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• Inside The Transformation Of Cameron Crowe’s “Almost Famous” From Movie To Stage

  07-10-2022 23:31 via vanityfair.com
  Derailed by COVID-19 for two years, Almost Famous is set to open on Broadway at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in November. – Vanity Fair
  
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• Teodor Currentzis Is A Highly Original Conductor. Can His Career Survive Russian Ties?

  07-10-2022 23:02 via van-magazine.com
  Greek-Russian conductor Teodor Currentzis was a polarizing figure even before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some considered him classical music’s biggest charlatan. Others thought he was the only one who could save the field. But that discussion always focused more on his appearance than on music. – Van
  
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• Toradze Memorial Concert

  07-10-2022 22:34 via artsjournal.com
  The recent Alexander Toradze Memorial Concert, featuring more than a dozen pianists, is now accessible online here. 
  In addition to
  
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• Study: Younger Workers More Likely To Return To Offices If There’s Art There

  07-10-2022 22:32 via news.artnet.com
  Among the respondents in the youngest age bracket (18–29), 63 percent of them preferred working in the office to working at home. This went up to 75 percent among those who work in offices that have a lot art. – Artnet
  
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• What, Then, Should Be The Role Of Arts In University Education?

  07-10-2022 22:01 via artshub.com.au
  The role of the university is not limited to curricula specific engagement, it also lies in the ability to embed arts and culture in everything it does; to demonstrate leadership, advocate on behalf of the sector, initiate and drive critical civil debate, engage arts and culture as the fabric of social cohesion. – ArtsHub
  
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• Why Does America’s Midwest Have So Many Orchestras?

  07-10-2022 21:32 via washingtonpost.com
  Midwest states hosted 27 percent of U.S. orchestra performances, even though they were home to only 19 percent of concerts overall. The Midwest doesn’t necessarily have more orchestras than the rest of the country, but it does seem to have bigger and more active ones. – Washington Post
  
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• Multicultural Japanese Literature (Yes, There’s Such A Thing)

  07-10-2022 21:03 via metropolisjapan.com
  “Understanding whether or not Japanese literature is changing also requires defining ‘Japanese literature,’ and defining the ‘Japanese’ part of the term is challenging enough. Does writing in other languages by diaspora Japanese qualify? Or writing by non-ethnically Japanese writers living in Japan in Japanese, or other languages?” – Metropolis (Japan)
  
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• ‘I’m proud of us in the picture’: a family portrait captures laughter in lockdown

  07-10-2022 21:00
  In a new series sharing stories about the artwork in Australian homes, Alice Gage shows the painting she commissioned for her husband’s birthday Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAlice Gage’s family portrait originated as an idea to celebrate family life post-lockdown.“Like all families, we went through a lot during Covid – when the pandemic started our daughter was three, and our son was only five months old, so we basically spent his first two years in our back
  
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• The Rise Of “Sleep Tourism”

  07-10-2022 20:30 via cnn.com
  “People often associate travel with decadent meals, extending their bed times, the attractions and the things you do while you’re traveling, really almost at the cost of sleep. Now, I think there’s just been a huge seismic shift in our collective awareness and prioritization on wellness and well being.” – CNN
  
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• Born to Pasta

  07-10-2022 20:17 via artsjournal.com
  I’ve been absent and errant, for many reasons, but global tumult has sifted through everything I am. The other day, I admitted to a friend who masters a special bookshop — which, if forever ambered, could be an Ashurbanipal or Alexandria for our rickety future — that my daily reliance on cooking as thinking, hand-ballet, and even small achievement was waning, and I wanted to end my relationship.
  He stopped, struck. As we spoke, he had been sorting books and ephemera in his stor
  
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• How Jon Stewart’s Attempt To Fix TV Journalism Led To The Triumph Of His Nemesis, Tucker Carlson

  07-10-2022 20:02 via artsjournal.com
  “The problem was that he misunderstood what made the monolithic mass media world a financial success. He was convinced that you could keep all the business structures basically the same, and just replace the media’s phony reality with an authentic one.” – The New Atlantis
  
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• Story Time: How To Watch Dance

  07-10-2022 19:32 via theguardian.com
  “Be sure to read the programme beforehand” is critic’s shorthand for a very confusing story. But Scottish Ballet founder Peter Darrell used to say that if you have to read the programme, a ballet has failed in its job. – The Guardian
  
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• The Podcaster Reclaiming Brazil’s Long-Suppressed Black History

  07-10-2022 19:04 via theguardian.com
  Journalist Tiago Rogero has created three sets of podcasts — Negra Voz (Black Voice), Vidas Negras (Black Lives), and The Querino Project (Brazil’s equivalent of The 1619 Project) — celebrating the “people, struggles and achievements that had been airbrushed from the history of a country that is more than 50% Black.” – The Guardian
  
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• Not About The Labels: Music History As A Fluid Story

  07-10-2022 18:29 via theimaginativeconservative.org
  The more you study the history of music, you realize that composers were not marching in lockstep in the interest of fulfilling a linear narrative prescribed by music historians. – The Imaginative Conservative
  
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• The Conundrum Of Preservation Hall, The New Orleans Jazz Mecca

  07-10-2022 18:01 via nytimes.com
  “It is a white-owned and white-run institution with a self-described mission to ‘preserve, protect and perpetuate’ one of the nation’s greatest Black cultural legacies. … A place where all the knotty questions of race and culture … that face New Orleans and all of America are on blaring display.” – The New York Times Magazine
  
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• Kamala Ibrahim Ishag review – memory maps and rumours of djinns from mystical Sudanese painter

  07-10-2022 17:56
  Serpentine South Gallery, London
  Inspired by William Blake and Francis Bacon, Ishag traces winding webs of families and friendships with depictions of plants, neighbourhoods and – her main subject – womenIn her painting Bait al-Mal, Kamala Ibrahim Ishag presents us with the neighbourhood in Khartoum where she grew up during the 1940s and 50s. This large, mostly dusky canvas presents us with clusters of figures in a kind of diagram of their connections and interrelatedness. Instead of
  
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• Brian Catling obituary

  07-10-2022 17:36
  Performance artist and fantasy writer whose gothic imagination found inspiration in the ‘wrongness of actions’For 16 nights, for six hours each night, in October 2005, visitors to Matt’s Gallery in east London found Brian Catling stalking a stage set of dark ecclesiastical wood. The artist’s behaviour was erratic and volatile: he paced up and down at speed; he messed around with an animal’s jawbone; he would urinate from a constructed pulpit, or don a wooden dunce&r
  
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• The Movie Tar: Conductor-As-Perp

  07-10-2022 17:31 via slate.com
  We identify with Tár’s admirers, both because we feel empathy for her calculating misuse of them and because, like them, we can’t stop wanting her to really be everything she presents herself as: the uncompromising artist, the intellectually generous mentor, the loving parent and devoted spouse. – Slate
  
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• Opera Australia’s Artistic Director Is Leaving A Year Ahead Of Schedule

  07-10-2022 17:03 via theguardian.com
  “Within a week of former Australian Consumer and Competition Commission chair Rod Sims (becoming board chairman) at Opera Australia, … its artistic director of 13 years, Lyndon Terracini, … (is) leaving the company next Friday, 14 October.” – The Guardian
  
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• A Small Army Of Citizen Detectives Is Helping Locate Looted South Asian Temple Art

  07-10-2022 16:35 via csmonitor.com
  “Collaborating over Facebook groups, (these) heritage enthusiasts spend their spare time scouring virtual museum catalogs and auction listings to identify stolen items, as well as urging authorities to hold the art world accountable.” – The Christian Science Monitor
  
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• Can Turning An Old KKK Meeting Hall Into An Arts Center Bring Healing To Its Community?  Fort Worth Will Find Out

  07-10-2022 16:02 via theartnewspaper.com
  “The Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing will house spaces for activities including performances, exhibitions, workshops and community meetings. … As its name suggests, its founders envision it as a place that will not only inspire but also carry reparative power.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• Soheila Sokhanvari: Rebel Rebel review – vivacious paintings of liberated Iranian womanhood

  07-10-2022 15:41
  Barbican Curve, London
  As protests against head coverings once again shake Iran, there is a disturbing deja vu to discovering what was done to many of these defiant womenWhen Ayatollah Khomeini’s theocratic regime took power in Iran 43 years ago, film-maker Kobra Saeedi wouldn’t toe the line. She took part in a protest on International Women’s Day 1979 against the introduction of compulsory hijab – and brought her camera. She was jailed, confined for years in mental insti
  
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• Dan Sullivan, Longtime Theater Critic For The L.A. Times, Is Dead At 87

  07-10-2022 15:34 via latimes.com
  “The Los Angeles Times theater critic from 1969 until 1991, Sullivan earlier worked at St. Paul’s Pioneer Press, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and The New York Times. As director of the Eugene O’Neill National Critics Institute, he also mentored many of the nation’s current theater critics.” – Los Angeles Times
  
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• Second City To Open A Branch In Brooklyn

  07-10-2022 15:01 via nytimes.com
  “The improv stage and training center, based in Chicago since 1959, announced on Thursday that it would open a location in New York City for the first time.”  The theater and classroom facility will begin operating next summer in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. – The New York Times
  
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• Sinking? Why, No, Our Building Isn’t Sinking, Says Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

  07-10-2022 14:33 via theartnewspaper.com
  “The news site Bloomberg reported last month that this summer’s drought … has created a fungus that is eating away at the Amsterdam museum’s wooden foundations. A spokesperson said the museum ‘has not sunk a millimetre’.” – The Art Newspaper
  
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• ‘A crazy story’: why a Chinese vase valued at €2,000 sold for €8m

  07-10-2022 14:23
  French auction house tells of build-up to bidding war that led to an expert losing his job and a seller being left ‘traumatised’In the 41 years of wielding the gavel at his auction house a stone’s throw from the royal chateau at Fontainebleau, Jean-Pierre Osenat has never seen anything like it.“This is a crazy story,” he said. “Quite extraordinary.” Continue reading...
  
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• Ten Of The Bolshoi’s Star Dancers Get Suspended For Doing A Gala In Uzbekistan (Really?)

  07-10-2022 14:05 via gramilano.com
  They missed no performances in Moscow to do the gig, and while the official reasons given for the suspension were the gala’s marketing (not the dancers’ responsibility) and not having asked permission (it’s not exactly credible that the boss didn’t know).  So what’s the real reason? – Gramilano (Milan)
  
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• Artist of ‘loneliness’ Edward Hopper depended on his wife, says film-maker

  07-10-2022 13:29
  Role of Josephine Nivison in US realist’s work has been overlooked, says director of forthcoming documentary about themDuring the long months of Covid lockdowns, the artist most often used to illustrate articles about people isolated in their homes or devoid of social contact was the American realist painter Edward Hopper.His images of people gazing out of a window or sitting alone in a diner have frequently been interpreted as depictions of loneliness. But Hopper pushed back, saying solit
  
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• The Turbine Hall is back, Cerith Wyn Evans goes home and an Egyptian stone speaks – the week in art

  07-10-2022 13:00
  Radical Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña takes over the Turbine, an international star returns to his Welsh roots and The British Museum unlocks hieroglyphic secrets – all in your weekly dispatchHieroglyphs: Unlocking Ancient Egypt
  The Rosetta Stone is at the heart of a blockbuster journey into the sands of time.
  • British Museum, London, 13 October until 19 February. Continue reading...
  
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• Lord Elgin paid no British customs tax on Parthenon marbles, letters suggest

  07-10-2022 13:00
  Documents from early 19th century show foreign secretary helped Elgin import huge shipments of sculpturesLord Elgin imported the Parthenon marbles into Britain without paying customs tax after the foreign secretary intervened on his behalf, newly discovered letters suggest.The documents, dating from the early 19th century, show that after he controversially stripped them from the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens, Elgin was helped to bring huge shipments of the sculptures to Britain by the senio
  
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• Lord Elgin paid no British customs tax on Parthenon marbles, letters reveal

  07-10-2022 13:00
  Documents from early 19th century show foreign secretary helped Elgin import huge shipments of sculpturesLord Elgin imported the Parthenon marbles into Britain without paying customs tax after the foreign secretary intervened on his behalf, newly discovered letters reveal.The documents, dating from the early 19th century, show that after he controversially stripped them from the frieze of the Parthenon in Athens, Elgin was helped to bring huge shipments of the sculptures to Britain by the senior
  
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• ‘Mythic figure’: William Robinson, his friend Quentin Bryce and the true guiding force behind his art

  07-10-2022 01:05
  Featuring more than 50 of his works, Love in Life & Art is a homage to Robinson and his late wife Shirley’s ‘exceptional union’ and the role she played in his artGet our free news app, morning email briefing or daily news podcastIn his studio at the foothills of Mt Coot-tha on a bend of the Ithaca Creek in Brisbane’s leafy western suburbs, William Robinson points to a painting that features his lifelong partner, Shirley.At first glance, though, his late wife is nowher
  
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