Arts news

• Ann Hutchinson Guest, 103, Specialist In Dance Notation

  18-04-2022 23:14 via nytimes.com
  
  Hutchinson Guest was knowledgeable about a number of dance notation systems, which seek to preserve choreography as its creators intended rather than relying on memory or film. But she was particularly devoted to the one introduced by Rudolf Laban, which is now known as Labanotation. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Artists, Musicians Seek To Overturn California Law On Binding Contracts

  18-04-2022 22:31 via tinyurl.com
  The Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act would overhaul California’s Seven Year Statute, removing a damages provision that discourages artists from leaving record deals after seven years and curtailing the amount of time actors are held off the market without pay between seasons. – The Wall Street Journal
  
  Read more

• AI Is Getting Awfully Good At Writing. This Has Big Implications

  18-04-2022 21:44 via nytimes.com
  
  It turns out that with enough training data and sufficiently deep neural nets, large language models can display remarkable skill if you ask them not just to fill in the missing word, but also to continue on writing whole paragraphs in the style of the initial prompt. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Great Bookstores: The 130-Year-Old Pasadena Icon

  18-04-2022 21:01 via latimes.com
  
  By 1915, Vroman’s could count traveling dignitaries, engineers, scientists, men of finance and New York book editors as customers. Anticipating their requests, the store carried more than 30,000 titles of fiction and nonfiction and boasted the “largest selection of Bibles in Southern California.” – Los Angeles Times
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Here We Go Again — Is The Shroud Of Turin Real?

  18-04-2022 19:31 via theguardian.com
  
  This week sees the release of a new film, Who Can He Be?, in which David Rolfe argues that, far from the shroud being a definite dud, new discoveries in the past few years have again opened the question of its authenticity. – The Guardian
  
  Read more

• We Praise Creativity. But We Shy Away From It

  18-04-2022 18:44 via nytimes.com
  
  Research has found that we actually harbor an aversion to creators and creativity; subconsciously, we see creativity as noxious and disruptive, and as a recent study demonstrated, this bias can potentially discourage us from undertaking an innovative project or hiring a creative employee. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• The Netflix Of Theatre? An NYC Theatre Gives It A Try

  18-04-2022 18:01 via gothamist.com
  
  The pitch is to build something like Netflix or Spotify, where members pay an affordable monthly subscription fee in exchange for access to all the content they want. While there are a limited number of tickets per performance, members can sign up for any open spots and go to as many shows as they like. – Gothamist
  
  Read more

• Why Long Wharf Theatre Had To Change Its Business model

  18-04-2022 17:26 via newhavenbiz.com
  
  If Long Wharf remained, fundraising would be necessary for capital needs for a complex it did not own and that was not easily accessible to a disenfranchised community it wanted to engage. – New Haven Biz
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Be Careful Of Pump-Up Jams

  18-04-2022 17:00 via slate.com
  
  No, truly. Just look at Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos infamy. No, we can’t do anything and be anyone and go anywhere etc. Not even if our earbuds or headphones tell us so. – Slate
  
  Read more

• Ballerinas Are Athletes

  18-04-2022 16:30 via abc.net.au
  
  And so experts are helping them, along with athletes from other arenas entirely, learn to avoid injury. Aside from the art, the biggest difference: “There’s no other athlete who spends as many hours training.” – ABC (Australia)
  
  Read more

• How A Movie Is Helping Heal Generational Trauma

  18-04-2022 16:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The writers of Everything Everywhere All at Once wrote that the movie “was a dream about reconciling all of the contradictions, making sense of the largest questions, and imbuing meaning onto the dumbest, most profane parts of humanity.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• A Thirty Year Old Dispute About A Centuries Old Fresco Shows No Signs Of Waning

  18-04-2022 15:45 via theguardian.com
  
  An Italian court says the Piero della Francesca work must be returned to the hilltop church where it was painted in 1460. The mayor of the town says no way in hell is it going to live among 3,000 graves. – The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• Vladimir Sorokin Says Russian Writers Must Fight Back Against Totalitarianism

  18-04-2022 15:30 via nytimes.com
  
  Sorokin: “A Russian writer has two options: Either you are afraid, or you write. … I write.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Comedians Like Bill Maher And Dave Chappelle Are Obsessed With Their Haters

  18-04-2022 15:15 via time.com
  
  And, quite frankly, it’s ruining their comedy. “That isn’t just bad for public discourse—it’s bad for a mainstream comedy landscape that too rarely spotlights the many voices doing subtler, gentler, weirder, or more experimental work.” – Time
  
  Read more

• The Weight Of Confederacy Statue Removal Rests On One Company’s Shoulders

  18-04-2022 15:00 via nytimes.com
  
  Devon Henry “has emerged as the go-to statue remover not only for [Richmond], but for all of Virginia and other parts of the South.” And there’s a high price to pay, on a personal level. – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• A Unifying Theory Of The Musical One-Hit Wonder

  18-04-2022 14:45 via theatlantic.com
  
  Here’s the deal: “Being very different from the mainstream is really, really bad for your likelihood of initially making a hit when you’re not well known. But once you have a hit, novelty suddenly becomes a huge asset that is likely to sustain your success.” – The Atlantic
  
  Read more

• After Francis Bacon’s Friend Has A Row With The Tate, He’s Sending The Priceless Art To France

  18-04-2022 14:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Barry Joule “said he is so frustrated by the Tate’s failure to exhibit an earlier donation of the artist’s work that he has cancelled plans to donate hundreds more items to the gallery.” – The Observer (UK)
  
  Read more

• Meet The Stressed Out Gig Workers Getting Paid Badly To Make A Ton Of NFTs

  18-04-2022 14:15 via vice.com
  
  What a shock: NFT art is also made by low-paid young gig workers. That’s so pandemic era. – Vice
  
  Read more

• A Story About The Banning Of The Book Persepolis Has Led To Another Graphic Novel About The Ban

  18-04-2022 14:00 via bookriot.com
  
  Chicago Public Schools quietly banned and removed the famous graphic novel in 2013. In 2023, a graphic novel will be published that “follows a group of Chicago high school students who fight back against the attempts at censorship in their own school.” – Book Riot
  
  Read more

• When Disney Collides With Reality

  18-04-2022 13:45 via nytimes.com
  
  The lash, backlash, and backlash to the backlash around Florida’s repugnant “Don’t Say Gay” bill is stressing the Mouse out. And “all of this comes at a perilous time for Disney, which is racing to remake itself as a streaming titan.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• Merle Oberon’s Big Secret

  18-04-2022 13:30 via bbc.com
  
  In racist Hollywood, Oberon kept her Sinhalese and Maori heritage quiet. “Oberon’s mother Charlotte Selby, who had darker skin, followed her as her maid.” – BBC
  
  Read more

• Does Nostalgia Get In The Way Of Music Venue Innovation?

  18-04-2022 13:15 via theguardian.com
  
  That innovation might not be what music lovers expect. “The picture for live music in Britain is beyond bleak, but it’s more complex than it can at first appear: it’s not just the fault of the usual culprits such as greedy landlords, property developers and moaning neighbours”. – The Guardian (UK)
  
  Read more

• Broadway Decides To Drop Vaccine Checks, But Not Mask Mandates

  18-04-2022 13:00 via nytimes.com
  
  The theatre owners “announced the decision as many governments and businesses nationwide have been loosening restrictions, but with cases rising in New York City and the virus forcing several Broadway shows to cancel performances in recent days.” – The New York Times
  
  Read more

• ‘This is rarely taught’: an exhibition examining African-Atlantic history

  18-04-2022 08:19
  
  A landmark exhibition, featuring artists including Hank Willis Thomas and Kara Walker, explores the slave trade and the African diaspora’s cultural legacyEarlier that day she had presided over the US Senate confirmation of the supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who would mark the occasion by quoting poetry: “I am the dream and the hope of the slave.”Then, in the evening, Vice-President Kamala Harris headed to the National Gallery of Art in Washington for a reception c
  
  Read more

Follow @ArtsUK1 on Twitter!