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Sunday, May 19, 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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ideas
25 Years On, Does Prozac Harm Or Inspire Creativity? "The worry for artists is that in banishing their black dogs they are also dousing the flames of inspiration, blunting the edge of their genius." The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
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What, Exactly, Is Going On With The Andy Warhol Foundation? In short: A board authenticating pieces of art it had previously declared fakes, lawsuits, countersuits, and possible reasons for the Foundation's decision to sell all of its Warhols. The New York Review of Books 06/20/13
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people
Was Artist Josef Beuys A Serial Liar Who Loved Totalitarian Ideas? Beuys "was obsessed with Steiner's occultism and his racial theories -- and with the abstruse ideas of a Germanic soul, a German spirit and a special mission for the German people." Der Spiegel 05/17/13
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issues
The Kennedy Center Changes Its Award Process - Somewhat "You still have the same three white males who are going to make that decision. If you keep doing the same thing, you're going to get pretty near the same outcome." Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
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music
Scalpers Will Be Happy To Get You A Ticket To The BBC Proms - For A (Large) Fee "Families and music lovers are missing out on a British institution just so that a few individuals can make a fortune. The government needs to use the upcoming consumer rights bill to take action on touting and put the fans first." The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
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publishing
Intellectual Foodie Parody Performance Art, By Michael Pollan "What he has decided to do with this broad and influential platform is to turn inward, describing his thought process as he labors over wood fires and onions or as he lobbies for the approval of his bread-baking mentor with a 'crumb shot' of his homemade sourdough." The Smart Set 05/16/13
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theatre
Shut Up, Big Theatres: Summer Is For The Fringe (Or The Beach) "Some smaller theaters are heeding the sage words of the old-time baseball player 'Wee Willie'Keeler, whose advice to batters was 'Hit 'em where they ain't.''' The Boston Globe 05/18/13
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publishing
The Making Of An Audiobook "If professional voice actors can flop, some amateurs can be surprisingly good." The New York Times 05/17/13
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music
Can The Cliburn Competition Survive Van Cliburn's Death? "For at least the past decade, criticisms have dogged the Cliburn. One common complaint is that few widely embraced performers have emerged from it." The New York Times (Texas Monthly) 05/18/13
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issues
MoMA's Thirst To Destroy The Folk Art Museum Is Territorial "Williams and Tsien's physically small (a mere forty feet wide and eighty-five feet high) but architecturally powerful incursion into MoMA's presumed turf has long been known to be a thorn in the side of Glenn D. Lowry, the Modern's director since 1995." The New York Review of Books 05/23/13
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media
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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issues
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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visual
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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visual
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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visual
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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visual
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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visual
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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25 Years On, Does Prozac Harm Or Inspire Creativity? - The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
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The Kennedy Center Changes Its Award Process - Somewhat - Los Angeles Times 05/17/13
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MoMA's Thirst To Destroy The Folk Art Museum Is Territorial - The New York Review of Books 05/23/13
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Scalpers Will Be Happy To Get You A Ticket To The BBC Proms - For A (Large) Fee - The Observer (UK) 05/18/13
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Can The Cliburn Competition Survive Van Cliburn's Death? - The New York Times (Texas Monthly) 05/18/13
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Intellectual Foodie Parody Performance Art, By Michael Pollan - The Smart Set 05/16/13
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The Making Of An Audiobook - The New York Times 05/17/13
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Shut Up, Big Theatres: Summer Is For The Fringe (Or The Beach) - The Boston Globe 05/18/13
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What, Exactly, Is Going On With The Andy Warhol Foundation? - The New York Review of Books 06/20/13
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