truths: “I made a big mistake. I thought the revolution was representing all Egyptians, but we were the minority. … At some point, people turned against us. This novel is a way to understand what happened.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
  Read more

• Counting: American Orchestras’ Programs Take A Leap In Diversity This Season

  11-08-2021 17:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In 2017-18, 2% of works performed were written by women, and 3% by composers of color. By 2019–2020, it was 6% of works by women and 8% by composers of color. This year music by women comprise 12%, and nearly 17% are by composers of color. – San Francisco Classical Voice
  
  Read more

• Picasso pieces worth about $100m to be auctioned in Las Vegas

  11-08-2021 17:25
  
  Sotheby’s to sell 11 works in Bellagio hotel and casino, in one of most valuable Picasso auctions yetLas Vegas: the city of sin, where you can gamble away your savings, get married on a whim, dine on an octuple bypass burger at the Heart Attack Grill – and soon, it has been announced, take part in one of the most valuable Picasso auctions ever staged.Sotheby’s has announced it is to sell 11 Picasso works owned by MGM Resorts, which have a combined value of about $100m (£7
  
  Read more

• The Pandemic Has Shown Us That Museums Should Give Up On Blockbuster Shows: Chris Dercon

  11-08-2021 17:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Says the former director of Tate Modern, now at Paris’s Grand Palais, “We probably cannot afford to ship works back and forth, and will have to think of … how a museum can do more for a local community instead of catering to economic models for tourists.” – Artnet
  
  Read more

• Provincetown And Its Performers Step Nervously Back Into Action

  11-08-2021 16:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The arts-dependent Cape Cod town got clobbered by last year’s lockdowns, but with vaccination rates up and caseloads down this summer, the scene joyfully geared up — until it was hit with a cluster of “breakthrough” COVID cases among people who’d had their shots. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Walter Yetnikoff, Hot-Tempered Head Of CBS Records, Dead At 87

  11-08-2021 16:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “(He was) as famous for guiding the megastar careers of Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Bob Dylan and Billy Joel as for his profane, sometimes uproarious feuds with Paul Simon, David Geffen and the entirety of Warner Bros. Records.” – Billboard
  
  Read more

• California Art Dealer Pleads Guilty To Peddling Forgeries

  11-08-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Jason Harrington, 38, fabricated paintings which he sold as work by the late artists Barkley Hendricks and Richard Hambleton (aka Shadowman) for a total of $1.1 million, money he must now repay. He faces up to 20 years in prison. – Artnet
  
  Read more

• “San Diego’s Answer To The Hollywood Bowl”

  11-08-2021 15:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Rady Shell was built to be the San Diego Symphony’s summer venue, but, COVID rates and the city’s weather being what they are, the orchestra will play there at least through the fall. Acoustically and audience-wise, it appears to be a success. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Patricia Hitchcock, Daughter Of And Actress For Alfred, Dead At 93

  11-08-2021 14:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  While she acted in other films, radio and TV before retiring to raise her children, she’s best known for key supporting roles in several of her father’s classics, including the heroine’s truth-telling sister in Strangers on a Train and Marion Crane’s pill-pushing co-worker in Psycho. – The Hollywood Reporter
  
  Read more

• Head Of One Of London’s Top Drama Schools Out Over Behavior Allegations

  11-08-2021 14:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sarah Frankcom has stepped down as director of LAMDA (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) as the school’s trustees investigate “complaints on some aspects of conduct and management style.” – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• Snapshot: Buddy Rich plays “Love for Sale”

  11-08-2021 13:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Buddy Rich and his big band perform Cole Porter’s “Love for Sale” on British TV in 1979:
  (This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)
  
  Read more

• Escher: Journey into Infinity review – meet the man who pictured the impossible

  11-08-2021 13:00
  
  The Dutch illustrator known for visually perplexing design is lauded as a great artist in an interesting if uncritical documentary narrated by Stephen FryDutch director Robin Lutz has put together a serviceable introduction to the work of legendary Dutch artist and illustrator MC Escher, whose name has become shorthand for a certain kind of brilliant illusion, infinite tessellation and visually perplexing design. He is probably most famous for an image he created, or at any rate popularised: the
  
  Read more

• Early Music America seeks next Executive Director

  11-08-2021 05:54 via feedproxy.google.com
  Early Music America is launching an immediate search to find a new Executive Director, to be led by Derek Tam, Board President, and key stakeholders from the EMA community. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, until September 7.The Executive Director is the senior operating officer of Early Music America (EMA), reporting to the Board of Directors. In collaboration with the Board, the Executive Director articulates the mission of EMA and is responsible for leading the organization
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!