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Archives for December 11, 2013

Today’s top AJBlog posts 12/11/13

AJBlogs Posted: December 11, 2013 9:53 pm

Core Business
Source: Engaging Matters | Published on 2013-12-11

Fire Burning at Both Ends
Source: Dancebeat | Published on 2013-12-11

Wang Luyan and the Power of Paradox
Source: The Great Flourishing | Published on 2013-12-12

The next five most powerful women in US music
Source: Slipped Disc | Published on 2013-12-11

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Before You Can Ask If We Care About Poetry, You Have To Say What It Is

WORDS Posted: December 11, 2013 9:16 am

How many of us believe poetry is useless? How many of us don’t even care to ask the question, “Is poetry useless?”

WORDS Published: 12.13, The Atlantic

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Everything Around Us Is About To Be Electronically Tagged (And That Will Change The World)

IDEAS Posted: December 11, 2013 9:08 am

“The most obvious application for iBeacon is tying digital information to physical places. When Apple first presented iBeacon to developers at their WWDC conference this summer, they used the example of an art museum. Instead of punching a three-digit number into a handheld tour guide, you could walk up to a painting, pull out your iPhone, and find additional information on the artwork right there waiting for you.”

IDEAS Published: 12.11.13, Wired

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Disney Is Buying Up All Our Pop Culture

ISSUES Posted: December 11, 2013 9:01 am

“Disney remains intent on discovering, rescuing, and rehabilitating precious pop culture artifacts so they can be found or rediscovered by audiences around the world—a modern-day Indiana Jones, indeed.”

ISSUES Published: 12.10.13, The Atlantic

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The American Arts Economy (It’s Quite Depressing, Really)

ISSUES Posted: December 11, 2013 8:56 am

As a reminder, the annual budget of the National Endowment for Arts in 2011 was $154.7 million. In that same year, the Philadelphia “Phillies,” a Major League Baseball team, paid their players alone $173 million.

ISSUES Published: 12.09.13, HyperAllergic

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YouTube Tells Us What We Most Looked At In 2013

MEDIA Posted: December 11, 2013 8:51 am

“Comments and interaction were taken into account, rather than just views, to identify the 10 videos that people were talking about most in 2013.”

MEDIA Published: 12.11.13, BBC

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The Problem With The “Great Man” Approach To Great Music

MUSIC Posted: December 11, 2013 8:41 am

“Until we rid ourselves of the notion that the best music of all time was created by a handful of men who lived an ocean away from us and who all died more than a century before any of us were born, we will never have programming that truly reflects the vast array of musical creativity all around us.”

MUSIC Published: 12.10.13, NewMusicBox

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Reconsidering Norman Rockwell (Again)

VISUAL Posted: December 11, 2013 8:21 am

“Like the work of other artists once dismissed as producers of nostalgic Americana—“big paydays for small-town mush,” in the caustic phrase of Benjamin DeMott, who also mentioned Frank Capra and Thornton Wilder—Rockwell’s paintings have become more interesting over time.”

VISUAL Published: 12.19.13, New York Review of Books

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At Home With Roberta And Jerry (Smith And Saltz Talk About Their Lives Reviewing Art)

PEOPLE Posted: December 11, 2013 8:17 am

“I think we both have the ability to unsettle the other’s opinions. That’s what happens. It’s just kind of going back and forth, back and forth. If we really disagree, I tend to think, I’ve got to reconsider this. And sometimes I don’t think that.”

PEOPLE Published: 12.11.13, Interview

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Why Time Magazine’s “Gods Of Food” Doesn’t Include Any Women

ISSUES Posted: December 11, 2013 8:08 am

In the conversation below, he explains how Alice Waters almost made the cut, how Time simply reflected the “harsh reality” of the culinary world, and why he thinks the media has no obligation to “advocate for anything” when it comes to the gender gap among famous chefs.

ISSUES Published: 12.07.13, Time

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The New Kimbell Museum – First, Do No Harm

VISUAL Posted: December 11, 2013 8:06 am

“Architecturally, the new Kimbell addition will soon fade into the middle rank of Piano’s oeuvre, neither at the top (the Nasher and Menil) nor the bottom (the Broad Contemporary Art Museum of 2003–2008 in Los Angeles and the Morgan Library & Museum of 2000–2006 in New York.) His Fort Worth pavilion is the twenty-first museum building Piano has completed, with another four in the works, and he cannot be expected to produce a hit every time.”

VISUAL Published: 12.19.13, New York Review of Books

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Everything You Need To Know About Gender Inequality In The Movies

MEDIA Posted: December 11, 2013 7:26 am

The statistics are daunting…

MEDIA Published: 11.25.13, New York Film Academy

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High School Principal Puts The Kibosh On “Rent” Musical (It’s Too Controversial)

THEATRE Posted: December 11, 2013 7:20 am

It was late November when Trumbull High School’s first-year principal. Marc Guarino, (pronounced Gar-in-o) put the kibosh on the long-in-the-planning spring musical, “Rent: School Edition,” saying the show was too controversial.

THEATRE Published: 12.10.13, Hartford Courant

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Ten State Legislators Call For New Leadership For Minnesota Orchestra

MUSIC Posted: December 11, 2013 7:05 am

The letter accuses orchestra leaders of manipulating financial results “in a deliberate deception of the public.” In addition to calling for the resignations, the letter urges the board to immediately end the lockout and resume contract negotiations.

MUSIC Published: 12.11.13, The Star-Tribune (Mpls)

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London Newspaper Fires Theatre Critic Over 22-Year-Old Photo Online

THEATRE Posted: December 11, 2013 4:15 am

Mark Shenton recounts how this somewhat-naughty-but-entirely-legal picture from San Francisco (which Shenton didn’t even know was online) led the editors of the Sunday Express to decide it was just too embarrassing to keep him on.

THEATRE Published: 12.05.13, The Stage (UK)

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Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall, 83

PEOPLE Posted: December 11, 2013 4:00 am

“His career began in the ’50s as part of the West Coast jazz scene with Jimmy Giuffre and Chico Hamilton, recorded with wealth of jazz royalty over his career, including Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins.” Despite his relatively quiet profile, he was considered one of his instrument’s most influential players in all of jazz.

PEOPLE Published: 12.10.13, Los Angeles Times

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More Drama In Russian Ballet World, This Time In St. Petersburg

DANCE Posted: December 11, 2013 3:45 am

Altynai Asylmuratova, the former star ballerina and revered artistic director of the Vaganova Ballet Academy (one of the world’s most prestigious), has resigned – and she’s decamping to a company that has become something of a refuge for Russian dancers.

DANCE Published: 12.10.13, The New York Times

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Will Learning a “Logical” Language Make You Think More Logically?

IDEAS Posted: December 11, 2013 3:30 am

If the vocabulary and grammar of our languages shape the way we think (e.g., the presence or absence of verb tenses affecting the way we perceive time), then would inventing a completely logical language require its speakers to become more logical thinkers? James Cooke Brown decided to try it.

IDEAS Published: 12.10.13, Slate

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Another Tenor Freaks Out Over Boos At La Scala

MUSIC Posted: December 11, 2013 3:15 am

Back in 2006, Roberto Alagna actually stormed off the stage and out of the theater mid-performance after some of La Scala’s notorious loggionisti let him have it. This year – again in the house’s season-opening production – they did it again.

MUSIC Published: 12.09.13, The Guardian (UK)

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Looking For Justice In The Book Of Job

IDEAS Posted: December 11, 2013 3:00 am

Joan Acocella: “God boasts to Satan, Have you seen my servant Job, so pious, so devoted to me? Satan answers, Why shouldn’t he be devoted? You have given him everything he could ever want: ‘But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.’ Well, God says, let’s see, and he gives Satan permission to ruin Job’s life.”

IDEAS Published: 12.16.13, The New Yorker

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Amy Tan On Writing “Microscopically”

WORDS Posted: December 11, 2013 2:45 am

“I’ve found that the way to capture the truth of a character – and beyond that, to reflect the truth of how I feel – is to write microscopically. To focus on all the tiny details that, together, make sense of character. Each person’s perspective is absolutely unique; my job is to unearth all the specific events and associations that form an individual consciousness.”

WORDS Published: 12.10.13, The Atlantic

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What’s The Point Of Doing Opera In Pubs? (Asks A Big-Newspaper Critic)

MUSIC Posted: December 11, 2013 2:31 am

Rupert Christiansen: “[These] efforts draw small but loyal audiences, usually very appreciative, and you might say at the very worst, that no harm is done. But for the critic these pop-up performances pose a quandary: how can one balance one’s desire to pat honest endeavour on the back with the sacred imperative of rigorously honest and unsentimental judgment?”

MUSIC Published: 11.22.13, The Telegraph (UK)

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Of Course There’s A Point To Small-Room Opera! (Says A Pub-Opera Company Director)

MUSIC Posted: December 11, 2013 2:30 am

Robin Norton-Hale of OperaUpClose: “Theatre critics don’t tie themselves in knots trying to find a way to compare a production at the (rightly) well-funded RSC or National Theatre to one at … the Edinburgh Fringe. Each performance is judged on its own merits. … Far from being a poorer experience, I would argue that seeing a smaller-scale opera is simply a different one.”

MUSIC Published: 12.10.13, The Stage (UK)

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Backstage At English National Ballet

DANCE Posted: December 11, 2013 2:15 am

“It’s 11 o’clock in the morning and row upon row of well-sculpted men are pirouetting in a small room to the tinny notes coming from an upright piano.”

DANCE Published: 12.11.13, The Independent (UK)

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What’s Britain’s Favourite Play?

THEATRE Posted: December 11, 2013 2:00 am

A new poll by English Touring Theatre finds that it is … one you’ve probably heard of, but it may not leap immediately to mind.

THEATRE Published: 12.11.13, The Guardian (UK)

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