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• First Time: UK Audiences For Streaming Beat Traditional TV

  06-10-2021 22:28 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Out of almost a thousand 18-70 year olds who watch at least 5 hours of television per week, more are watching via streaming platforms than traditional pay-TV services, according to research conducted by the National Research Group. – Variety
  
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• Today’s “Natural” Acoustics Are Based Theatre Experiments in 18th Century Paris

  06-10-2021 22:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  When Hollywood technicians debated how to make movies sound natural, they were unwittingly following a trail blazed by 18th-century architects, who spent decades working out the acoustic conventions of modern theatres. – Aeon
  
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• NYT Jazz And Classical Critics Go Back And Forth Over Met Opera’s “Fire Shut Up In My Bones”

  06-10-2021 21:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Though this opera isn’t Terence Blanchard’s first work to qualify as contemporary classical, he’s best known as a jazz drummer and film score composer. So the paper’s contemporary classical maven, Seth Colter Walls, and jazz writer Giovanni Russonello went to see the piece together. – The New York Times
  
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• Nigel Kennedy: Liberace Of The Violin Or Latter-Day Paganini? Or…

  06-10-2021 21:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Paganini may be a better comparison: a restless figure of astonishing ability, despised by (some) as a circus performer and accused by others of selling his soul to the devil. Kennedy seems similarly trapped, … with a gift for embarrassing nearly everyone nearly all the time.” – London Review of Books
  
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• San Jose Theatre Posts All-White Cast, Apologizes, Then Cancels

  06-10-2021 20:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  In attempting to defend itself, San Jose Playhousemade more perceived mistakes, including posting, then deleting, a note that was meant to be private; as well as by recasting one actor with multiple others. That only further inflamed opposition. – San Francisco Chronicle
  
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• Director Of New Version Of “Scenes From A Marriage” Explains Why He Flipped The Genders

  06-10-2021 20:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “One of the problems that I had when I started working is that I couldn’t live with Johan. … And whenever I tried to make him nicer, it just didn’t work. So I just read the parts as the opposite gender, and suddenly something started to happen.” – Salon
  
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• Gotta Love How This Year’s Documenta Artists Were Announced

  06-10-2021 19:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  In Germany on Friday, October 1, you might have picked up a copy of Asphalt—a publication that is sold to benefit poor and people struggling with homelessness. Within its pages, the art collective ruangrupa announced their artist list for the 2022 edition of Documenta. – Artnet
  
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• Improv Comedy As The Vanguard Of Socialism?

  06-10-2021 19:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “More than a year and a half into the pandemic, we’ve come to expect the unexpected. Perhaps the socialist revolution can start in an improv community? Enter the Comedy Co-op, a planned theater in the works by more than 30 local comedians.” – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• What’s Up With The Movie Museum’s Giant Orb? (Death Star?)

  06-10-2021 18:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A big glass-and-steel ball is not vanishing into the mist. It sits there and it’s shiny and hard and you have to pay to get in. Doesn’t it also defy the whole point of a museum of movies, which is to take this vaporous art and give it substance and permanence? – Curbed
  
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• ‘A friend tells me he is burning his paintings’: Afghan artists in Australia speak on 20 years of war

  06-10-2021 18:30
  
  A new artistic event series plans to bring a reflective and critical perspective to 20 years of conflict in AfghanistanA collaborative project between Australian and Afghan artists and journalists will examine the legacy of 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan through a series of art exhibitions and multi-disciplinary events over the next 12 months.The Twenty Years project will launch on Thursday, with a public forum across two evenings featuring Afghan musicians, poets, journalists and activists
  
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• Hervé Télémaque review – ‘His work is just waiting for some pretentious fool to decode it’

  06-10-2021 18:06
  
  Serpentine Gallery, London
  From military operations to the death of André Breton, the Parisian artist loved to paint seismic events. But it’s odd and themeless, proving nothing dates more badly than pop artYou can’t accuse the Serpentine of relentlessly reciting liberal orthodoxies. One of the biggest paintings in its retrospective of work by Hervé Télémaque celebrates conservative Jacques Chirac’s landslide victory in the 2002 French presidential el
  
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• Biden Makes Historic Picks For New Heads Of NEA And NEH

  06-10-2021 18:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  Both selections are historic: Lowe will be the first Native American nominated to lead the federal humanities agency and Jackson will be the first African American and Mexican American nominated to run the arts endowment. – Washington Post
  
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• After COVID: NYC Artists Testify About The State Of Things

  06-10-2021 17:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “The illusion of reopening is that we’re back where we were in February of 2020. The reality is that in the meantime, there’s been incredible damage that has happened.” – New York Theatre
  
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• Get M.A.D.D. — This Chicago Company Is Transforming Tap Dance

  06-10-2021 17:03 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Short for ‘Making a Difference Dancing Rhythms,’ the tap dance company marks its 20th official season this year. … Today, M.A.D.D. Rhythms remains deeply committed to improvisation, circling up to jam every time the dancers step onto the wood.” – Dance Magazine
  
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• How The Booker Prize Became Such A Big Deal

  06-10-2021 16:32 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Charlotte Higgins: “It was by such steps” as well-timed leaks and carefully fanned disagreements “that the Booker became not just a book prize, but a heady tangle of arguments, controversy and speculation: a cultural institution.” – The Guardian
  
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• Veteran New York Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty To Trafficking In Looted Objects

  06-10-2021 16:04 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Nancy Wiener, 66, whose mother had also been a well-known expert in the field, acknowledged Thursday that she had taken possession of items that showed possible signs of looting … and presented them for sale with false statements of provenance.” – The New York Times
  
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• Playwright Jeremy O. Harris Withdraws “Slave Play” From L.A. Run

  06-10-2021 15:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The 12-time-Tony-nominated play was to open in February at the Center Theater Group’s Mark Taper Forum. But the CTG has only one play by a woman in its entire season; in response, Harris suggests filling his slot a work by a female playwright. – Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
  
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• France’s Leading Literary Award Finally Makes Nepotism Against The Rules

  06-10-2021 15:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Following this year’s conflict-of-interest scandal (not the first), administrators of the Prix Goncourt have declared that any book by a family member or unmarried lover of a juror is ineligible and that jurors may not publish reviews of any semifinalist or finalist title. – Deutsche Welle
  
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• Two Of Shanghai’s Major Museums Close Without Explanation

  06-10-2021 14:33 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Last week the Long Museum West Bund shut for “facility maintenance,” though it reopened two days later. Then the Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum announced, with no reason given, that it would close indefinitely starting October 1, normally the start of a busy holiday week. – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Gramophone Awards 2021: “Peter Grimes” Is Recording Of The Year, Minnesota Is Orchestra Of The Year

  06-10-2021 14:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The Chandos release of Britten’s opera stars Stuart Skelton with Edward Gardner conducting the Bergen Philharmonic; the Minnesota Orchestra took honors in its final season under Osmo Vänskä. Violinist James Ehnes is Artist of the Year; Young Artist of the Year is soprano Fatma Said. – Gramophone
  
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• ‘High-end Hermès yak wool blankets covered in concrete’ – Alvaro Barrington review

  06-10-2021 11:34
  
  South London Gallery
  Barrington’s Spider the Pig, Pig the Spider show is a collision of materials, a reflection of the textures, complexities and inequalities of the modern worldHanging high on the walls above our heads, paintings of clouds encircle the South London Gallery. There’s weather coming in, growing more and more troubled as we look. Alvaro Barrington has used concrete to paint the clouds, scuffed and trowelled on to gorgeously dyed, high-end Hermès yak wool blankets
  
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• Not Charity

  06-10-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  One of the more pernicious ideas used to denigrate community engagement is the claim that it’s “just charity work.” This implies that any community not already participating in the arts has no resources to bring to the table. That’s preposterous. Every community has cultural resources and many, if not most, have financial resources that can be applied toward things it feels are truly important. Significant self-funded philanthropic work is being done in Black communities
  
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• ‘We want dignity’: the vanishing craft of Kashmir’s papier-mache artists

  06-10-2021 07:00
  
  Award-winning artist Maqbool Jan is one of a handful still practising the ancient artform, but without government help he fears it could be lostKashmir’s ancient papier-mache artworks are famous throughout the world. The art form is a staple of the luxury ornamental market, and has a rich and long cultural lineage. It is closely associated with the advent of Islam in Kashmir, and depicts scenes from the Mughal court, Arabic verses from the Qu’ran, Persian poetry, as well as Kashmir&r
  
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• ‘I sculpt the air’ – what does scent artist Anicka Yi have in store for Tate’s Turbine Hall?

  06-10-2021 07:00
  
  She has made art out of smells, ants, bacteria and spit. So what is the US artist about to unveil for her Turbine Hall commission? Yi, who was once a vagabond in London, takes us on an olfactory odysseyAnicka Yi offers me some beetroot crisps. These, along with carrot crisps, are her breakfast, both free of oil and salt. “I can’t eat greens, dairy, sugar, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, nightshades, spice, alcohol – nothing,” the Korean American conceptual artist explains. &
  
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• ‘I sculpt the air’ – does scent artist Anicka Yi plan to make Tate’s Turbine Hall smell like vaginas?

  06-10-2021 07:00
  
  She has made art out of smells, ants, bacteria, spit and vaginal swabs. So what is the US artist about to unveil for her Turbine Hall commission? Yi, who was once a vagabond in London, takes us on an olfactory odysseyAnicka Yi offers me some beetroot crisps. These, along with carrot crisps, are her breakfast, both free of oil and salt. “I can’t eat greens, dairy, sugar, legumes, beans, nuts, seeds, nightshades, spice, alcohol – nothing,” the Korean American conceptual art
  
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• The Critical Question (Post-COVID)

  06-10-2021 00:01 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Playwright Oscar Wilde once warned an age without criticism is “an age that possesses no art at all.” He never could have imagined an age when the arts are eager for resurgence, but there are few critical voices to herald their return. – CanvasCLE
  
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