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Friday, December 6, 2013

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Nelson Mandela's Legacy To The Arts
"Many people know that Nelson Mandela's life inspired novels, poems, plays and films, but few people know how powerful his effect on the theater was and how powerful the theater's effect was on him." A tribute from playwright Emily Mann, director of Princeton's McCarter Theater. Los Angeles Times 12/05/13
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Swiss Government Opens Inquiry Into Art Stash Given To UNICEF "The authorities here are investigating the transfer to UNICEF in Germany of one of Europe's largest and finest private art collections, a vast trove amassed by Dr. Gustav Rau, an eccentric collector and philanthropist who died in 2002." The New York Times 12.05.13
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Bolshoi's Chief Conductor Explains Why He Quit Vasily Sinaisky said that he and former Bolshoi general director Anatoly Iksanov, who was replaced in July, "did our job hand in hand, and I was absolutely happy. Now, the new general manager - Mr. Urin - is a completely different person." The Voice of Russia 12.03.13
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Will This Be The Conductor Who Finally Ends Israel's Ban On Wagner? In a brief essay, Asher Fisch, a native-born Israeli and a protégé of Daniel Barenboim, explains how he believes his mentor went wrong in his 2001 attempt to break the Jewish state's longstanding Wagner taboo - and how he hopes to succeed. Says Fisch, "It's up to me, and it's waiting to happen." Limelight (Australia) 12.03.13
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ideas
Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain "Is the brain a sort of quantum computer? What is consciousness? Marcelo Gleiser's brain is buzzing with big questions after participating in a conference that asked if quantum physics plays a role in how we think." NPR 12/04/13
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dance
Explaining What Happened At The Bolshoi Ballet Ismene Brown, a London dance journalist who has been following and often translating the Russian media's extensive coverage and knows some of the players, gives inside info and analysis of the Filin attack, the trial, and the whole affair's effects on the company. The Arts Desk (London) 12/04/13
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media
"My God, We Don't Watch Our Own Movies!" Say The Coen Brothers Andrew O'Hehir: "Over the years the Coens have developed a routine that lies somewhere between practiced shtick and a psychological coping mechanism. Ethan, the younger, shorter, lighter-haired brother, delivers brief responses, often glib or acrid in tone, and then the taller, older and more loquacious Joel bails him out, expounding generously on the original question or diverting it into friendlier terrain." Salon 12/05/13
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issues
Will Sundance Turn An Arizona Dude Ranch Into An Artists' Colony? Rex Ranch in Arizona is poised to become an ambitious artists' retreat, if a Sundance Institute executive can come up with the money to buy the 50-acre former dude ranch by the middle of December." Los Angeles Times 12/04/13
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Nelson Mandela's Legacy To The Arts "Many people know that Nelson Mandela's life inspired novels, poems, plays and films, but few people know how powerful his effect on the theater was and how powerful the theater's effect was on him." A tribute from playwright Emily Mann, director of Princeton's McCarter Theater. Los Angeles Times 12/05/13
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Actor Christopher Evan Welch, 48 "Recognizable to many by his unruly mop of brown hair, ... [Welch was] an in-demand character actor who appeared in everything from Shakespeare to The Sopranos, including films by Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg and Charlie Kaufman." The New York Times 12/06/13
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Egypt's "People's Poet", Ahmad Fouad Negm, Dead At 84 "[He] was one of Egypt's best colloquial Arabic poets of the second half of the twentieth century, and was known [as] ... one of the main voices of opposition since 1967, when he wrote his famous poems on the Six Day War. His fiery words expressed Egyptians' and Arabs' anger towards milestone events such as the 1967 defeat against Israel and the 1979 peace treaty with Israel." Al-Jazeera 12/04/13
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See Nelson Mandela's Only Feature Film Performance No, documentaries don't count. He appeared in one feature film (and you've probably heard of it). Can you guess? Or remember? Time 12/05/13 (includes video)
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Think TV Is Fading Away Because Young People Have Abandoned It? Don't Be So Sure Teens watch more TV than we - or they - may think. The Atlantic 12/05/13
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ideas
How Cats Infect Our Brains (And Maybe Make Them Better) Some of the side effects may be pretty great, but (as they said in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), "it is technically brain damage." The Atlantic 12/05/13
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publishing
What'll Be The Real Problem For Amazon's Delivery Drones? Angry Birds And these predators are not drones. The Atlantic 12/05/13 (includes video)
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theatre
Is This The Golden Age Of Shakespeare? "It is a heck of a lot of activity for a man who has been dead since 1616 and was once consigned to dusty textbooks - and it is a trend that I am not sure anyone would have predicted even in the Nineties when Shakespeare was performed regularly and well, but without generating the same enthusiasm." The Telegraph (UK) 12/05/13
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media
How Did The UK Become Such A Major Movie Production Center? "Britain already had a world-class franchise, in the shape of the James Bond films - but they tend to only come along every three or four few years, whereas there were eight Potter movies in the space of a decade - which meant virtually continuous employment for literally thousands of film workers in this country." The Telegraph (UK) 12/05/13
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publishing
How The Letter "E" Died (Yeah, Really) "Long considered one of the most influential letters in the Roman alphabet, at the turn of the century E had originally been heralded as the signal letter in the digital world. But in recent years, the letter had suffered a series of debilitating setbacks that closely correlated with the rise of online applications. It died May 20, 2013."
email this story | Posted 12/05/13@11:38AM
music
How Music Works On Our Brains "Something else that's really interesting about how our emotions are affected by music is that there are two kind of emotions related to music: perceived emotions and felt emotions." Buffer 11/20/13
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issues
Report: Here's How Much Of The Economy America's Creative Industries Generate "Creative industries led by Hollywood account for about $504 billion, or at least 3.2 percent of U.S. goods and services, the government said in its first official measure of how the arts and culture affect the economy." Yahoo! (AP) 12/05/13
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Minnesota Orchestra Claims It's Living Up To Conditions Of Its Hall Lease "Several independent sources have called on the city to find the association in breach and to retake control of the hall, which Minneapolis owns by virtue of sponsoring a $14 million state bonding request for a recently completed renovation." The Star-Tribune (Mpls) 12/05/13
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UK Fringe Theatres Say Union Is Trying To Scare Them "Fringe theatre practitioners have claimed Equity is scaremongering about the potential legal consequences of shows operating on a profit-share basis." TheStage 12/05/13
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Director For The 2015 Venice Biennale Named In a statement, the biennial's president, Paolo Baratta, referred to Okwui Enwezor's knowledge of the "complex phenomenon of globalisation". The curator of Documenta 11 in Kassel, Enwezor has organised biennials from Seville to South Korea and the major travelling survey of post-war African art "The Short Century" (2001-02).
email this story | Posted 12/05/13@09:19AM
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America's Historic Houses - Does Anyone Care Enough To Save Them? "The investment in physical infrastructure may not correlate with income potential. Just because they are historic structures that should be saved doesn't mean they should all be historic house museums." The Art Newspaper 12/05/13
email this story | Posted 12/05/13@09:15AM
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Is It Or Isn't It A Leonardo? "The drawing of Isabella in the Louvre, on which the painting is clearly based, was done some time between late 1499 and March of 1500, when Leonardo was a guest at her court in Mantua. According to the newspaper, carbon dating of the painting conducted at the University of Arizona confirms that it was executed sometime between 1460 and 1650, placing it in a corresponding timeframe." ARTnews 12/05/13
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Baltimore Museum: Judge - That Renoir Is Ours! "In effect, the motion asks federal Judge Leonie M. Brinkema to determine that the 1879 oil painting "Paysage Bords de Seine" belongs to the Baltimore museum and not to the 51-year-old Virginia woman who says she bought it at a flea market in 2009 for $7 as part of a box of odds and ends." Baltimore Sun 12/04/13
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Detroit Leaders Scramble To Save Art Before Politicians Plunder It "Some of the city's most powerful leaders are working furiously to fashion a grand bargain in which nonprofit foundations would put up $500 million to spin off the Detroit Institute of Arts from the city, and that money would be used to reduce pension cuts and help rebuild city services." Detroit Free Press 12/05/13
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publishing
Amazon Says That A Quarter Of Its Top 100 Books Are From Indie Publishers "As many as a quarter of the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon.com are from indie publishers, according to data revealed at a trade presentation by the retailer." The Guardian (UK) 12/04/13
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media
"Alarming" Study Shows Just How Few Silent Films Have Survived "A new study unveiled by The Library of Congress notes that a scant 14 percent of the feature films produced and distributed in the U.S. from 1912-29 exist in their original 35mm format." The Hollywood Reporter 12/04/13
email this story | Posted 12/05/13@12:59AM
people
"She Concocts A Fictionalized Life": Norman Rockwell's Family Furious Over Deborah Solomon's Biography The man depicted in Solomon's new book "lived a far darker life" than the scenes he painted, "fraught with anxiety, depression, and loneliness. He was a twice-divorced, thrice-married repressed homosexual who gravitated toward men and boys." It's that last bit that has the Rockwells so upset. The Christian Science Monitor 12/04/13
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Egyptian Museum's Antiquities And Staff Alike Suffer From Country's Instability "The century-old home of Egypt's mummies and King Tutankhamun's treasures is trying to make the best out of the worst times of political turmoil. But the Egyptian Museum is taking a hammering on multiple levels, from riots on its doorstep to funding so meager it can't keep up paper clip supplies for its staff." Yahoo! (AP) 12/03/13
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theatre
St. Petersburg's First International Winter Theatre Festival Faces Russia's Chaotic Politics "Strange days when a production of Death in Venice provokes an uproar, then ends in a theatre being defaced." The Guardian (UK) 12/02/13
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The Rain In Spain Stays Mainly En Anglais: Paris My Fair Lady Is A Hit, Even In English Director Jean-Luc Choplin: "How do you translate 'the rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain'? I mean, you can come up with something in French but it doesn't have the same clarity or sonority. ... And it's such an important part of the play." The Guardian (UK) 12/04/13
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Probing The Unknowable Mysteries Of The Brain - NPR 12/04/13
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How Cats Infect Our Brains (And Maybe Make Them Better) - The Atlantic 12/05/13
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Explaining What Happened At The Bolshoi Ballet - The Arts Desk (London) 12/04/13
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Bolshoi's Chief Conductor Explains Why He Quit - The Voice of Russia 12.03.13
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Will This Be The Conductor Who Finally Ends Israel's Ban On Wagner? - Limelight (Australia) 12.03.13
email this story | Posted 12/06/13@07:00AM

How Music Works On Our Brains - Buffer 11/20/13
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Minnesota Orchestra Claims It's Living Up To Conditions Of Its Hall Lease - The Star-Tribune (Mpls) 12/05/13
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Nelson Mandela's Legacy To The Arts - Los Angeles Times 12/05/13
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Actor Christopher Evan Welch, 48 - The New York Times 12/06/13
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Egypt's "People's Poet", Ahmad Fouad Negm, Dead At 84 - Al-Jazeera 12/04/13
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See Nelson Mandela's Only Feature Film Performance - Time 12/05/13 (includes video)
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What'll Be The Real Problem For Amazon's Delivery Drones? Angry Birds - The Atlantic 12/05/13 (includes video)
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How The Letter "E" Died (Yeah, Really) -
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Is This The Golden Age Of Shakespeare? - The Telegraph (UK) 12/05/13
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UK Fringe Theatres Say Union Is Trying To Scare Them - TheStage 12/05/13
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Swiss Government Opens Inquiry Into Art Stash Given To UNICEF - The New York Times 12.05.13
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Director For The 2015 Venice Biennale Named -
email this story | Posted 12/05/13@09:19AM

America's Historic Houses - Does Anyone Care Enough To Save Them? - The Art Newspaper 12/05/13
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Is It Or Isn't It A Leonardo? - ARTnews 12/05/13
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Baltimore Museum: Judge - That Renoir Is Ours! - Baltimore Sun 12/04/13
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Detroit Leaders Scramble To Save Art Before Politicians Plunder It - Detroit Free Press 12/05/13
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