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Friday, May 17, 2013

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Boston Symphony Appoints New Music Director
"Andris Nelsons, 34, has been music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain since 2008. He made his debut with the Boston Symphony in 2011, replacing Mr. Levine." The New York Times 05/16/13
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Blockbusters Lining Up To Be Flops "Of the expensive action and animated movies, we've never had a summer where more than nine did well, and often it's fewer. This summer you've got 17 blockbusters coming out between May and July, 19 if you add August. Is this going to be by far the biggest summer box office in history? Maybe, if they're all great movies, but it's not likely." The New York Times 05/17/13
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Cairo - In Need Of Artistic Revitalization "It's a city of a lot of things hidden and because of neglect and a general feeling of apathy over the last 50 years of military rule and dictatorship and oppression and a general feeling of not valuing your own self as individuals and also of society," he says. "So the city is abandoned." NPR 05/16/13
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Why Is China Copying Western Icons, Towns, Cities? Hallstatt, Austria, is in China. So is the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, Christ the Redeemer, and a soon-to-be-completed Manhattan. There are others, too, and it's all part of this weird (at least to us Westerners, or this one Westerner who is writing this) proliferation of what are being called "copy towns." Pacific Standard 05/16/13
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Raid On Prominent Manhattan Gallery "As newspaper photographers gathered around, agents hauled away computers and boxes of documents as part of a sweeping investigation involving the gallery's owner, Hillel Nahmad, 34, who is known as Helly and is accused along with several others of playing leadership roles in a $100 million gambling and money-laundering network with connections to Russian organized-crime figures." The New York Times 05/17/13
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music
3D Printer Makes Old Fashioned Records Amanda "Ghassei has developed a technique to make records using a laser cutter, in a bid to make the technology more accessible, and has cut records out of acrylic, wood and paper." Journal of Music 05/13/13
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Nearly Half A Billion Dollars: Christie's Holds Richest Art Auction In History "Record prices for 12 contemporary artists including Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein and Jean-Michel Basquiat made history on Wednesday night. The sale of postwar and contemporary art at Christie's in Rockefeller Center totaled $495 million, the highest sales figure at any art auction." The New York Times 05/16/13
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publishing
Amazon Pushing Boundaries To Evade UK Taxes: Investigation "MPs are ready to haul Amazon back to parliament to answer new questions about its tax status in Britain after a Guardian investigation ... found Amazon pushing definitions close to breaking point; and tax authorities unable, or unwilling, to prevent the imposition of aggressive tax avoidance structures." The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
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Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities "Buoyed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's decision this month to return two stolen statues, Cambodia is asking other museums to examine any Khmer antiquities they acquired after 1970, when a 20-year period of civil war and genocide gave thieves free range to loot the country's ancient temples." The New York Times 05/16/13
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Unknown Dalí Watercolors Come To Light "At a glance they seem like familiar 19th-century botanical lithographs, the type you see on endless hotel room walls. But look closer and the plum appears to be running away, the raspberries look embarrassed and the grapefruit ... well, it's enough to make the viewer blush." The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
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issues
Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees "The Kennedy Center hopes to bring greater transparency to a selection process that has been largely opaque in past years. Last year, some national Hispanic advocacy groups criticized the Honors' selection process after noting that only two of the 186 honorees since 1978 were Hispanic." The Washington Post 05/16/13
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people
Jacqueline Brooks, 82, Classical Stage Actress And Teacher "[She] appeared in films and on television but ... won her widest acclaim on the stage in New York and around the country, performing the work of Shakespeare, Molière, Pirandello, Edward Albee and other dramatists over a 60-year career." The New York Times 05/13/13
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music
Fired Rochester Phil Music Director Takes Another Rochester Post "Arild Remmereit has been named artistic director of the Rochester Chamber Orchestra for next season. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra board, in a controversial move, fired Remmereit in January from his position as music director." The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 05/16/13
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publishing
Michigan School Declines To Ban Anne Frank's Diary For Being 'Pornographic' Northville, Michigan's "assistant superintendent for instructional services Robert Behnke wrote a letter to the community regarding the school's decision, stating that the committee worried that removing the book would constitute as censorship." New York Daily News 05/13/13
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US E-Book Sales Nearly Doubled In 2012 "The total revenue generated by e-book sales in the U.S. in 2012 was $3.04 billion, a 44.2% increase over the year before. ... And the increase in e-book sales did not take a bite out of print books - at least, not in the aggregate. Print sales were $12 billion in 2012; they were $12 billion in 2011, too." Los Angeles Times 05/15/13
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theatre
Does Britain Need Any More Theatres? Will new playhouses create new activity and help regenerate their neighborhoods and towns? Will they just be yet more parties in the never-ending scramble for public and private funding? Lyn Gardner starts the discussion. The Guardian (UK) 05/16/13
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Interpol On The Lookout For Qaddafi Art Holdings "The UK government has confirmed that art is likely to be among the items seized as part of a drive to recover billions of dollars worth of assets siphoned off by the Qaddafi family during four decades in power." The late dictator's son Saif al-Islam "was known to be a keen art collector and reportedly active on the Islamic art circuit." The Art Newspaper 05/16/13
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On The Art Market As An Arbiter Of Quality Christopher Knight: "So the art market is a judge of quality, just like Mom and cousin Fred are, but hardly the best judge. There's a simpler explanation as to why collectors and dealers aren't the ones deciding who, finally, are the important artists. (Nor, for that matter, do curators, critics or the general public.) It's because artists do." Los Angeles Times 05/16/13
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ideas
Artificial Intelligence Computers Could Begin Taking Over For Lawyers "Software tools are already important in the legal world, especially for big cases like company mergers, where algorithms help people comb through vast piles of documents. But the application of artificial intelligence to the law promises to go beyond document mining. It aims to let automated systems handle arguments where the logic is not clear." New Scientist 05/17/13
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dance
Theatre Industry Views Choreographers As 'Intellectually Inferior', Complains Choreographer Javier de Frutos: "The enjoyment in finding a partner with whom we [choreographers] can have a dialogue ends very much the minute you cross the door to the outside world because in this hierarchy you [choreographers] are not equals. Theatres do not consider you equals and the payment is not equal." The Stage (UK) 05/15/13
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media
Disney Yanks Glammed-Up Brave Heroine Following Backlash "After facing criticism for its redesign of Brave's Merida - including by Brenda Chapman, the former director of the film - Disney has apparently pulled the new look of the character from its princess website." The Hollywood Reporter 05/15/13
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people
Ai Weiwei Videotapes A Riot On Mother's Day The artist and his brother were walking to meet their mother at a restaurant when "they saw a commotion ahead of them. On the ground were overturned tables. There were people shouting and throwing chairs and waving sticks, Mr. Ai said. He got out his cell phone and began recording the scene." The New York Times 05/16/13
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people
Young German Leftists March On Barbie's Dream House Says one group leader: "It would be a huge danger for capitalism if working men and women were united, so one of the best ways to divide and conquer the workers is by enabling men to over-sexualize women and by preoccupying women with sexualizing themselves. This is why we need to oppose Barbie." The Wall Street Journal 05/17/13
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publishing
Would You Want To Be Friends With Humbert Humbert? On Literary Characters' Likeability "[Inspired by Claire Messud's recent outburst,] we surveyed a group of novelists - Donald Antrim, Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Franzen, Rivka Galchen, and Tessa Hadley - asking them how often the question of likeability has been posed about their characters ... and why this persists as a criteria for so many readers." The New Yorker 05/16/13
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issues
Broadway Vet Named President Of Lincoln Center "Jed Bernstein, who for more than a decade led the Broadway League, the industry's national trade association, and has produced Broadway shows himself, was named on Wednesday as the successor to Reynold Levy, who is stepping down in January after 11 years as Lincoln Center's president." The New York Times 05/15/13
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issues
Australia Council Gets New Chief "Tony Grybowski is well known to the industry from his role as executive director of the council's Major Performing Arts Board since 2007. Before that he was an executive with several classical music organisations and with Arts Victoria." The Australian 05/16/13
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dance
I'm Sorry For The Dance World "So on behalf of the dance world, permit me to apologize for the mess you're entering into. It's insane. But it's *incredibly* exciting. The world you thought you were entering into is long dead, and none of the old (anti-intellectual, super-sexist, super-classist and SUPER-racist) rules of dance history need hold true for you." DanceUSA 05/16/13
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issues
Patti Smith To Young Artists: Don't Come To New York "New York has closed itself off to the young and the struggling. But there are other cities. Detroit. Poughkeepsie... New York City has been taken away from you... So my advice is: Find a new city." Vanishing New York 05/14/13
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media
TV Crack - How Producers Make Their New Shows Addictive "Talk to the people behind Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and so on, and it soon becomes clear that they've designed these shows to be more bingeable--more propulsive and page-turning--than anything the networks ever pushed on us in the past. How We Watch may be changing. But it's changing What We Watch as well." The Daily Beast 05/15/13
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theatre
Audience Member Takes Cellphone Use During Performance Into His Own Hands (Literally) "I asked her whether I had missed something during the very pointed announcements to please turn off your phones, perhaps a special exemption granted for her. She suggested that I should mind my own business." National Review 05/15/13
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music
Minnesota Orchestra Contract Talks Unlikely "The lack of transparency from management is troubling to the Musicians, the public, and Minnesota's legislative auditor, Basic artistic and financial information about the Orchestra is being withheld to seemingly to stall negotiations." MPR 05/15/13
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Boston Symphony Appoints New Music Director "Andris Nelsons, 34, has been music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Britain since 2008. He made his debut with the Boston Symphony in 2011, replacing Mr. Levine." The New York Times 05/16/13
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publishing
Amazon Sees Its First-Ever Strike, In Germany "Employees at two huge distribution warehouses, in Bad Hersfeld and Leipzig, launched the one-day strike, the giant services sector union Ver.di said. Ver.di is demanding that Amazon's 9,000 workers in Germany be paid according to a wage deal in place for the retail and mail-order industries." The Guardian (UK) 05/14/13
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Cairo - In Need Of Artistic Revitalization - NPR 05/16/13
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Kennedy Center Changes Selection Process For Honorees - The Washington Post 05/16/13
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Broadway Vet Named President Of Lincoln Center - The New York Times 05/15/13
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Blockbusters Lining Up To Be Flops - The New York Times 05/17/13
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Disney Yanks Glammed-Up Brave Heroine Following Backlash - The Hollywood Reporter 05/15/13
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music
3D Printer Makes Old Fashioned Records - Journal of Music 05/13/13
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Fired Rochester Phil Music Director Takes Another Rochester Post - The Democrat & Chronicle (Rochester, NY) 05/16/13
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Jacqueline Brooks, 82, Classical Stage Actress And Teacher - The New York Times 05/13/13
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Ai Weiwei Videotapes A Riot On Mother's Day - The New York Times 05/16/13
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Young German Leftists March On Barbie's Dream House - The Wall Street Journal 05/17/13
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Amazon Pushing Boundaries To Evade UK Taxes: Investigation - The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
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Michigan School Declines To Ban Anne Frank's Diary For Being 'Pornographic' - New York Daily News 05/13/13
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US E-Book Sales Nearly Doubled In 2012 - Los Angeles Times 05/15/13
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Would You Want To Be Friends With Humbert Humbert? On Literary Characters' Likeability - The New Yorker 05/16/13
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Does Britain Need Any More Theatres? - The Guardian (UK) 05/16/13
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Why Is China Copying Western Icons, Towns, Cities? - Pacific Standard 05/16/13
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Raid On Prominent Manhattan Gallery - The New York Times 05/17/13
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Nearly Half A Billion Dollars: Christie's Holds Richest Art Auction In History - The New York Times 05/16/13
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Cambodia Presses More US Museums To Return Antiquities - The New York Times 05/16/13
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Unknown Dalí Watercolors Come To Light - The Guardian (UK) 05/15/13
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Interpol On The Lookout For Qaddafi Art Holdings - The Art Newspaper 05/16/13
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On The Art Market As An Arbiter Of Quality - Los Angeles Times 05/16/13
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